Here are the facts about Broken, Traci Slatton’s newest historical fiction: Its protagonist, Alia, is a fallen angel with a voracious appetite for sex who descends to earth…

Reminiscent of the richly drawn mini societies that the late Israeli author Dalya Bilu used to create, Shoham’s world of African asylum seekers in Israel has all the…

A review of Anita Diamant's new novel, "The Boston Girl."

Drawing on the opened Vatican archives covering Pius XI’s papacy, this invaluable book sheds light on the pope’s early support for Mussolini as well as the Vatican’s institutional…

In many ways, France's first Jewish prime minister was typically French: He was a leftist intellectual, lawyer and writer as well as assimilated and mostly nonobservant.

Most of the illuminated works are Haggadot, siddurim, mahzorim, Esther scrolls, ketubot and psalms, some featuring single figures, others giving a broader narrative.

In dense stream of consciousness, protagonist Arthur Landau, a middle-class sociologist, returns home in search of his lost life only to confront a formidable psychological wall between himself…

First-time author Yelena Akhtiorskaya explores the confounding life of émigrés from Russian-speaking Ukraine trying to build new lives in Brooklyn’s Little Odessa.