Adam Fuerstenberg
By Adam Fuerstenberg
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Culture The Secret Jewish History of Downton Abbey
Millions of TV viewers across the world continue to be enthralled by “Downton Abbey.” The BBC series chronicles the lives of an Edwardian noble family — and their host of loyal servants — forced to adjust to modernity as it ends the Victorian era and ushers in the revolutionary changes brought on by World War…
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Culture Tracking Kasztner’s Train
Kasztner’s Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust By Anna Porter Walker & Company, 464 pages, $27.95. Why are thousands of non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust memorialized in Yad Vashem, while the one Jew who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews is virtually forgotten? This is the moral injustice that…
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