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Jun 9, 2022, 12:21 AM

Too Arab? Joshua Cohen’s Mizrachi problem

American novelist Joshua Cohen, who won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for 'The Netanyahus,' poses for a portrait in Jerusalem, Tuesday, May 10, 2022.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

The Pulitzer laureate's portrayal of Israelis suggests that under his political criticism lurks a cultural disdain toward those with 'unibrows' and 'neckbeards'

Jun 23, 2013, 8:01 AM

When Kissinger Threatened Rabin: A Lesson to Current Israeli Decision Makers?

Forty-three years ago a farcical version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion played out at a diplomatic meeting in Washington. As the President of United States, Richard M. Nixon, announced (April 1970) to the nation that American...

Dec 7, 2012, 8:33 AM

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‘Citizens of the world’ – on B’nai Jeshurun and the Palestinian U.N. status

On B’nai Jeshurun and the Palestinian U.N. status

Nov 20, 2012, 1:58 AM

Israel and American Jewish “Core Values” – On Rabbi Jacobs’s Recent Comment

One of the main headlines to come out of the Jewish Federations’ General Assembly last week was that by the new President of the Union for Reform Judaism, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, who said that, “North American Jews don’t see...

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Dr. Gil Ribak is an Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona. Born and raised in Israel, Dr. Ribak served as an analyst in the Israeli Prime Minister's Office before earning a Fulbright Fellowship that sent him to pursue his doctoral studies in the U.S. In 2021-2022, he serves as the European Union's Marie Curie Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies in Freiburg, Germany. I am a scholar and public educator of Modern Jewish history, whose scholarship has always been interdisciplinary in nature, bringing together history, sociology, folklore, ethnic studies, and literature. My scholarly interests and expertise span various fields of Jewish history – American Jewish history, Eastern European Jewish history, and histories of Modern Israel.

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