Jacob Katz was professor emeritus in the social sciences at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author or editor of many books in medieval and modern Jewish social history, including two Brandeis books ...

A noted social historian views the first three quarters of the century through the lens of his own life. "This memoir, combined with Jacob Katz's prolific scholarly work, puts on display an unusual ...

Richard Tauber's Resonant Past. Reissue Spotlights Singer's Sweet Trifles From the '20s, '30s. May 12, 2001. By Philip Kennicott. With the major, old-guard classical music record labels lapsing ...

Today Richard Tauber, the Austrian tenor of Jewish ancestry, is a genuine icon, as the title of a splendid 5-CD box set of his recordings from EMI Classics indicates. Yet his life is a cautionary ...