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A cinephile's dream: the chance to follow legendary director Woody Allen throughout the creation of a film--from inception to premiere--and to enjoy his reflections on some of the finest artists in the history of cinema. Eric Lax has been with Woody Allen almost every step of the way. He...

Historian and rabbi Arthur Hertzberg and Dr. Eric Goemaere on this edition of Fresh Air. Eighty-two-year-old historian and rabbi Arthur Hertzberg has been at the center of events that shape American Jewish life for over 50 years. He is the former president of the American Jewish congress, and helped to found Peace Now in Israel.

1981: Ronald Reagan’s inauguration marks a new escalation in the United States’ Cold War with the USSR. Months later, François Mitterrand is elected president of France with the support of the French Communist Party. The predicted tension between these two men, however, is immediately defused when Mitterrand gives Reagan the Farewell dossier, a file he would later call "one of the greatest spy cases of the 20th century".