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A new film explores the life of a mad, reclusive genius who depicted the vanished world of Yiddish America
A conversation about André Gregory’s new memoir, ‘This Is Not My Memoir’
The profound weirdness of the Shoah Foundation’s hologram effort
Judging a rich man’s sins, in a world that thrives on outrage, humiliation, and fake virtue
Javier Cercas’ new book is an insightful literary investigation into the lies of a Spanish narcissist who passed himself off as a victim of the Holocaust
A manuscript of a Holocaust tale published in France roped scores of people into a mystery. Including me.
Loudon Wainwright III, whose memoir was published last week, was never quite so wonderfully lecherous as when he pined for Perlsteins, Bernsteins, Levitts, and Finks
Revisionists (but not Richard Spencer) want the equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee removed from a park in Charlottesville, Virginia, my hometown. What they don’t realize is that it’s not the only memorial there.
A confusing and challenging show of Henryk Ross’s Lodz Ghetto images opens this weekend at the MFA Boston
From a lifelong New England Patriots fan who wonders about your friendship with President Donald Trump
Michael Freund is on a mission to lead millions of self-declared Jews home to Israel. What happens if he succeeds?
Photographs from the Negev by Sharon Avraham
We say people must remember the Holocaust in the future, but we’re ignoring its victims today
The Israeli’s magnum opus, ‘Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow,’ is so good, it should have existed
A book about baseball, Brooklyn, and life
Even in space, it’s the smart ones who survive
The Final Solution reaches Argentina
In rare new footage, villagers on a remote island describe a biblical discovery
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