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In the 1999 book Tough Jews, former Rolling Stone editor Rich Cohen profiled Jewish gangsters, from Murder, Inc. to a hit man who wouldn’t kill on the Sabbath. The new website J-Grit.com–a self-proclaimed “Internet index of tough Jews”–is built from similar stock and is literally crawling with every sort of tough Jew. The site is broken up into half a dozen categories. “Adventurers,” “Spies,” and “Criminals” […]

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Young Holocaust survivors are the unexpected subject of the science fiction novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Jacob Portman, a maladjusted sixteen-year-old living in Florida, knew that his grandfather, Abe, was a Holocaust survivor. The old man used to show Jacob strange photos of the orphanage where he lived after the war–pictures of a girl whose feet never touched […]

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Can you tell your life story in six words? In our new world of 140-character breaking news and micro-sized Facebook updates, we’ve trained ourselves to think in brief bursts. But we haven’t necessarily dumbed ourselves down. Smith Magazine‘s Six-Word Memoir Project has tried to hold up the intellectual end of this brevity craze. They’ve enlisted literary heavyweights, culture bloggers, and […]

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