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    A Jazz Classic Becomes a Picture Book

    ‘Strange Fruit’ brings the story behind a song about racism and lynching to a new audience: kids

    byMarjorie Ingall
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    Billie Holiday’s Cover of ‘My Yiddishe Mamme’

    Remembering the legendary singer on the 100th anniversary of her birth

    byElissa Goldstein
  • Billie Holiday(courtesy: PBS)
    Billie Holiday(courtesy: PBS)
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    The Strange History Behind ‘Strange Fruit’

    Linking the iconic song to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

    byAdam Chandler
  • Caption: Guitarist and blues singer Josh White at Café Society, Greenwich Village, New York, 1944. Rollei Contact Strips. (©Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography)
    Caption: Guitarist and blues singer Josh White at Café Society, Greenwich Village, New York, 1944. Rollei Contact Strips. (©Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography)
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    Surprise Shot

    A discovery, just in time for Black History Month

    byMaya Benton
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    Yoram Kaniuk Wins Sapir Prize For Literature

    Billie Holiday kissed and hated the Tablet contributor

    byDan Klein
  • Cab Calloway, New York, 1947.(William Gottlieb, Library of Congress)
    Cab Calloway, New York, 1947.(William Gottlieb, Library of Congress)
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    Fusion Confusion

    A new CD claims to shine a light on a secret chapter in black-Jewish music history, but the secret is long out

    byAlexander Gelfand
  • Joan Baez and Bob Dylan at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom(U.S. Information Agency, via Wikimedia Commons)
    Joan Baez and Bob Dylan at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom(U.S. Information Agency, via Wikimedia Commons)
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    Tu B’Av and No Love

    A Jewish Valentine? Bring on the heartbreak

    byTablet Magazine
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