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Julia M. Klein

Julia M. Klein, the Forward’s contributing book critic, has been a two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Follow her on Twitter @JuliaMKlein.

Reuven Fenton is an author and New York Post reporter. (Photo/Robert Miller)
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‘Goyhood’: On the road again — except a lot more Jewish than Jack Kerouac

by Julia M. Klein May 30, 2024May 30, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. When we meet David and Marty Belkin, as 12-year-old […]

The slogan "Arbeit Macht Frei" is seen over the gateway to the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. (Photo/Matthias Köhne via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0)
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What we keep getting wrong about the Holocaust

by Julia M. Klein February 8, 2024
Detail from the cover art of "My Hijacking" by Martha Hodes
Posted inUncategorized

A week as a hostage on a hijacked plane, a lifetime of anxiety and traumatic memories

by Julia M. Klein June 26, 2023
Leonard Bernstein
(Photo/Courtesy Jewish Film Institute)
Posted inCulture

S.F. Jewish Film Fest: How Leonard Bernstein embraced his Jewishness — and changed the world

by Julia M. Klein and Forward July 11, 2022July 26, 2022
Saul Bellow in 1976 (Photo/U.S. State Department)
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Genius, jerk, misogynist, everyman — the many lives of Saul Bellow

by Julia M. Klein and Forward January 3, 2022January 3, 2022

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