A History of Violence – By Arie Dubnov
Arie Dubnov on Hillel Cohen’s Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict If Israel/Palestine is to be compared to a powder keg, Jerusalem/al-Quds, no
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Jewish History
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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Representing the Jews in Medieval Iberia – By Eva Frojmovic
Eva Frojmovic on Pamela Patton’s Art of Estrangement This important book undertakes for the first time, at least in an English publication, to
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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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The Devil – Writ Large and in the Details – By Adam Kotsko
Adam Kotsko on Almond’s The Devil and Korpel and de Moor’s Adam, Eve, and the Devil At first glance, these two studies 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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Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? Lessons from Medieval Interfaith Relations – By Alex J. Novikoff
Alex J. Novikoff on David Nirenberg’s Neighboring Faiths Good fences make good neighbors, or so insisted Robert Frost’s curt and uncompromising neighbor in
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