The versatile artist’s summer exhibit at the Skirball Center welcomes visitors into the lost world of his Holocaust survivor parents

Socalled, Ugandans, and klezmer at North America’s largest gathering of Jewish and Yiddish culture

On his centennial, the kids’ illustrator and New Yorker and Daily Worker contributor is celebrated in Miami

Children’s book illustrator Tom Seidmann-Freud—Sigmund Freud’s niece—led a short and tragic life, but her surreal, whimsical art endures

The last fully realized work by Harvey Pekar illuminates the bluntness and delight of American Yiddish in the last century. A new excerpt.

An illustrated remembrance of cartooning legend Harvey Pekar

In our final installment, Bernie tastes both disillusionment and the sublime

Peering from behind a curtain, Bernie sees the rabbi in action

Upon entering the rabbi’s enlightenment center, Bernie is taken aback

Unable to fully master his newfound skills, Bernie visits Rabbi Eliezer at his workplace

Abandoned by his mentor, Bernie falls back on old habits

Overcoming his native skepticism, Mr. Karp accepts the rabbi’s offer

After sensing a business opportunity, the rabbi asks Mr. Karp to be his backer

In his three-day walkabout, the rabbi gets a taste of American excess

When a thief offers Pisgat some contraband beluga, Max senses an opportunity