Let us sing of rodomont, Sinon, proditomania, and, in particular, grobian.

Intentionally incarcerated there from 1940 to 1943, Witold Pilecki saw its transformation from a particularly brutal prison into the death factory it is now notorious for being.

That’s what the rumor is. The truth about the ancient Arabic-speaking tribe is a little different.

For thousands of years both friends and enemies of Judaism have labeled it a religion of deed rather than creed, of law rather than faith. A new book firmly and fervently disagrees.

Jacob Howland drops by our studio to talk about the ways in which Greek thought can illuminate the Talmud—and vice-versa.

As two new books show, the influence of the Hebrew Bible (and of biblical models) on the founding generations of Americans was as vast as the new country they were trying to create.

On the opening of a new academic institution devoted to study of the Hebrew Bible for its moral and political wisdom.

One word got turned upside down and downside up again.

Solomon Maimon abandoned his wife and children in search of intellectual perfection, thereby entirely missing the point.

Unlike, say, “World War I,” the “Yom Kippur War” caught on from the start and never faded. Aside from its naturalness, it has an associational richness that no other names could match.

Why the words for both are so similar in so many languages, and why Hebrew has turned out to be the rare exception.

Prewar, no countries had wanted to take in Europe’s Jews. Postwar, many were poised to claim the spoils of the murdered—until an unprecedented group of experts stepped in.

The desert fortress has become a powerful symbol of Jewish resistance. A new book examines the evidence to see how much of the story, including the famous mass suicide, is true.