Jewish Studies

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.

Jewish life through the legends created and narrated in Safed in the sixteenth century.

Exploration of ethnic identity and community building through stories of contemporary Latino Jews.

An exploration of the temporal function that "the Jew" plays in literature.

The story of a doctor’s family torn apart by Soviet politics, persecution, and the Jewish struggle for freedom during the Cold War.

Evocative feminist ethnography focused on the rarely documented lives of Mizrahi women in a marginalized Israeli community.

Addresses the complex relationships between American Jews and Germany over the fifty years following the end of World War II.

A sophisticated analysis of how the Zionist understanding of the Holocaust shaped the development of American Jewish policies and political activism.