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Jewish Studies
Interviews with scholars of Judaism about their new books.
November 4, 2026
Holocaust Distortion in Poland
Holocaust distortion in Poland involves reshaping or minimizing facts about the Holocaust, often emphasizing Polish victimhood while obscuring instanc…
November 2, 2026
I Am The Other
What happens when a devout imam and a secular Jewish former federal prosecutor decide to talk about the things that divide them rather than the things…
November 1, 2026
Sacred Betrayal
When German occupiers rolled into Paris in June 1940, they arrived wary of the French Catholic Church. In a country where more than 80 percent of citi…
October 27, 2026
Hidden Scrolls, Buried Bibles
From the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Zohar, this is the untold story behind our enduring fascination with lost and found religious texts …
October 26, 2026
The Expanded Editions of Elie Wiesel
In this latest Books for Better Understanding video from Notre Dame Press, Jake Kildoo facilitates a conversation between Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenber…
October 23, 2026
Coming of Age As Syrian Jewish Mexicans
Drora interviewed Dr. Eveyln Maria Dean-Olmsted about her book, Coming of Age as Syrian Jewish Mexicans: The Pragmatics of Diaspora (Brill, 2025), pub…
October 20, 2026
The Koren Tanakh Graphic Novel
What if you could experience the opening chapters of the Torah as a graphic novel—without losing the depth, complexity, or ambiguity of the original t…
October 15, 2026
The Kennicott Bible
Katrin Kogman-Appel is a professor of Medieval Jewish history with research focusing on book culture, readers, and reading practices in medieval Europ…
October 14, 2026
Poles and Jews
Nationalism’s global resurgence has upended societies. With the rise of the Polish nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, and American Jewry’s swift…
October 10, 2026
Read This Over Shabbos
What happens when you read the weekly Torah portion alongside the strange, fascinating, and sometimes uncomfortable story of modern Jewish history? In…
October 9, 2026
A Room of His Own
A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet (Academic Studies Press, 2025) makes the original and persuasive claim that Brods…
October 9, 2026
Yiddish Scholarship Comes to America
This comprehensive history of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research—a groundbreaking American Jewish cultural organization, library, and research cen…
October 3, 2026
The Jew Who Would Be King
This vivid reconstruction of one man’s life reveals the harsh realities and moral ambiguities of colonial power. The Jew Who Would Be King: A True S…
October 2, 2026
Credit to the Nation
From a leading historian, the story of how entrepreneurial Jewish immigrants transformed commercial banking and enabled the economic and social advanc…
September 30, 2026
Who Gets to Write History?
Most of us use Wikipedia without thinking very much about it. A name comes up in conversation, an argument breaks out, or we suddenly need to know wha…
September 29, 2026
The Last of the Ellis Island Jews
Joel Dinerstein's The Last of the Ellis Island Jews (SUNY Press, 2026) is a tragicomic memoir of a dysfunctional, working-class Brooklyn Jewish family…
September 28, 2026
Night Breaks in the Garret
In Night Breaks in the Garret: Poems and Peregrinations (Finishing Line Press, 2026), Yermiyahu Ahron Taub provides a meditation not so much on the se…
September 25, 2026
Antisemitism, an American Tradition
Pamela S. Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History and is Director of the Jewish Studies Program. A specialist in Americ…
September 24, 2026
Filial Lines
Filial Lines: Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, and Comics Form (Cambridge UP, 2026) by Dr. Emmy Waldman is the first book to place the autobiographical…
September 22, 2026
An Intercessor Like Moses
In this episode of the New Books Network, Željko Stanojević speaks with Matthew Montgomery about his article “An Intercessor Like Moses: A Key Compone…