Present and Future of the Hebrew Past – By Aaron Koller
Aaron Koller on William M. Schniedewind’s A Social History of Hebrew The philologist sat with his back hunched, staring, now through a looking
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Jewish History
The Talmud and the Desert Fathers – By Daniel Boyarin
Daniel Boyarin on Michal Bar-Asher Siegal’s Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud The study of the Babylonian Talmud is right now a hot
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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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Displaced Anxiety: Medieval Christian Representations of the Jew and Christian Self-Reflection – By Deeana Klepper
Deeana Klepper on Sara Lipton’s Dark Mirror The past few years have seen a stunning increase in violent attacks directed against Jews and Jewish
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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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Questioning Categories and Shifting Paradigms in the Study of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins – By Simon J. Joseph
Simon J. Joseph on George W. E. Nickelsburg and James C. VanderKam’s 1 Enoch 2 There is power in naming things. Too often,
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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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Tuvia Ruebner’s Poetry and Why Translation Matters – By Dara Barnat
Dara Barnat on Rachel Tzvia Back’s In the Illuminated Dark Being a victim, again and again a victim — what a job! Here and
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A Sociolinguistic History of the Jews – By Sarah Bunin Benor
Sarah Bunin Benor on Bernard Spolsky’s The Languages of the Jews Intellectual history. Political history. Cultural history. Economic history. There are so many lenses through
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