American views and especially American Jewish views of Israel are in a period of transformation. This has happened before. The Zionist movement founded by Theodore Herzl was…
This talk explores questions about Jewish identity through ethnographic research with Lemba people, a group of Black South Africans who in the 1980s and 1990s participated in…
Jews in America have routinely, even reflexively, turned to humor in navigating their identity. This talk explores how Jewish comedians have done so on stage, screen, and in…
Jews of color are much in the Jewish news. We hear about how there are a lot of Jews of color—more than we knew! We hear about how that is wrong—there are not so many Jews of…
In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was falsely accused of selling military secrets to Germany. After a hasty court martial and humiliating…
