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Power Down

Is this the twilight’s last gleaming?

Who Controls North America?

Today, even the U.S. government is just one of many players

The End of the End

Revisiting a famous declaration

Red-Tinted Yiddish

How the USSR tried to Sovietize the Jews using their own language and traditions.

Michael Wex

Michael Wex is the author of Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (HarperCollins, 2006). His next book on Yiddish, Just Say Nu, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in the fall.

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