The Northwestern professor discusses popular vernacular textbooks that flouted rules of ethical, moral, and social discipline that governed premodern classrooms.
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 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 times of social upheaval, how do observant Jewish communities decide who’s in and who’s out? What happens when rules of belonging are challenged by marginalized groups of…
