Israeli chef Einat Admony has brought the eclectic flavors of her homeland to New York, where she is the proprietor of a growing number of Middle Eastern restaurants…

Ideals of liberty and brotherly love have fostered one of the nation’s most successful Jewish communities since colonial times.

Israeli cinema, once the domain of serious films focused on war and conflict, today reflects a greater diversity.

A new documentary on the famously bawdy and raucous Sophie Tucker.

On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein. (Simon & Schuster, 553 pp. $32.50) The “eve” in Bernard Wasserstein’s study

In Paradise: A Novel by Peter Matthiessen. (Riverhead Books, 272 pp. $16 paper) Three weeks after 86-year-old Peter Matthiessen died on April 5, 2014, what he

The Bridal Chair: A Novel by Gloria Goldreich. (Sourcebooks Landmark, 496 pp. $14.99 paper) Thirty years ago, the world lost a great artist, Moishe Shagal, better

Jacob Dinezon (1856-1919) was a Yiddish novelist and short-story writer, as famous during his lifetime as Sholom Aleichem. Until now, his work has not appeared in English.