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Books In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote ‘Ulysses’ a Jewish poet’s bookstore rises back to life
In 1919, Umberto Saba opened an antiquarian bookstore; a century later, the people of Trieste saved it
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Librarians And Researchers Are Finally Making Strides Returning Nazi-Looted Books
If you wander the stately stacks of a European library, you may very well encounter books that were looted by the Nazis in World War II. During the 1930s and 40s, Alfred Rosenberg, the leader of the Nazi’s Office of Foreign Policy led the eponymous Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg task force in pillaging over 6,000 archives…
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Art A 92-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Was Haunted By Hitler. So He Started Dressing Up As Him.
There is no one way to grieve or process a tragedy of an unimaginable scale. Still, few displays of grief are as curious as that favored by the 92-year-old Israeli artist Dov Or-Ner, a Holocaust survivor who appears in public dressed as Adolf Hitler. Or-Ner, a veteran sculptor and painter whose parents died in the…
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He Plays Ukraine’s President On TV. Now He’s Running For That Very Same Office.
It’s become a cliché in the United States to say we have a Reality TV President, but Ukraine may well get a sitcom Head of State. 40-year-old Jewish comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy formally announced his plans to run for the Ukrainian presidency shortly before midnight on New Year’s Eve If he wins, Ukranians may not be…
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Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman To Bring ‘Yiddish Policemen’s Union’ To TV
Proving they’re more than just a literary dream couple, Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon are in the thick of a new endeavor: Overseeing a TV show. The duo has collaborated on TV projects before, starting with a 2011 project titled “Hobgoblin” that remains unmade. But their latest project is different, because it’s an adaptation of…
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Film & TV Kane Street Synagogue’s Brooklyn Israel Film Festival Brings The Movies To Shul
For film lovers the cinema can be a kind of temple. For 15 years the Kane Street Synagogue has been taking that truth to heart, hosting the Brooklyn Israel Film Festival in the same building in which its congregants meet for services. This year the festival is adding a short film series, screening an Israeli…
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The 15 Women You’ll Meet When You Date Jews In New York
Women — fun to hang out with, interesting, beautiful, rarely murder anyone, gestate life, socialized to be empathetic and good at communication. What’s to mock? Not to mention that the roots of negative female archetypes can usually be traced to the dang patriarchy! But if we don’t make fun of women, we exclude them from…
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Film & TV The BAFTA Awards Favor ‘The Favourite’ And These Jewish Films
In a busy awards season, it’s easy to forget the BAFTAs. But the British Academy of Film and Television Arts has not forgotten the Jewish people. The Academy’s 2019 Film Awards list was released Tuesday. The full list is here, but below are the (mostly) Jewish highlights. “The Favourite,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ comedy about Queen Anne’s…
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7 Must-Sees At The 2019 New York Jewish Film Festival
For 28 years the New York Jewish Film Festival has been providing Upper West-Siders and Jewish cinephiles the world over a chance to view the highlights of Jew-centric cinema. But oh, the tsuris! There’s simply too much to see and it can be hard to know where to start. Don’t worry; the Forward has you…
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February 2-3: Helsinki, Finland: Yiddish For The New Millennium At Limud Helsinki
If you find yourself in Finland in February, join Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Yiddish Forward (Forverts), at the southern capital for Limud Helsinki, an annual Jewish cultural learning festival. The programs, which run the weekend of February 2 and 3, are diverse and plentiful, and Schaechter will lead three. The first talk, “How the…
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Ehud Barak, Alice Shalvi And Nazi-Hunting Couple Win National Jewish Book Awards
The winners of the 2018 National Jewish Book Awards include one of Israel’s foremost statesmen, a couple who kept their love alive by hunting Nazis together and the matriarch of Israeli feminism. Announced on January 9, the winners of the Jewish Book Council’s annuals awards present a broad vision of contemporary Judaism and its interests….
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Why Serge And Beate Klarsfeld Became Nazi Hunters
“My father had died in Auschwitz and I had behind me the suffering of French Jews. Beate carried with her the knowledge of Germany’s role in this suffering. Besides, we were naive and full of energy, so we did things we might not do when older and wiser.” Serge Klarsfeld paused and smiled at me….
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