Surfside, Florida’s Nobel Prize winner died 30 years ago today. Through a winding tale of luck, timing, and money, his papers ended up at the University of Texas in Austin.

A searingly personal, deeply moving prayer is discovered in the Nobel Laureate’s papers

Israeli vampire TV series ‘Juda’ could have been written by I.B. Singer

Was Isaac Bashevis’ older brother Israel Joshua Singer the better novelist?

A reader’s notes from the Old City

The strong-willed scholar of Jewish life and history died 29 years ago today

Judaism offers the same baroque supernatural possibilities that Christianity does. So why is it rarely a universal source for genre filmmakers? And what does it say about human evil?

An amputated leg, a bitten-off penis, a 600-pound wrestler, and the great tonsil riot, among other examples of humanity’s glorious ineptitude, in ‘Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press’

For the first time in English, a short story by the Yiddish master, in which 19th-century Hasidism meets its radical grandchildren in the 20th

Twenty-six years to the day after the death of the great Yiddish-American Nobel Prize winner, the clarity of his moral voice rings ever more true

The American master of horror and the Yiddish writer have a surprising amount in common, including a disdain for humanism and its platitudes

Letty Cottin Pogrebin offers a moving tribute to her longtime friend

Socialite Nicky Hilton engaged to Jewish banking heir James Rothschild

Graphic pinpoints iconic scenes from novels, writers’ homes, and more

Another egregious campaign by the animal rights group, which once compared Shoah victims to pigs