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Isabella Hammad • The Parisian
“On Rubenstein Street, I had my first love,” my father says. “Right over there.”
Gary Shteyngart • Little Failure: A Memoir
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Herman Koch • The Dinner
Yung Yisroel, which consisted of refugees and immigrants situated within an emerging social and cultural backdrop indifferent or even hostile to their activities.
Lara Rabinovitch • Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture
By Light of Hidden Candles
His 1989 film, Weapons of the Spirit, is a documentary about Le Chambon; it has become an educational staple that I watched in my high school French class.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Maybe the mayor would call me up. When I was a kid, the mayor was an exuberant man who, like my mother, was Jewish and dusky, who favored pale suits, and even now when I hear of a generic mayor it’s him that I see. Kid, he’d say. How could you have let this happen? How could you have allowed your elderly parents to live in this shithole? What choic
... See moreElizabeth McCracken • The Hero of This Book
Finally, the voice emerges from the silence: an ancestral voice, a voice like a centuries-old banyan tree in whose roots a whole village can shelter.