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Books
Descendants of Holocaust perpetrators are writing about their history — what can we learn from them?
Writing about their Nazi heritage, journalists Burkhard Bilger, Linda Kinstler and Géraldine Schwarz showcase a new kind of Holocaust testimony
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These Jewish Eurovision songs are terrible. Listen to them anyway
For every awful song, there's a moment when nothing else works
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Film & TV A new Nazi revenge film from Finland is called ‘Sisu’ – is that Finnish for ‘chutzpah’?
The movie glosses over Finland’s complicated World War II history — but that shouldn’t keep you away
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First Person I lost my mother after Mother’s Day. Five years later, she talked to me
On impulse, I silently said, “Mom?” And she responded.
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Why is the IDF promoting its Gaza operation like a Marvel movie?
The Israeli military is trying to leverage superhero associations for its brand
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Theater Yes, Richard Dreyfuss, a Jewish actor can play Othello — just not you
Dreyfuss’ remarks on casting prove he needs to brush up his Shakespeare
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FIRST PERSON A bar mitzvah boy, a Little League team and a boxer looking for redemption
Emile Griffith, a boxer with a tragic story, sponsored my Little League team. Would he let me skip practice to study for my bar mitzvah?
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Music The brilliant Jewish artist that time forgot
A pair of reissues is finally focusing attention on master violinist Eudice Shapiro
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Film & TV ‘Bridgerton’ mastermind and ‘Queen Charlotte’ author also makes a mean matzo ball soup
There weren't a lot of Jewish aristocrats in the Regency era, but that doesn't keep Julia Quinn from drawing on her personal history
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Is New York’s most ubiquitous Jew leaving New York behind?
For the past half-century, Larry 'Ratso' Sloman has been everywhere in the city — now in his 70s, he may have had enough
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This visionary Jewish writer had several aliases, so it’s hard to know who she really was
There was a brilliance to Anna Margolin's writing, but also many great mysteries
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