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).

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....

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....

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....

FICTION

A Combustible Compound: On Paul Hanebrink’s “A Specter Haunting Europe” and Elissa Bemporad’s “Legacy of Blood”

AROUND THE WORLD

POLITICS

HISTORY

Equality for All

DAVID N. MYERS

Why I Oppose a Boycott, Mostly