Below, author Rafael Rachel Neis provides a comic on When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species, a provocative and trailblazing work in the study of …
Read More >by David M. Freidenreich, author of Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy Antisemitism is becoming increasingly overt—and so too is its close relative, anti-Judaism. To respond and resist effectively, …
Read More >By Sara Ronis, author of Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia In the months leading up to this year’s midterm elections, a number of Republicans …
Read More >By Brian Catlos, co-author of The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650 If Medieval Studies, as some say, has a “whiteness problem,” Mediterranean Studies does not. Recentering the narrative of …
Read More >This post is part of our Editor Spotlight Series. For this year’s virtual American Historical Association conference, we connected with UC Press Premodern World History Senior Editor Eric Schmidt to talk about …
Read More >by Jordan D. Rosenblum, author of Rabbinic Drinking: What Beverages Teach Us About Rabbinic Literature A good textbook can be dry—so long as it’s dry like a nice red wine and not …
Read More >This guest post is part of our AARSBL blog series published in conjunction with the meetings of the American Academy of Religion & the Society of Biblical Literature in Boston Nov. 18-21. #AARSBL17 By …
Read More >By Samuel C. Heilman, author of Who Will Lead Us? The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America The recently released documentary, One of Us, about Hasidic drop-outs and the difficulty of their …
Read More >By John J. Collins, author of The Invention of Judaism: Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul Jewish identity is a controversial issue. Traditionally, anyone born of a Jewish mother is …
Read More >Aaron J. Hahn Tapper’s book, Judaisms: A Twenty-First-Century Introduction to Jews and Jewish Identities, was selected by the Jewish Book Council as a finalist for the Dorothy Kripke Award for Education and …
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