By Myra Sklarew
For her service in the French Resistance, Charlotte Sorkine Noshpitz was awarded a slew of medals and honors. And yet hardly anyone knows her stranger-than-fiction story.
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By Peter Ephross
If ever there was an author whose works resisted analysis, it’s Franz Kafka. A new book emphasizes the author’s repressed homosexuality and fantasies about boys.
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By Philologos
The Hebrew phrase ‘ha-mevin yavin’ roughly means ‘Let him who understands, understand.’ Or as our Italian friends might say: “Capeesh?”
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By Jenna Weissman Joselit
Patronage and aesthetic sensibility are hallmarks of the modern Jew. The philanthropy of people like Leonard Lauder and Michael Steinhardt is part of an enduring tradition.
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By Rex Weiner
Jonathan Lynn grew up as the only Jewish boy in the British town of Bath and is the nephew of Israeli leader Abba Eban. Both shaped his classic comedy, ‘Yes, Prime Minister.’
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By Yevgeny Arye
Isaac Bashevis Singer’s ‘Enemies’ is a gripping and challenging work to stage. Yevgeny Arye discusses bringing the horror of the Nazi era to a 21st century American audience.
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By Menachem Wecker
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has been touring America for its 20th anniversary. One challenge is soon there won’t be any more survivors to interpret its artifacts
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By Adam Langer
Jack Goldstein was an artist whose work comprised an astonishing variety of media. A new exhibit in New York sheds light on his inspiring and tragic career.
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By Lilit Marcus
A new museum in Lyon aims to educate visitors about the role of the French resistance movement in aiding Jews and others during the Holocaust.
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By Molly Arost Staub
A museum dedicated to the Red Star Line will open in Antwerp soon. The shipping operation carried more than 2 million people — many of them Jews — to a new life in America.
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