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  • Barnett Newman (American, 1905-1970), Untitled, 1961
    Barnett Newman (American, 1905-1970), Untitled, 1961
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    A Black Angel With a Pin in His Hand

    A story of eternal life and sewing, by the Yiddish master

    byAbraham Sutzkever
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    TV’s Panicky New Shtetls

    From a strange small town in Idaho to a menacing desert island, summer programming is all about anxious, insular communities

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    Reality TV’s New Immigrants

    In pageant show Honey Boo Boo, pop culture finally has a convincing take on the aspirations of newcomers

    byRachel Shukert
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    Two Step

    After attending one cookie-cutter Orthodox wedding after another, a question arises: Are these rituals being performed in meaningful ways?

    byMindy Schiller
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    Soviet Unions

    An American moves to St. Petersburg, Russia—where Jews were once forbidden to live—and finds Jewishness has social currency, especially for dating

    byNaomi Telushkin
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    The Aristocrats

    The upper-crust Edwardians of Downton Abbey, now back on PBS, are as bound by tradition as the shtetl Jews of Fiddler on the Roof

    byAmanda Walgrove
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    Interiors

    Three remarkably realist Marc Chagall paintings of synagogues, to be sold at Sotheby’s tomorrow, tell the story of the artist’s Zionism

    byJeannie Rosenfeld
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    Today on Tablet

    A Mideast power shift and the death of Anatevka

    byUnknown Author
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    Vanishing Act

    A new Holocaust history focuses on the life—and death—of the Polish shtetl

    byAdam Kirsch
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    Now, a Virtual Shtetl

    Polish museum project

    byJesse Oxfeld
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    Spirits in the Material World

    Uncovering the legend of the dybbuk

    bySarah Breger
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