Here are all the articles we highlighted at years’ ends, over the years. Happy New Year!
Our annual, entirely subjective list
Understanding the Jewish billionaire—who is neither the villain of right-wing caricature, nor the angel of left-wing hagiography
An astonishing true story of a man’s encounter with fate
Newly digitized recordings offer an unprecedented glimpse of the Ukrainian-Jewish past
How a tiny enclave of Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan produced some of the former Soviet world’s richest men
Helen Epstein completes her clear-eyed, fearless, taboo-breaking autobiographical trilogy
How the Twitter mobs choose their targets
The best Yiddish story ever written about a pogrom is by Lamed Shapiro, the early 20th-century American Yiddish writer who wanted the Jews to get woke
Anger management in a Vancouver restaurant
The great Jewish writer on his linguistic and literary heritage, the Bohemian way, and the catastrophic modern break between Jews old and new
