With war reshaping Europe and rising anti-immigrant sentiment at home, 1917 was a year that forced American Jews to examine their identities.

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The best-selling novelist plumbs her own tortuous path to happily ever after.

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Jessica Chastain plays Antonina Zabinski, a woman who risks her life to save 300 Polish Jews from the gas chambers.