Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the early modern world.
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Young writers in Germany are challenging one-dimensional stereotypes about Jewish and Muslim identities.
Larry David has called time on the misanthropic cult TV comedy classic after 12 seasons and 120 episodes.
Writers festivals navigate the fraught frontier between social media’s echo chambers of outrage and the civilised public debate of the public square. What’s the way forward in this heated atmosphere?
Bernice Rubens won the 1970 Booker prize for her novel, The Elected Member, and is the only Welsh person to have ever won the prize.
A rich diversity of Canadian Jewish experience is reflected in the poems of Miriam Waddington and the prose of Adele Wiseman, Fredelle Bruser Maynard, Helen Weinzweig and Shirley Faessler.
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Professor, Department of English, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Interim Director of Lifelong Learning, Cardiff University
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Carol Kahn Strauss Fellow in Jewish Studies at the American Academy in Berlin, Professor of German and American Literature, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor of Sephardic Studies, Yeshiva University
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Senior Faculty, Hartman Institute and Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Washington University in St. Louis