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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Jewish History
Anti-Semitism and the Evolving Catholic Conscience
Martin Menke on John Connelly’s From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews New histories of the Shoah provoke
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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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Metaphor Theory and Societal Change: Exile in the Hebrew Bible – By Katie Heffelfinger
Katie Heffelfinger on Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor Enduring Exile: The Metaphorization of Exile in the Hebrew Bible Metaphors are powerful shapers of cultural concepts. Last January’s
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The Canon(s) of the Jewish Scriptures
Edmon L. Gallagher on Timothy H. Lim’s The Formation of the Jewish Canon We don’t know where the Bible came from. It took shape over
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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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The Activist of Andalusia: Ibn Hazm of Cordoba – By Paul L. Heck
Paul L. Heck on Ibn Hazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of A Controversial Thinker Ibn Hazm of Cordoba, pious scholar and
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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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How Sufism and Jewish Mysticism Influenced Medieval Castilian Christianity – By Barbara Mujica
Barbara Mujica on Cynthia Robinson’s Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile An extraordinary sum of Passion-related texts and images produced in late medieval Europe
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The Ethical Vision in the Gospel and Letters of John – By Wendy E.S. North
Wendy E.S. North on eds. Jan G. van der Watt & Ruben Zimmermann’s Rethinking the Ethics of John We search the Gospel of John in
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