Mushaira: Islam, Poetry, and South Asia
Abdul Manan Bhat on Ali Khan Mahmudabad Poetry gatherings have a magic of nearness, an immediacy and intimacy of sorts. The intimacy between
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Antisemitism, Adorno, and the Theory of Hate
James Loeffler reflects on antisemitism and intersectionality After last October’s synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh, American society responded in predictable fashion: Politicians and communal
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The Wandering You: Jewish & American Identity
Erin Faigin on Shari Rabin’s Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America It was the opinion of Edwards, that the
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Culturally Muslim in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Abigail Agresta on Olivia Remie Constable’s To Live Like a Moor What does it mean to be Muslim? To be Christian? Do these identities consist
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A Future for a Handful of Hours
Poet Rosebud Ben-Oni on the poetry of Yehuda Amichai, promises, and a love that keeps us strangers It was not until our very
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A Blur of Wings: The Diaphanous and the Dissonant in Political Poetry
Ciahnan Darrell reviews Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings is aggressively opaque. Written in a multitude of poetic forms, it draws
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Catholicism as Contradiction
Katherine Dugan reviews The Anthropology of Catholicism: A Reader Pope Francis’ recent trip to South America was one of the most embroiled of
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Does Jewish Logic Necessarily Lead to Israel?
Jacob Abolafia on the existential and political character of 20th-century American Jewish life O you youths, western youths, So impatient, full of action,
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MRBlog | What Jews Kvetch About When They Kvetch About Bernie Sanders
By Sandra Fox How the Democratic candidate for President is the newest pretext for an old debate over acceptable American Jewish identity In
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MRBlog | Christian First, American Second: On Prioritizing (and Performing) Presidential Identities
By Thomas J. Whitley Back in September 2015 presidential candidate Ben Carson said that for a Muslim to be president “you have to
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