This article discusses the connections between Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and a story from the author's childhood about his grandfather's ancestor, Reb Menachem Nochum Twersky, the Grand Rebbe of Chernobyl.

In the 1570s, Italian Jewish Renaissance figure Azariah de Rossi translated and published The Letter of Aristeas, a second-century BCE work recounting the translation of the Torah into Greek by 72 Jewish sages for King Ptolemy II Philadelphus.