In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote ‘Ulysses’ a Jewish poet’s bookstore rises back to life
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The double life of Abraham, from freethinker to pure believer
Anthony Julius’ novelistic and philosophic biography sees the patriarch divided by reason and faith
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Author John Irving’s new novel, ‘Queen Esther,’ deals with Israel and antisemitism
The novel concludes in Jerusalem in 1981, the year Irving first visited Israel
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92 years ago today, Hitler took power. This historian wants us to see the lessons we’ve ignored from his rise
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Young adult novel about women vampires wins a top prize for Jewish children’s books
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What we write about when we write about Anne Frank
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Lee Yaron’s account of Oct. 7 attacks named Jewish book of the year
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Jules Feiffer, a ‘smartass’ Jew whose work spanned comics and cinema, dies at 95
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A Jewish family’s trauma is the villain in an epic Israeli-Palestinian love story
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