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    Smuggling Jewish Refugees in Key West

    How the Caribbean became a stopping point for the American journey of so many Jews

    byArlo Haskell
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    One Hundred Years of Insanity

    America’s greatest Marxist theoretician, Sidney Hook, identified Communism’s catastrophic cultism and the devastating splits it would cause in worldwide labor movements, and yet the Bolshevik mystique endured. Why?

    byPaul Berman
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    The Oldest Living Painter in Westbeth

    Peter Ruta, who turns 98 this month, is still painting and still not getting his due

    bySarah Wildman
  • (Copyright Tessa Traeger from the exhibition Chemistry of Light, Purdy Hicks Gallery)
    (Copyright Tessa Traeger from the exhibition Chemistry of Light, Purdy Hicks Gallery)
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    The Founder of the House

    Newly reissued: the underappreciated writer’s 7-volume, multigenerational Gollantz Saga, an epic of 19th-c. European Jewry

    byNaomi Jacob
  • Eric Hobsbawm.(Martin Parr/Magnum Photos)
    Eric Hobsbawm.(Martin Parr/Magnum Photos)
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    Eric Hobsbawm’s Jewish Gift

    How the British Marxist and anti-Zionist, who died last week, influenced the writing of Jewish history

    byAlbert I. Baumgarten
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