The tension between secular politics and religious fundamentalism is a problem shared by many modern states. This is certainly true of the state of Israel...

In 20 years of studying the Holocaust, it didn’t occurr to me that German officials might, when petitioned by German Jews or by Germans advocating for German Jews, change their minds....

On a rocky hilltop stands Ma’aleh Hermesh C, a fledgling outpost of Jewish settlers in the West Bank...

Salomone da Sesso, was so good at his job that he was a verifiable celebrity. He had a very complex relationship with, and occasionally ran afoul of, his fellow Jews, so much so that he is charged with sodomy (amongst other things) and coverts to Christianity....

Yehoshua November's second poetry collection, Two Worlds Exist (Orison Books), movingly examines the harmonies and dissonances involved in practicing an ancient religious tradition in contemporary America...

"The Perfect Fascist" pivots from the intimate story of a tempestuous seduction and inconvenient marriage―brilliantly reconstructed through family letters and court records―to a riveting account of Mussolini’s rise and fall...

How did the Bible become the Bible? It's a long story....

Roosevelt could have bombed the camps and saved Jews. Why didn't he? It's a hard question....

A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tens of thousands of Jews fled their homes, or were captured and trafficked across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa....

Meir reconsiders the place of the lowliest members of an already stigmatized minority....

Kaplan describes the dramatic experiences of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler’s regime and then lived in limbo in Portugal until they could reach safer havens abroad...

Women in the Bible aren't shy or retiring; they're fierce and funny and demanding and relevant to 21st-century people...

"The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies" is turning twenty-five...

Jesus was Jewish? Yes, he was...and how.

On May 20th, Eisler was arrested and spent the next fifteen months in Dachau and Buchenwald...

Newfield presents a comprehensive portrait of the prolonged state of being “in-between” that characterizes transition out of a totalizing worldview...

Brown engages with issues that are fundamental to present-day attempts to understand the Holocaust and deeply relevant to reflections on human nature...

Lewis lays out a new paradigm for understanding R. Nachman’s thought and writing...

Benjamin contends that the physical and psychological work of caring for children presents theologically fruitful but largely unexplored terrain for feminists...

Finder and Prusin offer comprehensive account of the trials of Nazi perpetrators conducted in liberated and postwar Poland....

This book examines what is at stake in deploying humor in representing the Holocaust...

In this episode (# 2), we discuss Eisler’s early years as a member of the Jewish bourgeoisie in turn-of-the-century Vienna with historian Steven Beller...

John reflects on the people who have taught him, in all the different ways teaching can happen, and the lessons that he’s learned over decades of thinking and writing about the Holocaust...

Diamond challenges the widespread caricature of Judaism as a religion of law as opposed to theology...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...