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‘Shtisel’ spin-off ‘Kugel’ richly portrays a diasporic Hasidic community
When I visited the Jewish community of Antwerp 15 years ago, three things stood out for me. First, Haredi Jews traveled everywhere on bicycles — something I had never seen in my hometown of New ...
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A divided Belgium nears a belated consensus on Holocaust-era complicity
ANTWERP, Belgium (JTA ... reckoning with its complicity in the deaths of 28,902 Belgian Jews during World War II. In the last year, Begium opened its first Holocaust museum and, for the ...
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Once buried in Europe, a Hitler puppet stashed in Frank Oz’s Oakland attic tells his family’s Holocaust story
A new exhibit shows several puppets crafted by the legendary puppeteer and director’s parents, who fled Antwerp during WWII. And from ... carved in the 1930s by his Jewish father, Isadore ...