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BY YEHUDAH MIRSKY | Alexander Kaye’s book stands at the confluence of three different scholarly traditions.

BY DAVID S. KATZ | Professor Kaye begins his book with a quotation from Ya’akov Ne’eman (1939-2017), when just appointed again

BY SHAYNA WEISS | In Alexander Kaye’s masterful The Invention of Jewish Theocracy, we learn that Rabbi Isaac Herzog was especially concerned

BY ALEXANDER KAYE | In many quarters today, there appears to be a symbiotic relationship between demagogues peddling ethnic or racial

HESCHEL AND MAGID | The history of Hasidism has been a subject of scholarly interest almost from the time of the emergence of Hasidism...

BY JONATHAN DECTER | In his current work, Carlo Ginzburg raises questions about “the emergence, between the fifteenth and seventeenth

BY ADELE REINHARTZ | As part of the Key Words in Jewish Studies series by Rutgers University Press, Daniel Boyarin’s book

A forum on Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion by Daniel Boyarin

BY ANNETTE YOSHIKO REED & SHAUL MAGID | At first sight, “Judaism” might seem like a word that hardly needs explaining.

BY SUSANNAH HESCHEL | Daniel Boyarin has been a courageous pioneering scholar to whom we owe major gratitude

BY DANIEL BOYARIN | I thank all of the participants in this forum who have given my book such significant attention

BY MARTIN KAVKA | The argument of Boyarin’s book is right there in the title – Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion.