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  • Ayzik Meyer Dik (center) and other ‘maskilim’; (clockwise from top) Mikhl Gordon, Yehudah Leib Gordon, Tsevi ha-Kohen Rabinovich, and Eli’ezer Zweifel
    Ayzik Meyer Dik (center) and other ‘maskilim’; (clockwise from top) Mikhl Gordon, Yehudah Leib Gordon, Tsevi ha-Kohen Rabinovich, and Eli’ezer Zweifel
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    The Politics of the Pale

    Are Jewish politics as they exist today a result of our Russian past?

    byJoshua Meyers
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    The Ghetto

    503 years after the first Jewish enclave was instituted in Venice, what does the word ‘ghetto’ mean today?

    byBenjamin Ravid
  • Minnie's recipe files.(Courtesy of the author)
    Minnie's recipe files.(Courtesy of the author)
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    One Man’s Moby-Dick Is Another Man’s Kugel

    I scoured continents and hundreds of kugel recipes for one that felt like a birthright

    byAvery Robinson
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    The Crimes of Moisés Ville: A Story of Gauchos and Jews

    The long echo of a massacre on the Argentine pampas, and the multi-generational chronicle of Jewish life in its wake

    byJavier Sinay
  • Odessa, 2010.(Klaus Pichler)
    Odessa, 2010.(Klaus Pichler)
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    Odessa Story: Reading Isaac Babel in Ukraine

    The Ukrainian Black Sea port has lost most of its Jews, but not the vestiges of the muddled, criminal city Isaac Babel imagined

    byVladislav Davidzon
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    Today on Tablet

    Remembering Salinger, paled pictures from the Pale, and more

    byMarc Tracy
  • Nachalnik, with an advertisment for the premiere of his play “Din Toyre”(Photo from Yidishe bleter, April 20, 1938. Play advertisement from Moment, December 29, 1933. Scans courtesy of Eddy Portnoy.)
    Nachalnik, with an advertisment for the premiere of his play “Din Toyre”(Photo from Yidishe bleter, April 20, 1938. Play advertisement from Moment, December 29, 1933. Scans courtesy of Eddy Portnoy.)
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    Fine Young Criminal

    The story of a yeshiva boy who turned to the gang life and lived to write about it

    byEddy Portnoy
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    Intimate Stranger

    Margot Singer’s debut collection explores one woman’s quest to connect

    byStacy Perman
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    The Man with the $50,000 Beard

    How a cantor became an American music legend

    byAlex Halberstadt
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