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
Month: December 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