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Trump's cuts are a war on Jewish literature, thought and history itself

JL;DR SUMMARY President Trump's budget proposal includes the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), affecting Jewish literary and cultural initiatives significantly. 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 HistoryTrump AdministrationYiddish CultureFunding CutsNehNeaTranslation ProjectsCultural Support

Places mentioned

Washington DC, United States
"The seal of the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities outside the agencys headquarters in Washington, D.C."
Bennington, Vermont, United States
"Poet Michael Dumanis, the editor of Bennington Review in Vermont, posted the email he received on Instagram."
Israel
"Other notable projects in recent years have included Maia Evronas translation of the great Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkevers Poems from My Diary and Adriana X. Jacobs, who won a fellowship for her translation of Avarice by Israeli poet Tahel Frosh, which examines how economic policies have shaped Israeli lives."

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