David Biale is the Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
A Tale of Conflict and Disagreement
David Biale studies “The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religion” by Steven R. Weisman....
Varieties of Hatred
"Why did the Nazis kill the Jews? Nearly 70 years since the end of World War II, the causes and meaning of the Holocaust remain as high on historians’ agendas as ever."...
Why the Bible has No Place in Politics, or Vice Versa
IT IS ALMOST AXIOMATIC in modern culture that the Bible can serve political ends. Fundamentalists see it as the warrant for ...
