David N. Myers

David N. Myers is a professor of Jewish history and the Robert N. Burr Department Chair of the UCLA History Department. Among other books, he is the author of Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz.

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....

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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.”...

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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, ...

Equality for All

DAVID N. MYERS

Why I Oppose a Boycott, Mostly