California History is pleased to announce the winner of the Richard J. Orsi prize for the best article published in the journal in 2022. The committee unanimously selected Warren C. Wood’s “S. An-Sky’s The Dybbuk and the Process of Jewish American Identity in 1920s San Francisco” (Cal...
by David M. Freidenreich, author of Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy
Antisemitism is becoming increasingly overt—and so too is its close relative, anti-Judaism. To respond and resist effectively, we need to recognize the differences between these two forms of ...
By Sara Ronis, author of Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia
In the months leading up to this year’s midterm elections, a number of Republicans claimed that their Democratic opponents were working with demons or with the devil himself...