This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
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Curt Schleier goes to see “Peep World,” where Jews finally attain the dysfunctional status of WASPs.
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Philologos noses around with exasperation.
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Michelle Sieff adjudicates Deborah Lipstadt’s arguments with Hannah Arendt in “The Eichmann Trial.”
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Katherine Clarke looks into Southeastern Europe’s first Holocaust Museum in Skopje, Macedonia.
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Raphael Mostel celebrates a renewed interest in the strange and beautiful music of Morton Feldman.
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Israeli rocker Kobi Oz writes an open letter to Roger Waters.
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If you haven’t yet seen our annual Purim ‘Backward’ edition, check it out here.
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And on a more somber note, read our complete coverage of the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, including the winners of our poetry contest, here.
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