A century of American race relations is seen in "Sacred Ground", civil rights activist and historian Timuel D. Black Jr.’s story as it was related to, and recorded by, Susan Klonsky. Black was born in 1918 in Alabama. His family soon... Read More

Real history and contemporary events collide in Marc Fernandez’s crime novel "Mala Vida". Radio host Diego Martin finds himself the Spanish media’s token leftist after an election brings the nationalist party back into power. Then,... Read More

Patterned after the music of Schubert and described as a winterreise (German for “winter journey”), Sarah Léon’s "Wanderer" is a story all about unspoken feelings. Constructed around the relationship between two characters, the... Read More

In her introduction to "Discovering Second Temple Literature", Malka Z. Simkovich describes the book’s subject matter as a considerable blind spot in the study of Jewish history. Beginning with the Tanakh’s conclusion and ending... Read More

Name changing is a familiar part of the popular American immigration story and is particularly associated with Jewish immigrants, with landmark stories like The Jazz Singer featuring Jewish leads changing their names. In "A Rosenberg by... Read More

An unusual mixture of biography, comedy, action, and analysis, "Explosions" takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to one of the most popular but artistically dismissed film directors working today. Mathieu Poulin positions Michael Bay as a... Read More