‘This is a report on a library trip to Israel from a bookish girl who is now a bookish old lady’

Mendel Beilis’ grandson takes up the cause a century after the blood-libel trial that riveted the Jewish world

A century after the last blood libel trial, the idea that Jews drink Christian vital fluid is still alive and well

Jews’ interest in angels dates back millennia—as the Israel Museum’s ‘Divine Messengers’ exhibit attests

In his Bech books, the great novelist of American WASPdom parsed the allure and otherness of Jewish writers

Lost Books

Herman Wouk wrote a foundational text for American postwar Modern Orthodoxy, and for the emancipated Jewish literature in its wake

Jolson, Malamud, Golda, and more!

Joseph Heller, who embodied masculinity in American postwar literature, for better and for worse, chronicled a major shift in American Jewish identity

Yuri Suhl’s One Foot in America, a long-lost novel of Jewish American immigration that reads like a more Dickensian take on Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep, has been republished and deserves a new audience

Boy met girl. Boy married girl. But girl is Jewish, and boy is not. Now I’m a goy, part of a growing community of non-Jews with Jewish spouses, Jewish children, and a special connection to Judaism

An excerpt from a new history of Commentary shows how the fiction published in the magazine’s early years shook not just the world of Jewish literature but the very foundations of American letters

Communing with Bernard Malamud’s Jewbird

How Stanley Elkin hit his stride

Where have all Bernard Malamud’s readers gone?