Out and About: A Bar Mitzvah at Auschwitz; Sholem Asch’s Family Photos

Image by Courtesy of David Mazower
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Branko Lustig, producer of “Schindler’s List” and “Gladiator,” plans to hold his (belated) bar mitzvah at Auschwitz.
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The Yiddish Book Center has put the family photos of Yiddish writer Scholem Asch online.
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Joshua Cohen interviews Israeli novelist Yoram Kaniuk for The Paris Review.
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Jeffrey Goldberg on the trials and tribulations of Sister Mary Schmuck of Kentucky.
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Edward Rothstein on how the Holocaust has come to stand for every kind of evil, from 9/11 to bullying.
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Autobiographical fiction by writer, polymath and Holocaust survivor Henry Tylbor.
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Co-chairs Marion Lewis and Paul Mason write an open letter in support of Washington D.C.’s sometimes embattled Theater J.
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