Tag Archives: Jewish Studies

(Jewish Social Studies) Epidemics & Other Disasters: Views from Jewish Studies (Coronavirus)

Posted on December 10, 2020 by zjb

Additional Information Historiographical scholarship tracking the responses, including theological, of a small people caught up in the swell of impacted global crises, here being primarily plagues and pandemics. As editors Elissa Bemporad,  Julia Phillips Cohen, and  Ari Y. Kelman suggest, … Continue reading →

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(Teaching) Anti-Semitism (I Don’t Want To)

Posted on November 19, 2020 by zjb

Pure poison, I do not want to have to teach a course on Anti-Semitism in order for Jewish Studies to be relevant in the current climate enveloping American universities. And why us? With all due and genuine respect to colleagues … Continue reading →

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(HAZMAT) Haredi Jewish Studies (Coronavirus)

Posted on October 18, 2020 by zjb

  In the opening months of the viral pandemic, there were posts at sites like the blog run by the Katz Center for Jewish History relating to setting the pandemic in historical and philosophical context. There has been lively back … Continue reading →

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Jewish Studies Letter Against Annexation & Apartheid in Israel

Posted on June 9, 2020 by zjb

The serious talk in Israel about annexation represents a historical inflection point that will negatively affect us all in our professional and personal lives. Please consider signing this open letter from Jewish Studies teachers and professors in North America, Israel, … Continue reading →

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Pandemics Plagues and the Jewish Past (JQR)

Posted on March 25, 2020 by zjb

A neat little blogpost here from the Jewish Quarterly Review with this smart cover image. Includes timely historical reflections from Susan Einbinder, Joshua Teplitsky, Galit Hasan-Rokem, and Rhona Seidelman as well as a note of commitment from the JQR editorial … Continue reading →

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Edward Said & Orientalism (Some Bibliographical References)

Posted on February 11, 2020 by zjb

Of course most if not all of my academic friends will recognize this picture and will have read at some point in their lives the text for which it is the cover-image. But from which perspectival perch do we engage … Continue reading →

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(Right Size to Survive) Academic Publishing (Jewish Studies & Gary Dunham at Indiana University Press)

Posted on December 19, 2019 by zjb

I learned this year at the Association for Jewish Studies conference from Gary Dunham, director of Indiana University Press something about academic publishing in today’s market climate. Picking up on a question that a colleague and friend asked him and … Continue reading →

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The PARTY (AJS 2019)

Posted on December 13, 2019 by zjb

(Kudos and gratitude to the inimitable Laura Levitt)

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(AJS Annual Conference) Picks (2019)

Posted on December 2, 2019 by zjb

Contrary to what what some people say, the AJS is a good place for Jewish philosophy and thought. A page is being turned. At this year’s upcoming annual conference in San Diego, there is not much by way of Buber, … Continue reading →

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(Horrid Ideas) The Tikvah Fund & The Racist Right in Israel

Posted on September 20, 2019 by zjb

Always academic undercover, there was nothing ever innocent about the Tikvah Fund. In the States, they have since shut down their field operations, at Princeton and NYU. This article here at Haaretz includes in its analysis of the influence of … Continue reading →

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