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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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How the grandson of Jewish diamond dealers created the greatest rock ’n’ roll swindle of all time
There was method to the madness of the Sex Pistols — and his name was Malcolm McLaren
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Why Don McLean’s pro-NRA stance is head-spinning but unsurprising
50 years after 'American Pie,' the songwriter has become another good ole boy drinkin' whisky and rye
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Film & TV Why is the new Leonard Bernstein Netflix movie code-named Rybernia?
The production alias of the biopic shows that writer-director-star Bradley Cooper did his research
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