Covered

Five Books, holiday edition: Nine hardbacks—including Philip Schultz’s memoir, a history of the orgasm, and Alfred Kazin’s journals—for the readers on your list

Re-remembering Yerushalmi

Reflections on a former professor and his posthumous fiction debut

Dissenter

Rosa Luxemburg was a Marxist activist in early 20th-century Berlin, murdered by her political enemies after World War I. She’s the topic of the debut edition of “Long Story Short,” a new podcast on people and ideas in Jewish life.

Love Stories

“Tell Me,” Tablet Magazine’s illustrated question-and-answer column, considers some beautiful, wise, nuanced, and surprisingly terse looks at love and heritage

Premiership

A new book gives an insider’s assessment of four Israeli prime ministers—and Menachem Begin the voice he never had

Sore

When immigrant Lower East Side moms rioted over tonsillectomies

Collective Memory

Toby Perl Freilich’s forthcoming documentary examines the 100-year history of the kibbutz

Enforcers

In early-20th-century Warsaw, making sure people observed the Sabbath was serious business

A New ‘Theory’ of the Armenian Genocide

Can you guess whom it blames?

My Generation

R. Crumb, Genesis, feminism, and history in the latest chapter of an illustrated memoir