Holocaust
You Are What You Wear
In her new novel, Linda Grant tackles questions of identity, morality, and fashion
Brother’s Keeper
Philippe Grimbert pretended he had an older sibling. The macabre reality was not far off.
How to Make It to the Promised Land
A short story explores what happens when a camp game goes horribly awry
Paper Trail
In bidding on a batch of stamps, Reinhard Kaiser unearthed the story of an ill-fated wartime romance
Family History
In The Lost, Daniel Mendelsohn excavates some unsettling truths about brotherhood, betrayal, and the Book of Genesis.
Behind the Legend
A new biography of Irène Némirovsky reveals an author less saintly than her current readers might like to believe
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
The End of the Jewish Left
Political theorist Michael Walzer and others argue about the death of the century-long Jewish-Leftist alliance
Voices Raised for Jerusalem
The Zamir Chorale brings its Jewish choral music to Jazz at Lincoln Center in celebration of Yom Yerushalayim
Old Jews Telling More Jokes
The web series ‘Old Jews Telling Jokes’ goes off-Broadway, with shtick, songs, and a script by writer Daniel Okrent
The Most Perfect Hebrew Bible
The medieval Aleppo Codex was safeguarded for centuries in Syria. The problems started when it arrived in Israel.
