mystery

The Mystery of Those Mini Kiddush Cups

I’ve made Kiddush in synagogue social halls countless times. Most of my life I stood there holding a humble plastic ...

From the Collection: A History Mystery

I recently solved a history mystery, and it started with a tiny pencil.I was looking through a box of old ...

The Burden of Silence

I was born in Baltimore in 1954, nine years after the Shoah, one of signature events of the 20th—or any—century. That ...

The Mystery of the Hebrew Detective

How I came to read The Hound of the Baskervilles when I was only 8   My fascination with detectives started very ...

Escaping the Past?

In her introduction to her story “Kafka in Bronteland” which concludes our anthology Kafkaesque , Tamar Yellin writes:“For years I ...

Kafka: A Man As Puzzling As His Stories

Franz Kafka was a man who struggled with his many contradictions. Although his writing has come to be intensively studied, as ...