I'm in the "Guardian" writing about Judith Butler and the new McCarthyism: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My department is hiring an associate/full professor of Early Modern/Modern Jewish History. Please apply and please share within your networks. I have been told to say we're very interested in the early early modern. Note: I am not involved in the search but am happy to answer general questions.

The Met Opera kicks off its new season with a production of Michael Chabon's 2020 novel, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the Pulitzer winning miracle of a novel rife with themes of Jewishness, American identity, comic books, and queer identity. www.jta.org/2025/09/15/n...

The Met Opera kicks off its new season with a production of Michael Chabon's 2020 novel, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the Pulitzer winning miracle of a novel rife with themes of Jewishness, American identity, comic books, and queer identity. www.jta.org/2025/09/15/n...

New UC Berkeley + U of Rochester survey: "72% of Jewish Americans considered Trump’s use of antisemitism as an 'excuse' to punish universities. He said a survey in April that asked a similar question showed a lower percentage of American Jews with this view." www.latimes.com/california/s...

New poll finds that, by almost a three-to-one margin, American Jews believe Trump uses allegations of antisemitism as an "excuse" to cut university funding, rather than "truly cares about protecting Jewish students." (drive.google.com/file/d/1sjIV...)

NYC public schools will be getting a new tool this year to help teach about American Jews. Created with the help of many Jewish Studies scholars and educators, this is a robust supplement to the required social studies K-12 curriculum: www.jta.org/2025/09/15/n...

Thanks to primary sources like postcards, the Tenement Museum in the Lower East Side of NYC is able to host tours highlighting the ways the High Holidays were celebrated by Jews a century ago. www.jta.org/2025/09/10/n...

Interesting account of a NYC Jewish Day School student's transition to public school, the value she's seen in joining a diverse learning community, and the ways it has strengthened her Jewish identity: www.jta.org/2025/09/02/n...

Interesting account of a NYC Jewish Day School student's transition to public school, the value she's seen in joining a diverse learning community, and the ways it has strengthened her Jewish identity: www.jta.org/2025/09/02/n...

'Melting Point' is an amazing book. I have no idea how Cockerell managed to research and arrange all that archival material into such an engaging narrative!

How have scholars and storytellers used archives to document and narrate Jewish experience? Join us for a conversation at @stanfordtaube.bsky.social with Rachel Cockerell, author of Melting Point, a new book that engages with this question and so much more. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Read the latest edition of our Documensch Newsletter featuring an interview with Len Saxe, a Research Digest, and a take Jews and the NYC race for mayor: documensch.substack.com/p/rigorously...

Josephine Riesman's family name graces the Harvard Hillel building. She sees the organization's actions (and inaction) in response to the Trump Administration's efforts at Harvard & beyond as an abdication of the values that founded the Harvard Hillel in 1944: harvardindependent.com/avoid-the-bu...

Josephine Riesman's family name graces the Harvard Hillel building. She sees the organization's actions (and inaction) in response to the Trump Administration's efforts at Harvard & beyond as an abdication of the values that founded the Harvard Hillel in 1944: harvardindependent.com/avoid-the-bu...

Our final summer column for #AHAPerspectives published today, with graduate student Alisa Kuzmina (Univ. of Minnesota) continuing her reflections on how her status and experiences as an immigrant have influenced her research on immigration history. 🗃️

Really enjoyed this conversation with @phoebebovy.bsky.social at the Canadian Jewish News on the current state of Jews in academia, and what lessons we can learn from the European Jewish past.

The Trump Administration seeks $1 billion from UCLA for its purported antisemetic climate. The Jewish community on campus disagrees: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Interesting story in JTA about a rabbi who left the Conservative movement over the issue of interfaith marriage: www.jta.org/2025/08/11/u...

Nice to see our interview with Lisa Kay Solomon, Stanford's futurist in residence, reprinted in the J Weekly! Read the full interview here: bermanarchive.stanford.edu/looking-forw...

We're big fans of Sandra Fox's book, Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America. 📗 www.sup.org/books/jewish... Catch Fox's talk with the folks at @jewishcurrents.bsky.social on the politics of summer next Tuesday. Details here 👇

Research never rests, it seems. Here’s a round up of recent research by & about American Jewish communities. 🧵 Brandeis researchers explore how faculty at US universities think about contentious political issues and how these issues are addressed in the classroom. www.brandeis.edu/cmjs/antisem...

Check out Michael Rom's lecture on "Brazilian Belonging: Jewish Politics in Cold War Latin America" Center for Jewish History! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR-O... www.facebook.com/michael.rom....

Grateful to our partners at the @neatoday.bsky.social Jewish Affairs Caucus for this important statement rejecting attempts to exploit real concerns about antisemitism to weaken unions & the right to organize. Our safety and our values are inextricably linked. www.neajacaucus.org/post/address...

Newest issue of JQR filled with bangers 🔥🔥🔥https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55233

Nice interview with Steven Windmueller about the ways in which the Jewish World is shifting how it talks about and criticizes Israel in light of the growing crisis in Gaza. Change, he says, is happening from the bottom up: 👉 ejewishphilanthropy.com/after-mainst...

Hakuna matata? Camp Nitgedaiget — from the Yiddish for "No Worries" — offered working-class Jewish people an escape from city life to relax and vacation in a community of leftist political sympathies.

In a first, a left-leaning American Orthodox rabbinical school ordained an out gay rabbi. The @forward.com has an excellent, in-depth look at the story and provides helpful context: forward.com/news/759799/... #JewishStudies

Read our interview with Lisa Kay Solomon, author, strategic foresight designer, and Designer in Residence and Lecturer at Stanford d.school. We discuss the connections between the American Jewish community and futures thinking. 👉 bermanarchive.stanford.edu/looking-forw...

Melting Point by @rachelcockerell.bsky.social is a refreshing account of the Jewish experience traced from an idea of Zion, to a pilgrimage to Galveston Texas, to the theaters of New York City, and to Jewish family homes in London. Read our interview here: bermanarchive.stanford.edu/the-past-spe...

Melting Point by @rachelcockerell.bsky.social is a refreshing account of the Jewish experience traced from an idea of Zion, to a pilgrimage to Galveston Texas, to the theaters of New York City, and to Jewish family homes in London. Read our interview here: bermanarchive.stanford.edu/the-past-spe...

Read our interview with Lisa Kay Solomon, author, strategic foresight designer, and Designer in Residence and Lecturer at Stanford d.school. We discuss the connections between the American Jewish community and futures thinking. 👉 bermanarchive.stanford.edu/looking-forw...

Jewish college football player Jake Retzlaff—the first be sponsored by Manischewitz—makes moves: www.jta.org/2025/07/23/s...

My review essay of Beyond the Land is published at @worldlittoday.bsky.social.

I couldn't do the work I've been doing for my historic "Jews at Columbia" series without the incredible colleagues in the University Archives. They've now put together a libguide for others doing similar work: guides.library.columbia.edu/uarchives/je...

A cemetery in Jackson reveals the story of Jews in the Gold Rush-era: jweekly.com/2025/05/28/j...

With @mimirocah1.bsky.social, I wrote about the importance of calling the murders at the Capitol Jewish Musuem what they are -- and the dominant media framing is not helping. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This is a big moment for religious freedom in America.

Supreme Court deadlocks, leaving in place the ruling stopping the nations first religious public school www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

My colleagues @forward.com have comprehensive coverage of the Capital Jewish Museum shooting in D.C. forward.com/news/722236/...

“I’ve had people tell me, ‘Oh, no, that’s not important.’ I’m in their house with a box of stuff, and they’re like, ‘No, no, you don’t want that.’ I’m like, ‘Actually that’s exactly what I want.” —Berman Archive Director Ari Y Kelman 👉 jweekly.com/2025/05/19/s...

Glad to be included, and have our director quoted, in this excellent article about Bay Area Jewish archives: jweekly.com/2025/05/19/s...

This Cinco de Mayo we’re thinking about all of our holdings that connect American Jewish institutions with Mexico. This essay from the 1940 Contemporary Jewish Record explores the history of Jews in Mexico from the 16th Century to 1940. exhibits.stanford.edu/bermanarchiv...

This Cinco de Mayo we’re thinking about all of our holdings that connect American Jewish institutions with Mexico. This essay from the 1940 Contemporary Jewish Record explores the history of Jews in Mexico from the 16th Century to 1940. exhibits.stanford.edu/bermanarchiv...

Antisemitism is evergreen. Writing in 1936, Lee Levinger of B'nai B'rith noted "with amazement and horror the vast revival of anti-Semitism in our own day." The call to maintain democracy as key to the fight is all too relavant. 👉 More in the Berman Archive: exhibits.stanford.edu/bermanarchiv...

American Jews have always had a stake in immigration policy, as the Berman Archive’s holdings can attest. Case in point, this American Jewish Committee analysis of the hard fought and uneven American Immigration Act of 1990. exhibits.stanford.edu/bermanarchiv...

American Jews have always had a stake in immigration policy, as the Berman Archive’s holdings can attest. Case in point, this American Jewish Committee analysis of the hard fought and uneven American Immigration Act of 1990. exhibits.stanford.edu/bermanarchiv...

Our April newsletter is out! This month we highlight our move to Stanford Library, interview Steven Windmeuller on the longview for American Jewry, and offer an April roundup of research by and about American Jews. 👉 Read & subscribe here: documensch.substack.com/p/jewish-res... #jewishstudies

As a true hero of democracy, @raskin.house.gov stands by his principles in warning that this legislation may be used to undermine academic freedom and democracy itself. His courage in speaking truth to power reminds us why his moral leadership matters.

Spread the word! The Berman Archive at Stanford is looking for a consulting Digital Archivist to help expand our collections strategy. 👉 Details here: lnkd.in/gT_b2yUk