For folk singer and actor Theodore Bikel, who died in 2015, Vienna was the City of Lights, and a new children's book details his childhood in Austria's capital.

The award ceremony featured a slate of speakers who provided a rich backdrop to Lukas’s evocative novel, 'The Last Watchman of Old Cairo.'

Choi, whose mother is Jewish and whose father is of Korean descent, won in the fiction category for “Trust Exercise.”

Michael David Lukas blends fact and fiction in 'The Last Watchman of Old Cairo,' a richly evocative tapestry that spans 1,000 years in three interconnected narratives.

My father told me stories about the long line of al-Raqb men who had, for nearly a thousand years, served as watchmen of the Ibn Ezra Synagogue.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner's popular novel turns the familiar divorce story on its head.

'Confronting Hate' is the new biography of Rabbi Marc Tannenbaum who helped pioneer the connection between Interfaith dialogue and human rights activism.

Barry Scott Wimpfheimer's 'biography' is an engaging tour de force that discusses both the structure and history of the Talmud while illustrating its complex content.