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Books How Milan Kundera embodied the Jewish spirit
The author of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' praised Jews for keeping faith with cosmopolitanism
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Books Gifted to a bar mitzvah boy in 1936, a rescued book reunited two families. What other stories do Nazi-looted books tell?
The National Library of Israel wants to take a closer look at 35,000 books in its collection that had been stolen by the Nazis
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Books A Catholic photographer and Chicago’s cannabis king: How I tracked down the greatest bar mitzvah photo of all time
Two gawky teenagers shared a slow dance at a bar mitzvah in the 1990s. 30 years later, it took every Jew I knew to find them
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Books How a master of understatement conjured up the horrors of the Shoah
Aharon Appelfeld's 'Poland, A Green Land' is a sort of fable set a generation after the fall of the Third Reich
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Books Books Briefing: A mysterious postcard illuminates a French family’s Holocaust history
Plus doppelgänger stories, new Jewish romance and a reboot of a Yiddish classic in this month's books newsletter
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Books A week as a hostage on a hijacked plane, a lifetime of anxiety and traumatic memories
In 'My Hijacking,' Martha Hodes tries to reconstruct 'the most spectacular episode of air piracy the world had yet seen'
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Books ‘My Friend Anne Frank’ tells the incredible story of how Anne’s best friend survived the Holocaust
Against all odds, Hannah Pick-Goslar and Anne Frank were reunited briefly at Bergen-Belsen, the camp where Anne died
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Books Why the literary world (and every single No. 2 pencil) is mourning the loss of Robert Gottlieb
Gottlieb, 92, editor of Toni Morrison, Robert Caro and more, was an American literary giant
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