Books
An oral history of the most epic Jewish summer camp prank ever
More than a decade after it happened, Ramah campers, counselors and staff look back on a Harry Potter spoiler they’ll never forget.
How classic Yiddish tales are being brought back to life — and in English too!
“The Clever Little Tailor” is a bilingual edition, translated by the grandson of the original writer, Solomon Simon.
ACT UP changed AIDS activism. Sarah Schulman wants us to learn its lessons
“If people wanted to be out, the only place they could be respected was the queer community.”
Looking for Hope: A writer finds inspiration in Jewish-Palestinian friendship, especially now
Haviva Ner-David was just starting to promote her debut novel, about the intersecting lives of two Israeli women — one Jewish, one Palestinian — when last month’s military escalation with Gaza erupted, accompanied by the worst internecine fighting between Jewish and Arab citizens in recent memory.
She followed rookie doctors through the very worst of COVID
Emma Goldberg’s new book profiles young physicians and frontline workers thrown into the “crisis zone” of pandemic New York.
In Brooklyn’s hipster Williamsburg neighborhood, Hasidic Jews are the real counterculture
A new book shows the religious and real estate forces that have turned Brooklyn’s Orthodox into a political and economic power.
This nonagenarian knows more about the cellphone than you — because he invented it
The father of the cellphone is the subject of an upcoming biopic. He told me which actors he’d like to portray him.
Why do we keep turning Holocaust survivor stories into self-help books?
“If you look at the Holocaust without that triumphant, redemptive story arc, you have to grapple with the randomness of what happens to people.”
Her name is Ozick, look on her works, ye mighty, and despair
The life that emerges from the novel’s pages is a reflection of the concerns that shaped Ozick.
How Jewish New York got its very un-Jewish names
We tend to think of names as defining the places they describe, but it’s often places that define their names.