NONFICTION Primo Levi’s Universe: A Writer’s Journey  by Sam Magavern.  (Palgrave Macmillan, 240 pp. $24.95) While suffering with fellow prisoners doomed to Auschwitz, Primo Levi—chemist,

Hadassah College Jerusalem’s diverse student body—Jews and non-Jews, sabras and immigrants, Russians and Ethiopians—is not only a snapshot of the city in which the school

Hadassah cookbooks are time capsules that shed light on the ways various chapters reacted to social movements.

EXHIBITS UNITED STATES ARIZONA The Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum, Phoenix (480-951-0323; www.spjm.org) On permanent view is a composite synagogue sanctuary from Djerba, Tunisia, with ornate floral-motif

EXHIBIT Jerusalem and the Jews of Spain: Longing and Reality A 23-foot-wide canvas map depicts the world as a cartographer might have drawn it in

FICTION 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction  by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. (Pantheon, 410 pp. $27.95) 36 Arguments for the Existence of

The Swiss canton, a hub of international organizations, banking and watchmaking, is home to a diverse Jewish community on the French border. Geneva is the nerve

It’s a mitzva to write a Sefer Torah. In fact, the biblical commandment requires every Jew to write one, though this has been subject to