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‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale

The Jewish Museum surveys one of the grandest families of the 19th century: a hemisphere-spanning dynasty of merchants, poets, soldiers and socialites (oh, and also drug lords).

By Jason Farago

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A Dave Brubeck Cantata Boasts Star Soloists: His Sons

“The Gates of Justice,” a large-scale 1969 choral work about relations between Black and Jewish Americans, is being performed in Los Angeles.

By Zachary Woolfe

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Hugh Hudson, Director of ‘Chariots of Fire,’ Dies at 86

His first film — about two runners, one Christian, one Jewish, who compete at the 1924 Summer Olympics — won four Oscars, including for best picture.

By Richard Sandomir

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Solomon Perel, Jew Who Posed as a Hitler Youth to Survive, Dies at 97

His masquerade — a tale recounted in a memoir and in the film “Europa Europa” — saved his life. But “to this day,” he said, “I have a tangle of two souls in one body.”

By Richard Sandomir