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The Alheira is a beautiful thing. A type of Portuguese sausage known for garlic and breadcrumbs, the meat link is so beloved in Portugal that it was voted one of the nation’s seven gastronomic wonders in a 2011 vote. Oh, and it was invented by Jews to save their lives. In the mid-1500s, peak Spanish […]

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The modernist Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector is widely hailed as one of the greatest Latin American writers of the 20th century. What you wouldn’t guess from that fact is that she was born Chaya Lispector in a Russian shtetl. The youngest daughter of Pinkhas and Mania, Lispector had come out from the shadow of pogroms, during […]

Izak Szewelwicz thought he knew his mother Aida. After giving birth to him in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, she’d sent him to Palestine when she departed for Canada. https://vimeo.com/183442600 Though they later reconnected, when Izak, at seventy, found his birth certificate, he realized how little he actually knew about her. Such as, for instance, […]

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