Beyond Colonial Classification – By Kimberly Arkin
Kimberly Arkin on Sarah Stein’s Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria Since the beginning of the Second Intifada in 2000, the
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Modern Jewish History
Intermarriage and the Complexity of Jewish Identity – By Sarah Imhoff
Sarah Imhoff on Jennifer A. Thompson’s Jewish on Their Own Terms & Keren R. McGinity’s Marrying Out What is intermarriage? The answer seems obvious: marriage
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On Dreams and Disconnects: the Ambiguities of a Liberal Sage – By Suzanne Schneider
Suzanne Schneider on Michael Walzer’s The Paradox of Liberation In 1935, the British-run Government of Palestine convened a meeting between the Zionist National
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From the Literature of Reimagined Selves – Polly Zavadivker
Polly Zavadivker on An-sky’s Pioneers In the 1880s radical movements proliferated throughout the Russian Empire. Revolutionary ideas found expression in new forms of
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Possible Moralities in Impossible Times – By Saskia Coenen Snyder
Saskia Coenen Snyder on Bernard Wasserstein’s The Ambiguity of Virtue The behavior of the Jewish Councils, the administrative bodies appointed by the Germans
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“Jesus H. (as in, Hasidic) Christ!” – By Allan Nadler
Allan Nadler on Shaul Magid’s Hasidism Incarnate Pope Francis’s disclosure, early on in his papacy, that his favorite painting is Marc Chagall’s 1938
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A Blessing on Your Head, and Other Ways to Deliver a Beating in Yiddish – By Simon Rabinovitch
Simon Rabinovitch on Yiddish Fight Club Yiddish is rich in the vocabulary of street-violence, taken from the ring, the docks, and the factories
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The Ghost of Jabotinsky and the Future of Israel – By Jeffrey Veidlinger
Jeffrey Veidlinger on Hillel Halkin’s Jabotinsky: a Life There is little question that Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of the Revisionist Zionist Movement, was one of
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Peddler on the Hoof – By Shari Rabin
Shari Rabin on Hasia Diner’s Roads Taken A colleague and I once came up with a party game for the field of American Jewish history.
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American Socialism and the Jews, Between Moscow and Jerusalem – By Tony Michels
Tony Michels on Stephen H. Norwood’s Antisemitism and the American Far Left In the summer of 1967, American leftists began speaking about Israel in new,
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