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    The Greatest Literary Impostor of All Time Deserves To Be Remembered

    Romain Gary’s many life stories—including that of his pseudonymous, prizewinning French ‘cousin’ Émile Ajar—still hold sway, 35 years to the day after his death

    byVictoria Baena
  • 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
  • (Joanna Neborsky)
    (Joanna Neborsky)
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    Coming Clean

    Lost Books

    byStephanie Butnick
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    Great Pretenders

    In Romain Gary’s family, invention was the necessity of mother and son

    byEmma Garman
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