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Ethics of the Algorithm by Todd Presner

Ethics of the Algorithm by Todd Presner

Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory How computational methods can expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimony The Holocaust is one of the most documented—and now digitized—events in human history. Institutions and...

A Boy from Baghdad by Miri­am Halahmy

A Boy from Baghdad by Miri­am Halahmy

“Jews are no longer safe in Iraq. When are you going to get it through your thick head?” It’s 1951, and twelve-year-old Salman Shasha is happy with his life in Baghdad. But trouble is...

Reading Herzl in Beirut by Jonathan Marc Gribetz

Reading Herzl in Beirut by Jonathan Marc Gribetz

The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO’s relationship to Zionism and Israel In September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese...

The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America by Joseph Cohen

The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America by Joseph Cohen

A Historical Review and Personal Reminiscences Introduction: Kenyon Zimmer Translator: Esther Dolgoff Essential reading in Jewish labor history, culture, and radicalism. Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe once comprised the largest segment of the anarchist...

Proverbs of Limbo by Robert Pin­sky

Proverbs of Limbo by Robert Pin­sky

Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of Limbo, his first new book of poetry in...

How the West Became Antisemitic by Ivan G. Marcus

How the West Became Antisemitic by Ivan G. Marcus

Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500 An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in...