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?

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

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

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...

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...