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Fast Forward National Book Award in nonfiction goes to Gaza polemic ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’
The book by Omar El Akkad stems from a viral tweet. A book about Jewish refugees won the young people’s literature award.
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Culture When Jews really did wage a ‘war on Christmas’
A new book recalls the “The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906,” when immigrants fought for the separation of church and state in public schools
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Books Esteemed by Oscar Wilde, England’s ‘greatest Jewess’ may finally be getting her due
A recent acquisition by Cambridge University will burnish the reputation of Victorian Jewish writer Amy Levy
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Books How the Yonkers-born son of Jewish immigrants became the king of American comedy
In what could be called 'Your Biography of Biographies,' David Margolick chronicles the unlikely stardom of Sid Caesar
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Books Why the story of Noah’s Ark seems timelier than ever
Charlotte McConaghy’s 'Wild Dark Shore' is only the latest riff on a biblical tale of climate change
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Books The Lakers were about to shock the NBA. But Shabbat had to end first.
The secret Jewish history of…the Luka Dončić trade?
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Books A bespectacled, Jewish hypochondriac with literary pretensions and a creepy fascination with his stepson’s girlfriend — Guess who?
Woody Allen's debut novel 'What's with Baum' has been done better before — by Woody Allen
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Books How Philip Roth invented a myth called ‘Philip Roth’
In 'Philip Roth: Stung by Life,' biographer Steven J. Zipperstein reveals the truth behind the rebellious character the author created
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