Monographs:
Refereed Journal Articles:
Forthcoming:
“Who Is a Litvak, Anyway? The Porous Sociocultural and Geographical Contours of Lithuanian Jewry”, Studies in Contemporary Jewry 36 2026).
“'The Lips that Have Often Smiled So Foolishly': Jewish-Polish Relations in Itshe MeyeVaysenberg’s Work”, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 39 (2026).
Published:
“My Mom Drank Ink: The ‘Little Negro’ and the Performance of Race in Yente Telebende’s Stage Productions”, In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies (April 2023), https://ingeveb.org/articles/race-in-yente-telebende (ref.).
“The Organ of the Jewish People: The Yidishes Tageblat and Uncharted Conservative Yiddish Culture in Ameri ca”, Jewish Quarterly Review 112 (Fall 2022): 795-822 (ref.).
“Israelis Are from Mars, American Jews Are from Venus? Cultural Differences and Rivalry in American Jewish Attitudes toward Israel”, Israelis: A Multidisciplinary Bilingual Periodical for the Study of Israel & Zionism 10, special issue about Israel and the Jewish World (2021): 209-236 (ref.).
“Reportage from Blotetown: Yisroel-Yoysef Zevin (Tashrak) and the Shtetlization of New York City”, East European Jewish Affairs 50 (Fall 2020): 57-74 (ref.).
“’Negroes Must Not Be Likened to Jews’: The Attitudes of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants toward African Americans in a Transnational Perspective”, Modern Judaism 37 (October 2017): 271-296 (ref.).
“’For Peace, Not Socialism’: The 1917 Mayoralty Campaign in New York City and Immigrant Jews in a Global Perspective”, American Jewish History 101 (Fall 2017): 465-488 (ref.).
“Between Germany and Russia: Images of Poles and the Ensuing Cultural Trajectories among Yiddish and Hebrew Writers between 1863 and World War I”, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 28 (2016): 225-248 (ref.).
“’The Jew Usually Left Those Crimes to Esau’: The Jewish Responses to Accusations about Jewish Criminality in New York, 1908-1913”, AJS Review 38 (April 2014): 1-28 (ref.).
“’Beaten to Death by Irish Murderers’: The Death of Sadie Dellon (1918) and Jewish Images of the Irish”, Journal of American Ethnic History 32 (Summer 2013): 41-74 (ref.).
“A Jew for All Seasons: Henry Kissinger, Jewish Expectations, and the Yom Kippur War”, Israel Studies Forum 25 (Fall 2010): 1-25 (ref.).
“’They Are Slitting the Throats of Jewish Children’: The 1906 New York School Riot and Contending Images of Gentiles”, American Jewish History 94 (Sep. 2008): 175-196 (ref.).
Crude Creatures: Confronting Representations of Black People in Yiddish Culture (New York: New York University Press, 2025). https://nyupress.org/9781479837984/crude-creatures/
Gentile New York: The Images of Non-Jews among Jewish Immigrants (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2012). https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/gentile-new-york/9780813579054
Book Chapters:
“’Cleanliness Like That of the Germans’: Eastern European Jews’ Views of Germans and the Dynamics of Migration and Disillusionment”, in Steven J. Gold (ed.), Wandering Jews: Global Jewish Migration (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2020), 119-150. This book has been selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title, 2021. Choice is the publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).
“’There Was No Uncorrupt Israel’: The Role of Israelis in Delegitimizing Jewish Collective Existence”, in Alvin H. Rosenfeld (ed.), Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: The Dynamics of Delegitimization (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019), 255-280 (ref.).
“’The Shkotsim Were Even Worse than the Dogs’: Yiddish Memoirists and the Reimagining of the Eastern European Jewish Experience in Postwar America”, in Sheila Elana Jelen and Eliyana Adler (eds.), Reconstructing the Old Country: American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2017), 152-172 (ref.).
“’You Can’t Recognize America’: American Jewish Perceptions of Antisemitism as a Transnational Phenomenon after World War I”, in Christian Wiese and Cornelia Wilhelm (eds.), American Jewry: Transcending the European Experience? (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), 281-304.
“Getting Drunk, Dancing, and Beating Each Other Up: The Images of the Gentile Poor and Narratives of Jewish Difference among the Yiddish Intelligentsia, 1881-1914”, in Leonard J. Greenspoon (ed.), Wealth and Poverty in Jewish Tradition: Studies in Jewish Civilization, Volume 26 (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2015), 203-224.
“’A Victory of the Slavs Means a Deathblow to Democracy’: The Onset of World War I and the Images of the Warring Sides among Jewish Immigrants in New York, 1914-1916”, in Yigal Levin and Amnon Shapira (eds.), War and Peace in Jewish Tradition: From the Ancient World to the Present (Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2012), 203-217.
“German-Jewish Migration to the United States” (with Adi Gordon), in Thomas Adam (ed.), Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics and History (Santa Barbara, CA and Oxford, UK: ABC-Clio, 2005), 13-22. I also wrote two biographical entries about Isaac Leeser and Jacob Schiff in that volume, 653-654, 939-941
Other Publications:
“The Troublesome Aspect of the Sweetest Lullaby: The Racial Background of the Iconic Yiddish Song ‘Rozhinkes mit Mandlen’ (Raisins and Almonds)”, CAS Working Paper Series 17 (2026): 234-243.
“The Original Yente: Yente Telebende and the Yidishe Mame’s Long Shadow of Misogyny”, AJS Perspectives: The Mother Issue (Winter 2023): 70-72.
I translated from the Yiddish a short feuilleton by Yisroel-Yoysef Zevin, “Against Your Will You’re a Jew” (1909), published in East European Jewish Affairs 50 (Fall 2020): 75-77.
“Drunkards Lying on the Floor: Jewish Contempt for Non-Jewish Lower Classes”, AJS Perspectives: The Hate Issue (Spring 2020): 46-47.
“’Mexicans Are Just Like Every Oriental People’: The Southwest in Sholem Asch’s Yiddish Writing”, in Legacy: Newsletter of the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society 32 (Spring 2018): 1, 4-5.
“Helpless Refugees or the Seed of Amalek: A Cautionary Note about the Use of Judaism as a Means to Justify Various Political Agendas”, CrossCurrents 67 (September 2017): 555-564.
The entry “Gentiles in Modern Judaism”, in Dale C. Allison Jr. (ed. et al), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2015), 10: 36-38.
“Toldot ha-mechaber” (biography), in Pinchas Giller (ed.), Moshe Ha-Cohen Reicherson, Be’er Moshe (Los Angeles: Fryd, 2015, Hebrew), 9-13. I had a blog in the Times of Israel – https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/too-arab-joshua-cohens-mizrachi-problem/
“Never Say Never” was published in the Israeli daily newspaper Ma’ariv, March 25, 2012 (Hebrew).
“’Earning Like Episcopalians, Voting Like Puerto-Ricans’: Why American Jews Voted for Obama” (with Arnon Gutfeld), Kivunim Chadashim 20 (July-August 2009, Hebrew): 28-49.
“’New’ Historians, the Holocaust, and the Critique of Israeli Society”, Midstream 49 (April 2003): 29-32.
“’Inside Babylon’: The Character of the American New Left”, Zemanim 64 (Fall 1998, Hebrew): 44-54.