crypto-jews

This week father and son, neigh­bors in Brook­line, Mass­a­chu­setts and long­time col­lab­o­ra­tors, David Shray­er-Petrov and Max­im D. Shray­er dis­cuss Din­ner with Stal­in…

Ear­li­er this week, Ilan Sta­vans wrote about the prob­lem with aca­d­e­m­ic writ­ing and asked: Is there a Jew­ish lit­er­ary renais­sance? He has been blog­ging here…

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterIn hon­or of next week’s JBC/​Jewcy Twit­ter Book Club with Doreen Car­va­jal (The For­get­ting Riv­er), we’ve cre­at­ed a ​“Cryp­to-Judaism”…

Ear­li­er this week, Doreen Car­va­jal wrote about try­ing to recov­er her fam­i­ly’s secret iden­ti­ty and how to unlock and pre­serve mem­o­ries. She has been blog­ging…

Ear­li­er this week, Doreen Car­va­jal wrote about try­ing to recov­er her fam­i­ly’s secret iden­ti­ty. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book…

Doreen Car­va­jal​’s first book, The For­get­ting Riv­er, is about her search to recov­er her Catholic fam­i­ly’s hid­den Sephardic Jew­ish roots in a mys­ti­cal white…