Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life.

“What kind of living?—a living; you lived.”

Sabbath’s Theater in the theater.

Robert Nathan’s Road of Ages.

An American Jewish poet and his searing wartime experience.

His fantasies contained only a few Jewish themes.

Robert Nathan, Sephardi fantasy writer.

“America was not a melting pot, but a laboratory of innumerable new combinations.”

Maya Arad’s good years.

“There are too many good Jewish writers around.”

Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “Gimple the Fool.”

A new story tells of a young scholar’s investigation into a notorious apostate.

Rereading Portnoy’s Complaint now that the Golden Age of American Jewry is over.

Revisiting a forgotten novel.