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Art
He left Berlin with 10 marks in his pocket — he came back with an art collection worth hundreds of millions
Heinz Berggruen led a life on the road and on the run before he brought his artwork back home
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A Forverts truck has turned up as a prop in a Timothée Chalamet movie
The delivery truck with Hebrew lettering was spotted on a film set on the Lower East Side
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Columbus may have had Jewish heritage — that doesn’t mean he was Jewish
The explorer’s writings betrayed a Christian fervor
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Books From snoot to tail, a 3,000-year history of Jews and the pig
A professor of religious studies explores how the pig became the ultimate Jewish taboo — and an inadvertent marker of Jewish identity
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Film & TV What’s up with the swastikas and Nazi imagery in ‘Megalopolis?’
Coppola's polarizing epic is neither the first nor the best movie to make dubious points with Nazi motifs
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Film & TV How about we make the next season of ‘Nobody Wants This’ a little less antisemitic?
The first season of the hot rabbi show made its Jews pretty unlikeable — but maybe it's fixable
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Music For a Jewish jazz great, a 100th birthday is a time for a celebration and a new album
Vibraphone pioneer Terry Gibbs was born Julius Herbert Gubenko in Brooklyn, 1924
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When Robert Moses laid waste to the Jewish Bronx, was he trying to obliterate his Jewish heritage?
A new exhibit about Robert Caro's 'The Power Broker' sheds new light on New York's great creator and destroyer
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Will Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally resemble a fascist one from 1939?
Observers are predicting an event like a well-attended Nazi rally
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Film & TV Happiness and autonomy prove elusive in a Palestinian director’s moving family drama
Scandar Copti's 'Happy Holidays' focuses on an upper-class family in Haifa
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How Al Jolson helped to remake America
A new biography from Richard Bernstein explores the meteoric success of the Jewish performer, while confronting the reviled practice of blackface that made Jolson a star
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