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Books
In 3 centuries of Southern Jewish life in the Big Easy, no easy way to be Jewish
Nicholas Lemann’s ‘Returning’ is a sprawling family history of the limits of assimilation
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Theater Roald Dahl’s monstrous views have a seat at the table today
The play ‘Giant,’ about Dahl’s antisemitism, is chilling for how close it matches contemporary talking points on Israel and Jews
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It’s getting more dangerous to be a comedian — but was it ever safe?
Jacques Berlinerblau's new book examines the limits of free speech in an era of ideological contention and internet virality
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Looking Forward We need to talk about New Jersey’s Jewish master of literature. No, not that one
Philip Roth and Judy Blume are both giants of American Jewish literature — so why do we put them in different classes?
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Move over Thomas Edison, this deli savant is the Garden State’s newest inventor
In his Jersey City lab, Jason Stahl and his alter-ego Hank Schwartz whip up mind-blowing variations on Jewish deli standards
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The Nazis didn’t care that Paul Klee wasn’t Jewish
Sketches from the last decade of the lauded artist's life, exhibited for the first time in the US at the Jewish Museum, change how we understand his work
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A brilliant Jewish storyteller may be gone, but her characters are ‘still talking’
Lore Segal's posthumous short story collection once again shows her mastery of the form
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Film & TV Fox’s Bible story miniseries puts women front and center
‘The Faithful: Women of the Bible’ recounts the journeys of the matriarchs
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An astonishing history of wartime Berlin that reads like a thriller
Ian Buruma's 'Stay Alive' is at once panoramic and intimate, dispassionate and deeply moving
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Louis Theroux’s Netflix documentary on the manosphere takes a detour into antisemitism
Extremist beliefs feed into each other, as is obvious in 'Inside the Manosphere'
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This rabbi reshaped and revitalized Judaism in the 20th century — how have we forgotten him?
Mordecai Kaplan's vision of 'maximum Jewishness' may be just what we need in these fraught times
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