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    A ’60s Meshugeneh

    In his roiling narcissism, prophetic insight, personal misdeeds, refusal to acknowledge change in himself and in American society, and his habit of putting things in boxes, Jack Nusan Porter speaks for a generation of radical Jews and all the contradictions inherent in their situation

    byJonah Raskin
  • Jeremy Strong as Jerry Rubin in ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
    Jeremy Strong as Jerry Rubin in ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
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    All My Trials Lord, Soon Be Over

    It’s payback time in America, in Aaron Sorkin’s flawed new ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’

    byJonah Raskin
  • B. Traven, 1920 (Original photo: Ullstein Bild via Getty Images)
    B. Traven, 1920 (Original photo: Ullstein Bild via Getty Images)
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    Was B. Traven Jewish?

    The mystery of the author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre remains unresolved

    byPaul Berman
  • 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
  • Larry "Ratso" Sloman.
    Larry "Ratso" Sloman.
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    A Mensch Named Ratso

    The life and high times of a Queens kid who found his way to Bob Dylan, Abbie Hoffman, Howard Stern, and Mike Tyson

    byDavid Hershkovits
  • (Collage by Abigail Miller/Tablet Magazine; East Village graffiti photo by Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis; Hitler photo from Deutsches Bundesarchiv via Wikimedia Commons)
    (Collage by Abigail Miller/Tablet Magazine; East Village graffiti photo by Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis; Hitler photo from Deutsches Bundesarchiv via Wikimedia Commons)
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    Mistaken Identity?

    When I lived upstairs from the Jewish Defense Organization, Hitler was a presence on the Lower East Side

    byRon Rosenbaum
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    Aleph Vet

    A glimpse inside the world of Vietnam’s Jewish GIs

    bySeth Gitell
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