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  • Homemade sewing kit, circa WW 1
    Homemade sewing kit, circa WW 1
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    The Great Repair

    Americans want life to feel normal again. It’s been a while.

    byPeter Savodnik
  • Albert Cohen in Geneva, 1967
    Albert Cohen in Geneva, 1967
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    America’s Albert Cohen Moment

    Is the Greek-born Swiss Jewish author and diplomat a hapless romantic or a man with a message for our times?

    byMatt Alexander Hanson
  • A protester being led away by police outside the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 1968.
    A protester being led away by police outside the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 1968.
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    The Battle of Chicago, 1968

    Fifty years after the political upheaval around the Democratic National Convention that changed America, a former editor from ‘Ramparts’ magazine sees worrying echoes today

    bySol Stern
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    The Making (and Remaking) of a Jewish Jazz Masterpiece

    Fifty years ago this month, a Jewish youth group issued a remarkable ‘concert service in jazz’ album featuring Herbie Hancock and other greats titled ‘Hear, O Israel’—but the composer hated it

    byAllan Ripp
  • American activist Mark Rudd, president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), addresses students at Columbia University, May 3, 1968.
    American activist Mark Rudd, president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), addresses students at Columbia University, May 3, 1968.
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    4 3 2 1: A Novel by Paul Auster

    The late 1960s and all their Jewish rebelliousness, in an ‘energetic’ fiction full of alternate realities

    byPaul Berman
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    The Charlie Cover

    Slander, ridicule, and terror in post-1968 France

    byPaul Berman
  • French Jews of the Middle Ages as pictured in the Jewish Encyclopedia, c. 1905.(Wikimedia Commons)
    French Jews of the Middle Ages as pictured in the Jewish Encyclopedia, c. 1905.(Wikimedia Commons)
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    La Différence

    While American Jews cultivate a hyphenated identity, French Jews like to make themselves wholly French. Do we still share a cultural language?

    byRobert Zaretsky
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