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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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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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