“We will turn our Shabbats and our holidays into cultural bonfires.”

The joy of summer, the hardships of poverty, or the paradoxes of homecoming?

Great Jewish writers in three languages visit the Yiddishists.

True stories, literary retellings, and a religious response.

Y.H. Brenner “sanctified his life through his death and his death through his life.”

The blessing and the curse.

A Jewish perspective on “biographies” of religious classics.

After Adam.

A new book explores the Diaspora’s perennial question.

S.Y. Agnon’s “Mistake.”

S.Y. Agnon, Solomon ibn Gabirol, and “The Sign.”

Three literary responses to one biblical book.

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