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	  Culture Sam Sussman fashions a mother-son love story with a side helping of Bob DylanThe author's novel has a nearly one-to-one relationship to his real life questions about his heritage. 
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	  Books To play in the orchestra in Auschwitz was a gruesome affair, but it was better than the alternativeAnne Sebba traces the grim history of 'The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz' 
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	  Culture Sam Sussman’s novel is about his Jewish mom and the teasing possibility that Bob Dylan is his dadIn “Boy from the North Country,” a writer turns a real-life mystery into an exploration of parenthood and inheritances 
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	  Books Kafka and Chicago taught him to love literature, Rodney Dangerfield taught him how to live itWith 'Kaplan's Plot,' essayist and journalist Jason Diamond announces his arrival as a full-fledged novelist 
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	  Culture 25 years ago, he wrote the book on ‘Jew vs. Jew.’ Now he is seeing new and deeper divisions.The title of a journalist’s 2000 book became a catchphrase for intramural clashes that have only gotten worse since. 
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	  Books In the story of a trip to Auschwitz, family can be a real pain in the tuchesBased on the character Serge from her play ‘Art,’ Yasmina Reza’s novel takes readers into the dysfunctional relationships of the Popper siblings. 
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	  Culture For this historian, anti-Zionism is part of a hallowed Jewish traditionIn 'Citizens of the Whole World,' Benjamin Balthaser explores the buried legacy of the American Jewish Left — and why it's resurfacing now 
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	  Books Steeped in the horrors of post-war Hungary, these are not ordinary Holocaust storiesThe characters in Gábor Szántó’s work strive to be understood even when understanding seems impossible and dangerous 
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	  Yiddish אַ קאָנפֿערענץ וועגן ייִוואָ קומט פֿאָר אין איר געבוירן־שטאָט — ווילנעA conference about YIVO takes place in its birthplace — Vilniusאיין פֿאָרשער האָט גערעדט וועגן דעם וואָס נישט בלויז די פֿרומע און אָרעמע ייִדן האָבן גערעדט ייִדיש, נאָר די רײַכע און געבילדעטע אויך. 
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