Why are these Passover ads different from all other ads?
Matsa ads from American Ladino and Yiddish newspapers compel us to reconsider Jewish food history in the United States.
PODCAST | Jewish Questions, Episode 4: Jewish Anti-Semitism? — Devin Naar
Can Jews be anti-Semitic against other Jews? In this episode, guest Devin E. Naar looks at the history of Jewish prejudice against other Jews in the United States, from the very first American Jewish settlers in the 1600s to twentieth-century efforts to exclude Jews from the Muslim world from Jewish institutions — as American Jews struggled to hold on to their “precarious whiteness.”
PODCAST | Jewish Questions, Episode 1: Anti-Semitism in the United States — Susan Glenn
The United States was the country where Jews came to finally be free from anti-Semitism… or was it? In this episode, guest Susan A. Glenn discusses the history of anti-Semitism in the U.S., touching on the Second Ku Klux Klan, the “mother of all conspiracy theories,” and the resurgence of anti-Semitism in the U.S. in the present day.
11/10 TALK | “A Reply to Screamers”: How Americans Responded to the Holocaust
Susan A. Glenn lectures on how Americans responded to the Holocaust in this entry into the ten-lecture series.
Professor Joe Butwin reflects on how his academic career always led him back to his family roots
On the eve of his retirement, Joe Butwin explains how his career as a professor of English has always connected back to his Jewish roots.
American Jews before 1880: Mobile, entrepreneurial, unconventional
Uniquely mobile, religiously unconventional Jews of 19th-century America laid the groundwork for American Judaism today, writes Dr. Shari Rabin.
An English professor reflects on Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
Works of literature speak to the forces behind anti-Semitic violence.