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Margot Lurie

Margot Lurie is associate editor of Jewish Ideas Daily. She last wrote for Tablet about her grandfather, Yeshiva University’s first Sephardic student.

  • (Photoillustration: Tablet Magazine; original photo of De Beauvoir, 1970: AFP/Getty Images; original photo of Algren, 1956: Library of Congress.)
    (Photoillustration: Tablet Magazine; original photo of De Beauvoir, 1970: AFP/Getty Images; original photo of Algren, 1956: Library of Congress.)
    Arts & Letters section icon
    Two Becomes One

    It is no accident that Simone de Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex while having an affair with Jewish novelist Nelson Algren

    byMargot Lurie
  • Elias Levi, the grandfather of the author, in his graduation photo from 1938(Courtesy Margot Lurie)
    Elias Levi, the grandfather of the author, in his graduation photo from 1938(Courtesy Margot Lurie)
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    The Boy From Rangoon

    How my grandfather landed at Yeshiva University

    byMargot Lurie
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