An effort to document the lost Jewish life in the town of Kanczuga, and to preserve what remains

An Israeli chef’s vegetable soup is the perfect antidote to cold weather

Rokhl’s Golden City: Two memoirs grapple with Yiddish history through the lens of fatherhood

How a shocking family discovery and some time spent at a hospice run by nuns led one Jewish man to reconsider Christ

How Jews in Prague and Sofia overthrew their troubled communal leadership with the crumbling of the Soviet bloc

The unknown story of the Bernese Group, a collective of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists in Switzerland who forged passports to try and help Jews escape the horrors of the Holocaust

A Syrian-born poet resembles Arab literary men of the ancient past

A reader’s notes from the Old City

A rock prince pays respect to his elders in the moving documentary ‘Echo in the Canyon’