The Revolutionary at the Heart of Traditional Judaism – By Daniel Davies
Daniel Davies on Moshe Halbertal’s Maimonides: Life and Thought The works and personality of Moses Maimonides are imprinted on almost all forms of
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Jewish History
A Conversation with Sayed Kashua
Margaret Litvin and Simon Rabinovitch with Sayed Kashua In Emile Habibi’s satirical novel The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (1974), the Arab
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Not Like the Egyptians – By Jonathan Boyarin
Jonathan Boyarin on Beth A. Berkowitz’s Defining Jewish Difference: From Antiquity to the Present Trigger warning: devotees of popular Kabbalah and Judaism may be distressed
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Many Admirers, Few Disciples: The Life and Legacy of Rav Kook – By Samuel Thrope
Samuel Thrope on Yehudah Mirsky’s Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution In the fall of 1913, Avraham Yitzhak Kook, then serving as
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Aztec Birth Customs and Early Modern European Jews – By Adam Shear
Adam Shear on Yaacov Deutsch’s Judaism in Christian Eyes Christian thinkers have always been interested in Jews and Judaism. Some biblical exegetes in
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Relaxing the Lines between Redaction and Reception – By Andrew Perrin
Andrew Perrin on Devorah Dimant and Reinhard G. Kratz (eds.) Rewriting and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible Among the many lessons the Dead Sea Scrolls have
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“Beneficent Incision”: Midrash and the Contemporary Critical Moment – By Adam Zachary Newton
Adam Zachary Newton on Dina Stein’s Textual Mirrors: Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self In a deeply learned set of essays collected under the title
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Jewish Families: From Babylon to Brooklyn and Back Again – By Kimberly Arkin
Kimberly Arkin on Jonathan Boyarin’s Jewish Families A central tension haunts contemporary Jewish studies. Historically, the discipline both presupposed and documented Jewish peoplehood —
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Feasting Eyes and Scopic Torah – By Eva Kiesele
Eva Kiesele on Rachel Neis’s The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture Rachel Neis’s The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Ways of Seeing
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Writing History on the Medieval Blood Libel – By Susan Einbinder
Susan Einbinder on Hannah R. Johnson’s Blood Libel: The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History In spite of its title, the subject
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