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Mora, the director of academic programs at the Center for Jewish History in New York City ... in the Diaspora. What books would capture the Jewish vibes of the 21st century?

Sonny Figueroa/The New York Times An extra-special artist deserves ... shifts from youthful dreams of aesthetic resistance to 21st-century fatalism. Now that well-moneyed institutions set the ...

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