A great Yiddish poet’s tale of defiance in the death camps, and a Jaffa cafeteria.

“Sicarii II.”

Israelis’ love-hate relationship with the late novelist.

The cadences of the Talmud left their mark on Yiddish, and Israeli, speech patterns.

Tightknit communities as stand-ins for a society at large.

The Encounter.

What Gershom Scholem got wrong.

Will he be placed with Sholem Asch or with S.Y. Agnon?

On the Surface of Silence.

It is now the demographic and cultural center of Jewry.

A Holocaust writer?

Private detectives, body-switching, fairies, and Jeremiah’s smartphone.

Bab el-Wad.