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  • Miriam Karpilove
    Miriam Karpilove
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    (Not Much) Sex in the City

    Virginity and free love in the immigrant world of tenements, in Miriam Karpilove’s newly translated, unselfconsciously Jewish, and hugely popular Yiddish novel ‘Diary of a Lonely Girl’

    byDara Horn
  • St. Paul's Chapel on Wall Street in Manhattan. (Flickr)
    St. Paul's Chapel on Wall Street in Manhattan. (Flickr)
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    Synagogue Ark Finds New Home—in a Church

    Unlikely arrangement saves ornate ark as NYC temple becomes condominium

    byStephanie Butnick
  • Tenement Museum Visitor Center.(Tenement Museum)
    Tenement Museum Visitor Center.(Tenement Museum)
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    Tenement Museum Planning Major Expansion

    The $8 million project means more space for the Lower East Side institution

    byStephanie Butnick
  • (Tablet Magazine)
    (Tablet Magazine)
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    Childhood Memories for Resale

    A thrift shop in New York’s East Village holds the story of my kids’ early years, and of a changed neighborhood

    byMarjorie Ingall
  • Pickle!(Roger Higgins/Library of Congress )
    Pickle!(Roger Higgins/Library of Congress )
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    Hungry for Assimilation

    The pickle, reviled by American food purists, was a staple of the Jewish immigrant diet

    byStephanie Butnick
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