Neo-Latin Seizes its Day
A review of Victoria Moul’s edited collection A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature French departments do not lavish attention on the golden era of
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Muslims and the Making of America
First Impressions #104: Amir Hussain on Muslims and the Making of America There has never been an America without Muslims, and they have
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Leonard Schwartz & Kathleen Eamon Toward a Poetics of the Middle East Crisis
Poet Leonard Schwartz and philosopher Kathleen Eamon discuss Schwartz’s new book “The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Middle East Crisis.”
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Jew, Christian, and the Judeo-Christian: Thinking with Cynthia Baker’s Jew
Shaul Magid on Cynthia Baker’s Jew In her discussion of the term Ioudaios, or “Jew” as it emerges from antiquity, Cynthia Baker in
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Reading Cynthia Baker’s Jew with James Baldwin
Susannah Heschel on Cynthia Baker’s Jew Once upon a time, “The Name” was God, and it was holy, ineffable, not to be pronounced
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One Final Word on Jew: A Response
Cynthia M. Baker reflects on the Jew Forum The introduction to my book, Jew, concludes as follows: One final word on Jew: there
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Jewish Identity as a Psychic Wound?
Naomi Seidman on Cynthia Baker’s Jew My starting point is the striking idea suggested by Cynthia Baker that the word Jew is or
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Between Jew and Muslim
Observations on Cynthia Baker’s Jew from the Perspective of Islamic Studies The questions raised by Cynthia Baker’s terse, sophisticated intervention in Jew resonate
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Thinking with Samaritans and Cynthia Baker’s Jew
Matthew Chalmers on Cynthia Baker’s Jew Calling someone a Jew is not a neutral act. In her new book, Cynthia Baker explains with
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The Gorka Affair
Jacob Labendz on why two Jewish magazines went to war over a Trump appointee “Trump is not Hitler.” Over the past year, I
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