The U of M confronts the sins of its past after a library exhibit highlights a troubling era of discrimination against African-American and Jewish students.
One cannot find a more suitable laboratory to study conflicts or peaceful sharing over holy places than Jerusalem, a sacred city for the three Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and...
Though classical rabbinic texts are fundamental to understanding the history and evolution of Judaism, they are also quite complex and daunting for the novice to read. Rabbinic literature...
Although Casablanca (1942) has been called “everyone’s favorite émigré film,” in the memorable formulation by Thomas Elsaesser, rarely is it discussed in this vein. Drawing on research...
King Mohammed V is commemorated in Morocco for having protected his Jewish subjects during World War II. What was the role of the Muslim ruler when the French colonial government of Morocco...
People think of kibbutzim, socialist agricultural collectives, as the first Zionist agricultural settlements. But kibbutzim, first founded before World War I, were preceded in the late 19th...
A literature for Yiddish speaking children flourished during the early decades of the twentieth century, a time of rapid modernization when large numbers of Eastern European Jews became...
