An Irish-American Zionist in the Age of Anti-Zionism – By James Loeffler
James Loeffler on Gil Troy’s Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight Against Zionism as Racism Only one of the thousands of UN resolutions issued by the
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Modern Jewish History
Superman is a Glatt Goy
Eddy Portnoy on Harry Brod’s Superman is Jewish? How Comic Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice and the Jewish-American Way Efn a zeml
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Sex in Public Among Religious Zionists
Yoel Finkelman on Yakir Englander and Avi Sagi’s Body and Sexuality in the New Religious Zionist Discourse There is no way to understand the fraught
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Synagogue Architecture in Four Nineteenth-century European Capitals
Vladimir Levin on Saskia Coenen Snyder’s Building a Public Judaism Building a Public Judaism offers a fascinating journey to Jewish communities in four
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Jewish Sin City: Al Capone’s Chicago Meets Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans – By Jeffrey Veidlinger
Jeffrey Veidlinger on Jarrod Tanny’s City of Rogues and Schnorrers Odessa is one of those cities that somehow never fails to stimulate the
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Rescuing the Memory of a Dynamic and Visionary Figure
Kalman Weiser on Jess Olson’s Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity It is one of the ironies of history that the man who coined
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The Earliest Known Memoir in Ladino Reveals the Struggles of a Nineteenth Century Ottoman Jewish Community
Nina Caputo on Rodrigue and Stein’s A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica The modern memoir typically follows a narrative arc similar to the
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An-sky’s Vast Verbal Museum of Jewish Life in the Pale
Harriet Murav on Nathaniel Deutsch’s The Jewish Dark Continent One hundred years ago Shloyme Zanvil Rapoport, better known by his pen-name An-sky, began
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A New Collection of Essays on Jewish Cinema in Hollywood
Nathan Abrams on eds. Bernardi, Pomerance, and Tirosh-Samuelson’s Hollywood’s Chosen People The editors, Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson – three well-known scholars
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