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From the Editor | Riding the River of Tumult

JL;DR SUMMARY Celebrating its 50th anniversary, Moment magazine reflects on its history and mission, tracing back to its Yiddish predecessor, Der Moment, established in 1910 in Poland. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryHolocaustJewish IdentityMoment MagazineCelebrationElie WieselJewish DiscourseMediaComplexityLeonard Fein

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Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"which would go on to crusade for Jewish causes in Warsaw and educate Jews throughout Eastern Europe."
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"In 1975, a different group of editors gathered in Boston to produce the first issue of Moment."

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