Jewish Primitivism

Jewish Primitivism

Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish writers and artists across Europe began depicting fellow Jews as savages or “primitive” tribesmen. Primitivism—the European appreciation of and fascination with so-called […]


The Divine in Modern Hebrew Literature by Professor Neta Stahl

The Divine in Modern Hebrew Literature by Professor Neta Stahl

Demonstrating the pervasive presence of God in modern Hebrew literature, this book explores the qualities that twentieth-century Hebrew writers attributed to the divine, and examines their functions against the simplistic […]


Other and Brother: Jesus in the 20th-Century Jewish Literary Landscape

Other and Brother: Jesus in the 20th-Century Jewish Literary Landscape

In a groundbreaking book, Neta Stahl examines the attitudes adopted by modern Jewish writers toward the figure of Jesus.


Jesus Among the Jews

Jesus Among the Jews

Jesus Among the Jews: Representation and Thought charts for the first time the different ways that Jesus has been represented and understood in Jewish culture and thought.