Books

A comedian and an author share a laugh on stage.

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Alex Edelman and fans of ‘Long Story Short’ may disagree, but a new book says Jewish humor is dying

In “The Last Jewish Joke,” Michel Wieviorka writes about a golden age of Jewish comedy and the dark forces that may be killing it.

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

In “Boy from the North Country,” a writer turns a real-life mystery into an exploration of parenthood and inheritances.

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25 years ago, he wrote the book on ‘Jew vs. Jew.’ Now Samuel Freedman is seeing new and deeper divisions.

The title of a journalist’s 2000 book became a catchphrase for intramural clashes that have only gotten worse since.

A man reading a book on the beach is interrupted by a sudden storm.

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Why ‘beach reading’ is a joke on Jews like me

Ana Levy-Lyons, a former Unitarian Universalist minister and future rabbi, wants to cure what ails the secular left

A family memoir is about the search for a Jewish homeland, from Zion to Texas

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Who killed Jesus? It wasn’t the Jews, writes a scholar of Roman law.

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Dara Horn’s gonzo, time-traveling children’s Passover book wants people to love living Jews

How the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued from the archives, and wrestled into print

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Two middle-aged women defied the Nazis. One ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other.

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