A German art historian offers a mesmerizing tour of the luminaries, many of them Jewish, at the heart of European culture before World War. . .
The pianist Alice Herz-Sommer, who turned one-hundred-ten this week and is the world’s oldest living Holocaust survivor, can still convey through her music a Europe. . .
A new collection of Kafka short stories retold for children is scarier than any fairy tale—but only for parents.