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JAMIL W. DRAKE | On May 16, 1969, James Baldwin appeared as a guest on the Dick Cavett Show. Live on ABC television.

OLUWATOMISIN OREDEIN | As a Nigerian-American woman my identity is liminal. I am often reminded that I am a Black woman

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

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

M. LINDSAY KAPLAN | The Jewish “crimes” of killing Jesus and rejecting their divinely imposed subordination develop in popular fictions into a menacing threat against contemporary Christians.

JENNA PHILLIPS | In the wake of the plague outbreak of the mid-fourteenth century, a Florentine physician named Tommaso del Garbo...

DAVID BIALE | Heinrich Heine was the first Jew to become a cultural icon in Germany...

ILAN BENATTAR | The street signs are often tri-lingual: Arabic, French, and Amazigh, the latter being written in the Tifinagh alphabet...

VINCENT DIGIROLAMO | Vincent DiGirolamo has devoted almost 30 years to documenting the lives of American children who hawked newspapers...