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Berkeley prof sticks a fork in German Jewish culture with a history of meat

John Efron digests centuries of German Jewish history, including medieval meat markets and a Nazi era obsession with kosher ...

Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David: Preserving the history of German Jewry - interview

With multiple branches around the world, it is one of the preeminent centers for the research and preservation of the history ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

He wrote the book on American Jewish history. Stepping back from teaching, Jonathan Sarna says he has plenty of chapters still to go.

Retiring from the classroom after 50 years in academia, every journalist’s favorite Jewish historian is enjoying a victory lap. Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to ...
Jewish Journal

The Return to Jewish History

As a moment in time, the Oct. 7 massacre was, paradoxically, an event both anomalous and familiar, at once exceptional and routine. It was horrifying and shocking to the extreme, yet, given the ...
The Conversation

‘Fiddler on the Roof’ may be many Americans’ image of Judaism – but American Jews’ heritage is stunningly diverse

Samira Mehta receives funding from the Henry Luce Foundation for a project called Jews of Color: Histories and Futures. “Tradition!” rings out the opening line of “Fiddler on the Roof,” the Broadway ...
WOWT.com

New heritage center displays Omaha’s Jewish history

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The stories and artifacts of Omaha’s Jewish community now have a place to call home. After three years of work, the Milton Mendel and Marsha Kleinberg Jewish Omaha Heritage Center ...
The Nation

What the Jewish History of Exile Means Now

A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn’t truly account for the experience of Palestinians. German Jewish refugees looking ...