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.

  Blogger and photographer Ari Seth Cohen is redefining fashion and aging. His photoblog Advanced Style, (as well as his recent book and documentary of

Brad Zimmerman’s 90-minute one-man play abounds with insightful observations about second chances and self-realization. The funniest segment revolves around 29 unsatisfying years of waiting tables, including a sharp…

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…