The Comprehensive Book.

Eighty years after its liquidation.

A world-famous cantor, unusual anti-Semitism, and much else.

Written as the Nazis came to power.

An unusable past?

The 17th-century Vilna shul.

From sharing family celebrations to massacre and expulsion.

So long as they don’t call their place of prayer a synagogue.

Eighteenth-century dissertations.

“A Jew I am, and a Jew will I remain.”

And their once-famous citrons.

A defender of the Jews when they were at their most unpopular.

The Erfurt Tosefta.

When the past is the present.