Blake Smith is a doctoral student in History at Northwestern University and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, researching European interactions with India in the early modern era.

Indonesians Hate the Chinese, Because They Are Jewish

How Dutch colonial officials used anti-Semitism to fuel anti-Chinese hate

By Blake Smith · April 17, 2018

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Sarmad the Magnificently Naked 17th-Century Jewish Mystic

Jewish engagement with non-Western faiths is much older than any recent ‘JuBu’ fad

By Blake Smith · December 16, 2016