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Alexandra Ell

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Selling Sesame Seeds in Samarkand: A Cultural Grammar of “What If”

Selling Sesame Seeds in Samarkand: A Cultural Grammar of “What If”

Some sentences look simple but smuggle in whole philosophies of life. Take what linguists call a counterfactual conditional: a sentence that talks...

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Alexandra Ell

Holocaust Distortion in the Examination Room: Auschwitz as a Diet Trope

Holocaust Distortion in the Examination Room: Auschwitz as a Diet Trope

Holocaust distortion rarely announces itself with the bluntness of denial; more often it appears in the form of casual statements, recycled clichés,...

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Alexandra Ell

A Culinary Memory: Kindli and the Remains of the Remains

A Culinary Memory: Kindli and the Remains of the Remains

With the arrival of Adar and Purim drawing near, kitchens across the Jewish world begin to fill with Hamantaschen. In this corner of Central Europe,...

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Aspirin for Amnesia in Austria

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A Culinary Memory: Flódni and What Remains

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Queueing for Auschwitz

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alexandra Ell