'Jews are Magic': Museum exhibit explores Jewish fascination with occultism

Jews Are Magic,” opening this month at YIVO’s Manhattan headquarters, explores the Jewish fascination with mysticism, fortune ...
The New York Times

How a 1933 Book About Jews in Magic Was Rescued From Oblivion

Richard Hatch gave up a career as a physicist to become a magician — and a one-man historical preservation society dedicated to a German author killed in the Holocaust. The author, Guenther Dammann, ...
The Forward

The best Jewish books of 2023

If you thought books belonged in reviews, on shelves and nowhere else, 2023 should have changed your mind — because literature is at the heart of so many stories this year. And at the same time, ...
The Times of Israel

NYC exhibit ‘Jews are Magic’ traces Jewish occultism from palm readers to psychics

Opening today, YIVO display spotlights fortune-tellers, mind-readers, wonder rabbis, and the enduring appeal of the ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The best Jewish books I read in 2023

(JTA) — When I spoke with novelist Elizabeth Graver in August about her novel “Kantika” — inspired by her own Turkish Jewish family — I asked her how she managed to breathe life into a tired genre ...