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The Emeser Detective: The Adventures of a Yiddish Shamus
Jewish problems solved by the Yiddish Sherlock Holmes.
Tsar Wars
A disastrous war, rising antisemitism, and floods of refugees: The plight of Russian Jews in World War I.
Missing Anne Frank
What we remember when we remember Anne Frank.
Free Radicals
Can philosophy save the Jewish State?
Enchanted Parenthesis
The aristocrats who tried to save Jewish children when nobody else would.
Podcasts Filled with Straw
The algorithm is trying to tell me something, and if I could just figure out where I lost my kabbalistic decoder ring, I could probably figure it out.
Letters, Winter 2026
Apolitical Hostage Shai Secunda’s review of Eli Sharabi’s remarkable memoir Hostage (“Tunnel Vision,” Fall 2025) is mildly critical of Sharabi for not commenting on the politics of the hostage issue. Mr. Secunda writes, “Hostage contains hardly a hint of political discord in the dialogue between the captives or in Sharabi’s own reflections. This is remarkable, not least because the October…
The Wife
"When they came to the door, she shrieked through the peephole, she drove them off, how they feared her! She could hear their heels pounding down the half-dozen flights of cracked marble."
The Riddler
The mysterious Mr. Shoshani.
Lion-Eater of Judah
The British mule rider who battled lions and helped birth the Jewish State.