The word “ghetto” has taken on different meanings since its coinage in the 16th century...

Namier remains famous in academic circles for supposedly declaring that any reference to ideas in political discourse was nothing more than 'flapdoodle'...

Millions of tourists visit Holocaust museums and memorials every year.,,

Bonomi tackles what has often remained hidden both in the historical writing about psychoanalysis and in Freud's explicit account of castration...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Goldman has written a powerfully impressive new book on the long history of the political theology that he describes as “Christian Zionism"...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Daoudi took a group of Palestinian students to visit Auschwitz – a courageous assertion against the Holocaust denial rampant in Palestinian society,..

In the late Enlightenment, a new imperative began to inform theories of interpretation: all literary texts should be read in the same way that we read the Bible...

Balaam plays a prominent role in the book of Numbers, but who was he?

Werczberger examined two Israeli communities of spiritual seekers in Israel..

Sarna chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America...

What makes some people aid the persecuted while others just stand by?

How did minorities fit into the new Greek state during the country’s transition from imperial rule to national sovereignty?

Considered one of the greatest Hebrew writers, in 1966, Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...

Can there be a political science of the Holocaust?

Lavi and his colleagues have produced a groundbreaking work that offers a novel understanding of Israeli bioethics...

Kaye examines how rabbis of late antiquity thought about time through their legal reasoning and storytelling, and what these insights mean for thinking about time today...

Zehnder looks at the enigmatic figure of the ‘Servant of the Lord.’

Slucki’s memoir blends the scholarly and literary, grounding the story of his grandfather and father in the broader context of the twentieth century...

Is love between man and woman the source of wisdom and the cornerstone of moral life?

Steir-Livny analyzes 19 prominent films that reflect the key tendencies of third-generation Holocaust documentaries...

For writer Sophia Shalmiyev, the question was never “who is my mother,” but rather, “where has she gone?”

For twenty years, 47-year-old Isabel Toledo has been ghostwriting the stories of Holocaust survivors...

Nearly every consumer today is familiar with the name Levi Strauss thank to the jeans that bear his name...