Scholarly and Pedagogical Essays
Sarah Bunin Benor
- “Towards a New Understanding of Jewish Language in the Twenty-First Century.” Religion Compass, 2.6 (2008): 1062-1080.
Russell A. Berman
- “Thinking and Talking.” MLA Convention, January 2016.
- “Zionism, the Novel, and Contemporary Debate.”
Gabriel Noah Brahm
- “‘There is a clash of civilisations’: An interview with Benny Morris.” Fathom, (2015)
Donna Robinson Divine
- “The Arab-Israeli Conflict: How To Teach All Sides Without Taking Sides.”
- “Citizenship and Democracy in Israel.”
- “Israel at Sixty.”
- “Zionism and the Politics of Authenticity.”
- “Teaching Students How, not What, to Think about the Middle East Conflict.”
Miriam Fendius Elman
- “Does Democracy Tame the Radicals? Lessons from Israel’s Jewish Religious Political Parties.” Asian Security, 4.1 (2008): 79-99.
- “Does Democracy Tame the Radicals?” Democracy and Conflict Resolution, (2013): 101-132.
- “Jerusalem Studies: The State of the Field.” Israel Studies, 21.3 (2016): 221-241.
- “Jerusalem and the Demise of the Oslo Peace Process.” Jerusalem: Conflcit & Cooperation in a Contested City, 48-81.
- “Obstructing the Spoilers of Peace.” Institute for National Security Studies, 29-48.
- “Time to Revive the 2004 Bush-Congress Letter to Israel.” Providence: a Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy, 2-7.
- “Spoilers of Peace and the Dilemmas of Conflict Resolution.” The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies, (2012): 7-17.
Jonathan Elukin
- “Judaism: From Heresy to Pharisee in Early Medieval Christian Literature.” Traditio, 57 (2002): 46-66.
David Freidenreich
- Israel Popular Music Wesbite containing links and bibliographies of the music and text used in this course.
Cary Nelson
- “Teaching and Editing at World’s End: Collective Trauma and Individual Witness in American Holocaust Poetry.”Amerikastudien: A Quarterly, 57.2 (2012): 221-244.
Rachel S. Harris
Steven Leonard Jacobs
- “Archaeology as Antisemitism.” Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, 2.323 (2010): 323-341.
- “The Elephant in the Room.” Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, 4.221 (2012): 221-236.
Alan Johnson
- “Antisemitism in the guise of Anti-Nazism: Holocaust Inversion in the UK during Operation Protective Edge.” (2010): 508.
Ellen W. Kaplan
Menachem Kellner
- “Monotheism, Universalism, Messianism.” And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight: Twisted Messianic Visions, and a Maimonidean Corrective, Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism, (2015).
- “And Yet, the Texts Remain: the Problem of the Command to Destroy the Canaanites.” The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought. Edited by Katell Berthelot, Joseph E. David, and Marc Hirshman. Oxford University (2011): 153-179.
- “Judaism and Artistic Creativity: Despite Maimonides and Thanks to Him.” 1-6.
Brian King
- “A People Apart?“, Jewish Quarterly, 54-59.
- “Rule of the Word versus Rule of the Image: Two Defining Moments.”, AJS Perspectives, The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies (2011): 26-27.
- “Moses: the Significant Other.” 17-24.
Bob Lamm
- “The Left Question and the Jews.” Jewish Currents. (1977): 1-5.
Vivian B. Mann
- “The Jew in Medieval Iberia, 1100-1500.” The Unknown Jewish Artists of Medieval Iberia, 138-174.
- “Jews and Altarpieces in Medieval Spain.” 76-127.
- “Imagining the Temple in Late Medieval Spanish Altarpieces.” The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah, (2011): 183-198.
- “Observations on the Biblical Miniatures in Spanish Haggadot.” Jews and Altarpieces in Medieval Spain, 1-17.
- “Jewish Art/Jewish Law: A Case of Inverse Proportions.” 16-31.
- “Jewish Art and Visual Culture: A Century of Academic Achievement.” Jewish Art in Context: The Role and Meaning of Artifacts and Viisual Images, 45 (2014): 9-16.
- “Toward an Iconography of Medieval Diaspora Synagogues.” 85-97.
- “A Court Jew’s Silver Cup.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (2008): 131-140.
Tony Michels
- “The Jewish-Socialist Nexus.” Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History. New York University Press: (2012): 1-17.
Deborah Dash Moore
- “Jewish GIs and the Creation of the Judeo-Christian Tradition.” American Theological Library Associaton Serials (ATLAS).
- “Reconsidering the Rosenbergs: Symbol and Substance in Second Generation American Jewish Consciousness.” Journal of American Ethnic History, 8,1 (1988).
- “Reimagining Transnationalism.” Prepared for “Israel on my Mind”: Israel’s Role in World Jewish Identity, American Jewish Committee (November 2005): 34-38.
David Patterson
- “Islamic Jihadism and the Legacy of Nazi Antisemitism.” Journal of Antisemitism.
Derek J. Penslar
- “Anti-Semites on Zionism: From Indifference to Obsession.” The Journal of Israeli History, 25.1 (2006): 13-31.
Jonathan Ray and Jonathan Elukin
- “Was there a ‘Golden Age’ of Christian-Jewish Relations?” Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, 6 (2011): 1-4.
Sara Reguer
- “Controversial Waters: Exploitation of the Jordan River, 1950-80.” Middle Eastern Studies, 29.1 (1993): 53-90.
Judith Mendelsohn Rood
- “Between Promise and Fulfillment Shoah/Nakbah: Offerings of Memory and History.” History (1933-1948): What We Choose to Remember. Edited by Margaret Monahan Hogan and James M. Lies. University of Portland (2011): 411-448.
- “Faith in the Face of Empire: The Bible Through Palestinian Eyes — A Review Essay.” International Bulletin of Missionary Research (2015): 81-83.
- “I’m Jewish.” Biola University, August 17, 2015.
- “My Meeting with the Broken at Cape Town (2010).”
- “Is the Dome of the Rock a Mosque?” Sacred History Magazine (2006): 1-18.
- “The Virtues of Collegiality in Times of War.” 1-21.
Judith Mendelsohn Rood and Paul W. Rood
- “Is Christian Zionism Based on Bad Theology?” A Journal for the Theology of Culture, 7.1 (2011): 41-52.
Alvin H. Rosenfeld
- “How I Became a Holocaust Scholar.” Times of Israel, (2015).
- “Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism.” American Jewish Committee, (2006).
Orit Rozin
Paul Scham
- “Israeli and Palestinian Traditional Narratives of Their History.” Edited by Paul Scham, Walid Salem and Benjamin Pogrund. This version © 2009 by Paul Scham
- “The Historical Narratives of Israelis and Palestinians and the Peacemaking Process.” Edited by Paul Scham, Walid Salem and Benjamin Pogrund. This version © 2005 by Paul Scham
- “Normalization and Anti-Normalization in Jordan: The Public Debate.” Middle East Review of International Affairs, 5.3 (2001): 54-70.
- “Hamas: Ideological Rigidity and Political Flexibility.” United States Institute of Peace, (2009): 1-24.
Mark Whitters
Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler
- “The ‘Assigned Residence’ Case: H.C. 7015, 7019/02 Kipah Ajuri et al. v. IDF Commander in the West Bank et al.” Israel Law Review, 36: 179-195.
- “Chaim Gans, A Just Zionism: On the Morality of the Jewish State” (Hebrew). Oxford: OUP (2008): 177-183.
- “No Asylum for ‘Infiltrators’: The Legal Predicament of Eritrean and Sudanese Nationals in Israel.” Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, 29.2 (2015): 172-191.
- Short Contributions — Various Publishers
From THE ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES:
Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman, “The Use of the Self in the Classroom,” Ofra Backenroth, “Teaching Jewish Studies Through Student Travel,” Samantha Baskind, “Teaching Modern Jewish Art,” Debra Caplan, “Teaching with Social Media,” Hasia Diner, “Insiders and Outsiders in Jewish Studies,” Nancy Sinkoff, “Teaching the History of Jewish Politics and Jewish Power,” and other essays.