Jewish Journal37m
Against All Odds: ‘Eight People We Met on the Way Home’ Offers Concise Look at Founders of Modern Zionism
As Rabbi Berel Wein writes in his new book, "Eight People We Met on the Way Home," “against all odds and against all opinions ...
Cambridge University Press6mon
The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature
This History offers an unparalleled examination of all aspects of Jewish American literature. Jewish writing has played a central role in the formation of the national literature of the United States, ...
Cambridge University Press1y
How Jewish is Jewish History?
This book is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core Moshe Rosman cogently and critically presents the considerations that must be brought to bear on the writing of Jewish history in the ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency4dOpinion
I research disappearing small-town Jewish communities. I’m finding the best of America.
Jews played crucial roles in shaping the civic, cultural and economic landscapes beyond the big cities, writes a historian ...
A Palestinian Refugee Becomes a Jewish Israeli in This Novel
Elias Khoury’s “Children of the Ghetto” series continues with a young man switching identities in a society seeking to erase ...
Brandeis University1y
The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines
The author of the book has therefore achieved his goal -- to break the ... s The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf is mandatory reading for students of Soviet and Jewish history. There is also much in it for ...
The Nation on MSN1mon
What the Jewish History of Exile Means Now
A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism ... What does an ideology’s history matter when we can see its ...
Opinion: The modern intellectual diktat for Jewish authors
It is a dangerous precedent that cleverly endows hate with logic and respectability masking a markedly more malign and ...
Smith College12mon
Jewish Studies
The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...