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This Week in Forward Arts and Culture

  • Matthew Sharpe finds the future of the Middle East in Alan Dershowitz’s “The Trials of Zion.”

  • Jerome A. Chanes writes about writing about writing about the Holocaust.

  • Mordechai Shinefield isn’t a woman, but he likes listening to them sing.

  • Philologos sneaks across the border.

  • Laurence Klavan appreciates some underappreciated plays.

  • Alon Rab watches the resurrection of a beloved Israeli children’s series on television.

  • David Stern ponders the future of the Valmadonna, one of the world’s great Judaica collections.

  • And on the Forverts video channel, the second installment of an interview with Yiddish actress Shifre Lerer, on the occasion of her 95th birthday:

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