The People of the Bookshelf: Forging Soviet Jewish Identity Through Reading
Jarrod Tanny reviews Marat Grinberg’s “The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines.”
Jarrod Tanny reviews Marat Grinberg’s “The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines.”
The Woke-Hamas alliance in the academy and in social justice circles is real.
Whenever events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict heat up and the academy singles out Israel, Jewish studies faculty either remain silent or publicly side with the anti-Zionists, much as they did in May 2021.
Jewish Studies professors release statement on Israel that attempts to provoke anxiety and discomfort among diaspora Jews.
The elusive yet pervasive Jewishness of “Seinfeld” speaks to the story of American Jewry.
Numerous critics have focused on the fact that the “art” of the “Gaza Ghetto” tattoos trivializes the Holocaust.
This was a tough week for “Liberal Zionists” in the diaspora, a category that is admittedly becoming devoid of meaning as Israel’s successive rightwing governments increasingly shift further rightward.
Antisemitic tropes are often anchored in scholarship that claims to reveal how “Zionism” afflicts the world and is even connected to inequity and suffering in America.
The meaning of these words is fraught with ambiguity and controversy.