With music—particularly East European Jewish music—woven through his family DNA and early childhood, a career rooted in klezmer was bashert.

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

A cluster of some 500 caves and cave complexes, dug by hand over many centuries, is Israel’s ninth and newest Unesco World Heritage Site.

This staged version shares many elements with the 1951 film. The Gershwins’ score is glorious, the dancing superb and the plot—an ex-G.I. stays on in Paris after World…

A young prosecutor in 1958 Frankfurt is determined to expose the atrocities of Auschwitz; a religious faux pas sets off a communal tragedy in a tight-knit, working-class Mizrahi…

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.

The Nano Bible was created by professors at the Technion in Haifa, who transcribed the entire Hebrew Bible on a chip the size of a grain of sugar.