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.

Questioning the rabbis’ Sasanian paradise.

A letter from Isaac Luria.

CSI: blood libel.

The 13th-century rabbis who dared to put secret teachings on paper.

The more we learn, the fewer the surprises.

Memorialized in chronicles and poems.

Tuviah the Healer and Gabriel Felix.

Some Jewish reflections on the popular holiday.