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The Culture Of Hiding: What I Learned From Concealing My Jewish Identity In Germany
A few weeks ago, as I walked with my mom through a jewelry store in my hometown of Randolph, New Jersey, she directed me to the Judaica section. “Look, Arielle,” she said, pointing at a beautiful chain with a Star of David hanging off of it. I stared at the blue-tone rhinestones which covered the…
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New Screenplays Show Stanley Kubrick’s Fascination With Troubled Marriages
Three never-before-seen screenplays by Stanley Kubrick lend new insight into the filmmaker’s early career – and possibly his second marriage. The scripts, which are sketches for longer projects that never materialized, were recently found in Kubrick’s home where his widow, Christiane Kubrick, still lives. The Guardian reports that the pages were transferred to Kubrick’s archive…
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Sophia Loren Will Play A Holocaust Survivor – Again
Oscar-winning actress Sophia Loren will play a Holocaust survivor in her first film in a decade. The film, titled “La Vita Davanti a Sé” (“The Life Ahead”), is directed by Loren’s son Edoardo Ponti, and is based on French novelist, aviator and diplomat Romain Gary’s 1975 novel “The Life Before Us,” which he published under…
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The Secret Jewish History of The Rolling Stones
About five years ago, The Rolling Stones — who performed their first ever concert in London on this date in 1992 — took the stage at HaYarkon Park in Tel Aviv. That event represented more than just the world’s greatest and longest-running rock band’s first concert in Israel. It also marked one small victory in the war…
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Remembering Clara Lemlich, the ‘fiery girl’ who revolutionized New York’s labor movement
Lemlich, a labor activist, suffragette and affordable housing advocate, was born in Ukraine in 1886
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Items From The Anne Frank House Are On Display In America For The First Time Ever
The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is a major resource for the millions of people who have been captivated by Frank’s story. The home, where Frank, her family, the three-person van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer hid from the Nazis in a secret annex between 1942 and 1944, has become a site of pilgrimage since…
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Award-Winning Memoirist Lucette Lagnado Dies At 62
Lucette Lagnado, the award-winning author who documented her family’s exodus from Egypt to America, has died at 62. The Jewish Book Council, which awarded Lagnado the Sami Rohr Prize in 2008, announced her passing. Lagnado was born to a Jewish family in Cairo in 1956. In 1963, during a wave of mass exodus by Jews…
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A Young Argentine-Jewish Filmmaker Takes On His Country’s Authoritarian Past
Benjamín Naishtat’s “Rojo” begins with what seems like a wish-fulfillment fantasy of a very specific sort. Claudio (Argentine actor Dario Grandinetti, of such films as Almodóvar’s “Talk to Her”), a lawyer in a provincial Argentine town in the mid-1970s, is waiting for his wife at a nice, if modest, local restaurant. He’s approached by an…
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No One’s Studying Hebrew Anymore — That’s A Big Problem
College enrollment in Hebrew courses is dropping sharply, and this downward spiral may soon have profound effects on the American Jewish community. Modern Hebrew enrollment fell 17.6 percent between 2013 and 2016, according to a report from the Modern Languages Association, while Biblical Hebrew suffered a 23.9% decline. The number of Hebrew students has been…
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Philip Roth’s Estate Auction Shows His Simple, Sturdy, American Side
You can now own Philip Roth’s Balinese shadow puppet, area rugs or Pat and Richard Nixon collectible plate. Litchfield County Auctions, which runs estate auctions for the Connecticut county in which Roth lived part-time for decades, has posted a lineup of over 100 items owned by the Pulitzer-winning author, who died in May of 2018….
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Happy 89th Birthday, Harold Bloom!
Harold Bloom, the American Jewish literary critic, has divided opinions during his extremely prolific career, from adulation to obloquy. His landmark books speak for themselves, including “The Anxiety of Influence” (1973),, “A Map of Misreading” (1975), “Agon (1982), “Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible” (1989), and “The Western Canon” (1994), An…
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