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Culture Hidden in Central Park, a modest installation of Holocaust art — but what was it doing there?
A discovery of a memorial to Jewish concentration camp prisoners yields questions of identity, memory and the purpose of art
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Culture You see an ugly ottoman or a faded armchair; she sees a lost history waiting to be revived
For Ruti Wajnberg, a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, reupholstering furniture can stitch generations back together
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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 these stunning psalms, everything is illuminated — including the lives of King David and Thomas More
At the Morgan Library, 'Sing a Song' focuses on the role of psalms in medieval life and literacy
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Culture He escaped the Holocaust and ‘Matzoh Island,’ but America was no promised land
In the graphic memoir 'The Art of Being a Stranger,' Karen Bermann tells the story of her father Fritz, who became a maven of maintenance in New York
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Art For an ‘adventuress’ who memorialized the Holocaust in art, a long-awaited revival
A new exhibit at Indiana University is bringing Anna Walinska's work to a new audience
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Opinion Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian come straight from the Nazi playbook
For Hitler, making Germany great again was synonymous with censoring broad swaths of German culture
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Culture The Melania Trump Opera House won’t change hearts and minds — not even the president’s
A Republican proposal to name the Kennedy Center Opera Center after the first lady misunderstands how art works
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