How Saul Rubinek’s best lie helped him get to the truth about his family’s Holocaust history
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New book details the long and winding road trod by the Beatles and Bob Dylan
'Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other – and the World' examines the overlap between genre-defining musicians
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A new book explores the vibrancy of pre-war Warsaw
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How New York Jews made pickles a big dill
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Why Walter Benjamin was all things to all people
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Art theft, angels and neo-Nazis force a reckoning with the past in ‘The Tavern at the End of History’
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24 visions of Leonard Cohen, no clear picture of who he was
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For the first time since Hitler, a Hebrew publisher sets up shop in Germany
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He could have avoided persecution in Nazi Germany — he got bar mitzvahed instead
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In the beginning was the word — and the word was whisky
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