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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...

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

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

EDMON L. GALLAGHER | We don’t know where the Bible came from...

JAMES LOEFFLER | Only one of the thousands of UN resolutions issued by the General Assembly has ever been formally revoked: the infamous GA Resolution 3379, passed on November 10, 1975...

PAUL L. HECK | Ibn Hazm of Cordoba, pious scholar and littérateur of eleventh-century Andalusia, may not be well known, but his ideas certainly generate controversy...

EDDY PORTNOY | Efn a zeml un aroys shpringt a yid is a Yiddish expression that conveys that no matter where you go, you’ll find a Jew...

BARBARA MUJICA | An extraordinary sum of Passion-related texts and images produced in late medieval Europe put Christ’s humanity and suffering at the center of devotional life...