David N. Myers

David N. Myers teaches history at UCLA, where he holds the Kahn Chair in Jewish History. He is the author and editor of numerous books including American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (with Nomi M. Stolzenberg).

Articles

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.”...
Jul 10
- Cultural Studies
- Politics and Economics
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.”...
Oct 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....
Apr 7, 2022
- Biography
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....
Nov 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....
Jul 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.”...
Jan 20, 2021
Equality for All
In his 1961 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the renowned historian of science Thomas Kuhn explained the process by which an existing paradigm of scientific knowledge is criticized, challenged, and ultimately replaced. The displacement of an old paradigm is not, ...
Jul 15, 2020
Equality for All
In his 1961 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the renowned historian of science Thomas Kuhn explained the process by which an existing paradigm of scientific knowledge is criticized, challenged, and ultimately replaced. The displacement of an old paradigm is not, ...
David N. MyersJul 15, 2020
Why I Oppose a Boycott, Mostly
A one-of-a-kind forum on the proposed academic boycott of Israel and the BDS movement, featuring Russell Berman, Colin Dayan, Noura Erakat, David Lloyd, David Myers, Cary Nelson, David Palumbo-Liu, and Judea Pearl....
Mar 16, 2014