Recovering from a “Jewish historical blackout.”

The actress’s new memoir reviewed.

The Nobel Prize-winner’s forgotten older brother.

“Short Friday.”

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “Gimple the Fool.”

Good Shabbos Everybody and the stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Chekhov, Singer, and the absent ending.

A kind of mystic.

There’s more to the Yiddish writer than “combining shtetls, demons, and sex in a small bowl, mixed well.”

“He told me, looking over his shoulder though no one was eavesdropping, that he liked Reagan.”

“There is only one joy: to increase and not to lessen the world’s joy.”

I.J. Singer’s The Brothers Ashkenazi.

A Letter to Mama.