History
Arthur Mourant: It’s All In the Blood
If being Jewish were in the blood, then what better way to find the markers of Jewishness then by studying blood ...
Sarah’s Key, Mary’s Secrets, and Truth That’s Stranger Than Fiction
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. But it can be hard to tell.I did an enormous amount of research for ...
Being Jewish without Trauma
When my son Noah was about 3 or 4, he came home from school one day and asked me, “Abba, ...
The Joint
Earlier this week, Leslie Maitland wrote about choosing an epigraph, the artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteineproject, and reconnecting branches of her family ...
Stolpersteine
German artist Gunter Demnig created these two Stolpersteine in memory of Samuel Sigmar and Alice Berta Gunzburger in 2005. He ...
What’s in a Name?
One of the greatest dilemmas I faced while writing The Benderly Boys & American Jewish Education was how to refer ...
In Moses Montefiore’s Footsteps
For the past ten years I’ve been travelling the world in Moses Montefiore’s footsteps. This was a man who spent ...
Historians, Biographers
Dr. Abigail Green’s new book, Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero, is now available.What makes a good biography? I thought ...
A Jewish Magician at the Egyptian Theatre
When you do anything creative – from writing stories to hooking rugs – people are likely to ask you where ...
Seeking Fact, Finding the Unknowable
Debra Spark is the author of The Pretty Girl, a collection of stories about art and deception.In literature, as in ...