Out and About: Rodin Stolen from Israel Museum; Michael Chabon’s ‘Hobgoblins’
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By Ezra Glinter March 10, 2011
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A new exhibit at Brandeis University displays two works by Felix Lembersky, painter of the Babi Yar massacre.
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Has there been an effort to downplay Anne Frank’s Jewishness?
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“Naked Balzac With Folded Arms,” a sculpture by Auguste Rodin, has been stolen from the Israel Museum.
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Husband-wife team Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman are developing a project at HBO called “Hobgoblin” that portrays a group of conmen and magicians who battle Hitler during World War II.
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A trove of German Jewish books thought lost have turned up at the Leo Baeck Institute.
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Sigrid Nunez tells what it was like to date David Rieff, son of Susan Sontag.
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Israeli singer Yehoram Gaon calls Mizrahi music “garbage” and “a natural disaster.”
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Beat writer Jay Landesman and Washington Post political writer David Broder have died.
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