Scholars in the humanities have become increasingly interested in questions of how space is produced and perceived—and they have found that this consideration of human geography …
From stories of biblical patriarchs and matriarchs and their children, through the Gospel’s Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, and to modern Jewish families in fiction, film, …
Jewish Studies, the first volume in a groundbreaking new series, Key Words in Jewish Studies, introduces the basic approach of the series by organizing discussion around key …
Winner of the 2017 Saul Viener Book Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society? Although fewer American Jews today describe themselves as religious, they overwhelmingly …
Jew. The word possesses an uncanny power to provoke and unsettle. For millennia, Jew has signified the consummate Other, a persistent fly in the ointment of Western civilization’s …
