history

Like theater in many cultures, Jewish theater has religious roots.

A transnational comparison.

Public health activist and champion of minority rights.

Messianic figure Simeon Bar Kochba led the Jews in a failed revolt against Roman rule.

A historian of Judaism with a deep faith in tradition.

Bringing Nazis to justice.

What's so funny -- and so Jewish?

American-Jewish may sound natural, but the hyphen hides deep contradictions.

One is American, the other Jewish--but they are not in contradiction.