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The Jew who put Hitler on trial — and the play that stages his story
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The Jewish playwright who inspired Tom Stoppard to write his Holocaust history
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The new Anne Frank musical wants you to laugh at ‘woke culture’ — but is it funny?
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Why is everyone laughing at Anne Frank?
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An unprecedented, and unfinished, work of Yiddish scholarship is now an opera
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