Jessica Siegel
By Jessica Siegel
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News 400 Years After Portugal’s Inquisition, a Very Unusual Family Comes Together
The scene was that of a typical family gathering at an Amsterdam restaurant in April. Children squatted on their chairs to reach the table, cuddling up to their grandmother, dishes were passed and toasts were made; a pair of sisters talked about old times. Yet this was no typical family. The da Costas are descendants…
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The Schmooze The Speedy Success of Richard Zimler’s ‘The Slow Mirror’
It was a miracle three times over, according to Portuguese-American novelist Richard Zimler, that “The Slow Mirror,” the short film based on his story of the same name, won the Best Drama prize at the New York Downtown Short Film Festival on May 2. “First it was a miracle that we got the money to…
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Culture ‘Sweatshop Cinderella,’ Minus the Happily Ever After
She was “loud, coarse and demanding, constantly intruding her presence everywhere and taking up all the air in the room,” according to literary critic Vivian Gornick. She married twice, divorced quickly and left her daughter with her second husband, the child’s father, in order to write. She was a short-lived star of a writer, whose…
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Books Found in Portugal: World Famous Jewish-American Novelist
Though he still maintains his accent and caffeinated New York pulse, Richard Zimler is far better known in Portugal, Turkey, Brazil, France and England than in the United States. He may be the world’s most famous unknown living American Jewish writer. In Portugal, he has been the subject of a television documentary, and the same…
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