Launched in 1901, the Jewish Encyclopedia cost $27 million in today’s dollars to produce—and even more in human resources
In the face of rising antisemitism, college educators—especially in Jewish studies departments—face new expectations inside and outside the classroom
Isadore Twersky vs. Leo Strauss, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Moshe Halbertal, and the faculty of Harvard University
Colleagues and former students remember the pioneering activist and teacher
From the Soviet Yiddishists of the 1920s to the American Jewish Studies Departments of today, blaming Jews for antisemitism doesn’t end well
How the modern academic discipline of ‘Jewish Studies’ was invented in Renaissance England by the the greatest Christian Hebraist of the age
A new biography of Jacob Neusner examines his ‘complicated, colorful, and unappreciated intellectual life’
Prof. Xu Xin’s Institute of Jewish and Israel Studies at Nanjing University seeks to establish Chinese scholarship on Jews
Collection of 500,000 documents will be made available to the public
In order to understand her identity, an Irish Catholic student at the University of Virginia had to follow her passion: a major in Jewish Studies
There are two stories of Germany and Jews: the culture of assimilated German Jews and the meeting of German culture with Jewish religion
Yosef Yerushalmi, who died Tuesday, was a pioneer in the field of Jewish studies
Foundation wants secular Jews studied; some schools refuse
