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Harnick put words to Jewish life — past and present
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In 1969 the author of ‘Night’ was shaken by a play about the father of the atom bomb
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Young Jews grapple with how to remember what some Holocaust survivors would rather forget
A new play explores the tension between a mandate to 'never forget' and the impossibility of remembering
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How a Jewish scholar became the Shakespeare whisperer helping to make ‘Hamlet’ relevant to our times
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A classic story of immigrant Jews returns to New York — this time as a musical
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A transparently Jewish musical is finally speaking its truth and singing its faith
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A neglected Jewish pioneer is having her say — this time in a musical
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Jewish writer Ernst Toller lived the radical ideals he expressed in his plays
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