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Culture
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He was a Jewish leftist like Sandy Koufax — remembering Howard Zinn
The activist professor and author of 'A People's History' died 15 years ago at the age of 87
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Music Louisville Orchestra remembers its concertmaster with an opera he performed in a Nazi concentration camp
“Der Kaiser von Atlantis” was written in Theresienstadt by the Czech-Jewish composer Viktor Ullman, who was murdered. The teen violinist survived
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For Finland’s tiny Jewish community, a complicated history of fighting for the czar and the Nazis
Jews arrived here in the 19th century to serve in the Russian army — today, a little more than 1,000 remain
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Film & TV In this civil rights protest, Jews both fought and defended segregation
Set at a Maryland amusement park, an unusual story of Black-Jewish allyship.
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50 years after its debut, ‘Hester Street’ reminds us what it means to be a Jew in America
Joan Micklin Silver's classic indie is a bittersweet fable of immigrant assimilation
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Think antisemitism was bad on TikTok? Wait till you see Rednote
While TikTok bans 'Free Palestine,' RedNote teems with antisemitism far beyond support for Palestinians
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Film & TV In the Oscar race: Bob Dylan and Laszlo Toth face the limits of Jewish reinvention
'The Brutalist' and 'A Complete Unknown' show men whose masterpieces can’t escape their past
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Music Nova massacre survivor Yuval Raphael to represent Israel in 2025 Eurovision music contest
Raphael got the nod after singing ABBA’s “Dancing Queen,” whose lyrics echo the Nova movement’s refrain “We will dance again"
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Books Lee Yaron’s account of Oct. 7 attacks named Jewish book of the year
’10/7: 100 Human Stories,’ was among a number of books on Israel honored by the 74th National Jewish Book Awards
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Film & TV From WWII Amsterdam, a deeply disturbing story of Dutch complicity with the Nazis
Willy Lindwer's Holocaust documentary 'Lost City' unearths a gruesome chapter in Dutch history
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Books Jules Feiffer, a ‘smartass’ Jew whose work spanned comics and cinema, dies at 95
The Pulitzer winner was working on a new book, and just moved upstate
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