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Meet the Fokkens: Amsterdam’s septuagenarian Jewish prostitutes
Like many Jewish grandmothers, Martine and Louise Fokkens enjoy talking about their grandchildren in language laced with Yiddish.\n
Home is where ‘The Luminous Heart of Jonah S.’ is
Gina B. Nahai’s new novel, “The Luminous Heart of Jonah S.” (Akashic Books) is a wildly inventive story of the Soleyman family that travels back and forth in time between 1950s Tehran and present-day Los Angeles.
Excerpt from: “The Luminous Heart of Jonah S.”
An excerpt from:“The Luminous Heart of Jonah S.” by Gina B. Nahai, (Akashic Books).
Israel film academy favors women’s themes
The Israel Academy of Film has picked the country’s best movies of the year, and the winner is the female sensibility.
Poem: Freestyle, on the first of Tishri
Poem: Freestyle, on the first of Tishri
Documentary gets inside head of Heinrich Himmler
In 1941, Heinrich Himmler took time out from organizing the Final Solution to write to his 12-year-old daughter, Gudrun: “In life, one must always be decent, courageous and kind-hearted.”
Cartoonist Art Spiegelman reveals his influences in ‘Wordless!’
When cartoonist Art Spiegelman published the first volume of his graphic novel “Maus” in 1986, many hailed it as a milestone in the history of comics.
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