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JONATHAN M. HESS | Reviewing David Nirenberg’s magisterial volume is by necessity an exercise in humility...

JONATHAN P. DECTER | Prior to Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, David Nirenberg was best known for his impressive study Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages...

DEBRA KAPLAN | In his 1523 treatise, That Jesus Christ was Born a Jew, Martin Luther provocatively wrote that had he been a Jew, he too would have refrained from converting to Catholicism...

MOSHE ROSMAN | Deuteronomy 25:19 is one of the more memorable — and malleable — commands the Torah proclaims...

PAULA FREDRIKSEN | There were recurring moments, during those nightmarish first hours of 9/11, when a strangely familiar sense of horror would pulse through me...

MARTIN MENKE | New histories of the Shoah provoke a range of responses...

DAVID NIRENBERG | Judaism has inspired a hatred that has shadowed the Jews from the ancient world to the present day...

PHILLIP SHERMAN | Chimpanzees are prone to extreme violence when confronted with a territorial dispute...

STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD | In the early 1960s Allan Sherman turned a minor comic art — the song parody — into a showbiz phenomenon...

ALISSA WILKINSON | Andre Dubus III has made a career of exploring the lives of people on the margins...

KATIE HEFFELFINGER | Metaphors are powerful shapers of cultural concepts...

NICK RIPATRAZONE | The editors of Unruly Catholic Women Writers identify Flannery O’Connor as their unruly patron saint...