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Rachel Gordan

Rachel Gordan is the Ray D. Wolfe Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto.

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    They Warned Her Not to Write About Anti-Semitism

    Jill Kargman’s account of anti-Semitic bullying at her son’s school echoes the tale told in one of the first American novels to confront the prejudice against Jews in ‘respectable” society.’

    byRachel Gordan
  • Natalie Z. Davis as Glückel of Hameln.
    Natalie Z. Davis as Glückel of Hameln.
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    A Marriage That Changed the Course of History

    What Natalie Zemon Davis, pioneering scholar of early modern Europe, owes to her husband, and Martin Guerre

    byRachel Gordan
  • Edgar Bronfman’s bar mitzvah in 1942, with a letter from his father, Sam Bronfman.(Photo treatment Tablet Magazine; original photo and letter courtesy of the Samuel Bronfman Foundation.)
    Edgar Bronfman’s bar mitzvah in 1942, with a letter from his father, Sam Bronfman.(Photo treatment Tablet Magazine; original photo and letter courtesy of the Samuel Bronfman Foundation.)
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    In a Previously Unpublished Letter, Sam Bronfman Gives Advice to His 13-year-old Son

    As Edgar Bronfman is eulogized in Manhattan, looking back to a Jewish coming of age in a time of war and sorrow

    byRachel Gordan
  • Beth El congregants at the synagogue for Tisha B'Av, c. 1951, in Hennepin Co., Minn.
    Beth El congregants at the synagogue for Tisha B'Av, c. 1951, in Hennepin Co., Minn.
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    Modern Times

    Herman Wouk wrote a foundational text for American postwar Modern Orthodoxy, and for the emancipated Jewish literature in its wake

    byRachel Gordan
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