The myth of Jews killing Christian children emerged in 1144 CE, with the death of a boy named William in Norwich, England...

Marinari examines how, from 1882 to 1965, Italian and Jewish reformers profoundly influenced the country’s immigration policy as they mobilized against the immigration laws that marked them as undesirable...

Paul Celan's poetry marks the end of European modernism..

Fischbach examines the way that a host of groups on the American found themselves divided over which country they ought to support and how to fit that support into campaigns against imperialism or U.S. foreign policy...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Without question the Gospel of John makes rich use of both the Jewish scriptures and the feasts of the Jewish liturgical year...

Sinkoff offers s the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called "Holocaust Studies"..

Art Spiegelman's Maus is the story of an American cartoonist's efforts to uncover and record his father's story of survival of the Holocaust...

On November 9, 1938, the Nazis launched a pogrom against German Jews...Kristallnacht.

Stein weaves a narrative tapestry whose threads are drawn from the archives of one Sephardic family, with roots in the city of Salonica, then in the Ottoman Empire, now Thessaloniki in Greece...

How does the world of book reviews work?

Who were the ‘sons of God’ in the book of Genesis—and what did they do?

Rolsky makes the case for understanding Norman Lear as a key protagonist in the culture wars of the late 20th century...

Pomson and Schnoor examine the impact of the family on Jewish identity.

Blincoe offers a beautifully narrated and written history of a century of conflict between pre-state Jews and Palestinians and Israeli Jews and Israeli Palestinians after the establishment of the state...

Anti-semitism is on the rise in the U.S. and other parts of the world...

Libson examines the emergence of self-knowledge as a determining legal consideration among the rabbis of Late Antiquity, from the third to the seventh centuries CE.

The book argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence...

Bergamin positions Ahimeir within the contexts of the Israeli right and the Zionist movement in general, and corrects some common misunderstandings surrounding the man and his ideology...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

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...

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....

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...