Beyond Colonial Classification – By Kimberly Arkin
Kimberly Arkin on Sarah Stein’s Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria Since the beginning of the Second Intifada in 2000, the
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Intermarriage and the Complexity of Jewish Identity – By Sarah Imhoff
Sarah Imhoff on Jennifer A. Thompson’s Jewish on Their Own Terms & Keren R. McGinity’s Marrying Out What is intermarriage? The answer seems obvious: marriage
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“But I Was the First to be Expelled for Heresy” – By Joshua Shanes
Joshua Shanes on Shulem Deen’s All Who Go Do Not Return Toward the beginning of his celebrated memoir, All Who Go Do Not
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Aztec Birth Customs and Early Modern European Jews – By Adam Shear
Adam Shear on Yaacov Deutsch’s Judaism in Christian Eyes Christian thinkers have always been interested in Jews and Judaism. Some biblical exegetes in
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Move Over, Mendelssohn – By Daniel B. Schwartz
Daniel B. Schwartz on Eliyahu Stern’s The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism Biography has long figured prominently in scholarly and
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