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Leah Falk

Leah Falk
Leah Falk is from Pittsburgh. She earned an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan, and her poems can be found in issues of Kenyon Review, Smartish Pace and other journals. She has also written book reviews for Haaretz and Boston Review. She likes strong women, bagels, and lakes.

How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire

May 6, 2013
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Until finding his grandmother Maroussia Zorokovich’s diaries, Daniel Edelstyn didn’t know much about his family history. But as soon as he delved into the handwritten pages, he grew intrigued by Maroussia’s descriptions of the family’s sugar factory and set out on a journey to the remote Ukrainian village of her birth. What…

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Let My People Go

January 24, 2013
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There’s a place where romantic fairy tale meets French bedroom farce, and where campy inside…

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Hava Nagila: The Movie

January 11, 2013
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Your wedding or bar/bat mitzvah party may have featured the finest smoked fish platters, raucous…

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Punk Jews

December 4, 2012
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The punk rock movement developed in the 1970s…

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Shanghai Ghetto

October 31, 2012
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In 1938, in the aftermath of Kristallnacht, European Jews…

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The Godfather in Yiddish

June 11, 2012
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Some parodies exist solely because it’s funny to…

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Mahler on the Couch

June 8, 2012
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Gustav Mahler was a brilliant composer, and a bit…

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Matisyahu, the Exorcist

June 5, 2012
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Horror movies are all about planting unexpected things in unexpected…

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A Jewish Homeland in Germany

April 23, 2012
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Lately, it seems like everybody’s a fan of…

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Pulling Punches

December 1, 2011
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The new documentary Star in the Ring captures the Golden…

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Shlemiels and Shlemazels

November 30, 2011
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“A shlemiel,” explains Matthew Menachem Feuer at the beginning…

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Rock Against the Nazis

October 17, 2011
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Holocaust survivors have manifested the trauma and tragedy of…

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