Artist Barbara Wolff employs rich gold, silver and platinum foils on vellum with imagery from nature, archeology and religious custom to create sumptuously detailed religious texts.
Better known as the alternate address for popes in the 14th century, Avignon was in fact those same Christian religious leaders who offered refuge to exiled French Jews.
Many of the "modern" adjustments in author Leah Koenig's new cookbook are subtle, but the results to classics like roasted chicken, schav and gefilte fish are revelatory.
Set in Crimea, this books relates a story that is simple on its surface but deeply scrutinizes ethical judgments, even though the events transpire in only one day.