Doing justice to Mandela’s legacy
December 19, 2013
—Robert N. Kraft A remarkable set of events occurred in South Africa in the final half decade of the 20th century – events that are now mostly forgotten. In the… READ MORE
Year: 2013
Cars, planes, and gospel grenades: Women evangelists settle down
December 16, 2013
—Priscilla Pope-Levison I’ve been writing on women evangelists for some twenty years now, and I thought I’d seen it all: the faith healer Maria Woodworth-Etter, who fell into forty-five minute… READ MORE
City of Promises: A 2013 Top 25 Outstanding Academic Title
December 13, 2013
NYU Press is proud to announce that City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, edited by Deborah Dash Moore, was selected as one of the year’s top 25… READ MORE
Mandela was not a Hallmark card
December 9, 2013
—Alan Wieder Long-time South African educator and President of the New Unity Movement, R. O. Dudley had a quote that he used when speaking of various iconic South African struggle leaders: He… READ MORE
Podcast: Josh Lambert on Jews and obscenity in America
December 3, 2013
In Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture, Josh Lambert navigates us through American Jews’ participation in the production, distribution, and defense of sexually explicit literature, plays and comedy. From Theodore Dreiser and… READ MORE
What’s new about Hanukkah?
November 27, 2013
—Dianne Ashton [This post originally appeared on the Jewish Book Council blog on November 26, 2013.] This year, Jewish Americans will participate in an extraordinary Hanukkah celebration—they will light the first menorah… READ MORE
Why Hanukkah and Thanksgiving will never again coincide
November 25, 2013
—Joel Hoffman [This piece originally appeared in the Huffington Post on November 24, 2013.] This month, Hanukkah and Thanksgiving will overlap for a joint celebration that will never happen again…. READ MORE
Who wants to work for a woman?
November 22, 2013
—Joan C. Williams The year my husband was born (1953), only 5% of Americans preferred a female boss. That number has climbed to 23%, according to a new Gallup survey. The… READ MORE