The Hanukkah Dilemma – By Rachel Gordan
Rachel Gordan on Dianne Ashton’s Hanukkah in America: A History Dianne Ashton’s new history of Hanukkah in America had particular poignance this holiday season. Standing
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Modern Jewish History
Move Over, Mendelssohn – By Daniel B. Schwartz
Daniel B. Schwartz on Eliyahu Stern’s The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism Biography has long figured prominently in scholarly and
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How We Choose to Write History
David Nirenberg responds to the Forum on Anti-Judaism We know that “books, too, have their fates,” but all too seldom is that fate
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Deconstructing Anti-Semitism and Eternal Anti-Judaism
Jonathan Judaken on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism is surely the most important single monograph on the history of representations of
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The Figure of the Jew: Anti-Judaism in the Enlightenment
Jonathan M. Hess on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition Reviewing David Nirenberg’s magisterial volume is by necessity an exercise in humility. Few of us
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Like a Jew: Anti-Judaism in Early Islam and Medieval Iberia
Jonathan P. Decter on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition Prior to Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, David Nirenberg was best known for his impressive study
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Anti-Judaism and Luther’s Jewish Question
Debra Kaplan on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition In his 1523 treatise, That Jesus Christ was Born a Jew, Martin Luther provocatively wrote that had
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Anti-Judaism and Early Christianity
Paula Fredriksen on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition There were recurring moments, during those nightmarish first hours of 9/11, when a strangely
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Judaism-Hatred vs. Jew-Hatred
Moshe Rosman on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition [This review is the first of seven pieces in our forum, “His Blood Be Upon Us.”
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No Escaping the Cliché: The Legacy of Allan Sherman – By Stephen J. Whitfield
Stephen J. Whitfield on Mark Cohen’s Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman In the early 1960s Allan Sherman turned a
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