Rachel Gordan had a Shvidler post-doctoral
Rachel Gordan had a Shvidler post-doctoral fellowship from Fordham University’s Department of Jewish Studies and the New York Public Library in summer 2019. She presented at Columbia University’s conference “Antisemitism in the Americas” in May 2019, and at the “Jews in the Americas” symposium at the University of British Columbia in July 2019. Gordan participated in the […]
Herman Wouk, the legendary author who brought Judaism into the mainstream
An essay from Rachel Gordan, Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Fellow in American Jewish Culture and Society.
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New publication by Tamir Sorek
Tamir Sorek published Is There a Middle Eastern Sport? in the International Journal of Middle East Studies 51 (3) in 2019.
New publication by Ken Wald
Ken Wald (professor emeritier) published The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Ken Wald’s new book
Ken Wald’s newest book The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism (Cambridge University Press) has won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in the category of American Jewish Studies.
New publication by Mitchell Hart and Nina Caputo
Mitchell Hart and Nina Caputo published the edited volume On the Word of a Jew: Religion, Reliability, and the Dynamics of Trust with Indiana University Press in 2019. The essays examine how and when Jews were recognized as reliable and trustworthy in the areas of jurisprudence, medicine, politics, academia, culture, business, and finance. The authors reveal how caricatures of […]
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They Warned Her Not to Write About Anti-Semitism
An essay from Rachel Gordan, Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Fellow in American Jewish Culture and Society.
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When ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ Made Jewish Oscars History
An essay from Rachel Gordan, Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Fellow in American Jewish Culture and Society.
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