Louis H Feldman Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true,...

Yehuda Bauer The world has recently learned of Oskar Schindler's efforts to save the lives of Jewish workers in his factory in Poland by bribing Nazi officials. Not as well...

Rudolph Peters The notion of Jihad ("Holy War") is very much alive in the Islamic world, and plays a prominent political role. In the West, Jihad is often associated with...

Allan Massie 'David comes alive in this novel as a fascinating, divided self, but you also feel on finishing it that you have understood a little more about the extraordinary...

Anne Tyler A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKBALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more...

David Fisher This hilarious spoof on all the old classic fairy tales has a decidedly legal squint to it as for example when Prince Charming is prosecuted for sexual abuse...

JA Rogers The classic, definitive title on the great Black figures in world history, beginning in antiquity and reaching into the modern age.World’s Great Men of Color is the comprehensive guide...

Christopher Hill In the plays and popular folklore of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are many expressions of liberty against the law. Taking this literary theme as his starting point,...

Mark Gerzon Based on interviews with a wide variety of men and women and research on the literature of adult development, Mark Gerzon answers the question, "Is it possible that...

Ruqaiya Hasan and Geoff Williams Literacy in our society is an issue of major concern, controversy surrounding its social practice fuels current debates in education and much has been written...

Rebecca Wells "It can wear you to a nub, trying to be a popular person and a good Catholic all at the same time." So says Sidda, one of the...

Dona Meilach Thanks to biscotti, dunking has become socially acceptable. These long, dry, semihard cookies with curved tops and flat bottoms are especially designed for dunking. Their unique texture and...