Dark humor and mysticism abound in Nicole Krauss’s modern Israel, enlivened by Kabbalistic rabbis, possible ex-Mossad agents and nods to gilgul and Gogol.
Reena Ribalow, who came from generations of notable editors, writers and playwrights and helped shepherd the award honoring her father, has died at 70.
The story of the Cap Arcona is a tale of Hitlerian hubris in attempting to establish a “Hollywood on the Rhine” film industry, even as the Third Reich’s…