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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 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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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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Culture RFK Jr.’s poems to Olivia Nuzzi are peak cringe — so were King Solomon’s
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Culture A shocking true story of Mexico’s Jewish community comes to Netflix
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News As young Jews move away from Israel, Jewish leaders are reluctant to change their approach
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Film & TV For ill and for good, this ‘Wicked’ song has become ubiquitous
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Fast Forward In Galveston, descendants of a forgotten Jewish migration keep their community’s story alive
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Culture Shunned by the right, targeted by the left, Eva Illouz confronts antisemitism masquerading as academic freedom
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Fast Forward Sarah Hurwitz, former Obama speechwriter, creates firestorm with remarks about Holocaust education
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