Abrasive, controversial and tenacious, Admiral Hyman Rickover was called 'the greatest engineer to ever live' by Jimmy Carter. A new biography tells his incredible life story

'Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen,' breaks down movie magic of beloved 50-year-old musical, and shows how film brought gentile director Norman Jewison closer to Judaism

The set for a historical WW II feature titled 'Shttl,' put up this summer on a lakeside near Kiev, has brought the Jewish villages that once dotted the Old Country back to life

Author Max Gross lifts up the veil on his mysterious book about a small Polish Jewish town that fell off the map for decades till it abruptly encountered modernity

Set in a 19th-century Pale of Settlement, Yaniv Iczkovits's 'The Slaughterman's Daughter' sees a woman trained to perform a job reserved for men bring her sister justice

A must-read novel for fall, 'The Lost Shtetl' by first-time fiction writer Max Gross offers fable inspired by the great Yiddish writers that comforts and challenges in corona times

In departure from her signature works portraying Soviet immigrants in Israel, Ukrainian-born artist digs into the shtetl for inspiration for drawings created during COVID-19 crisis