Franz Werfel’s classic The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, about the Armenian Genocide, gets a new translation

Native cultural mix inspires work by Israeli choreographers Zvi Gotheiner and Hofesh Schechter

A fan scours record collections from Marrakech to Montreal for music by Morocco’s bygone Jewish pop stars

Moroccan novelist Abdellah Taïa confronts the challenges of gay life in the Mideast in An Arab Melancholia

Two new memoirs, Memoir of a Debulked Woman and Fierce Joy, offer inspiring models for coping with illness

Where Adam Sandler’s comedy is nuanced and proudly Jewish, Andy Samberg offers one-note assimilation

A spate of Orthodox women are turning to filmmaking (some restrictions apply)

The new modern translation of Likutey Moharan shows why the Hasidic master is relevant today

Internet parodies of the Fuhrer, including a new blog, weaken our memory of the Holocaust—and that’s good

The Czech Surrealist Jindřich Heisler’s mystical art, on view in Chicago, reflected the Holocaust he avoided

A revival of Yiddish poet H. Leivick’s play reveals a genius at the center of a turn-of-the-century literary scene

A Roy Lichtenstein show at the Art Institute of Chicago reveals the movement’s affront to WASPy decorum