Jewish History

Hillel: Jews on Campus

A changing organization for a changing student body.

New information about the economic and religious lives of medieval Jewish women.

An Italian Jew records his impressions of Cairo and its Jews in the late fifteenth century.

In like fifty years, when people are less sensitive about 9/11, I would like to be in a punk band ...

With lyrics written in 1886, Hatikva means "the hope."

Historical events and the development of mysticism leave their mark on this festival.

Yori Yanover is an intense personality. Hey, the guy has a Gawker category named after him, Yori Is the Next ...

The Cabalist’s Daughter is a bipolar sort of book. On one hand, it’s a crazy, unhinged vision of the Chabad-Lubavitch ...

There are a lot of news stories about anti-Semitism. I just searched the term on Google News, and five pages ...

This weeks marks the anniversary of an event I don’t really like to talk about. At some point in college ...

Sometime during all of the Agriprocessors brouhaha I heard that there had been a kosher meat boycott in 1902. I ...

This installment of From the Academy, comes from University of Southern California Associate Professor of History Paul Lerner. The piece ...