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Film & TV Steve McQueen’s over-4-hour tour of modern and Holocaust-era Amsterdam makes history mundane — and unbearably boring
‘Occupied City’ is a morbid slideshow of buildings that are no longer standing
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Culture Would you wait in line for 2 hours for a falafel? They certainly would.
For those in search of one of the greatest dining experiences in Paris, look no further than the Jewish quarter
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Culture Why it can seem easier to weep for Don Quixote than your own father
In 'Still No Word From You,' Peter Orner offers a heartfelt memoir in books and marginalia
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Culture In this Ephron-esque romcom, Sally meets Harry — then gets divorced two years later
"The Gett," a play by Liba Vaynberg running at Rattlestick Theater, chronicles a Jewish divorce but never quite decides what it wants to say
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Art This devastatingly brilliant and unconscionably awful book will delight and appall
Jerry Saltz's hyperbolic 'Art Is Life' is most interesting as a look inside New York City's punditocracy
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Culture They fled the hell of Auschwitz, but that was not the only catastrophe they faced
Jonathan Freedland's 'The Escape Artist' recounts an unforgettable story of Holocaust survival
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Culture The courageous German ‘orchestra’ that tried (and failed) to stop Hitler
Tom Dunkel's absorbing history chronicles the little-known exploits of the Germans' resistance in WWII
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Culture He escaped one ghetto only to find himself imprisoned in another
Santiago Amigorena's novel imagines his grandfather's life in Argentina and the one he left behind in Poland
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