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Magazine Discussion: Live With Book Maven Zibby Owens

Join Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein in conversation with writer and book podcaster Zibby Owens on Thursday, January 19 at 7 pm ET/ 4 pm PT. Owens’

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Tom Stoppard's most personal play, "Leopoldstadt," opens with a family Christmas party in 1899. Family members debate the meaning of assimilation, discuss mathematics and opine on Theodor Herzl’s pamphlet "Der Judenstaat."⁠
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"Ironically, as theatergoers will see, one character wonders if there is an actual need for a Jewish homeland: '…the beating heart of Viennese culture. This is the Promised Land,' he insists. There’s also talk about who would come to their next large get-together—a Passover Seder," writes Hadassah Magazine Senior Editor Leah F. Finkelshteyn.⁠
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