Danielle Trussoni’s first novel, “Angelology ... letters, books and an object so precious and singular that it has been commemorated in both angel iconography and the ancient myth of ...

But as a new book shows, a 19th-century Jewish adventurer named Nathaniel Isaacs helped shape the myth from which the fictional African nation of Wakanda and its fearless leader emerged.

This mafia, they believed, secretly ensured that Jewish books and authors would ... Lionel Trilling and author Ann Birstein, the book dispels the myth of the “literary mafia.” ...

it made the New York Review of Books’ Ten Best list for 2006. That her fiction debut, “Angelology,” should be a commercial exercise in fantasy is disappointing -- if perfectly understandable ...

Eight shelves in her home are filled with books on Judaism as well as Jewish magic, witchcraft and folklore. Her studies have revealed the historical ways that items like gems have been used in ...

(JTA) — Hasia Diner, renowned scholar of American Jewish history ... Take, for example, her 2009 book “We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the ...