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Culture Through the eyes of a 102-year-old photographer, memories of a past full of adventure
Al Leff came from a poor, immigrant family in Brooklyn. The U.S. Army and a camera opened up a whole new world for him.
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Art How a Jewish ‘witness of hell’ navigated a landscape of American terror
Born Philip Goldstein, painter Philip Guston was haunted by the tragedies of the past and the horrors of the present
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Art How a ‘wise man of the shtetl’ evaded Soviet repression and antisemitism to achieve international fame as an artist
For a time, Ilya Kabakov was the only artist from the Soviet Union to have a successful career in the West as well as within the USSR
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Art The Met will start policing its collections for looted art. Holocaust restitution paved the way
The New York City museum announced an initiative to research provenances and return artifacts to countries including Nepal, Egypt and India
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Art To be a Jew in Berlin is to be a stranger in an all-too-familiar land
Jason Langer's photographs confront the contradictions of ordinary life playing out on sites of mass murder
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Art In a joyous and colorful reimagination of Noah’s Ark, a vision for a new kind of Judaism
Yulia Iosilzon's paintings transform Jewish symbols into a vibrant, morphing vision of the world
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Art His art is chock-full of American pop culture references, so why is it more popular abroad?
Jonathan Horowitz uses icons like Madonna and Michael Jackson to take on authoritarianism and antisemitism
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Art A is for apron belly, B is for birthmark: How one Jewish artist celebrates all kinds of bodies
Tyler Feder wants to normalize a more accurate depiction of society as it truly is, rather than focusing on one small slice of it
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