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Art Spiegelman's "survivor's tale" is a painstakingly-researched work, rooted in his father's memories of life in Hitler's Europe and in the death camps.  So why did it top the fiction charts?    A State is Born

How did the (possibly pro-Arab) United Nations Special Committee on Palestine come to recommend the creation of Israel in 1947?Mighty Jacobson

However darkly comic and compelling, the thick Manchester jargon and Yiddishisms of Howard Jacobson's Mighty Walzer may prove prohibitive for American readers.       Born Again

There is pervasive anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism on British campuses; just ask a British student, raised to venerate Hitler as a hero, who has now become a Zionist.Who am I?

In a 1988 talk, Saul Bellow ponders in what order he is a writer, an American, and a Jew—and why.The Failure of the Arab Spring

This year's uprisings have not brought and for the foreseeable future are unlikely to bring democracy to the Arab world.Small Victory

By ostentatiously listing himself as "without religion," the novelist Yoram Kaniuk has confirmed the failure of secular Israelis to provide an alternative vision of Judaism.Her Price is Far Above . . . .

The King James Version puts the price of a virtuous woman above "rubies"; others say "pearls" or "corals." Who is right?Hope Springs Talmudic

Unfolding beyond the crush of defeat, the Talmud's vigorous spirit of inquiry represents a great, resilient optimism.