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A klezmer musician turns her grandmother?s FBI files into musical theater.

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A Shavuot-themed visit to a venerated cheese shop in New York's Greenwich Village.

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A father's rumination on lullabies, teeth, and the ineffable.

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A conversation with journalist Masha Gessen about her book, Blood Matters, in which she explores the implications of genetic testing and inherited disease for herself and others.

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The rise and fall of Isaac Rosenfeld, Saul Bellow?s great rival

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The volcanoes and other geological events behind Exodus.

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From our archive, a conversation with Israeli rock and klezmer musician Noam Inbar.

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Sara Ivry talks to writer and This American Life contributor Jonathan Goldstein about his new story collection, "Ladies and Gentleman, the Bible."

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How Coke got its rabbinic stamp of approval.

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Memorial politics are fraught everywhere - especially on a hilltop in Rwanda, as Gregory Warner reports.

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British political columnist Jonathan Freedland on his thrillers, written under the pseudonym Sam Bourne.

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The gripping, improbable, globetrotting story of how Israeli spies caught Adolf Eichmann.

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An interview with novelist Zoë Heller, author of What Was She Thinking: Notes on a Scandal and now The Believers.

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An introduction to the beguiling melodies of maftirim

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What makes a body Jewish?

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A peek inside London fashion with couturier David Sassoon.

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David Sax celebrates the wonders of rolled beef, tongue, and other deli treats.

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Music and conversation with Annette Ezekiel Kogan, frontwoman for the punk klezmer band Golem.

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Uncovering the lost works of Felix Mendelssohn.

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Ed Zwick and Leon Wieseltier on fighters, cab drivers, creepy forests, and Zwick's Defiance.

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Thirty years later, a look at how an American miniseries altered German perspectives on the Holocaust

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What it meant for one person, born male, to become a woman.

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A young poet's journey on the island of Djerba.

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In honor of the upcoming inauguration, we revisit Eric Molinsky's profile of Barack Obama's wife's cousin's congregation in Chicago.

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A conversation with Ari Folman, director of "Waltz with Bashir"

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Investigating the meaning of Hanukkah

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Beliefs collide on the New York City subway.

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Composer Yotam Haber finds inspiration in a dusty Roman archive.

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A historian explores the role of Jews in the once-booming ostrich feather business.

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Josh Kun finds forgotten treasures in old, discarded LPs

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A London walking tour outlines Britain's great Jewish controversies.

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Celebrating Jerusalem hip hop with Coolooloosh.

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Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner dishes on the show's Jewish characters.

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La Mar Enfortuna reinterprets the music of the Sephardic diaspora.

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Novelist Yael Hedaya explores the daily struggles of modern Israelis.

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A new school in Germany promises cantors for Europe

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Hadara Graubart's family blurs the line between superstition and religion.

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Ariel Sabar searches for the Edenic past his father left behind in Kurdistan

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Dining out in Israel with food aficionado Janna Gur.

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Ilan Stavans voyages to find a mother tongue.

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Linda Grant's new novel takes on identity, morality and fashion.

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Danit Brown on life as an Israeli immigrant in Michigan.

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A conversation with theater critic Alisa Solomon on West Side Story's Jewish roots.

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Sadia Shepard traces her roots to the Jews of India.

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Cory Kahaney talks about Jewish female stand-up comedians from the 1950s and 60s, like Totie Fields and Jean Carroll, who paved the way for her and her peers.

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Filmmaker Vanessa Engle on "Jews," her three-part documentary for the BBC.

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Jim Holt on the history of jokes - including those collected and interpreted by Sigmund Freud, and by his self-appointed disciple, Gershon Legman.

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Tania Grossinger on growing up at the family resort hotel.

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A conversation with punk-rockabilly klezmer Israeli musician Noam Inbar.

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A forgotten synagogue in a defunct prison is brought to light

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Filmmaker Ran Tal on his documentary about family life in the early days of the kibbutz.

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A conversation with Joanna Hershon about her new Wild West novel, "The German Bride."

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David Benioff on his new novel, "City of Thieves."

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Aleksandar Hemon talks about his latest novel, The Lazarus Project.

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How Hebrew was (and continues to be) transformed into a modern language.

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How comedians of the '60s and '70s revolutionized stand-up.

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A literary—but none-too-sad—Keith Gessen talks about his new novel.

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A tour of Streit's matzo factory, while it's still in the neighborhood.

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A conversation with journalist Masha Gessen about her new book, Blood Matters, in which she explores the implications of genetic testing and inherited disease.

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A summer camp story from Sloane Crosley.

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A scholar and priest traces the roots of religious violence to Abraham.

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Yasmin Levy brings her own fire to traditional Ladino music.

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Eric Umansky encounters merchants, widows, and secret police at a Syrian synagogue

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Elisa Albert talks about her first novel—a coming-of-death tragicomedy.

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One man's dispatches from the edge of the New Jewish Food Movement

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Gregorian chant meets Judeo-Iraqi songs of prayer in Miami

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Thomas Roma on his efforts to photograph all the synagogues in Brooklyn.

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Ann Kirschner on two very different trips to Poland, the place her mother swore never to return to.

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Howard Jacobson swore he wouldn't write another Jewish novel. What happened?

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Murray Zimiles explores the links between Torah arks and carousel horses

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New Yorker music critic Alex Ross takes us on a music tour of the 20th century.

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Alisa Solomon on "Milk and Honey," a 1961 Zionist Broadway musical comedy.

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Sephardic folk singer Flory Jagoda traces her musical roots.

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A 12-year-old critic gives her insight on three new books for young adult readers.

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Anthropologist Ruth Behar on her new book about Jewish Cuba.

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British actor Henry Goodman on exploring the inner workings of a milkman-patriarch.

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Conversation with the forever contrarian, but also quite sharp, Norman Mailer about his latest book, a fictional biography of Hitler's early years.

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Daniel B. Smith explores the history of the phenomenon—from the Bible to his father.

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Dan Kaufman on his cabaret-punk band Barbez's Paul Celan tribute album.

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What happens when 100 klezmer musicians from around the world gather for a photo op?

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A. J. Jacobs on what happens when an agnostic attempts to follow every rule in the Bible.

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Shalom Auslander on his new memoir, Foreskin's Lament.

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A consummate salesman sings the praises of this unusual fruit

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A guided tour of Brick Lane, in London's East End, with writer and artist Rachel Lichtenstein.

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Robert Alter's version of Psalms strives to recapture their Hebrew beauty

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A story by Janice Erlbaum about an unusual visit to the local nail salon.

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A conversation with Dalia Sofer about her first novel, which chronicles the fearful and bittersweet months before a Jewish gem dealer and his family flee revolutionary Iran.

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Barry Joseph, "the Effervescent Jew," is the go-to guy for all manner of fact and apocrypha related to seltzer.

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A conversation with Eric Simonoff, editor of Sleepaway, an anthology of essays and stories about summer camp.

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Re-discovering an 1855 collection of women's prayers written by Fanny Neuda in what was then Moravia.

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Rebecca Sheir reports on how Alaskan sailor Jack Johnson found himself aboard the ship Exodus in 1947, bound for Palestine.

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Arts reporter Eric Molinsky looks at the work and legacy of Yiddish playwright Jacob Gordin.

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A three-kid panel reviews three new works of young adult fiction.

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Nextbook editor Joanna Smith Rakoff joins other loyal customers in bidding a fond farewell to Gertel's Bake Shop on the Lower East Side.

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Foundation expert Joel Fleishman talks with host Sara Ivry about the history of Jewish charitable giving, from its origins in the Bible through the present.

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A conversation with Alex Halberstadt about the life and music of Joseph "Yossele" Rosenblatt.

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An interview with 95-year-old foreign correspondent and photographer Ruth Gruber.

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The third in a three-part series chronicling Jesse Green's preparations (logistical, intellectual and emotional) for his son Erez's bar mitzvah.

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Eric Molinsky talks to playwrights and historians about the staying power of S. Ansky's "The Dybbuk"

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Michael Chabon talks about his new detective novel set in an Alaskan territory where Yiddish is the dominant language and beat cops, called "latkes," attempt to crack Hasidic crime rings.

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Nathan Englander talks about his new novel and about his recent trip to Buenos Aires, the city his characters inhabit, and which he avoided throughout the decade it took to write his book.

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Examining the rival interests that energized the city a century ago

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April 28 is Freedom Day in South Africa - a national holiday celebrating the anniversary of the first democratic elections to be held, following the collapse of the apartheid regime. Accordingly, this week we hear from human rights advocate Albie Sachs, now serving his 13th year on South Africa's Constitutional Court.

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Passover takes on new meaning for a reporter far from home

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A conversation with Alix Kates Shulman, author of "Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen," featuring the intellectually and sexually precocious heroine Sasha Davis and considered by many to be America's first feminist novel.

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Andrea Stern's new collection of photographs chronicles the intimate life of a family—her own

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Daily Show writer Rob Kutner introduces the stand-up comedy show that's become a sell-out Purim tradition in New York City. Coming soon to a synagogue near you...

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With a little self-invention and a lot of talent, Doc Pomus left his mark on rock 'n' roll

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Conversation with Andre Aciman, author of Out of Egypt, a memoir of his childhood in Alexandria, and, most recently, a steamy novel titled Call Me By Your Name.

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The second of three reports from Jesse Green as he chronicles the year leading up to his son Erez's bar mitzvah.

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Aline Kominsky Crumb has rebelled against many, from her Long Island parents, grandparents and great grandparents to the feminists she crossed paths with in the 1970s. She talks with us about these and other chapters in her life, about her longtime collaboration with husband Robert Crumb, and about her new book, Need More Love.

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Norman Mailer died this past Saturday. In his memory, we're re-posting his conversation with Nextbook, recorded in January, 2007.

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The story of an unusual import export venture that begins and ends with Iraqi dates.

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F. Murray Abraham and the Theater for a New Audience tackle two of the most controversial characters in classic English theater.

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Flory Jagoda shares memories and Sephardic songs from her upbringing in a large musical family that lived in a village outside Sarajevo until World War II.

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Writer/performer Janice Erlbaum on spending Christmas Eve at a homeless shelter.

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Growing up Jake Fuchs thought of his father as a screenwriter. At 12, he discovered otherwise.

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Fiction writer and Nextbook.org columnist Nelly Reifler asks everyone around her - from the neighborhood barista to the rabbi who married her - where they stand on questions of faith. Now we're turning the tables.

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A visit to the biggest annual kosher food tradeshow in the world.

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Interview with Italian musicologist and radio host Francesco Spagnolo.

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Slate music critic Jody Rosen discusses Jewface, an album of early 20th-century Vaudeville songs that affectionately invoke and mock Jewish stereotypes.

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Jesse Green's bar mitzvah year, Part I.

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From a Frankfurt stamp auction to a Stockholm apartment, Reinhard Kaiser's search for clues to a wartime romance.

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Bluesman Jeremiah Lockwood finds his voice in his grandfather's liturgical repertoire.

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Daniel Mendelsohn on the discoveries that led to his new memoir, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million.

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Reporter Lauren Sandler shares stories from her journeys among Evangelical Christian youth.

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Novelist Naomi Alderman talks about her love-hate relationship with the Orthodox community in London.

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Jill Slater has found the perfect job - at least on evenings and weekends.

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Poetry writer and teacher Eve Grubin talks about combining her poetic and religious strivings.

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Poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum on Germans, Jews, kitsch and porn.

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Illustrator Miriam Katin discusses her graphic novel, We Are On Our Own, which recounts her and her mother's escape from Nazi-occupied Budapest in 1944.

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Musician and anthropologist Galeet Dardashti finds the Israeli audience her grandfather never had.

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The Viennese pornographer turned critic who dreamed up Bambi

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Gary Shteyngart talks about fact, fiction, and religion in his new novel, Absurdistan.

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A factory tour with the makers of S and S Cheesecake in the Bronx

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A visit with the composer who took over where Marc Blitzstein left off.

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Rebecca Goldstein talks to Sara Ivry about her biography of Spinoza.

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Israeli writer Etgar Keret's short stories look toward Kafka and Vonnegut rather than Yehoshua or Oz.

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Neal Pollack talks about screenwriter, book author, and journalist Ben Hecht.

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French writer Marcel Cohen on "Searching for a Lost Ladino: Letters to Antonio Saura," a book he wrote in Judeo-Spanish, the all-but-lost language of his grandparents.

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Laurel Snyder on the challenges of a split religious identity. Snyder is the editor of a new essay collection titled Half/Life: Jewish Tales from Interfaith Homes.

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Writer and reporter Jessie Graham describes hosting her first seder, while living in Sulaymaniya, in Northern Iraq.

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Journalist Ian Buruma's uncle, John Schlesinger, directed many unforgettable films, including Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday, and Marathon Man.

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Allan Sherman's page in the American songbook

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An audio interview with the editor of A Writer at War.

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What happens when Hasidim stray outside the fold

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Madonna, Kabbalah, and me

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A comedienne's special kind of holiday cheer.

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How Bee Season lost its sting on the screen. Plus: An audio interview with author Myla Goldberg.

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When girls want to know how Stacy Friedman's bat mitzvah compares with my own, I need to be armed with answers.

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The music of Central Asia by way of Queens.

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On rereading Leonard Michaels' I Would Have Saved Them If I Could

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