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...

Throughout the 20th century, especially during and immediately after WWII, New York Jews changed their names at rates considerably higher than any other ethnic group...

Rabinowitz, born in 1887 in Ukraine, described her experiences as an immigrant, factory worker, single mother by choice, and union organizer...

Francesca Trivellato draws upon the economic, cultural, intellectual, and business history of the period to trace the origin of this myth and what its usage in early modern Europe reveals about contemporary views of both commerce and Judaism...

For some two hundred years now, Pentateuchal scholarship has been dominated by the Documentary Hypothesis, a paradigm made popular by Julius Wellhausen...

Spanning eight decades and interwoven with the Jewish experience of the 20th century, Julie Zuckerman charts Jeremiah’s life from boyhood, through service in WWII, to marriage and children, a professorship and finally retirement, with compassion, honesty, and a respect that even Gerstler himself would find touching...

Wertheimer argues that American Jews are indeed engaging with Judaism, albeit in unique and unorthodox ways...

Adriana X. Jacobs offers a translation-centered reading of twentieth-century modern Hebrew poetry...

The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a dual role: SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front...