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David Myers and Andrew Koss on Whether Jewish Studies Has Turned against the Jews: Has the field lost its way, and can it recover?

JL;DR SUMMARY David Myers and Andrew Koss discuss whether the focus of Jewish studies professors and their responses to recent political events represent a turn against the Jewish community and Israel. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Jewish IdentityScholarshipJewish StudiesAcademiaHigher EducationPublic DiscourseDavid MyersAndrew Koss

Places mentioned

Los Angeles, California, United States
"Professor Myers, as I note in my welcoming remarks to that conversation, is prominent, not only in his scholarship, but also in his very public commentary on questions of Israeli public policy, defense policy, American public policy."
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"But instead, he's at Harvard. Harvard is the most prestigious university in the U.S. in most people's minds."
Israel
"And since the Hamas attacks in October, and since Israel's response to them, the Jews have been at the focal point of great political and social movements in America, in the American-led order, and of course, in the Middle East."

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