Ballet Master
In the new biography René Blum and the Ballets Russes: In Search of Lost Life, the early 20th-century impresario—who died at Auschwitz and symbolizes the tragedy of French Jewry—remains a riddle
Youth in Revolt
A new edition of Walter Benjamin’s early work sheds light his first reckonings with Jewishness and offers glimpses of the powerful thinker he would ultimately become
Jews Are Longshots To Win Nobel, Booker
Doctorow and Oz have a chance; Jacobson remains underdog




