Books

Hebrew Union College, Ohio AG reach deal to protect 600,000 rare books, papers in Jewish collection

The collection contains Biblical codices, illuminated manuscripts, communal records, legal documents, scientific tracts, and incunabula.

OCTOBER 7, 2025|ByLAURA HANCOCK/TNS

Hebrew Pentateuch (from 900-1188) written in typical Hebrew oriental book hand.

Hidden basement cache reveals 1.5-ton haul of lost yeshiva of the sages of Lublin books in Warsaw

The researchers removed about 40 to 50 sacks—roughly 1.5 tons—from a locked basement near the Nożyk Synagogue.

OCTOBER 7, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

THE KATSOF FAMILY on Passover 2025, at the winery of one of Katsof’s sons, called Settlers Wine, based in Esh Kodesh.

'Living Dangerously': A man's journey to business success and religion - review

Irwin Katsof considers that his “journey has been... connecting to my soul and to the Jewish people and to God so that I’m never really alone, and I can deal with anything that happens…”

OCTOBER 7, 2025|ByTOBY KLEIN GREENWALD

Jewish activists Emily Schrader, Blake Flayton talk being Jewish on campus - interview

‘The Jerusalem Post’ sits down with Israel activists Emily Schrader and Blake Flayton, authors of 10 Things Every Jew Should Know Before They Go to College: An Illustrated Guide.

OCTOBER 7, 2025|ByHOWARD BLAS

The Taliban bans women’s books - and too many Afghans applaud - opinion

Thinking naively that Afghans living in Dubai would be either refugees or have wised up - I asked one what he thinks of the Taliban. His answer? "Wonderful."

OCTOBER 5, 2025ByBARBARA SOFER

Mermaids and a talking donkey: A treasure trove of ‘midrashic’ interpretations - review

Zev T. Gershon's '100 Wonders in the World of Torah' includes entries of little-known stories and oddities.

OCTOBER 5, 2025ByALAN ROSENBAUM

‘BALAAM AND The Angel,’ 1493 woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle.

Texas school district bans Holocaust novel ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’

The decision came after the school district used artificial intelligence to detect 'DEI content' that was forbidden from classroom content.

OCTOBER 4, 2025ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA

Jane Yolen and her most famous book, "The Devil's Arithmetic."

Roots of the Holocaust: Fascist barbarism and vicious 1920s anti-Bolshevik propaganda - book review

Hitler and his minions combined hatred of Jews as racial aliens polluting German culture with a crusade against 'Judeo-Bolshevism,' allegedly poised to spread Soviet-style Communism across the world

SEPTEMBER 28, 2025ByGLENN C. ALTSCHULER

SOVIET WRITER-JOURNALIST Ilya Ehrenburg with Soviet soldiers, 1942. His daughter found a copy of the manuscript or ‘black book’ in her father’s archive in 1967. ‘The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry’ was published in Kiev in 1991.

Jerusalem highlights: September 26 – October 2

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

SEPTEMBER 27, 2025ByHAGAY HACOHEN

Behind the bylines: Ethan Freedman - interview

An unconventional journalist capturing the human condition.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2025ByAARON REICH

Sam Sussman’s novel is about his Jewish mom and the teasing possibility that Bob Dylan is his dad

Sam Sussman’s debut novel, “Boy from the North Country,” revolves around a mystery: Was Bob Dylan, the singer and Nobel laureate, the narrator’s father?

SEPTEMBER 13, 2025ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA