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Ben Birnbaum

Ben Birnbaum is a writer and editor in Brookline, Massachusetts.

  • Albert Birnbaum, Malta Street, Brooklyn, March 1943, the month in which he embarked for Europe
    Albert Birnbaum, Malta Street, Brooklyn, March 1943, the month in which he embarked for Europe
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    Soldier Boy

    The long afterlife of Pvt. Albert Birnbaum

    byBen Birnbaum
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    Words of Our Fathers

    What a 1942 essay contest revealed about immigrants’ lives, in the Old World and the New

    byBen Birnbaum
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    Anything but Average

    Gertrude Berg conquered America. Why is she still something of a mystery?

    byBen Birnbaum
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    Anger Management

    Fifty years ago Gerald Green, who died this week, wrote a prescient bestseller about a Hebrew Hammer-style vigilante with his own reality show

    byBen Birnbaum
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    Brownsville Revisited

    A graphic look at the neighborhood that spawned Danny Kaye, Mel Brooks, Jerry Stiller

    byBen Birnbaum
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    Protocols of the Editors

    Truman Capote spread fears of a literary cabal. So what to make of his forgotten first novel?

    byBen Birnbaum
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