Archives for 2018

H.G. Adler arrived in the ghetto-work camp in February 1942, determined to record everything he witnessed.

A heavy dose of sex, drug and intrigue fills Bethany Ball's humor-laced debut novel about a dysfunctional family.

This landmark book illustrates the early victories as well as ongoing battles for equality and freedom in the United States.

The Hebrew root gimmel, dalet, resh brings us stories about pathways, barriers and songbirds.

The award-winning novelist shares her thoughts on her new novel about a man and a woman who (separately) go to Israel to reset their lives.

This Purim, let Nutella be the jumping-off point for creating the sublimely chocolatey oznei haman—aka hamantaschen—popular in Israel.

Dark humor and mysticism abound in Nicole Krauss’s modern Israel, enlivened by Kabbalistic rabbis, possible ex-Mossad agents and nods to gilgul and Gogol.

Decrying that "Polish complicity in the Shoah needs to be taught," the educators and Holocaust archivists pledge to challenge the law by speaking out.