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Jews, Brits, and Turkey's Other Filthy Races

Jews, Brits, and Other Filthy Races

In the early fall of 1871, a deadly cholera epidemic struck the town of Arnavutköy, a suburb of Istanbul along the shores of the Bosphorus. Still, the English physician and Constantinople Board of Health member Dr. Edward Dickson wasn’t worried. “Considering that this large village is inhabited almost exclusively by Greeks and Jews — the […]

By Madeleine Elfenbein

Painted by Klimt, Stolen by the Nazis, and Finally Recovered

The Sordid Nazi History Behind This Famous Klimt Painting

Maria Altmann’s story has all the hallmarks of a great thriller: stolen famous art, tight-fisted government officials, Nazis. It’s no wonder, then, that the late Altmann (née Bloch-Bauer) has been the subject of three documentaries, a memoir, and, most recently, a feature film starring Helen Mirren by veteran British director Simon Curtis. Altmann, who hailed […]

Israel’s Favorite Writer Looks Inward

Etgar Keret—Israel’s favorite magic realist—is back, and this time with a memoir: The Seven Good Years, his first foray into nonfiction. The memoir spans the seven years between the birth of Keret’s son and the death of his father. What falls in between are meditations on air-travel, taxi-rides, the amorality of telemarketers, and, naturally, life, […]