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How Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy Helped to Invent the South – By Nick Ripatrazone

October 16, 2013January 27, 2014

Nick Ripatrazone on Bryan Giemza’s Irish Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South In “Parker’s Back,” the titular character decides to get ... [Read More]

Superman is a Glatt Goy

October 16, 2013October 27, 2013

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 ... [Read More]

How Sufism and Jewish Mysticism Influenced Medieval Castilian Christianity – By Barbara Mujica

September 25, 2013April 29, 2014

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 ... [Read More]

Domus Magna: The Enduring Power of the Psalms – By David W. Stowe

September 18, 2013January 27, 2014

David W. Stowe on Susan Gillingham’s Jewish and Christian Approaches to the Psalms Psalm 137 is one of the more ubiquitous psalms in ... [Read More]

Looking to the Medieval to Understand Modern Art

July 16, 2013April 25, 2014

Nancy Thebaut on Alexander Nagel’s Medieval Modern What could Cimabue’s 1280 panel painting, Madonna and Child Surrounded by Angels, and Louis Blériot’s airplane ... [Read More]

Art as an Arena for Interreligious Dialogue

January 29, 2013October 28, 2013

Aaron Rosen on Ruth Illman’s Art and Belief Even as interreligious dialogue sets out to discover and appreciate difference, it often begins with ... [Read More]

A New Collection of Essays on Jewish Cinema in Hollywood

January 29, 2013October 28, 2013

Nathan Abrams on eds. Bernardi, Pomerance, and Tirosh-Samuelson’s Hollywood’s Chosen People The editors, Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson – three well-known scholars ... [Read More]

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