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When Itka Zygmuntowicz reflects on her life — her imprisonment in Auschwitz-Birkenau, her postwar life in Sweden, her flourishing in the United States —...

Explore Scapegoating The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town Edward Berenson W.W. Norton & Co. In the Exponent’s Torah portion last week, Rabbi Eric Yanoff of Adath...

“Do you remember having a toy drum?” There was a moment of quiet between Joe Smukler and Aleksander “Sasha” Shmukler, then Smukler began to cry. The...

Mark Hebscher had never been a researcher. He’d been a reporter and sportscaster in Canada for years, but had never done significant academic research. Though...

When he’s not researching the relationship between Judaism and technology as a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, David Zvi Kalman, 31, has...

Fleishman Is In Trouble Taffy Brodesser-Akner Random House “Toby Fleishman,” begins Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s debut novel, Fleishman Is In Trouble, “awoke one morning inside the city...

Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer? Adam Kirsch Yale University Press The problem with Jewish writers, Adam Kirsch writes, is that even the best of them...

Groucho Marx has taken his seat in court, where he’ll serve as the unlikely attorney for a mysterious entity known as the “Surrealist Woman.” “You’re...

A Town Called Malice Adam Abramowitz Thomas Dune Books | St. Martin’s Press On an increasingly frequent basis, I find myself watching, listening to or web surfing...

The Hot Shot Heard ’Round the World Andy Kahn BearManor Media Andy Kahn’s memoir The Hot Shot Heard ’Round the World is a victory lap for the...