If you’ve been watching “The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem,” the romance-filled soap opera starring Israeli heartthrob Michael Aloni that tells the colorful story of a Sephardic family in the mists of a ...

Growing up with two parents who were English professors at Williams College, Boston College English professor Elizabeth Graver said her childhood was filled with many different stories. Nevertheless, ...

Knowing why my ancestors immigrated to a new country, is shrouded in the past, lost in passed-down stories, and romanticized with tales of love and opportunity in faraway places. I have never learned ...

In “Kantika,” Elizabeth Graver writes about her Ladino-speaking relatives in all their complexity. (JTA) — The very first Jewish book was a multigenerational Jewish family saga. But while the Bible ...

Kantika, the latest novel by accomplished Boston College author and professor of English Elizabeth Graver, is a multi-generational family saga taking place in four countries. Rebecca Cohen, the ...

Inspired by the 20th-century migrations of her grandmother, Elizabeth Graver’s new novel, “Kantika,” depicts lives filled with music, ritual and hardship across continents and cultures. By Ayten ...