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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Jewish History
Domus Magna: The Enduring Power of the Psalms – By David W. Stowe
David W. Stowe on Susan Gillingham’s Jewish and Christian Approaches to the Psalms Psalm 137 is one of the more ubiquitous psalms in
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In What Sense Were the Rabbis Roman?
Ishay Rosen-Zvi on Hayim Lapin’s Rabbis as Romans Pinchas Kehati used to say that he toiled doubly over his popular commentary on the
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Plato, Bakhtin, and the Rabbis Meet Again
Eva Kiesele on Jenny Labendz’s Socratic Torah Confusion often precedes the discovery of truth. The process goes something like this. I hold a
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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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How Ancient Jewish Letter-writing Shaped the New Testament – By M. Eugene Boring
M. Eugene Boring on Lutz Doering’s Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography Even readers conversant with the Bible are sometimes
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A Key Figure’s Most Important Investigations on the Septuagint
Gilles Dorival on Jan Joosten’s Collected Studies on the Septuagint Dans ce livre, Jan Joosten a réuni dix-sept articles portant sur la Septante
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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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