Even as the Nazi state closed in, many bourgeois Jews continued to lead bourgeois lives, leaving records of vacations and family gatherings. Ashkenazi and Miron read these images and words, so apparently anodyne, and yet impossibly so.
JQR editor David Myers chats with contributor Wojciech Tworek about new paradigms in the study of Hasidism on the horizon of Modernity, Shimon Engel, and the loss of a beloved teacher.
Reform is always a destruction of something that exists to make way for the new. Eve Krakowski looks at a moment of halakhic reform and traces its collateral damage on women's lives.
Giraffes, maps, lost tribes, and the Medici! Fabrizio Lelli's new online mini-course introduces a fascinating Hebrew document and, in so doing, situates Jews and Jewish learning within the intellectual ferment of the Italian Renaissance.
Announcing a series that will explore the complex entanglements of race and religion in modern Jewish identity and in the Jews' place in America's racialized culture.
