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A history of Mel Brooks as a ‘disobedient Jew’

Jewish literature and American studies scholar Jeremy Dauber centers Jewish identity in a new biography of the director and actor.

Jazmine Contreras, a scholar of Dutch historical memory, says the country’s relationship with the past is as complex as its experience during World War II.

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The Sit-Down

A history of Mel Brooks as a ‘disobedient Jew’

How Jewish comedy found religion, from Philip Roth to ‘Broad City’

How the Holocaust is remembered in the land of Anne Frank

What American Jews fight about when they fight about Israel

A law professor worries Israel could become the next Hungary

An Israel analyst’s best- and worst-case scenarios for the new right-wing government

A Black writer explores how Germany remembers its ‘unthinkable’ past

‘Bad Jews’ describes a history of American Jewish infighting

High Holiday prayers not working for you? Try remixing metaphors.

A new study explains why Starbucks can’t spell your Jewish name

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