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Culture An activist Jewish artist who used his work to fight fascism
Arthur Szyk painted the Founding Fathers and visualized American ideals to fight fascism
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Culture A Jewish-Muslim art show builds ‘little bridges’ of coexistence
'Open Archways,' co-curated by a Muslim and a Jew, facilitates not just sharing art, but also conversations
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Culture What happens when you’re the only Jewish family in Oklahoma?
'Oklahoma Samovar,’ from Alice Eve Cohen, follows a Jewish family over generations as they try to find their place in America
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Culture She was a dancer who leapt to the top of her field — then the Trump administration fired her
Former Kennedy Center dance director Jane Raleigh is still trying to choreograph her next steps
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Art How Mussolini’s Jewish lover changed Fascist art and design
Margherita Sarfatti, known as 'the uncrowned Queen of Italy,' had a passion for Fascism and Futurism
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Culture Did crypto-Jews invent the modern tarot deck?
A new theory argues that persecuted Jews in medieval Europe concealed Judaica in tarot cards
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Culture One was born Catholic, another was a West Virginia Protestant — now they’re all making Jewish art
A compelling new exhibit focuses on artists who converted to Judaism
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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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News ‘From a shtetl to a diaspora’: After the fire, a Palisades synagogue forges through a year in exile
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Yiddish װי האָבן סאָװעטישע ייִדישע שרײַבער געשריבן װעגן דעם חורבן?How did Soviet Yiddish authors write about the Holocaust?
די קאָמוניסטישע פּאַרטײ האָט געפּרוּווט דערשטיקן דעם חורבן־זכּרון אָבער ער האָט זיך אָפּגעהיט אין װערק אױף ייִדיש און רוסיש.
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Film & TV An idyllic Jewish village, full of life and hope, just hours before its utter annihilation
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Fast Forward Pardoned Jan. 6 protester Jake Lang throws chocolate coins, Nazi salute during anti-AIPAC demonstration in DC
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