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The towering Jewish critic who taught me to grok art and hate Picasso
After Max Kozloff died at 91, a New York community came together to remember and to mourn
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Film & TV British poet Siegfried Sassoon ignored his Jewish heritage. A new biopic does the same.
A conscientious objector to WWI, Sassoon became an activist through his poetry – while living as a closeted gay man.
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‘Farkakte Apartments’: Yiddish word wins sales and TikTok fans for realtor
Stephanie Turk uses comedy, honesty and an icky Yiddish word to successfully market NYC real estate
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She won ‘The Great Australian Bake Off’ — and with all kosher bakes
The British version of the baking show has grown famous for flubbing everything Jewish. But in Australia, it’s a different story.
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In Argentina, a search for a Jewish rebel who became one of the ‘disappeared’
Marc Raboy’s ‘Looking for Alicia’ recounts a history of fascism through the story of a single murder victim
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Books At this Lower East Side bookstore, customers exchange tchotchkes for pickles
Bookshelves here hold not just pickles, but also Hanukkah candles, bat mitzvah photos and other tokens of Jewish culture.
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‘Tehran’ gained Glenn Close but lost its Persian flavor
The show’s popularity means the new season features a big budget and serious star power, but it’s lost what made it unique.
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Film & TV In a stunning new film, a portrait of what it means to be Israeli today
Yael Reuveny's 'Promised Lands' is a documentary filled with memorable images and vexing contradictions
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Books How a once-neglected Slovenian writer survived the Nazis camps to live to 108
Boris Pahor was the author of ‘Necropolis,’ which fictionalized his experiences in WWII
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10 Jewish things you probably didn’t know about Superman
Yes, the man from Krypton's creators were Jewish, but do you know which biblical figures he was modeled after?
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Was George Carlin really a prophet?
Though the stand-up comic opposed all religions, he followed in the tradition of Amos, Isaiah and Jeremiah
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Why it was dangerous in Nazi Germany to be both a Jewish woman and a composer
A new book lays out how Hitler's thugs targeted artists such as Camille Frydan and Josefine Auspitz-Winter
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Yiddish װי האָבן ייִדישע ליטעראַטן באַטראַכט איבערזעצונגען פֿון וועלט־ליטעראַטור אויף ייִדיש?How did Yiddish literary figures perceive the translating of world literature into Yiddish?
די נײַע אױסגאַבע באַטאָנט דעם בײַטראָג פֿון סאָװעטישע ייִדישע שרײַבער אין דער אַנטװיקלונג פֿון דער מאָדערנער ייִדישער קולטור.
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Fast Forward Israel announces biggest West Bank settlement expansion in decades
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Fast Forward Northern Ireland’s lone, beleaguered synagogue aims to stave off decline by engaging Christian neighbors
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