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One hundred years ago, my grandmother Ida was a victim of the Spanish flu, one among the many millions who lost their lives worldwide in that crushing pandemic. She was 31, and her fourth child, my father, was 2 years old. But we — I, my siblings and the other grandchildren — did not know […]

A teenage boy stands at the seder table, reading from a Haggadah. Around him are a group of Jews in quarantine, unable to leave the building where they find themselves. The evening’s mood appears somber. The above scene, captured in an archival photograph, is not New York City in 2020, but Ellis Island in 1908. […]