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BY JONATHAN DECTER | In his current work, Carlo Ginzburg raises questions about “the emergence, between the fifteenth and seventeenth

BY ADELE REINHARTZ | As part of the Key Words in Jewish Studies series by Rutgers University Press, Daniel Boyarin’s book

A forum on Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion by Daniel Boyarin

BY ANNETTE YOSHIKO REED & SHAUL MAGID | At first sight, “Judaism” might seem like a word that hardly needs explaining.

BY SUSANNAH HESCHEL | Daniel Boyarin has been a courageous pioneering scholar to whom we owe major gratitude

BY DANIEL BOYARIN | I thank all of the participants in this forum who have given my book such significant attention

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

BY SHAUL MAGID | “One has to square away one’s philology before doing one’s philosophy”

BY ELLIOT R. WOLFSON | Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion attests once again to Daniel Boyarin’s restlessly inquisitive mind

JOEL S. KAMINSKY | A number of years ago I wrote an essay examining the humorous elements in the narratives

AVERY ROBINSON | Well over a century before “pumpkin spice latte” was uttered in Europe, coffeehouses were in the vanguard of Western...

JAMES LOEFFLER | After last October’s synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh, American society responded in predictable fashion: Politicians and..