With a writ­ing career begin­ning as news edi­tor for the Dai­ly Penn­syl­van­ian, Stephen Crane was always drawn to non­fic­tion sub­jects for their unde­ni­able real­i­ty. Hence his first book, Sur­vivor from an Unknown War, fea­tured a dark unre­vealed cor­ner of WWII. His inter­est in things Jew­ish dom­i­nat­ed his next offer­ings on Judaism in the Mid­dle Ages and then Torah historicity.