Michael David Lukas blends fact and fiction in 'The Last Watchman of Old Cairo,' a richly evocative tapestry that spans 1,000 years in three interconnected narratives.

My father told me stories about the long line of al-Raqb men who had, for nearly a thousand years, served as watchmen of the Ibn Ezra Synagogue.

Hadassah Magazine presented Zoref with the Harold U. Ribalow Award for her novel at a ceremony held in New York on January 31.

Professor Carol Zoref discusses her award-winning novel, 'Barren Island,' which deftly explores immigrant life, poverty, religion and coming of age in the first half of the 20th century.

In her Ribalow Prize-winning novel, English writer Rose Tremain turns her delicately penetrating prose to themes of love, loyalty and music. 

In postwar Switzerland, 5-year-old Gustav becomes the unlikely friend of Anton, the new student who is Jewish, in Rose Tremain’s 'The Gustav Sonata.'

The guest speaker at the recent Ribalow awards ceremony delivered a thoughtful speech in honor of his friend, Jim Shepard.

Each book, each writer, each reader, is part of a greater whole—the creation of a culture and tradition of our own making, linked to what came before.