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Books Can a bottle opener or perfume bottle pry open an entire Jewish history?
In Richard Rabinowitz's memoir, unremarkable objects conjure up a story of identity and assimilation
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Books Do ‘bad Jews’ really exist? A new book says no
In 'Bad Jews,' Emily Tamkin recounts decades of Jewish infighting
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Books Still pining for John McCain, a ‘Big Guy’ seeks to take back his country
In A.M. Homes' novel 'The Unfolding,' the Jewish author imagines a life antithetical to her own
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Books How simply living as a woman can feel like a preexisting condition
Elissa Bassist's illness memoir is enraging, hysterically funny and very, very Jewish
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Books Leonard Cohen’s lost novel shows the artist’s surprisingly vulgar and violent side
The songwriter wrote the novel 'A Ballet of Lepers' in his early 20s, but didn't publish it in his lifetime
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Books They fled the hell of Auschwitz, but that was not the only catastrophe they faced
Jonathan Freedland's 'The Escape Artist' recounts an unforgettable story of Holocaust survival
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Books Netanyahu memoir: Democrats feeling more leftist pressure on Israel than they publicly admit
In the new book, the former Israeli prime minister details his relations with four US presidents
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Books The courageous German ‘orchestra’ that tried (and failed) to stop Hitler
Tom Dunkel's absorbing history chronicles the little-known exploits of the Germans' resistance in WWII
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