"This is for us a sacred task," says a world-renowned expert on German Jewish genealogy from the Looted Books Project.

Genealogists volunteering for the Looted Books Project recently returned a volume to a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor in Florida who was given the book in 1930 as a gift for her good performance in ...

Nearly a hundred years ago, a hastily crafted spaceship crash-landed in Smallville, Kansas. Inside was an infant – the sole ...

With 'The Jews,' 'Daily Show' veteran Rob Kutner graduates from trying to please one curmudgeonly Jew to 14 million of them.

I really like writing books where historical human dramas are the center of attention, and that is something I continue to ...

Pittsburgh resident Larry Roberts hopes 'The Faces of Israel' provides an understanding of Israeli diversity between 1982 and ...

A book based on their adventures was the idea of a Hungarian Jewish émigré named Aladar Anton Farkas, who had arrived in New ...

Purim traditions include reading the Megillah, exchanging food gifts, giving to the needy, and dressing in costumes.

In his new book, Around the Year in Halachah, Rabbi Bezalel Rosenthal takes readers on a journey throughout the Jewish year, providing them with the answers to these and thousands of similar ...

Anselm Kiefer’s “Breaking of the Vessels,” weighing more than seven tons, is one of the artist’s many manic dissections of ...