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What the 18Forty Team is Reading This Adar

JL;DR SUMMARY The 18Forty team shares their diverse reading selections for the month of Adar, aligning with the themes of Purim such as faith, courage, and hiddenness. 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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IdentityHolocaustMemoirFeminismPurimJewish PeopleOlympicsCultureAdarMind Body Connection

Places mentioned

South Korea
"In it, Buchdahl reflects on growing up as a Korean-American Jew and navigating spaces where she often felt like an outsider."
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
"I cant think of the Olympics, however, without also remembering the 1972 Munich massacre."
Israel
"the terrorist group Black September killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team before kidnapping and eventually killing nine more, plus a German police officer."
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
"Her wanderings around Oxbridge, a fictional blend of Oxford and Cambridge."
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
"Her wanderings around Oxbridge, a fictional blend of Oxford and Cambridge."

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