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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Ecclesiastes. Volume 1 (2020)
Book
Weeks, S. (2020). A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Ecclesiastes. Volume 1. Bloomsbury

This new volume in the ICC on Ecclesiastes 1-5 brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary and theological - to enable the scholar to have a complete knowledge and understanding of thi... Read More about A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Ecclesiastes. Volume 1.

Flipping the Academic Conference, Or How We Wrote A Peer-Reviewed Journal Article In A Day (2020)
Journal Article
Baron, I. Z., Havercroft, J., Kamola, I., Koomen, J., & Pritchard, A. (2020). Flipping the Academic Conference, Or How We Wrote A Peer-Reviewed Journal Article In A Day. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 45(1), 3-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0304375419898577

Is it possible to write a publishable, peer-reviewed academic paper in a day? We attempted this task in 2016, motivated by a desire to find new ways of doing academic work in the face of our growing sense of alienation within the neoliberal academy.... Read More about Flipping the Academic Conference, Or How We Wrote A Peer-Reviewed Journal Article In A Day.

Framing Conflict: Why American Congregations Cannot Not Talk about Israel (2019)
Journal Article
Kelman, A. Y., & Baron, I. Z. (2019). Framing Conflict: Why American Congregations Cannot Not Talk about Israel. Contemporary Jewry, 39, 497-522. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12397-019-09305-2

Israel has unified American Jewish communal life for much of the 20th century. However, early in the 21st century, Israel may no longer serve as a source for Jewish unity but of division, and American Jews are increasingly having a difficult time tal... Read More about Framing Conflict: Why American Congregations Cannot Not Talk about Israel.

Der schnellste Jude Deutschlands“ – Sport, Moderne und (Körper-)politik im bewegten Leben Alex Natans (1906–1971) (2019)
Journal Article
Schiller, K. (2019). Der schnellste Jude Deutschlands“ – Sport, Moderne und (Körper-)politik im bewegten Leben Alex Natans (1906–1971). Stadion, 43(2), 185-218. https://doi.org/10.5771/0172-4029-2019-2-185

This article deals with the biography of the elite Jewish-German sprinter, sports writer and left-wing political activist Alex Natan, „the fastest Jew in Germany“ (Alfred Flechtheim) during the 1920s. Hailing from an assimilated family of the Berlin... Read More about Der schnellste Jude Deutschlands“ – Sport, Moderne und (Körper-)politik im bewegten Leben Alex Natans (1906–1971).

Tackling antisemitism within English football: a critical analysis of policies and campaigns using a multiple streams approach (2019)
Journal Article
Poulton, E. (2020). Tackling antisemitism within English football: a critical analysis of policies and campaigns using a multiple streams approach. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 12(1), 25-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2019.1673789

While the anti-racist movement in English football has been established for 25 years, antisemitism was not specifically addressed until much later – most publicly through anti-discrimination organisation Kick It Out’s The Y-Word (2011) film campaigni... Read More about Tackling antisemitism within English football: a critical analysis of policies and campaigns using a multiple streams approach.

“You can change your noses, but you can’t change your Moses”: Olfactory Aesthetics and the Jewish “Race” (2019)
Journal Article
Roth, Z. (2019). “You can change your noses, but you can’t change your Moses”: Olfactory Aesthetics and the Jewish “Race”. Esprit Créateur, 59(2), 72-87. https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2019.0017

This article shifts the analysis of the ‘Jewish’ nose away from its visual significance to its olfactory capacity. It develops the notion of an olfactory aesthetics as a way of becoming attuned to the role smell plays in the interpretation of racial... Read More about “You can change your noses, but you can’t change your Moses”: Olfactory Aesthetics and the Jewish “Race”.