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Sami Michael, Israeli Novelist With Arabic Roots, Dies at 97

The Deadly Business of Restricting Immigration

What Do A.A., Burning Man and the Talmud Have in Common? This Guy.

To Be a ‘Palatable Jew’ — in Germany in 1940, in the U.S. Today

Dan Greenburg, Who Poked Fun With His Pen, Dies at 87

The Holocaust in Poland and the Erasures of the Past

An Autobiographical Novel Reclaims a Jewish History in Occupied France

The Man Who Caught Marilyn Monroe’s Skirt on Film

The Man Who Made Thinking Sexy

How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity

Before He Died, the Writer Roberto Calasso Had the Old Testament on His Mind

What Happened After the Most Deadly Antisemitic Attack in American History?

A Writer Reckons With the Fact That ‘People Love Dead Jews’

How 2 Jewish Sisters Built a Cultural Oasis During World War II

Why Are There So Many Holocaust Books for Kids?

Meet Sydney Taylor, Unsung Creator of the All-of-a-Kind Family

The One About Bibi Netanyahu’s Father and the Perils of Diaspora

How Did a Gay Scientist of Jewish Descent Thrive Under the Nazis?

The French Count Who Turned His Home Into a Museum to Honor His Dead Son

The ‘Ghetto Girls’ Who Fought the Nazis With Weapons and Wiles