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.

a far cry from the Nation of Islam’s assertion of Jewish “predominance” in this activity. What’s most concerning about libelous books such as The Secret Relationship is the implicit belief ...

In the case of Danielle Trussoni's Angelology ... with the fallen angels described in the book of Genesis, as well as in the Orpheus myth. Trussoni traces a lineage from 925 A.D. in Thrace ...

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 ...

He lays all this out in his new book, Black Power ... knowledge about the interaction between black and Jewish communities is based more on myth than fact. He says uncovering the real story ...

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 ...

Writer Roy Schwartz also sees elements of Jewish mythology in the character, as noted in his 2021 book Is Superman Circumcised?. While Batman doesn’t have any obvious Jewish characteristics, ...