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Blaming the Jews

It would be Jewish journalists, of course, who have come up with the smartest ways to package anti-Jewish sentiment for a U.S. audience in the presidential election season. Yehuda Halevi’s Death and the Cairo Genizah

Legend says the great 12th-century Spanish hymnist reached Eretz Yisrael but was killed at Jerusalem's city gate. Genizah documents suggest that the legend was based on fact.The Iranian Schindler

Hitler declared Iran an Aryan nation. But Iran's head diplomat in World War II Paris used his connections and personal fortune to save thousands of Iranian Jews living in France.Eco Chamber

With The Prague Cemetery's virulently anti-Semitic protagonist, Umberto Eco may have joined those famous authors whose "editors grew afraid to edit them even as reviewers grew unwilling to pan them." Mikeitz: Joseph’s Torture

How to make sense of Joseph? This week we learn of his nearly pathological efforts to ensnare, baffle, accuse, imprison, and shame his brothers—the same brothers who, decades earlier, sold him into slavery. Now he is Grand Vizier of Egypt, and he gets a chance to show them who's boss.An Alternative to the Suez Canal?

Israel is signing an agreement with China to build a railroad from Eilat to Tel Aviv. It will develop the Negev—and may make the Canal loom a little less large.The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies

There are over 16,000 books on the Holocaust. "If I had to limit my own library to ten out of those sixteen thousand," says a reviewer, "this would be one of them."New President Calls for Tunisia’s Jews to Return

With Islamists in power, Israel warned Tunisia's remaining Jews to emigrate. But they're staying put. In fact, Tunisia's president wants the emigrants now in Israel to come back.