Story

This really begins with an obsession — that is, my brother’s obsession — with books. Over the past four decades, he’s been consumed with creating a singular library of antiquarian religious Hebrew books, or seforim. To that end, over the years, he’s bought many dozens of libraries, keeping the volumes that interested him, and selling […]

Remembering Lucette Lagnado,
who poignantly chronicled her family’s
exodus from Cairo to Brooklyn.