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For a small country, Latvia has an impressive Jewish legacy that includes the violinist Gidon Kremer, the painter Mark Rothko and the philosopher Isaiah Berlin. Sergei Eisenstein, who filmed “The Battleship Potemkin,” came from a Latvian Jewish family, as did the conductor Mariss Jansons, whose mother escaped the Riga Ghetto just before his birth. Yet […]

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When the opportunity arose to visit Morocco — a place that had been on my travel “bucket list” for some time — last November, I didn’t really know what to expect. Most of my impressions were formed from reading The New York Times travel pages and seeing pictures of Moroccan-Jewish friends at pre-wedding parties and […]

The isle of St. Pierre looks like Greenland and sounds like Brittany. Geographically, it’s part of Canada. And it’s worth knowing about if you are, like many of my friends and readers, a dedicated Francophile. St. Pierre and Miquelon, an eight-island archipelago off Newfoundland, is a French overseas territory — the only one in North […]

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