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This Holocaust Jacket Sold for $2 at a Yard Sale

Two dollars won’t even get you a subway ride in NYC today. But for the family of Benzion Peresecki, it helped piece together an incredible story of survival from the Dachau concentration camp. Last year, a woman named Jillian Eisman was at a tag sale on Long Island when she saw a Holocaust prisoner’s jacket […]

NYC’s Radical Yiddish Puppets Are Back

Zuni Maud and Yosl Cutler met almost a century ago, but their puppets are making sure their legacy continues. Maud and Cutler were both Jews who’d fled Eastern Europe for New York City and wound up as cartoonists at a satirical Yiddish political magazine in the 1920s. They shared a love of puppets and […]

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