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  • Pauline Wengeroff, circa 1913
    Pauline Wengeroff, circa 1913
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    Was Modernity Bad for Jewish Women?

    Women’s History Month: Pauline Wengeroff, the late-19th-century Russian grandmother and memoirist who saw through the emerging patriarchy in Eastern Europe, was no Betty Friedan

    byShulamit S. Magnus
  • Karaite Kenesa (Synagogue) in Chufut Kale, Crimea, where Simhah Isaac Lutski spent the last 6 years of his life.
    Karaite Kenesa (Synagogue) in Chufut Kale, Crimea, where Simhah Isaac Lutski spent the last 6 years of his life.
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    The History of a Karaite Rabbi in Eastern Europe

    The story of Simhah Isaac Lutski helps explain how Karaite Jews retained their communal and doctrinal coherence amid other competing, more ‘European’ forms of Judaism

    byDaniel J. Lasker
  • Yiddish Vokh 2013. (Flickr)
    Yiddish Vokh 2013. (Flickr)
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    Finding an Unlikely Serenity at Yiddish Vokh

    Annual retreat draws a diverse group with a love for the Jewish language

    byAlter Yisrael Shimon Feuerman
  • Holokauszt Gyermekáldozatainak Emlékközpontja—Emlékhely.(F. Kovács Attila)
    Holokauszt Gyermekáldozatainak Emlékközpontja—Emlékhely.(F. Kovács Attila)
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    Plan To Open Another Holocaust Museum in Budapest Faces Criticism—From Jews

    Many worry it will be window-dressing for politicians who want to be seen remembering the Shoah but ignore today’s anti-Semitism

    byRuth Ellen Gruber
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    (Shutterstock)
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    What Your Jewish Last Name Says About You

    A look at the history and roots of common Ashkenazi surnames

    byStephanie Butnick
  • Arkady Gendler
    Arkady Gendler
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    91-Year-Old Yiddish Rock Star

    A visit with Arkady Gendler, the last link to the living roots of Yiddish culture, on the eve of a new album

    byVladislav Davidzon
  • German tank in Ukraine on June 21, 1941.
    German tank in Ukraine on June 21, 1941.
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    In Defense of Bloodlands

    The Yale historian explains his masterwork and its transnational narrative of the Holocaust

    byTimothy Snyder
  • The Hitler Haggadah from Moment, 1934.(Courtesy Eddy Portnoy.)
    The Hitler Haggadah from Moment, 1934.(Courtesy Eddy Portnoy.)
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    Paschal Lampoon

    Forget Purim. Passover has a rich comedic tradition all its own, with parodies of the haggadah mocking everything from rabbis and the rich to Mussolini and Hitler.

    byEddy Portnoy
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