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Jewish Studies
Interviews with scholars of Judaism about their new books.
May 11, 2024
Before Maimonides
All can agree that the achievement of Moses Maimonides (d. 1204) set the standard for subsequent works of "Jewish philosophy". But just what were the …
May 8, 2024
The Making of an Alliance
Laying the foundation for an understanding of US-Israeli relations, this lively and accessible book provides critical background on the origins and de…
May 8, 2024
Reading the Way, Paul, and "the Jews" in Acts Within Judaism
The book of Acts is often misunderstood as reflecting anti-Judaism or promoting supersessionism. Jason Moraff, however, argues that Acts binds the Way…
May 6, 2024
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume IV (Indiana UP, 2022) examines an under-researched se…
May 5, 2024
Centuries Will Not Suffice
Prit Buttar's book Centuries Will Not Suffice: A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust (Amberley, 2023) explores how different people responded to the L…
May 5, 2024
Promise and Peril of Credit
In 1647, the French author Étienne Cleirac asserted in his book Les us, et coustumes de la mer that the credit instruments known as bills of exchange …
April 22, 2024
England's Jews
In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied importa…
April 22, 2024
Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also one of the most radical and controversial. The story of…
April 22, 2024
The Sobibor Death Camp
The Sobibor Death Camp was the second extermination camp built by the Nazis as part of the secretive Operation Reinhardt--with intent to carry out the…
April 21, 2024
After So Much Pain and Anguish
After So Much Pain and Anguish: First Letters After Liberation (Yad Vashem, 2016) comprises letters written by survivors and liberating soliders in th…
April 19, 2024
The Promise of Liberty
In The Promise of Liberty: A Passover Haggada (Maggid, 2024) you will find, alongside the traditional Haggada text, how American abolitionists and ar…
April 18, 2024
Responsa in a Historical Context
Debby Koren's book Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities Through 16th- And 17th-Century Res…
April 16, 2024
Traces of a Jewish Artist
Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888-1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But afte…
April 15, 2024
The Last Ships from Hamburg
Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the Unite…
April 13, 2024
Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East
In Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East (Cambridge UP, 2023), Jae Han investigates how various Late Antique Near Eastern communities—Je…
April 12, 2024
Irish Questions and Jewish Questions
The Irish and the Jews are two of the classic outliers of modern Europe. Both struggled with their lack of formal political sovereignty in the ninetee…
April 8, 2024
Poisoned Wells
Between 1348 and 1350, Jews throughout Europe were accused of having caused the spread of the Black Death by poisoning the wells from which the entire…
April 7, 2024
Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews
Gustavo Guzmán's Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews: From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen (Brill, 2022) is the first book in …
April 6, 2024
The Jews of Summer
In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic …
April 6, 2024
Collections, Codes, and Torah
Scholars of biblical law widely hold that ancient Israel did not draft law-texts for legislative purposes. Little attention has yet been given to expl…