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Film & TV In ‘The Rehearsal,’ Nathan Fielder fights the removal of his Holocaust fashion episode
Challenging German censorship, the auteur hits on a paradox of German memory culture
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration highlights women ghetto fighters
Speakers at the event described in gripping detail the heroic acts by women, including young girls, in the resistance
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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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Film & TV In ‘Andor’ season 2, a Wannsee Conference reference, and a new sort of space Jew
The new season is not pulling punches with its Nazi analogies
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Film & TV Our preeminent historian of the Jews is finally ready to confront Auschwitz
In 'Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On,' the author and PBS host leads an intimate journey into the humanity and inhumanity of the Shoah
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Books From an Italian Holocaust survivor, a Kafkaesque nightmare of imprisonment under fascism
Set in the Lanciano internment camp, Maria Eisenstein's 'Internee Number 6' is a testament to the power of writing
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Yiddish World Children taking part in a Seder while hiding from the Nazis
In Zina Rabinowitz's tale, a teacher keeps the children's fear at bay by appealing to their imagination
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Fast Forward Holocaust remembrance pages removed in Pentagon’s DEI purge
Stories of Holocaust survivors were caught in the anti-DEI net, as was an article about Jewish “Golden Girls” star Bea Arthur
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News No Jews allowed: White supremacists are building a segregated community in Arkansas, but is it legal?
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Opinion Mamdani’s victory is an opportunity for Jews to relearn the art of disagreement
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Culture Is now really the best time for a cutesy Jewish summer camp movie?
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Fast Forward Australia cancels Kanye West’s visa over controversial ‘Heil Hitler’ song: ‘We don’t need that in Australia’
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Yiddish טשיקאַוועסן: האָספּיץ־וואָלונטירס פֿונדאַציע שענקט שפּײַזקאַרטלעך צו אָרעמע פּאַציענטןTidbits: Hospice volunteer’s foundation donates grocery gift cards to poor patients
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