By Peter Hellman
The French winemaking region of Châteauneuf-du-Pape in Provence has a hidden history of anti-Semitism, as we learn in a new history of the Vichy regime.
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By Shoshana Olidort
The allure of the forbidden is ever-present in Anouk Markovits’s English-language debut, ‘I Am Forbidden.’ The story is a deeply felt account of people caught between worlds.
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By Jerome A. Chanes
SUMMER BOOKS: Even with all the books out there, the global history of anti-Semitism has not been sufficiently reported. ‘A Convenient Hatred’ fills that void.
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By Caryn Aviv
SUMMER BOOKS: Reading ‘Gender and Jewish History,’ edited by noted historians Marion A. Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore, is a bit like sitting down for a leisurely meal.
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By Joshua Furst
SUMMER BOOKS: Jonathan Franzen asks the uncomfortable questions that might force us as a culture to examine the disconcerting answers they beget.
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By Austin Ratner
SUMMER BOOKS: Sam Zemurray overthrew governments, may have had Huey Long killed and helped get Israel recognized. Let’s just say he wasn’t your typical Jewish banana guy.
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By Benjamin Ivry
The French rail company SNCF ferried Jews to death camps. Now that it is bidding for American high-speed rail contracts, the firm faces pressure to come clean.
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By Eddy Portnoy
Two young Jewish writers have come forth to expose the seamy, alcohol-soused underbelly of the American experience. Pretty, they’re not. Hilarious, they are.
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By Elie Dolgin
A Hispanic town unexpectedly found out residents had a genetic mutation that pointed to Jewish heritage. It also put them at much greater risk of getting breast cancer.
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By Stephen Hazan Arnoff
As they recover from addiction, Peter Bebergal and Alan Kaufman find creative voices to carry their sensitivity while hanging soberly on to the world.
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