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Imagining the Lives of the Jewish Mothers Behind Famous Jews

How Jewish moms might have put their kids on the path to greatness—perhaps unintentionally

by
Steve Brodner
May 09, 2014



Steve Brodner is an illustrator, journalist, and filmmaker living in New York. He blogs at Brodnersbicycle.com.

#Fran Drescher
#Franz Kafka
#Gertrude Stein
#Jewish mothers
#Mother's Day
#Philip Roth
#Sigmund Freud
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