Authors / Raphael Magarik

In Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob, based on the real life of a self-proclaimed Jewish messiah in 18th-century Poland, theological energy competes with the liberal novel’s finely wrought machinery.

The far-right activist and politician died in disgrace, but Shaul Magid’s new book argues that his ideas have shaped mainstream American Judaism.

Lila Corwin Berman’s new book traces the explosion of the American Jewish philanthropic sector over the past 70 years—and its corrosive effect on contemporary Jewish life.

After a political rupture, rituals of repetition can attempt to restore normalcy—or throw it into question.

A Labour win is Britain’s best chance of staying in the European Union—a guard against far-right nationalism.