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Books Unwieldy, unnerving, and a masterpiece — the last great Yiddish novel has arrived
Chaim Grade's unfinished epic 'Sons and Daughters' solidifies its author's position in the Yiddish pantheon
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Books From an Italian Holocaust survivor, a Kafkaesque nightmare of imprisonment under fascism
Set in the Lanciano internment camp, Maria Eisenstein's 'Internee Number 6' is a testament to the power of writing
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Books So much to say about Israeli violence, so little to say about violence against Jews
Pankaj Mishra's 'The World After Gaza: A History' offers a reading of current events that is more political and personal than historical
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Culture What was Barbra Streisand’s autobiography doing in ‘The White Lotus’?
Babs' 992-page memoir speaks volumes about the character reading it.
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Fast Forward ‘Don’t tell my mother’: Schumer responds to Trump saying he’s ‘not Jewish anymore’
In his new book 'Antisemitism in America,' Schumer says Trump is not an antisemite
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Books Two middle-aged women defied the Nazis. One ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other.
Matthew Goodman tells the true story of Kate Bonnefous and her Jewish friend Etta Shiber, who rescued Allied soldiers trapped in France under the Nazi occupation
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Books In an Israeli boy’s coming of age story — tween angst, family dysfunction, and a bar mitzvah amidst rocket fire
Eli Zuzovsky’s debut novel ‘Mazeltov’ explores the turmoil of adolescence.
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Fast Forward Trump dismissed top Jewish donor Miriam Adelson as ‘so boring,’ new book claims
Michael Wolff’s ‘All or Nothing’ also claims that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump refused to defend Trump against accusations of antisemitism
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