June 28, 2024 By Nimrod Lin The Mandate Origins of Israeli Democracy As part of the joint CJH-Brandeis University initiative on the history of Israeli democracy, we are happy to present a selection of blog posts from members of the inaugural cohort of fellows from the Schusterman Center’s Institute for Advanced Israel Studies. Especially in the current period of acute crisis, CJH is committed…
June 28, 2024 By Dahlia Scheindlin Time’s Up for Israel’s Permanent Constitutional Crisis As part of the joint CJH-Brandeis University initiative on the history of Israeli democracy, we are happy to present a selection of blog posts from members of the inaugural cohort of fellows from the Schusterman Center’s Institute for Advanced Israel Studies. Especially in the current period of acute crisis, CJH is committed…
June 21, 2024 By Cassandra Euphrat Weston, 2023-24 Lapidus Graduate Fellow Jews in the Mines: The Industrial Removal Office Contends with Butte, Montana In January 1904, Henry Jonas of Butte, Montana, wrote to the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) in New York, asking for their help sending a man named A. Pickholz from New York in order to work in Butte’s booming copper mines, at…
June 17, 2024 By Ishai Mishory, 2023-24 Center for Jewish History Lapidus Graduate Fellow The Political Economy of Classification: Jewish Bibliographers Write about Gershom Soncino What constitutes “Jewish knowledge”? Who decides what is a “Jewish” versus a “Non-Jewish” book or title? Should the decision be based on subject matter (a.k.a, “Rabbinic material”), or maybe on language (Yiddish and Hebrew, presumably – but not Italian)? On…
