Jewish History

I had fun in Vilnius, despite my low tolerance for fun. Not to mention that fun in Vilnius seemed like ...

There are 650 miles and 3 states between Fort Mill, South Carolina and Greenwood, Mississippi, but their connection is closer ...

In my Paris neighborhood, I am discovering France’s historic fear of outsiders. Indifference to the fate of those not inside ...

Now that I live part-time in Paris, I explore the city’s complex and sometimes disturbing relationship to toward its Jewish ...

Now that I live part-time in Paris, I explore the city’s complex and sometimes disturbing relationship to toward its Jewish ...

In 1850 two men found themselves standing under a tree near the famous Recoleta Cemetery in the center of Buenos ...

At the little public library in Hartshorne, Oklahoma, I see a man wearing a camouflage-patterned Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. baseball ...

At first, it seemed crazy: writing the histories of 55 different Texas Jewish communities for our Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. The ...

When I set out to write the story of the Aleppo Codex, I imagined that I would be writing an uplifting ...

A Queer Ancestor in the Butch-Trans Border WarAs the month of Tammuz draws to a close, we have the opportunity ...

I met Harvey Pekar in 2005. On a whim, I gave him a copy of my book, and he really liked ...

Albert Einstein may have been the most famous Jew of the 20th century. His biographer Walter Isaacson described that “when he ...