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In the beginning, there was the Lower East Side – the place where it all began for hundreds of thousands of Eastern European Jews. Crowded, dirty, poor. Home to more hopes and tragedies than should ever be squeezed into two square miles. Author-artist Leela Corman perfectly captures the tumult and heartbreak of the neighborhood circa 1910 in her graphic […]

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Before he wrote The Fixer and won the Pulitzer Prize, Bernard Malamud, like so many before him, was a humble high school student who submitted an essay to the Scholastic Art and Writing Award for teenagers. Unlike so many before him, he won. Published in 1932, the essay — about working in his father’s grocery store — begins hesitantly. You can practically […]

Daniel’s becoming a man! With the help of Atlanta royalty Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley, and Mayor Kasim Reed, a boy tells the world – with a small army of fixers and production assistants behind him – that his bar mitzvah is coming. And here we still thought it was extravagant to print invitations on shiny […]

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