Michael Skakun
By Michael Skakun
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News Kenneth Libo, Jewish Historian, Dies at 74
Kenneth Libo, an award-winning American historian of the Jewish immigrant experience and a former editor at the Forward in the early 1980s, died in Manhattan on March 29 of complications from a fall following a period of ill health. He was 74. Born in Norwich, Conn., Libo, grew up on a chicken farm, his Jewish…
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News Sconces and Scrapbooks: A Visit to the Madoffs
We arrived, two scribes-for-hire, at the Madoff residence on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. “Queens High Baroque,” we said sotto voce in unison as we stepped off the elevator and into the vestibule of the Madoffs’ apartment. It was a wet day, and we quietly removed our galoshes. We had been summoned by the lady of…
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