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Sundown: Prisoners Keep Kosher, Too

Plus, Hess gets exhumed, Darwin gets gifted, and more

by
Stephanie Butnick
July 21, 2011
Portion of Lucian Freud's 1965 "Reflection With Two Children (Self Portrait)."(Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid/Bridgeman Art Library)
Portion of Lucian Freud's 1965 "Reflection With Two Children (Self Portrait)."(Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid/Bridgeman Art Library)

• A patrilineally Jewish prisoner’s request for kosher meals in a New Jersey prison sparks a debate, inevitably, over who is a Jew. [NJ Jewish News]

• The remains of Rudolf Hess, a high-ranking Nazi official, have been exhumed from the Southern Germany cemetery in which they were buried and will be cremated. The site had become a popular pilgrimage destination for neo-Nazis, sparking concern from locals and the Jewish community in Germany. [BBC]

• The National Library of Israel accidently offered rare books in a public giveaway last month meant to purge the collection of unused copies. The mix-up, during which a first edition of Darwin’s The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals, written in German, was grabbed, is being investigated by the library’s board of directors. [Haaretz]

• Lucian Freud, portrait artist and grandson of Sigmund Freud, died at 88. [NYT]

• A website in Leiby Kletzky’s memory has been created by relatives to raise money for needy children. [NY Daily News]

• Menachem Rosensaft argues that profiting from selling Nazi memorabilia should be an illegal act.
[NY Daily News]

Stephanie Butnick is chief strategy officer of Tablet Magazine, co-founder of Tablet Studios, and a host of the Unorthodox podcast.