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Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas, celebrated conductor and Yiddish Theater royalty, dies at 81
The conductor led major symphonies and championed music education
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Music Marx Brothers fans rejoice: There’s a recording of Harpo speaking
A tape of a benefit concert marks the only time the silent brother let himself be recorded speaking in performance
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Lena Dunham’s new memoir is the most millennial thing ever
'Famesick' has the same strengths and foibles as 'Girls' — but we've grown up now
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Theater In a forgotten 20th century masterwork, a Holocaust story from the perpetrator’s perspective
Mieczysław Weinberg’s 'Die Passagierin,' on stage at the Dutch National Opera, is both lyrical and forceful
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A nose is a nose is a nose: A Brooklyn artist’s quest to paint 100 Jewish noses, including mine
I met up with Goldie Gross to discuss Jewish noses and to model my proboscis for her latest project
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‘I’m fragmented, and a surviving remnant’: The story of Westerbork prisoner 8331
Jack Boas was devastated by the Holocaust, even if he can't remember any of it
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Looking Forward Stumbling across Jewish history in a vintage store
Abram Krol, a Polish-Jewish artist, explored his experience of Judaism and the Holocaust in his art
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Film & TV Remembering Siskel and Ebert’s great debate: Mel Brooks or Woody Allen?
In 1980 the critics sparred over whose films were better — it’s an eerie watch in 2026
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A farewell to Hampshire College, site of my Yiddish awakening
For the Forward's archivist, the 1980's in Amherst, Massachusetts, was a little like 'Yentl' come to life
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A chance for the descendants of Holocaust victims to reclaim a piece of the past
The Center for Jewish History's 'Histories and Mysteries' project seeks to solve Nazi-era cold cases
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Music In Elie Wiesel’s latter years, he and I discussed the effects of the Holocaust. Those conversations are now an opera.
'The Dialogue of Memories,' based on conversations between Wiesel and Howard Reich premieres next month in Seattle
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