Mervyn Rothstein
By Mervyn Rothstein
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Culture Alfred Dreyfus was not the man you think he was — and the history of Jews in France is a little different too
A new exhibit at France's Museum of the Art and History of Judaism debunks some clichés about Dreyfus and Jewish history
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Art He left Berlin with 10 marks in his pocket — he came back with an art collection worth hundreds of millions
Heinz Berggruen led a life on the road and on the run before he brought his artwork back home
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Art He photographed athletes and he photographed nudes — André Steiner contained multitudes
Just in time for the Olympics, Paris is celebrating the work of Jewish photographer André Steiner
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Culture In a Jewish art dealer’s Paris apartment, a jaw-dropping collection of 20th-century masterworks
The Picasso Museum attempts to re-create the home of Léonce Rosenberg, dealer for Picasso, Léger, Ernst and scads more
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Theater She’d never played a Jewish character before. Then, a hit play about antisemitism came along.
Francis Benhamou heads to Broadway with Joshua Harmon's 'Prayer for the French Republic'
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Art She was an outsider, a Jew and an iconoclastic artist — kind of like Picasso
A new exhibit in Paris explores the friendship between Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso
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Theater One of our great magicians thinks he knows why there are so many Jews in his field
Asi Wind follows in the tradition of Harry Houdini, David Copperfield and David Blaine
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Theater How a Jewish scholar became the Shakespeare whisperer helping to make ‘Hamlet’ relevant to our times
James Shapiro first encountered Shakespeare in the classroom, but that's not where he learned to love the Bard
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