Jewish studies

Alan Mintz, Hebrew literature scholar and one-time student activist, is dead at 69

The Jewish Theological Seminary scholar's specialties focused on Hebrew literature in America, Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon and responses to the Holocaust.

Jake Tapper’s professor brother Aaron writes an introduction to the range of ‘Judaisms’

According to a new textbook, there has never been one Jewish people.

Ideas

How Jacob Neusner brought Jewish studies into the mainstream

A colleague recalls how the prolific scholar, who died this month at 84, gave them life in the university and made rabbinic Judaism accessible to historians, humanists and social scientists.

Israel