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When Ein­stein Met Kaf­ka by Diego Moldes

When Ein­stein Met Kaf­ka by Diego Moldes

Translated by Steven Cap­su­to Jew­ish Con­tri­bu­tions to the Mod­ern World In April 1911, Prague artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered nightly at the Café Louvre, an intellectual center where music was played and high-level...

Liv­ing in Both Worlds by Lawrence Gross­man

Liv­ing in Both Worlds by Lawrence Gross­man

Mod­ern Ortho­dox Judaism in the Unit­ed States, 1945 – 2025 Modern Orthodoxy is a form of American Judaism that affirms the traditional tenets and practices of Orthodox Judaism while at the same time maintaining an openness...

Resist­ing Nazism by Luke Berry­man

Resist­ing Nazism by Luke Berry­man

True Sto­ries of Resis­tance to the World’s Most Dan­ger­ous Ide­ol­o­gy, from 1920 to the Present Nazism has always faced resistance: from the German artists who caricatured the Nazis in the 1920s, or the man who infiltrated the SS...

Beinoni by Mari Lowe

Beinoni by Mari Lowe

In a Beinoni time there should be no war, no terrible illness, no crime. Even if that also means there won’t be any great discoveries, any cures, anything extraordinary. Ezra believes that’s worth fighting...