Essays & Articles
My idea of a good time is spending hours scouring the depths of the internet to find information other essayists may have missed.
I once paid a random bookseller in California to ship me a rare 1989 issue of a Jewish historical quarterly.
It was worth it.
A deeper look into the lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, the two most well-known female pirates in Western history, reveals that their stories contain invaluable information beyond the didactic appeal of female pirates.
The big question of early American Judaism was this: how should Jews balance tradition and modernity?
Despite Orientalism's best efforts to erase Yuki Kato's personality, to reduce her to nothing more than an exotic object for the enjoyment of Western men, the strength of Yuki's story powers through the bias against her.
In what ways are certain Disney characters specifically coded to be Jewish, how does that coding support harmful stereotypes, and from when and where in history does this imagery originate?