The Schmooze
This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
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By Ezra Glinter August 8, 2011
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Gerald Sorin looks at the complicated history of Jews and Black baseball.
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Berel Lang celebrates the 50th anniversary of ‘Catch-22’ by arguing that the book is a neglected masterpiece of Jewish fiction.
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Jenna Weissman Joselit pays a visit to the Stanton Street Shul and admires its zodiacal murals.
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Benjamin Ivry appreciates two new books by French Resistance hero Raymond Aubrac.
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Philologos ponders the death of Moses.
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Ruth Ellen Gruber interviews New York University professor Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, who is now working with the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
