David N. Myers

David N. Myers is Distinguished Professor and Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA, where he directs the Luskin Center for History and Policy and the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate.

Articles

No Accident: On Two New Books About the Occupied Territories
David N. Myers reviews Nathan Thrall’s “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy” and Mikhael Manekin’s “End of Days: Ethics, Tradition, and Power in Israel.”
David N. MyersMar 1, 2024
- Politics
An Act of Dissimilation: On Max Czollek’s “De-integrate!”
David N. Myers reviews Max Czollek’s “De-integrate! A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century.”
David N. MyersJul 10, 2023
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
No Home at All?: On Kenneth B. Moss’s “An Unchosen People”
David N. Myers reviews Kenneth B. Moss’s “An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland.”
David N. MyersOct 19, 2022
An Ontology of Hate: On Shaul Magid’s “Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical”
Meir Kahane reveled in hateful tactics and propagated hate as an ontological principle.
David N. MyersApr 7, 2022
- Biography & Autobiography
Margins of History: On Shay Hazkani’s “Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War”
David N. Myers finds that “Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War” by Shay Hazkani upends received wisdom.
David N. MyersNov 24, 2021
- History
I’d Be the Loser and Murdered: On Joshua Cohen’s “The Netanyahus”
David N. Myers weighs the sins of the real-life family emplotted in “The Netanyahus,” a new comic novel from Joshua Cohen.
David N. MyersJul 30, 2021
- Fiction
A Combustible Compound: On Paul Hanebrink’s “A Specter Haunting Europe” and Elissa Bemporad’s “Legacy of Blood”
On “A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism” and “Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets.”
David N. MyersJan 20, 2021
Equality for All
David N. MyersJul 15, 2020