As academic conference season heats up, the good news comes out that Rooted Cosmopolitans has won the 2019 Association for Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer Award for Best Book in the Category of Modern Jewish History. Some details here.
October has brought the exciting news that Rooted Cosmopolitans has won the 2019 American Historical Association Dorothy Rosenberg Prize awarded for “the most distinguished work of scholarship on the history of the Jewish diaspora published in English during the previous calendar year.” I am honored to accept this award from my fellow historians and to […]
For the past year, I’ve been researching the history of American civil rights and rethinking what’s gone right and wrong in the long fight against antisemitism. Here are my thoughts in a new essay in The Atlantic.
Rooted Cosmopolitans has been named one of the best books of the year by Ha’aretz newspaper and a favorite book of the year by the European Journal of International Law Blog. It has also been named a Finalist for the 2019 PROSE award by the Association of American Publishers’ Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division in […]
I am pleased to be joining the University of Virginia’s new Religion, Race and Democracy Lab. More details coming soon on future events. You can find out more about this exciting new public humanities initiative here.
After speaking across North America, Europe, Israel, and China, I am winding down the tour for Rooted Cosmopolitans. Please stay tuned for a few more selected book events in the fall in New Jersey, Wisconsin, and California. For those interested in some scholarly discussions of the book, you can two wonderful symposia on the book, […]