At one of the highest points in Pacific Heights, uphill from a strip of mansions known as Billionaires’ Row, sits a nine-bedroom, five-bathroom house with a long front staircase and a steep roof.

Serving as the chief rabbi of Egypt, he later moved to Israel, where he taught Jewish mysticism to the Arizal, who went on to ...

When a group of German Marxists arrived in Naples in the nineteen-twenties, they found a way of life that made them rethink ...