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Books
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Looking Forward What makes The Best Minds a Jewish book?
In Jonathan Rosen's new book about mental health and friendship, he compares his relationship with Michael Laudor to Cain and Abel
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Books Cathleen Schine will convince you to move to Los Angeles
The author talks about her newest book, her writing routine and the importance of a standing cocktail hour
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Books This devastating memoir will break your heart
In 'The Best Minds,' Jonathan Rosen deconstructs a generation through the tragic story of his childhood friend Michael Laudor
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Books Slave and victim of the Nazi regime — the complicated legacy of Bruno Schulz
Benjamin Balint delves into the history of the 'virtuoso of language and image' who was murdered on 'Black Thursday'
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Books I translated ‘Life and Fate.’ Now an imprisoned American journalist is reading it in a Russian jail
Vasily Grossman’s epic about life during the siege of Stalingrad is painfully resonant for journalists working in Russia today
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Books How Ayn Rand, Emerson and Thoreau perverted the American Dream
In 'Bootstrapped,' Alissa Quart takes aim at our myths and our solipsism
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Books So, what did Jorge Luis Borges really think of the Jews?
Though he was often called a philosemite, the truth is a lot messier
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Books Spurred by religious faith, an angelic evangelist became a savior to Jews
In 'The Watchmaker's Daughter,' the heroic story of Corrie ten Boom
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Looking Forward We need to talk about New Jersey’s Jewish master of literature. No, not that one
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