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VLADIMIR LEVIN | Building a Public Judaism offers a fascinating journey to Jewish communities in four European capital cities in the second half of the nineteenth century...

JEFFREY VEIDLINGER | Odessa is one of those cities that somehow never fails to stimulate the imagination...

KALMAN WEISER | It is one of the ironies of history that the man who coined the term “Zionism” is scarcely and, for the most part, uncharitably remembered in the historiography of the Zionist movement...

JOHN MA | The Seleucid king Antiochus IV persecuted the Jews, prohibited Judaism, and profaned the Temple...

M. EUGENE BORING | Even readers conversant with the Bible are sometimes a bit disconcerted to be reminded that the New Testament is primarily a collection of letters...

NINA CAPUTO | The modern memoir typically follows a narrative arc similar to the one Augustine applied in his Confessions, tracing the protagonist’s struggles to overcome internal weakness or external challenges that impede their effort to live a good and moral life...

HARRIET MURAV | One hundred years ago Shloyme Zanvil Rapoport, better known by his pen-name An-sky, began his ethnographic expeditions into the Russian Pale of Settlement, the western and southern area of Russia in which most of the world’s Jews lived...

JON D. LEVENSON | Abrahamic religions. We’ve all heard the phrase and many of us use it...

PHILLIP SHERMAN | What is the relationship between the God of Israel and the politics of ancient Israel?...

PIETER W. VAN DER HORST | Spanish scholar Florentino García Martínez spent most of his academic career as professor of Early Judaism at the universities of Groningen (The Netherlands) and Leuven (Belgium) and as director of the well-known Qumran Institute in Groningen...

NATHAN ABRAMS | The editors, Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson – three well-known scholars in the field of Jewish Studies – have assembled an somewhat unusual collection of scholars, which includes some high profile ones in terms of Jewish cinema...