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David Margalit, 11, gave the slightest of nods, and he and Nasif Francis, also 11, began playing a Mozart Sonata. Margalit and Francis, on piano and violin, made subtle music together, enchanting listeners in a house concert last week on the Upper East Side. When they finished, they stood and bowed in unison, walked off […]

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Is anti-Semitism at the root of German national identity? Daniel Goldhagen’s “Hitler’s Willing Executioners,” published in 1996, set off a firestorm of controversy by arguing just that. Now comes Tuvia Tenenbom’s “I Sleep in Hitler’s Room: An American Jew Visits Germany,” a staged reading, based on the dramatist’s book of the same title, which echoes […]

The first group gasp came when Marion Sacher told about her childhood in the Third Reich. Sacher, a refugee from Nazi Germany, is a resident of the Kittay House independent living seniors apartment building in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx. She and a Holocaust survivor who lives there were talking about their wartime experiences […]

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