It has been twenty-five years since Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet's book Frontier Fictions was published and transformed the way we understand the formation of Iranian national identity in modern times. Kash...

Yehuda Gerami walks a line between politics and religion, trying to maintain one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities.

This article examines the migration of Iranian Jews following the 1979 Revolution, challenging conventional narratives that frame Middle Eastern Jewish emigration as a unidirectional flight from pe...

Der israelische Historiker Lior Sternfeld im Gespräch mit der WZ

Israel und Iran gelten als Erzfeinde. Doch das war nicht immer so.

This past Easter Sunday the leaders of an Iranian opposition party in exile gathered for a celebratory picnic with family and friends at Lake Balboa Park

The Association for Jewish Studies is a learned society and professional organization whose mission is to advance research and teaching in Jewish Studies at colleges, universities, and other instituti...

To analyze a war accurately, one must apply an analytical framework suited to its actual character. This requirement is nowhere more evident than in