Jewish Studies

Explores Jewish criminals—alleged and actual—in Medieval Europe and how they’ve been shaped by society.

Explores religious change in Orthodox Judaism, specifically the indigenous American religious culture.

Mordecai Kaplan’s personal reactions to the events of the 1940s.

Details the creation of a Hebrew cultural aesthetic that was intentionally and distinctly physical.

Groundbreaking analyses of the vast archive of newly digitized and released outtakes from Lanzmann’s masterwork.

A global tour of Jewish humor about the Holocaust.

English translations of over fifty stories from the Israel Folktale Archives.

Traces the history of connections between Holocaust memory and the discourse of anti-racism.

The history of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee from its origins in 1914 through its first century.