Colbert Cairns traces the biblical figure of Esther, the secret Jewish Queen, as she is reinvented as the patron saint for the early modern Sephardic community....

The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia bore some similarities to that in other places, but also differed in ways that lead to new questions and approaches...

Cazenave offers a fascinating analysis of the 220 hours of outtakes edited out of the final nine and a half-hour 1985 film with which listeners and readers might be familiar...

Balint and Mack offer a fascinating journey through Jerusalem’s libraries which tells the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words...

In pre-emancipation Europe, most Jews followed Jewish law most of the time, but by the turn of the twentieth century, a new secular Jewish identity had begun to take shape...

Dweck tells the story of Jacob Sasportas, the Sephardic rabbi who, alone among Jewish leadership, challenged Sabbetai Zevi’s improbable claims and warned his fellow Jews that their Messiah was not the answer to their prayers...

Dalsheim considers some of the surprising outcomes of the great Israeli experiment of re-imagining and reconstructing Judaism, Jewishness and the Jewish people as an ethno-national project focused on the state...

Gottlieb explores the decisive - and, until now, under-appreciated - influence exerted on Jewish memory by the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac narrative in the Book of Genesis...

"The Dead Man" a beautiful tale of love, loss, family, and the music of the world around us...

How should we understand the appearances of the king in Book V of the Hebrew Psalter?

Anti-Semitic incidents, ranging from vandalism through murder, are on the rise in Great Britain, and across Europe and North America...

Subotić asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled―ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated―throughout Eastern Europe...

Who are the Jews from Arab countries?

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Sternfeld presents the first systematic study of the rich and variegated history of Jews in twentieth-century Iran...

As Holocaust survivors pass away, their legacy of suffering, tenacity and courage could be forgotten. It is up to each generation to commemorate the victims...

Raul Hilberg was a giant in the field of Genocide and Holocaust Studies...

To this generation that includes writers as disparate as Gary Shteyngart and Irina Reyn comes Olga Zilberbourg...

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...