This Week in Forward Arts and Culture

Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
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Eli Valley pays tribute to Amy Winehouse.
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Joanne Jacobson follows Nancy K. Miller on a search for her family’s past.
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Bill Holdsworth notes the foundational role a handful of Romanian Jews played in the Dada art movement.
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Joel Schalit reviews three book about the Palestinians.
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Jonathan Sarna looks back at the history of the Jewish Publication Society, which was recently sold to the University of Nebraska Press.
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