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Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson is the author of eight books including the novel A Palestine Affair and a biography, Marc Chagall. He recently completed a novel, Hotel Cinema, about the unsolved murder of Chaim Arlosoroff.

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    Virginia and the Woolf

    A drive across Hitler’s Germany and Austria in May 1935 made Leonard Woolf’s Jewishness real

    byJonathan Wilson
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    Why Pop Art Is Jewish

    A Roy Lichtenstein show at the Art Institute of Chicago reveals the movement’s affront to WASPy decorum

    byJonathan Wilson
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    Avigdor Arikha’s Art of Pain

    The skilled Israeli painter, a Holocaust survivor who died in 2010, has a major gallery show in New York. Plus: an interview with his daughter.

    byJonathan Wilson
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    Hasidic Cubism

    A new exhibition highlights how Marc Chagall was both a part of and apart from the avant-garde movements that defined the Parisian art scene in the years before and after World War I

    byJonathan Wilson
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    Paper Mate

    Janis Bellow reflects on her late husband’s letter-writing habits, his feelings about his legacy, and what it was like to read over his old love letters

    byJonathan Wilson
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    Pen Pal

    In his letters, Saul Bellow was thoughtful, eloquent, feisty—and quite possibly at his most Jewish

    byJonathan Wilson
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    Introduction to Marc Chagall
    byJonathan Wilson
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    The Odd-Bod

    In literary London, Elias Canetti was everybody’s favorite refugee

    byJonathan Wilson
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