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Newly Digitized Recordings at the Vernadsky Library in Kiev Echo the Lost Ukrainian-Jewish Past – Tablet Magazine

Newly Digitized Recordings at the Vernadsky Library in Kiev Echo the Lost Ukrainian-Jewish Past – Tablet Magazine
— Read on www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/culture-news/266941/vernadsky-library-kiev

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Tasting My Russian Grandmother’s Food in Tangiers

Tasting My Russian Grandmother’s Food in Tangiers
— Read on www.jewishbookcouncil.org/_blog/The_ProsenPeople/post/tasting-my-russian-grandmothers-food-in-tangiers/

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The Most Important Holocaust Story Never Told – Tablet Magazine

A new film tells the tale of Emanuel Ringelblum’s ‘Oyneg Shabes’ Archive, a trove of hidden materials that documented life in the Warsaw Ghetto
— Read on www.tabletmag.com/scroll/266798/the-most-important-holocaust-story-never-told

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Keith Gessen’s ‘A Terrible Country’ Is Pretty Great – Tablet Magazine

Keith Gessen’s ‘A Terrible Country’ Is Pretty Great – Tablet Magazine
— Read on www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/266681/keith-gessen-terrible-country

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A Polish Children’s Classic Comes Back Into Print—With Enduring Style by Lewitt-Him – Tablet Magazine

After the illustrators escaped the Nazis, Lewitt-Him brought their Eastern European sensibility to London, where they designed everything from propaganda posters to stamps
— Read on www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/266637/lewitt-him-childrens-classic

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Jews and the Irish Potato Famine

During Ireland’s hour of greatest need, Jews donated more aid than anyone in the world.
— Read on www.aish.com/jw/s/Jews-and-the-Irish-Potato-Famine.html

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From Cairo to Kolkata, Traces of a Vibrant Jewish Past – The New York Times

A largely vanished world can be rediscovered (though not easily) in cemeteries, synagogues and winding streets.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/travel/jewish-history-cairo-tunis-kolkata.html

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Off the Rails in Birobidzhan, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Siberia – Tablet Magazine

Off the Rails in Birobidzhan, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Siberia – Tablet Magazine
— Read on www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/266003/birobidzhan

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