Benjamin Ivry is a frequent Forward contributor.
Benjamin Ivry
By Benjamin Ivry
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Culture She survived the Holocaust in Lublin and became a scholar and symbol of Jewish resilience and resistance
Nechama Tec's history of Jewish partisans in Belarus inspired the 2008 film 'Defiance'
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Culture How a scandalous Jewish no-goodnik captured the imagination of the world
For more than a century, audiences have thrilled to the temptations of Salome and 'Salomania'
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Culture She wrote ‘Gigi’ and inspired a Keira Knightley movie — was she also a Nazi collaborator?
To save her husband from the Nazis, did Colette become one?
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Culture How Milan Kundera embodied the Jewish spirit
The author of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' praised Jews for keeping faith with cosmopolitanism
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Culture After a serpentine life of spiritual seeking, Alan Arkin discovered his soul in Jewish characters
The Oscar-winning actor tried on French, Jamaican and Puerto Rican accents before he found his true voice
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Culture Why the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action matters to Jews
In Jewish thought. compensating individuals for past deprivation is both an obligation and a tradition
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Culture Jewish audiences and Samuel Beckett revered this clown — so did Adolf Hitler
Was Grock a Nazi sympathizer or a calculating opportunist?
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Culture To some free speech advocates, he was a hero; to Richard Nixon, he was an ‘arrogant intellectual Jew’
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