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Culture A pocket guide to the Jewish grandmothers of Mexico
David Calderon Zonana's 'Pocket Abuelitas' honors the legacy of Mexican Jewish matriarchs
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Music Even the Holocaust could not silence the music of these composers
The recovered voices movement aims to preserve the work of persecuted artists like Viktor Ullmann and Mieczyslaw Weinberg
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Culture After more than 500 days of war, these dancers have been literally and figuratively climbing the walls
It is hard to avoid seeing our broken world in Batsheva Dance Company's enigmatic 'MOMO'
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Art Why Queen Esther was the star in the age of Rembrandt’s Amsterdam
The figure from the Hebrew Bible was adopted as a figure of national self-determination in the Netherlands
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Culture At a Dan Friedman exhibition, the bizarre joy of being Dan Friedman
In a Chinatown gallery's vibrant Dan Friedman retrospective, Dan Friedman contemplates the work of Dan Friedman
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Film & TV How MAD magazine, family ghosts and censorship made Art Spiegelman an anti-fascist artist
A new documentary about the ‘Maus’ author reveals his influences, and what keeps him up at night
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Art Vandals destroyed his tribute to Holocaust survivors — and yet this artist persists
AleXsandro Palombo, an Italian muralist, uses his art to educate young people about the Holocaust
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Film & TV How the master builder behind ‘The Brutalist’ was inspired by her hometown synagogue
Oscar nominee Judy Becker talks about bringing László Tóth's designs to life
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Culture Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
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