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Joanna Smith Rakoff

  • Arts & Letters section icon
    Finding Her Religion

    What does it mean to be devout in the movies?

    byJoanna Smith Rakoff
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    Place of No Return

    Two trips to Poland offer very different impressions for the daughter of a Holocaust survivor

    byJoanna Smith Rakoff
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    Dolls of the World

    The revelation behind a houseful of aging belongings

    byJoanna Smith Rakoff
  • (Kristy Claire Katien via Flickr)
    (Kristy Claire Katien via Flickr)
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    Gertel’s Last Stand

    After 90 years, a Lower East Side institution shut its doors

    byJoanna Smith Rakoff
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    Durban Renewal

    Lynn Freed’s fiction brings to life the South African city she left behind. Plus: An audio excerpt from the short story “Foreign Student.”

    byJoanna Smith Rakoff
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