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This historian’s classic ideas about memory fuel a new drama about Oct. 7 and Jewish identity

In Jonathan Spector’s play “Birthright,” a 40-year-old book is speaking to today’s anxious audiences.

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"Pollice Verso (Thumbs Down)," by painter Jean-Léon Gérôme. (Public domain)

There aren’t Jewish fighters in Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator II.’ But what about in ancient Rome?

The real history of Jewish gladiators, from Reish Lakish to Kirk Douglas.

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Cora Wilburn, an early American Jewish novelist, gets a bridge named for her in her Mass. town

Wilburn lived in Duxbury, home to a recent antisemitism scandal, from her adulthood until her death at 82 in 1906.

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These photos of the Lower East Side show how the neighborhood looked then and now

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How moving to Denmark, a country with few fellow Jews, strengthened my Jewish identity

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Culture

What happened to all the art that Nazis looted? This Jewish Museum exhibit tells the story of several masterworks.

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The Jewish doctor who escaped the Nazis, became a medical pioneer and founded the Paralympics

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Culture

Joshua Cohen’s ‘The Netanyahus’ analyzes the famous family through the story of one night

Rear view of female traveller enjoys the view at Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong city skyline at dusk

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Calling any Jewish woman a ‘JAP’ is offensive — but not for the reason you think

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The American Jewish story needs to include more non-Ashkenazi Jews like me

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