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    Twen­ty-one Notes on Muriel Rukey­ser’s ​‘To Be a Jew in the Twen­ti­eth Century’

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    May 3, 2019
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    Mak­ing songs and poems about Torah.

    Ali­cia Jo Rabins
    April 30, 2019
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    Papa Stal­in and the Hap­py Family

    On Com­mu­nist Yid­dish children’s books in the Sovi­et Union and Unit­ed States.

    Miri­am Udel
    April 29, 2019
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    The Last Great Jew­ish Nov­el Was a Movie: A Look Back at the Coen Broth­ers’ ​‘A Seri­ous Man’

    An exam­i­na­tion of the lit­er­ary influ­ences behind the film, a decade after its release.

    Andrew Rid­ker
    March 19, 2019
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    How Elie Wiesel Taught Me to Grap­ple with Dif­fi­cult Reli­gious Texts

    When a text dis­ap­points us with an anti-human mes­sage, we will avoid the sin of pre­ma­ture for­give­ness, of let­ting the text off the hook too easily.

    Ariel Burg­er
    February 26, 2019
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    The Real Git­tel of ​“Git­tel’s Jour­ney: An Ellis Island Story”

    Lesléa New­man
    February 25, 2019
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