Sympathetic to Israel and hostile to the radical left, Roth was not always the rebellious Jew.

Not much sex in the city.

“The ever-resounding links of the golden chain.”

Zalman Shneour.

Hersh Nomberg, Zalman Shneur, and the plight of the “plucked” hero.

Moshkele the thief.

The silence of A.M. Klein.

Cora Wilburn’s Cosella Wayne.

“Utterly different from anything published in the Jewish world until then.”

“More than any other country, Israel must live.”

A great Yiddish writer reflects on what, exactly, the novel is for.

The Idiom and the Oddity.

Guy Gavriel Kay created Devin Bar Garin, but couldn’t mention Ben-Gurion.

“Being Jewish, Sefton Goldberg . . . ”