Indigenous Cultures and the Imperial History of Britain’s Empire
Madeline Grimm on John M. MacKenzie Historians have long struggled to tell the complete story of the British empire, in part because Britain’s
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Writing the Black Death: Jewish Responses to Italy’s Plague Years
Joshua Teplitsky on Susan Einbinder’s Writing Plague As the COVID-19 pandemic seems both behind us and still present as a threat and a
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Sabbath Stew, Pastries, and the Past: A Culinary History of Hungarian Jews
Avery Robinson In 1895, Adolf Ágai wrote an article in the Jewish weekly Egyenlőség (Equality) in which he waxes rhapsodic about Jewish foods.
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A Nook of Her Own: Virginia Woolf, Class, and the Creative Life
Alexandra Barylski Space is our birthright. So it is imperative that we have some of our own. City dwellers confront this need in
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The Apocalyptic Secret of Judaism and Olga Tokarczuk’s “The Books of Jacob”
Elliot R. Wolfson The acclaim for Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob is demonstrated in its receiving the Nike Award, Poland’s top
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Mysticism and Kabbalah: A Controversy
Pinchas Giller on Boaz Huss and Clemence Boulouque Since the days of ancient Egypt, religion was a business pursued by families and supporting
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History’s Imagined Past: How Scholars Invented Historical Time
Sarit Kattan Gribetz on Oded Steinberg’s Race, Nation, History The fields of rabbinics and ancient Judaism have long asked a tantalizing question: Was
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Why Einstein Wouldn’t Be Published Today: A Conversation with Lorraine Daston, Part Two
Part One of our conversation is available here.The full conversation is available as PDF. As part of our Meanings of Science in the
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Denmark Vesey: Conspiracy, Scripture, and Slave Rebellion
Bernard E. Powers Jr. on Jeremy Schipper’s, Denmark Vesey’s Bible The spring and summer months of 2022 marked two-hundred years since the discovery
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Can Weimar Germany Help Us Now?
Evan Kuehn on Humberto Beck If you want to draw a simplistic historical analogy that emphasizes the sheer evil of a person, there
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