We are all Rashi’s heirs, but what, exactly, is our inheritance?

A new book amasses the varied tales of those who fled the Third Reich

In his essays, Leonard Michaels worried about the line between art and the profane

An essay collection explores the complexities of Jewish identity

Were postwar American Jews really ‘silent’ about the Holocaust?

I.F. Stone was prescient on Zionism, less so on Communism

Gertrude Himmelfarb charts Victorian novelist George Eliot’s road to philo-Semitism

Grigoris Balakian was the Primo Levi of the Armenian Genocide. Ninety years later, his memoir is published in English.

The short, tragic life of English poet Isaac Rosenberg

How Judaism remade itself in the wake of the Second Temple’s destruction

A memoir burnishes the reputation of the Operation Valkyrie conspirators

A new novella showcases Amos Oz’s wizardry

A new book examines the place of Sephardim in America

Adina Hoffman’s quasi-biography of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali

Essay collection sheds light on the dark ages