This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
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By Ezra Glinter July 24, 2011
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Irina Reyn reviews “My New American Life” by Francine Prose, a novel that subverts the traditional immigration myth, but also reinforces it.
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Philologos charts the influence of Yiddish on the local Amsterdam slang known as Bargoens.
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Jacob Berkman gives the definitive take on the demise of JDub Records.
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Lawrence Grossman uncovers the history of philosemitism in Europe and America.
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In Eli Valley’s latest comic, Benjamin Netanyahu figures out a solution to the divide between Israeli and American Jewry.
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Robert Zaretsky visits Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a French village whose Protestant minister, André Trocmé, stood up against the Vichy regime.
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Craig LeBan visits Nach Waxman’s Kitchen Arts & Letters, the most renowned culinary bookstore in America.
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On The Sisterhood blog Jacqueline Nicholls introduces her Kittel Collection and Chanel Dubofsky talks to Erotica writer Rachel Kramer Bussel.
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