FILMS Free Men This superbly acted World War II feature is based on a slice of history that should be better known to Jews and

Revisiting Anne Frank, for Better or for Worse By Sanford Pinsker Anne Frank’s extraordinary diary made her a subject of adoration—and of controversy. Just as

Editor’s Note: Hadassah Magazine interviews figures from across the political spectrum in the United States and Israel. In America, given biennial Congressional contests and long

Kehinde Wiley has traveled the world looking for subjects to paint. The successful Los Angeles-born artist is best know for his “The World Stage” series,

A Bubbe Who Feeds Us All For Avrom Honig, founder of Chalutz Productions, necessity was the grandmother of invention. Filming his now 85-year-old Bubbe cooking

FILMS Incessant Visions: Letters From an Architect Erich Mendelsohn, a much heralded 20th-century architect, designed the Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany, and Hadassah Hospital on

Fiction The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco. Translated by Richard Dixon. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 464 pp. $27) Italian author Umberto Eco has written a controversial literary

Kornik. Lutomiersk. Przedborz. Obscure today, perhaps, but these Polish cities and countless others with Jewish quarters were home to bustling communities throughout the 1,000-year history