Jewish studies
A Jewish professor’s exilic utopia.
Yehezkel Kaufmann’s legacy.
A 19th-century convert’s story.
A Mosaic editor and a Jewish studies professor discuss if and how Jewish studies has lost its way, and whether it can recover.
As America’s universities catch fire and its Jewish students grow more fearful, the field most likely to have something to say has remained silent—or worse. How did it go wrong?
Who was it who was being murdered again?
The author of “The Demise of Jewish Studies in America—and the Rise of Jewish Studies in Israel” joins us to discuss his essay and the troubles of his chosen field.
Israel and the Orthodox become predictable targets.
The dean of Yiddish versus Hitler’s professors.
Suggesting that Israel is a “key pillar” in a “global movement” to subvert democracy.
Fear of being “Jewishly focused.”
Talmudic medicine and bad research.
Instead of serving as a bulwark against (or at least a shelter from) vulgar ignorance, it is becoming an adjunct to it.
The founding editor of the Jewish Review Books joins us to discuss his educational formation, his intellectual preoccupations, and the essays that make up his new book.