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    Cover of Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
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    Hitler in Los Ange­les: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hol­ly­wood and America
    Steven J. Ross
    Essay

    Mar­tin Gang

    Glenn Frankel
    February 10, 2017
    Essay

    Dore Schary

    Glenn Frankel
    February 8, 2017
    Essay

    The Jews of the Blacklist

    Glenn Frankel
    February 6, 2017
    Cover of Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic
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    Jews in the Los Ange­les Mosaic
    Karen S. Wilson, ed.
    Cover of Serenade: A Memoir of Music and Love from Vienna and Prague to Los Angeles, 1927 to World War II to 2012
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    Ser­e­nade: A Mem­oir of Music and Love from Vien­na and Prague to Los Ange­les, 1927 to World War II to 2012
    Car­ol Jean Delmar
    Essay

    The Last Jew of Boyle Heights

    Ear­li­er this week, Jan­ice Stein­berg wrote about ​“Djew­ess Unchained,” the Song of the Sea, and Yid­dish inflect­ed Eng­lish and the audio­book ver­sion of her nov­el The Tin…
    Jan­ice Steinberg
    February 1, 2013
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    L.A. Noir: The Strug­gle for the Soul of Amer­i­ca’s Most Seduc­tive City
    John Buntin
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