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Jun 2, 2021
Inventing A Jewish Feminist Theocracy
BY SHAYNA WEISS | In Alexander Kaye’s masterful The Invention of Jewish Theocracy, we learn that Rabbi Isaac Herzog was especially concerned


May 20, 2021
The Invention of Jewish Theocracy
BY ALEXANDER KAYE | In many quarters today, there appears to be a symbiotic relationship between demagogues peddling ethnic or racial


Apr 9, 2020
Susannah Heschel and Shaul Magid on Hasidism: A New History
HESCHEL AND MAGID | The history of Hasidism has been a subject of scholarly interest almost from the time of the emergence of Hasidism...


Jul 4, 2019
Things Jewish: A View from Judeo-Arabic
BY JONATHAN DECTER | In his current work, Carlo Ginzburg raises questions about “the emergence, between the fifteenth and seventeenth


Jul 4, 2019
Was the Word in the Beginning? On the Relationship between Language and Concepts
BY ADELE REINHARTZ | As part of the Key Words in Jewish Studies series by Rutgers University Press, Daniel Boyarin’s book


Jul 4, 2019
Daniel Boyarin’s Judaism: A Forum
A forum on Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion by Daniel Boyarin


Jul 4, 2019
Introduction: Marginalia Forum on Daniel Boyarin’s Judaism
BY ANNETTE YOSHIKO REED & SHAUL MAGID | At first sight, “Judaism” might seem like a word that hardly needs explaining.


Jul 4, 2019
Time to Provincialize Christianity: A Response to Daniel Boyarin’s Judaism
BY SUSANNAH HESCHEL | Daniel Boyarin has been a courageous pioneering scholar to whom we owe major gratitude


Jul 4, 2019
The Heartbreak of Modernity
BY MARTIN KAVKA | The argument of Boyarin’s book is right there in the title – Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion.


Jul 4, 2019
“Judaism” Here, There, but not Everywhere: Persian and Other Non-Western Perspectives
BY SIMCHA GROSS | The key insight of Daniel Boyarin’s provocative new book is that to better understand


Jul 4, 2019
Is “Judaism” Necessary?: A Response to Boyarin’s Judaism
BY SHAUL MAGID | “One has to square away one’s philology before doing one’s philosophy”
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