The ‘Lust Machine’: A tale of piety versus profit—and Zionism A new think-piece of mine about religion, capitalism, and the origins of Zionism all hidden inside a story of music, sex panic, and the gramophone.
Last year I had the honor to deliver the annual David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs at the University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. In my talk, “Prisoners of Zion: American Jews, Human Rights, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” I extended the story I told in Rooted Cosmopolitans, explaining what happened between […]
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.