Howard Schwartz grew up devouring the myths of quarreling Roman gods and towering Greek Cyclopes, and as an adult he kept asking the question he first posed to his teachers as a young boy: Is there ...

When Jewish comic book creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created the Black Panther character for Marvel, neither probably knew that they owed a debt of gratitude to a long-dead coreligionist. But as a ...

When you think of Jewish folklore, what comes to mind? It's probably the legend of the Golem, right? For whatever reason, the hulking clay protector created by Kabbalist Judah Loew ben Bezalel in ...

Folklore and Folklife Professor Dan Ben-Amos spoke Monday evening about Jewish folklore, saying that the stories of Jewish tradition are "one step short of mythology." Ben-Amos's 75-minute lecture, ...

Jewish-themed horror movies are not unknown, but they are relatively rare. Certainly they are less common than those which rely on Catholic mythology or other forms of Christian folklore. One has to ...

In the cold, early hours of April 15, 1912, the new White Star liner RMS Titanic — the largest and most luxurious passenger vessel in the world — disappeared beneath the strangely still surface of the ...