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Lost and Found
When I first opened the red leather diary, I had no idea of the world that was about to unfold before me and change the course of my life and that of 90-year-old Florence Wolfson Howitt. When I left my apartment one morning in 2003 and encountered a Dumpster full of old steamer trunks, among…
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Language Arts, or Lack Thereof
Detective Story By Imre Kertész Translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson Knopf, 112 pages, $21. The Pathseeker By Imre Kertész Translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson Melville House, 130 pages, $13. Born in 1929 in Budapest, Imre Kertész completed his education at the universities of Auschwitz and Buchenwald before working as a journalist…
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An Interview With Alice and Moshe Shalvi
On the occasion of his 57th wedding anniversary, Moshe Shalvi did something a bit unusual: He produced a mammoth digital encyclopedia as a testament to his wife’s work. There are another 1,600-odd remarkable Jewish women who appear in the encyclopedia, but the project is in some significant ways mainly about Alice Shalvi. An Israel Prize…
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April 25, 2008
100 Years Ago in the forward It wasn’t a pogrom; no windows were broken, and no pillows were torn up and emptied. But Jews were getting robbed in Manhattan on Hester and Rivington Streets, and on the streets of Brooklyn. Jewish women were getting the worst of it, fleeced by merchants of all kinds. These…
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A Sweet Passover for All
Forward reader Benzion Ginn is seeking information about the origins of the Yiddish expression a zisn Pesach, “[Have] a sweet Pesach,” as a Passover or pre-Passover greeting. Wondering whether such a greeting is traditional or whether it is rather a modern American invention of “Passover food providers, such as Manischewitz,” Mr. Ginn writes that he…
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Koch on Koch on Antisemitism
“A liberal,” Robert Frost once quipped, “is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.” Ed Koch is not that kind of liberal. The legendary former New York City mayor — who puckishly describes himself as “a liberal with sanity” — has never been shy about standing up for his fellow…
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Film & TV Woody Allen in Eilat?
Israeli news site Y-Net reports that Woody Allen is expected to go to to the Israeli Red Sea resort town of Eilat for its film festival. The thought of the consummate New York nebbish in Eilat brings to mind that scene in “”Annie Hall” of a very uncomfortable Woody Allen in sunny Southern California. I…
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Unterzakhn, Part 7
Read this week’s installment of Leela Corman’s new graphic novel, “Unterzakhn,” which is being serialized in the Forward. (Or, to start at the very beginning, click here). CLICK FOR LARGER VIEW
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Whither Macedonia?
I don’t know how many of you have been following the dispute between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia — or, as it is still officially known by the United Nations, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) — over the name “Macedonia.” The latest installment is the Greek government’s threat to veto FYROM’s acceptance…
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Epic Encyclopedia Turns a Page in Study of Jewish Eastern Europe
What is Jewish Eastern Europe? A geographical space, or a frame of mind? The eternal homeland of Ashkenazic Jewry, or simply its birthplace? A field of academic inquiry, or just a touchstone for nostalgia? For the editors of the comprehensive new YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, capturing di alter heym — the Old…
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A Sad, Searching Soul
The Life of Jews in Poland Before the Holocaust By Ben-Zion Gold University of Nebraska Press, 154 pages, $21.95. Among its many gifts, Ben-Zion Gold’s modest and moving chronicle of a Hasidic boy coming of age in pre-Holocaust Poland affords readers a bracing reprieve from the cynicism generated by a recent plague of phony, self-aggrandizing…
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