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Fast Forward Texas school district yanks YA Holocaust novel ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ after using AI to detect ‘DEI content’
The 1988 novel by Jewish author Jane Yolen is about a young Jewish American girl who travels back in time to World War II-era Poland and is sent to a Nazi death camp
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Art In a bibliophile’s paradise, a treasury of Jewish manuscripts recalls a time when books were truly beautiful
At the Grolier Club, 'Jewish Worlds Illuminated' highlights of a vast collection from the Jewish Theological Seminary's library
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Culture In Dan Brown’s chaotic tale of a rampaging Golem, a case of missing Judaism
'The Secret of Secrets' puts the famous defender of Prague's Jewish ghetto centerstage
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Books Cheating partners, antisemitic neighbors, and lost loves populate these Jewish worlds
Jennifer Moses’ new collection of short stories explores troubled relationships through a Jewish lens
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Culture Sam Sussman fashions a mother-son love story with a side helping of Bob Dylan
The 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 alternative
Anne 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 dad
In “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 it
With 'Kaplan's Plot,' essayist and journalist Jason Diamond announces his arrival as a full-fledged novelist
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