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Arts & Culture

Essay

The Biog­ra­ph­er and the Architect

Ear­li­er this week, Wendy Less­er wrote about Louis Kahn’s Jew­ish iden­ti­ty why she chose to write You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn. Wendy is guest blog­ging for the…
Wendy Less­er
March 24, 2017
Essay

How Jew­ish Was Louis Kahn?

Ear­li­er this week, Wendy Less­er wrote about why she chose to write You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn. Wendy is guest blog­ging for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil all week as…
Wendy Less­er
March 22, 2017
Essay

Why I Wrote ​‘You Say to Brick’

Wendy Less­er
March 20, 2017
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You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
Wendy Less­er
Essay

The Poet of Thomp­son Street

Joseph Helm­re­ich
March 15, 2017
Essay

Writ­ing What You Know — Or What You Don’t

Joseph Helm­re­ich is the author of The Return, a sci­ence fic­tion nov­el about a van­ished astro­physi­cist who reap­pears six years lat­er and inspires a cult…
Joseph Helm­re­ich
March 13, 2017
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Visu­al Arts
Art from the Holocaust
Eliad Moreh-Rosenberg, ed.
Essay

The Return of Stolen Property

Anders Rydell
February 9, 2017
Essay

The Paper Brigade of Vilnius

Anders Rydell
February 7, 2017
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An Empire of Their Own: How Jews Invent­ed Hollywood
Neal Gabler
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High Noon: The Hol­ly­wood Black­list and the Mak­ing of an Amer­i­can Classic
Glenn Frankel
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We’ll Always Have Casablanca
Noah Isen­berg
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A Poem for Peter: The Sto­ry of Ezra Jack Keats and the Cre­ation of The Snowy Day
Andrea Davis Pinkney; Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher, illus.
Essay

Pick­ing Up the Brush. I Mean the Mop. I Mean the Brush.

Mol­ly Peacock
January 11, 2017
Essay

The Courage Inside Encouragement

Mol­ly Peacock
January 9, 2017
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Mak­ers of Jew­ish Moder­ni­ty: Thinkers, Artists, Lead­ers, and the World They Made
Jacques Picard, Jacques M. Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, Idith Zertal, eds.
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