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By Benjamin Ivry
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Books This legendary Jewish humorist was ‘the most negative writer of his era’ — can he still speak to ours?
S.J. Perelman influenced countless comics including Mel Brooks and Woody Allen
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Culture Could a Jewish voice from a previous century be a prophet for our times?
Aaron David Gordon may have been well ahead of his time on both environmentalism and Arab-Jewish relations
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Culture Was the Leopold and Loeb case really the ‘Jewish crime of the century?’
100 years later, the frenzy surrounding the murder of Bobby Franks still raises uncomfortable questions about antisemitism
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Film & TV In the music of Bob Marley, a deep connection to Judaism
Marley, whose biopic debuts this week, long claimed Jewish ancestry
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Culture Can Jews still embrace Rembrandt — even if his love for the Jewish people is only a myth?
As a new volume attests, the Dutch painter's philosemitic reputation may have been greatly exaggerated
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Culture Russian authorities are calling the death of a prominent Jewish poet an ‘accident’ — his compatriots say it was an assassination
Lev Rubinstein spent his life in the shadow of antisemitism
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Books How did this feisty and ferocious Jewish-American writer fall so far into obscurity?
Mike Gold, author of 'Jews Without Money,' was an uncompromising leftist who epitomized the idea of a proletarian writer
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Culture Henry Kissinger: ‘If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be antisemitic.’
The former secretary of state was remarkable for his longevity — his policy record was another matter
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