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  • Albert Cohen in Geneva, 1967
    Albert Cohen in Geneva, 1967
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    America’s Albert Cohen Moment

    Is the Greek-born Swiss Jewish author and diplomat a hapless romantic or a man with a message for our times?

    byMatt Alexander Hanson
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    Romain Gary’s ‘The Kites’ Is the Best ‘Masterpiece Theater’ TV Series You’ll Ever Read

    Bookworm: A new first translation of the French writer’s wartime epic

    byAlexander Aciman
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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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    (Joanna Neborsky)
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    Lost Books

    An archive of the best books lost in the stacks

    byTablet Magazine
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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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