The inspiration for Stein's novel about the Six-Day War came from her late mother, who had lamented the lack of books about Israel for 8- to 13-year-olds.

Beth Kissileff’s anthology brings together a diverse group of two-dozen experts, each bringing the tools of his or her field to bear on an aspect of the seminal…

In his imaginative retelling of the 1596 play, Howard Jacobson gives Shylock a contemporary counterpart in the feisty person of Simon Strulovitch.

Curt Leviant's latest novel follows the comic misadventures of one Shmulik Gafni, a professor of Yiddish studies at a prestigious Israeli university.

Aviya Kushner has written a work of popular scholarship that has a point or two to make about what the Bible has come to mean to English speakers.

First-time author Yelena Akhtiorskaya explores the confounding life of émigrés from Russian-speaking Ukraine trying to build new lives in Brooklyn’s Little Odessa.

Alan Cheuse is a particularly articulate voice, good at casting a cold eye on the hot-button problems of Jewish life.

My Rebbe by Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz. (Maggid, 250 pp. $24.95) Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History by