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Two middle-aged women defied the Nazis. One ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other.
Matthew Goodman tells the true story of Kate Bonnefous and her Jewish friend Etta Shiber, who rescued Allied soldiers trapped in France under the Nazi occupation
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In an ‘Oliver Twist’ prequel, Fagin gets a first name — and the spotlight
Allison Epstein’s novel 'Fagin the Thief' fleshes out, but does not sanitize, Dickens’ notoriously antisemitic character
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75 years after the birth of McCarthyism, scoundrel time returns to America
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Eli Zuzovsky’s debut novel ‘Mazeltov’ explores the turmoil of adolescence.
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A Jewish atheist calls out evangelicals for undermining democracy — and Christianity
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Despite her multimillion dollar fortune and celebrity pals, Ina Garten is a true balabusta
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How a Jewish daughter’s search to find her parents became a book and a play and a movie
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