By Sheerly Avni
Jewish radicals in California fought against social injustice —and Ronald Reagan in the ’80s. But they were inspired by images of the Holocaust.
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By Robert Zaretsky
Thirty years after Yosef Yerushalmi’s ‘Zakhor’ was published, the Jewish injunction to remember resonates in fields far beyond the author’s original subject.
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By Jenny Hendrix
Shani Boianjiu’s new novel is a coming of age set in the Israeli Defense Forces. It’s about a world that’s been so strange for so long, no one thinks it’s strange anymore.
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By Rich Cohen
Michael Chabon’s new novel, ‘Telegraph Avenue,’ is about far more than its plot. The real subject is language and style, in which Chabon proves equal to any master.
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By Andrea Palatnik
Kati Marton’s captivating memoir, ‘Paris: A Love Story,’ mixes fluid journalism with the casual prose of a friend reminiscing about her past.
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By Jay Michaelson
There’s no clear winner in the debate about the Jewish origins of Christianity. Scholars are locked in an academic death match that looks like a catfight to outsiders.
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By Robert Zaretsky
The Allies mounted a major World War II effort to plumb the minds of Hitler and his henchmen. They enlisted Jewish psychologists to play a primary role.
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By Josh Rolnick
Theodore Ross scours the world for stories of forced conversions, crypto-Jews and the legacy of Inquisition. It all started when his mother told him to deny being a Jew.
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By Beth Schwartzapfel
Although Judaism is front and center in Deborah Heiligman’s coming of age novel ‘Intentions,’ at the core of the story are questions of faith with which all teenagers grapple.
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By Allan Nadler
The array of uses and misuses of Baruch Spinoza, perhaps Judaism’s most-famed heretic, is testimony to the boundlessness of the human imagination.
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