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Jewish Studies
Interviews with scholars of Judaism about their new books.
November 27, 2024
The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes
The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes: Between Nihilism and Hope (Stanford UP, 2023) offers a detailed analysis of an extraordinary figure in the t…
November 26, 2024
Lukewarm Souls: The Vatican facing the Shoah
The exceptional opening of the archives of the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958) in 2020 did not end the controversies surrounding the silence of th…
November 26, 2024
Prayers of a Heretic
In the poetry collection Prayers of a Heretic (Plain View Press, 2013), Yermiyahu Ahron Taub explores the "crime" of heresy and the condition of exist…
November 23, 2024
The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East
In The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West (Cambridge UP, 2022), Phillip Lieberman revisi…
November 23, 2024
Writing on the Wall
"Writing on the Wall" is a global platform founded by Professor William Kolbrener and novelist Ronit Eitan in response to the traumatic events of Octo…
November 19, 2024
The Eastern International
In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the interna…
November 17, 2024
In Search of Jonathan
In both modern fiction and the biblical texts of 1 Samuel 13-2 Samuel 1, the character of Jonathan serves as a key literary and theological figure. Th…
November 15, 2024
Occupied Words
The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death…
November 14, 2024
Articles of Faith
The advance of technology has revolutionized nearly everything in our world, bringing changes which have led to much confusion regarding faith and pra…
November 13, 2024
So They Remember
When we think of Nazi camps, names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau come instantly to mind. Yet the history of the Holocaust extends beyon…
November 13, 2024
Kissing Girls on Shabbat
Growing up in the Hasidic community of Brooklyn’s Borough Park, Sara Glass knew one painful truth: what was expected of her and what she desperately w…
November 12, 2024
How to Love a Child
How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018) is the first comprehensive collection of Korczak's works translated into Engl…
November 10, 2024
Studies in the Evolution and Formation of the Passover Haggadah
I spoke with Jay Rovner about his book In Every Generation: Studies in the Evolution and Formation of the Passover Haggadah (Gorgias Press, 2024). The…
November 8, 2024
Delicious Prose
In Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink (Brill, 2018), Naomi S.S. Jacobs explores how the numerous references to food, drink…
November 5, 2024
An Improbable Life
From evading the KGB and disassembling a downed American plane to narrowly escaping a life sentence in Siberia, Reuven Rashkovsky’s story is a grippin…
November 4, 2024
Sex: Jewish Positions
Freelance curator Joanne Rosenthal joins Jana Byars to talk about Sex: Jewish Positions (Hirmer, 2024) and its concomitant exhibition at the Jewish mu…
November 3, 2024
Three Worlds
In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing from their beloved Iraq into the new state of Israel. Now the r…
November 2, 2024
Uncut
The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents of male infants worry about whether…
October 25, 2024
Second Temple Pseudepigraphy
At this point of the scholarly debate on the nature of Second Temple pseudepigraphy, one may ask why another look at the problem is needed. Second T…
October 24, 2024
The Prosperity of the Wicked
Does Job convincingly argue against a fixed system of just retribution by proclaiming the prosperity of the wicked, an argument that runs contrary to …