Response ·
How Jewish Studies Became a Tool of Adversarial Culture
By Ruth R. WisseRather than highlighting Jewish contribution, the field now aims to show Jews as victims, socialists, aberrant, or “queer.”
Jewish studies
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Response ·
Watch Andrew Koss and David N. Myers Discuss Whether Jewish Studies Has Turned against the Jews
By Andrew Koss, Jonathan SilverA Mosaic editor and a Jewish studies professor discuss if and how Jewish studies has lost its way, and whether it can recover.
Monthly Essay ·
Jewish Studies against the Jews
By Andrew KossAs America's universities catch fire and its Jewish students grow more fearful, the field most likely to have something to say has remained silent—or worse. How did it go wrong?
Observation ·
The Intellectual Fireworks of Talmud Study Move Outside the Yeshiva
By Moshe KrakowskiSome of the most interesting and creative work in all of Jewish studies today is happening neither in universities nor as part of a yeshiva curriculum.
Observation ·
The Hounding of Noam Pianko
By Ruth R. WisseThe latest drama in the field of Jewish studies has turned into a campaign to reframe the perpetuation of Jewishness as a dystopian project of enforced reproduction.
