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Michael Berenbaum

Michael Berenbaum is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and a professor of Jewish Studies at American Jewish University.

Yiddish Historians: Writing in Their Own Language for Their Own People

Mark Smith has compiled an important anthology of Jewish history using 49 works by Yiddish historians to recreate or at least open the door to a world of Jewish thought that was once almost mainstream, but which no longer exists, except in the minds of too few specialists.

Exiled from Zamosc, Survival in the Far-Off Lands

Daniela Gerson’s “The Wanderers” is all that you can ask for from a book. Meticulously researched, exquisitely told, it is an adventure story spanning more than 80 years, even a love story.

Clashing American Traditions

Antisemitism is a deep and enduring American tradition. And yet America is also exceptional. American Jews live in the clash of those two realities.

A Memoir in Ritual Moments

Wendy A. Horwitz, Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments (Bloomington, IN.: Red Lightening Books, 2025) pp. 234.

Sacred Heresy

Menachem Z. Rosensaft, Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz (Teneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda Press, 2025).

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