"Life After Baghdad: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew in Israel, 1950-2000" is a newly translated volume of memoirs by Sasson Somekh, an Iraqi-born Israeli scholar, continuing his story from "Baghdad, Yesterday."

MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic explores Art Spiegelman's journey from creating humorous Wacky Packages and underground comics to his seminal graphic novel "Maus," depicting the Holocaust with Jews as mice and Nazis as cats.

"Poets of the Tribe" by Alan Mintz delves into the realm of 20th-century American Hebrew poetry, shedding light on forgotten poets like Benjamin Silkiner and Shimon Ginzburg.

"On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War" by Bernard Wasserstein delves into the rich cultural and social tapestry of Eastern European Jewry in the years leading up to World War II.

Micha Josef Berdyczewski, a former Orthodox Jew turned Hebrew writer, advocated for a departure from traditional Judaism to a more vital Hebrew identity, calling for a transvaluation of values.

Nelly Sachs, a Jewish poet who escaped the Third Reich and won the Nobel Prize for Literature, underwent a remarkable transformation in her work post-Holocaust.

"Melisande! What Are Dreams?" by Hillel Halkin tells the story of a love triangle involving the narrator, Hoo, his wife Mellie, and their friend Ricky.

"The World Without You" by Joshua Henkin follows a family, the Frankels, as they gather for the memorial of their beloved son and brother Leo, who was killed in Iraq.

Jorge Luis Borges, a renowned Argentinian writer, was accused of being Jewish in a fascist magazine in 1934.

In a series of letters published in the summer 2012 edition of a Jewish publication, the topic of discussion revolves around Leon Wieseltier's harsh critique of the New American Haggadah.

The New American Haggadah, edited by Jonathan Safran Foer and translated by Nathan Englander, presents a discussion on the complexities of translating Jewish texts, particularly the Haggadah used during Passover.

Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport, also known as S. An-sky, a writer and ethnographer a century ago, embarked on an ambitious survey aimed at documenting vanishing Jewish folkways in the Russian Empire's Pale of Settlement.

In the discourse from Letters, Spring 2012, the focus is on the placement of altars in Christian churches and bimahs in synagogues, particularly through the perspectives of David Gelernter, Patrick Henry Reardon, and Rabbi Fred Kazan.

Saadi Besalel a-Levi's memoir, "Singing Gentile Songs," offers a unique insight into 19th-century Salonica, shedding light on the lost Ottoman and Jewish world.

Norman Podhoretz, a Jewish intellectual and influential figure of neoconservatism, rose from a poor background in Brooklyn to become a leading literary critic.

In Umberto Eco's novel "The Prague Cemetery," the character Peter Rachkovsky explains the origins and implications of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fabricated text purporting a Jewish conspiracy for world domination.

Harold Bloom, a renowned literary critic, delves into the complexities of writing and influence, particularly through the lens of strong misreading in his work.

"Life on Sandpaper" by Yoram Kaniuk is a fictional memoir detailing the author's time in 1950s bohemian New York, filled with encounters with famous figures like Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Marlon Brando, and James Dean.

Harry Austryn Wolfson, a prominent Jewish scholar, delivered a sermon at Harvard in 1955 challenging prevailing theological notions and criticizing contemporary theologians for offering meaningless phrases in place of true belief in God.

Eliaz Cohen, an Israeli poet and Religious Zionist living in the West Bank, addresses the challenge faced by settler-artists in his work.

In "A Curable Romantic" by Joseph Skibell, the novel delves into the life of Jakob Sammelsohn, an oculist in Vienna who encounters historical figures like Sigmund Freud and L. L. Zamenhof while exploring themes of love, language, and history.

Solomon Schechter's discovery of the Cairo Geniza in 1896, a collection of discarded Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic manuscripts from the Ben Ezra Synagogue, revealed a trove of Jewish historical and literary treasures, including writings from the Exilarchs, Jewish philosophers like Saadya Gaon and Maimonides, and poets such as Shmuel Ha-nagid and Yehuda Halevi.

Meir Shalev's book "Beginnings" delves into the Hebrew Bible with the aim of encouraging readers to rediscover the original text and make fresh personal discoveries.

Vasily Grossman, a prominent Soviet writer, faced a tumultuous life shaped by Stalinism's repression, personal tragedies, and his dedication to depicting the horrors of World War II, notably in works like "Life and Fate" and "The Hell of Treblinka."

Rabbi Nosson Scherman, an editor known for the ArtScroll Revolution, donated the Schottenstein Edition of the Talmud to the Library of Congress, revolutionizing English-language Talmud study.