Jewish History

One of the hardest things to get used to in writing a novel is cutting material to speed up the ...

I’ve often been asked both by journalists and by my readers why my novel  The Elixir of Immortality  tells the ...

This week, my Facebook news-feed is filled with outrage about the fact that Hobby Lobby won’t carry Hanukkah decorations. Many ...

Want some insights into a historian’s dilemma? It involves cultural identity. Geography. And NASCAR. (Well – sort of.)The Encyclopedia of ...

The one thing that has really shocked me about my new book is how Jewish it is.I’m a nonobservant Jew, ...

For the past eight summers, I’ve taught creative writing at the Paris American Academy, a small school in a neighborhood ...

Recently, one of my writing students turned in a story featuring an adorable, vulnerable child whose blue eyes were “wide ...

Today’s tale of Southern Jewish family, history, and a meaningful road trip comes to us from our summer history intern, ...

This is another post from one of our terrific summer interns, Caroline Kahlenberg, who completed this piece for us as ...

Imagine for a moment that you’re strolling down the main thoroughfare of a bustling city. The year is 1946, and ...

The 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising has created renewed interest in the actions of Polish gentiles who assisted ...

There is something about the Mississippi Delta. Known as “the most southern place on earth,” the Delta region is a ...