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Books Why Truman Capote and Norman Mailer claimed there was a Jewish ‘Literary Mafia’
A new book details the rise of Jews in publishing and argues for their success as a model for other minority groups
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Books Seeking sexual liberty, but staying Hasidic: In a new novel, a young woman tries to have it all
Felicia Berliner’s debut novel features an ultra-Orthodox pornography addict
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Books How a Jewish teacher uprooted and relocated her school to escape the Nazis
In a new book, the heroic story of Anna Essinger finally gets its due
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Books Allen Ginsberg, Siegfried Sassoon in collection of letters about LGBTQ love and friendship
'The Love That Dares' looks at poems and letters exploring queer relationships from Sappho to the 21st century
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Books How a pathbreaking gay legislator earned his nickname
You don’t need to know anything about the legislative process to enjoy ‘Smahtguy,’ a graphic novel about Barney Frank
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Books A new book explains Pope Pius XII’s silence during the Shoah — but does not excuse it
Using newly-opened Vatican archives, David Kertzer discovered the pope’s secret meetings with Nazis and refusal to confirm the mass murder of Jews to the Allies
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Books Before WWII, Jewish mobsters kept Nazis at bay in the US — with their fists
In “Gangsters Vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America,” Michael Benson chronicles how Jewish leaders worked together with the likes of Meyer Lansky.
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Books At this Lower East Side bookstore, customers exchange tchotchkes for pickles
Bookshelves here hold not just pickles, but also Hanukkah candles, bat mitzvah photos and other tokens of Jewish culture.
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