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    Arts & Culture

    Essay

    A Picture’s Worth

    Haim Watz­man
    April 14, 2017
    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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