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.

Drawing on woke pieties, a new book considers the possibility that the anti-Semites were right.

Eugene Nadelman.

“Something to Remember Me By.”

The Natural at 70.

Bad math, the digital humanities, and woke question-begging.