Judaism

Zionism has been seen either as a movement of national liberation or as a form of settler colonialism. In reality, it is both.

Remembered as Adam’s first wife, a child-killing demon and a feminist hero, who was Lilith?

The oldest continuously used religious symbol in the western world.

Oliver Cromwell’s desire to bring about the readmission of Jews to England was met with prejudice and opposition. But he succeeded, with help from powerful friends.

Combining grand narrative with vignettes of private lives and long-forgotten events, the last 500 years of Jewish life are told by a consummate master of his craft.

The function, history and symbolism of the menorah from deep antiquity to its use as the emblem of the state of Israel.

A visually arresting look at the minutiae of centuries of everyday Jewish life.

Faced with an extortionate rise in the price of kosher meat, Jewish women in New York’s Lower East Side employed protest tactics borrowed from the radical political movements that prospered in their neighbourhood. 

A Danish-German survey sought to unearth the roots of the Hebrew Bible in Arabia. It became the first to comprehend a new Islamic ideology, which now threatens the West.

There are to sides to every story but the survival of sources from antiquity means we do not always see both. Tim Whitmarsh calls for a more nuanced view of Jews in the Greco-Roman world.