Howard Langer’s award-winning novel follows the lone survivor of a Polish Hasidic sect and a time when Jews and Blacks found common ground in their struggles.
What’s the big-bang moment of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? In her recent book, journalist Yardena Schwartz attempts to pinpoint the 1929 massacre of Jews in Hebron.
Dive into the only female Auschwitz orchestra established by the Nazis, Lihi Lapid on love and loss and the Polish Jewish female leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
In 33 stories, Israeli writer Etgar Keret conjures Kafkaesque frontiers of human loneliness and myriad scenarios for the end of the world as we know it.
In her part-memoir, part-medical investigation, geneticist Susan Weiss Liebman describes the discovery that gave her the key to unlocking her family's tragic history.