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Every culture has its superstitions and its supermen: the German imp, the South African giant Abiyoyo, the golem of Jewish lore, and the jinni of Arabic mythology. What if, during one of America’s great waves of immigration, 2 of these mythic creatures collided? That’s what happens in The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker‘s compulsively readable debut novel. At the junction of 19th-century […]

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Believe it or not, Nazi sympathizers were out and about in the borough as early as 1934. It started in 1934 when Heinz Spanknobel, a German immigrant, put together a gathering called “Friends of New Germany” with financial assistance from the German Consul. He wasn’t alone: Nazis lived in all areas of Brooklyn, from Williamsburg to Ridgewood. By […]

The late gay activist and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk seemed to have organizing in his blood. His grandfather, a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant, helped found the first synagogue in his Long Island town, and Milk himself would go on to make great strides for gay communities across the country. Milk first became interested in politics during the […]

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