Chapters

• ​"The Challenge and Opportunity of Accommodation: Gil Graff at the Crossroads of Jewish History and Education." In Keter Shem Tov: The Crown of a Good Name, edited by Michael Berenbaum and Miriam Prum Hess, 138-144. Pocono Summit: The Wordsmithy, 2025.
• “Building Edifices of Jewish Knowledge: Michael Berenbaum and the Third Encyclopedia Judaica.” In Building Bridges among Abraham’s Children: A Celebration of Michael Berenbaum, edited by E. M. Gaffney, M. S. Littell, and Michael Bazyler, 145-149. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2025.
• Nechumi Malovicki-Yaffe, David N. Myers, Mark Trencher, and Chaya Lehrfield-Trop, “Politics, National Identity, and Democracy: A Comparison of Haredi Political Attitudes and Behavior in the United States and Israel.” In New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society, edited by David N. Myers and Nechumi Malovicki-Yaffe, 227-239. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2024.
• “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Jewish Writer: Mark Rothko’s Hebrew Notebook.” In Revisiting the Rothko Chapel, edited by Annie Cohen-Solal and Aaron Rosen, 33-48. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2024.​
• “The Soft Radicalism of Rav ShaGaR.” In When Jews Argue: Between the University and the Beit Midrash, edited by Ethan B. Katz, Sergey Dolgopolski, and Elisha Ancelovits, 250-259. London: Routledge, 2023.
• ​"יכול להיות אחרת (It Could Be Different)." In ח׳׳ו הצעות לישראליות (Eighteen Proposals for Israelism), edited by Tamar Herman and Ofer Schiff, 75-79. Raanana: Open University Press, 2020.
• ’PAAJR at Inception: Novelty, Growth, and Birth Pangs in the Post-World War I Era." In A Commitment to Scholarship: The American Academy for Jewish Research, edited by David Sorkin, 95-109. New York: American Academy for Jewish Research, 2020.
• “Historicism through the Lens of Anti-Historicism: The Case of Modern Jewish History.” In Historicism: A Travelling Concept, edited by Herman Paul and Adriaan van Veldhuizen. London and Oxford: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
• "My Israel Story: An Interim Report on a Winding Journey" (Hebrew). In Kavim le-demutenu: lahakor et Yisra'el, likhtov `al `atsmenu, edited by Avner Ben-Amos and Ofer Schiff, 405-419. Tel Aviv: Yedi`ot Sefarim, 2020.
• “An Axionormative Dissenter: Reflections on Julius Stone.” In The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century, edited by James Loeffler and Moria Paz, 284-295. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• "The Triumph of Majoritarianism, and the Decline of Democracy." In Defining Israel: The Jewish State, Democracy, and the Law, edited by Simon Rabinovitch, 183-191. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 2018. 
• "Jewish Studies: History, Memory, Scholarship." In The Cambridge History of Judaism, vol. 8: The Modern World, 1815-2000, edited by Mitchell B. Hart and Tony Michels, 804-830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 
• “What if Musa Alami and David Ben-Gurion Agreed on a Jewish-Arab State?” In What Ifs of Jewish History, edited by Gavriel Rosenfeld, 238-258. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
• “Peter Beer in Prague: Probing the Boundaries of Modern Jewish Historiography." In Fuzzy Boundaries: Festschrift für Antonio Loprieno, edited by H. Amstutz et al., 705-714. Hamburg: Widmaier Verlag, 2015. 
• "Between Supersessionism and Atavism: Toward a Neo-Secular View of Religion." In Secular in Question: Jews and Judaism in Modern Times, edited by Ari Joskowicz and Ethan B. Katz, 261-275. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
• “At the Border: David Ellenson and the Study of Modern Judaism.” In Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity: Rethinking an Old Opposition, Essays in Honor of David Ellenson, ​edited by Michael A. Meyer and David Myers, 1-16. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2014.
• “Reflecting on the Jewish Condition in the Kaffeehaus.” In Obsessions: R. B. Kitaj, 1932-2007, edited by Cilly Kugelmann, Eckart Gillen, and Hubertus Gaßner, 113-118. Berlin: Kerber Verlag, 2012. 
• "La ‘Civilisation’ après Mordecai Kaplan: Sur l’idée d’une entité juive globale aujourd’hui.”  In La civilisation du judaïsme de l'exil à la diaspora, edited by Shmuel Trigano, 39-50. Paris: Éclat, 2012.
• “She’elat ha-pelitim: mabat hadash `al zikaron ve-shikhekhah” (The Refugee Question: A New Look at Remembrance and Forgetting). In Tarbut, zikaron ve-historyah be-hokarah le-Anita Shapira, edited by Meir Chazan and Uri Cohen, 655-669. Jerusalem: Shazar Center, 2012. ​
• “Simon Rawidowicz on the Arab Question: A Prescient Gaze into the ‘New History.’” In Mediating Modernity: Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World: Essays in Honor of Michael A. Meyer, edited by Lauren B. Strauss and Michael Brenner, 143-167. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008.
• “Discourses of Civilization: The Shifting Course of a Modern Jewish Motif.” In The Jewish Contribution to Civilization: Reassessing an Idea, edited by Jeremy Cohen and Richard I. Cohen, 24-35. Oxford: Littman Library, 2008.
• “Glaube und Geschichte: A Vexed Relationship in German-Jewish Culture.” In Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness, edited by A. Gotzmann and C. Wiese, 54-72. Leiden: Brill, 2007.​
• “Vom Berlin nach Jerusalem: Zionismus, jüdische Wissenschaft und die Mühsal kultereller Dissonanz.” In Janusfiguren: Jüdische Heimstätte, Exil und Nation im deutschen Zionismus, edited by Andrea Schatz and Christian Wiese. Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2006.
• “A Third Guide for the Perplexed? Simon Rawidowicz ‘On Interpretation.’” In History and Literature: New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band, edited by William Cutter and David C. Jacobson.  Providence: Brown Judaic Studies, 2002.
• “Selbstreflexion im modernen Erinnerungsdiskurs.” In Jüdische Geschichtsschreibung heute: Themen, Positionen, Kontroversen, ​edited by Michael Meyer and David N. Myers. Munich: Beck Verlag, 2002.
• “Rebel in Frankfurt: The Scholarly Origins of Jacob Katz.” In The Pride of Jacob: Essays on Jacob Katz and His Work, edited by Jay M. Harris. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.​
• “Derrida’s Yerushalmi, Yerushalmi’s Freud: History, Memory and Hope in a Post-Holocaust Age.” In La Sho’ah tra interpretazione e memoria, edited by Paolo Amodio, Romeo De Maio, and Giuseppe Lista, 489-508. Naples: Vivarium, 1999.​
• "Of Marranos and Memory: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History." In Jewish History and Jewish Memory: Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, edited by Elisheva Carlebach, John M. Efron, and David N. Myers, 1-12. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1998.
• Introduction and "Between Diaspora and Zion: History, Memory and the Jerusalem Scholars." In The Jewish Past Revisited, edited by David N. Myers and David B. Ruderman, 1-15, 88-103. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
• Introduction and "'The Blessing of Assimilation' Reconsidered: An Inquiry into Jewish Cultural Studies." In From Ghetto to Emancipation: Historical and Contemporary Reconsiderations of the Jewish Community, edited by David N. Myers and William V. Rowe​, vi-xvii, 17-36. Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press, 1997.
• "The Ideology of Wissenschaft des Judentums." In History of Jewish Philosophy, edited by Daniel Frank and Oliver Leaman, 706-721. London: Routledge, 1997. ​

Articles

• "The Perils of Naming: On Donald Trump, Jews, and Antisemites." The Journal of Holocaust Research 35, no. 2 (2021): 154-162.​
• "Products of Israelization." Response to Itamar Ben-Ami's article "A New Look at the 'New Haredim'." Ha-zeman ha-zeh (December 20, 2020). (Hebrew).
• “Israel’s Very Own ‘Illiberal’ Democracy.” The Tel Aviv Review of Books, Winter 2019.
• "The Rise of a Sovereign Shtetl: Communitarianism from the Bottom Up in Kiryas Joel, N.Y." Jewish Studies Quarterly 23 (2016): 222-246.
• "Rawidowicz be-Berlin." Mikan Ve-eylakh 1 (2016): 49-52.
• "Rethinking Sovereignty and Autonomy: New Currents in the History of Jewish Nationalism." Transversal 13 (2015): 44-51.
• "Six Theses on the Sustainability of Minority Culture in a Majority Society: The Jewish and Muslim Cases," Muslim World 104, no. 4 (2014): 397-400.​
• "Introduction." Special Issue of Jewish History​: From History to Memory: The Scholarly Legacy of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi. Jewish History 28, no. 1 (2014): 1-10. 
• “Commanded War: Three Chapters in the ‘Military’ History of Satmar Hasidism.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 81, no. 2 (2013): 311-356.
• “Entre Palestinocentrisme et nationalisme diasporique: Le double héritage de Ben-Zion Dinur.” Les cahiers du judäisme 31 (2011): 92-96.
• David N. Myers and Nomi Stolzenberg, “Rethinking Secularization Theory: The Case of the Hasidic Public Square.” AJS Perspectives (Spring 2011): 37-38.
• “Rethinking the Jewish Nation: An Exercise in Applied Jewish Studies.” Havruta 6 (Winter 2011), 26-33.
• “Rethinking Jewish Collectivity in a Post-Statist World.” Jewish Peoplehood Papers 5 (2010), 8-11.
• “The Fading Faith of a Jewish Moral Exceptionalist.” Sh’ma 40/664 (Nov. 2009), 5-6.
• “Jenseits des Einfluesses: Hin zu einer neuen Kulturgeschichte?” Aschkenas: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden 18, no. 19 (2009), 495-507.
• “Ben Yisrael le-`amim: hirhurim `al matsav limude ha-historyah ha-yehudit be-Yisrael” (Between Israel and the Nations: Reflections on the State of Jewish Historical Scholarship in Israel). Zion 74 (2008/09): 339-352.  A revised version appears in English as “Is There Still a ‘Jerusalem School’? Reflections on the State of Jewish Historical Scholarship in Israel.” Jewish History 23, no. 4 (2009): 389-406.
• “Foreword,” Western States Jewish History 41 (2009): xii-xiv.
• “Philosophy and Kabbalah in Wissenschaft des Judentums: Rethinking the Narrative of Neglect.” Studia Judaica (Cluj-Napoca) 16 (2008): 56-71.​
• David N. Myers and Nomi Stolzenberg, “What does Kiryas Joel Tell Us about Liberalism in America?” The Chronicle: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion 71 (2008): 49-53.
• “R. B. Kitaj (1932-2007) and the Jewish Archive.” American Art (Summer 2008), 98-100.
• “R. B. Kitaj and the Idea of ‘Jewish Art.’” R. B. Kitaj: Passion and Memory (Exhibition catalogue from the Skirball Culture Center, 2008).
• “R. B. Kitaj and the State of ‘Jew-on-the-Brain.’” The Jewish Role in American Life 5 (2007): 69-73.
• “Simon Rawidowicz, ‘Hashpaitis,’ and the Perils of Influence.” Transversal 7 (2006): 13-26. Reprinted in Klaus Hödl, Kulturelle Grenzräume in jüdischen Kontext (Innsbruck, 2008), 65-76.   ​
• Section Introduction, Western State Jewish History (special issue devoted to Pioneer Jews of Los Angeles in the Nineteenth Century) 38 (Spring/Summer 2006), 154-156.
• “Can there be a Principled Anti-Zionism?: On the Nexus between Anti-Historicism and Anti-Zionism in Modern Jewish Thought.” Journal of Israeli History 25 (March 2006): 33-50.
• Roundtable Special Feature: “The Israeli Settlements.” Yale Israel Journal 7 (Summer 2005): 34-35.
• “Hazono shel Hazony, or Even If You Will It, It Can Still Be a Dream.” Israel Studies 6 (Summer 2001): 107-117.
• “The Problem of History in German-Jewish Thought: Observations on a Neglected Tradition (Cohen, Rosenzweig, and Breuer).” The Samuel Braun Lecture in the History of the Jews of Prussia. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2001.
• “Hermann Cohen and the Quest for Protestant Judaism.”  Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 46 (2001): 195-214.
• Interview, “Zu ‘Diaspora’ und den ‘Segnungen der Assimilation.’” Kalonymus 4 (2001), 23-27.
• “Mehabevin et ha-tsarot': Crusade Memories and Modern Jewish Martyrologies." Jewish History 13, no. 2 (Fall 1999): 49-64.
• ​“Response to Jay Harris’ Reading of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.” Textual Reasoning 8 (November 1998): 1-4.
• "Mashber ha-historicism u-misud mada`e ha-Yahadut" (The Crisis of Historicism and the Institutionalization of Jewish Studies). Mada`e ha-Yahadut (Journal of the World Union of Jewish Studies) (Fall 1998).​
• “Between Yiddish and Hebrew—and Greek? Thoughts on the Language(s) of Jewish History.” Commentary to roundtable discussion in Jewish Book Annual 55/56 (1997-1999): 45-52.
• "A New Scholarly Colony in Jerusalem: The Early History of Jewish Studies."  Judaism (Spring 1996): 142-159.
• "'Distant Relatives Happening onto the Same Inn': The Meeting of East and West as Literary Theme and Cultural Ideal." Jewish Social Studies 1, no. 2 (1994/95): 75-100.
• “Was there a ‘Jerusalem School?’: An Inquiry into the First Generation of Historical Researchers at the Hebrew University.” Studies in Contemporary Jewry 10 (1994): 66-92.
• "Eugen Täubler: The Personification of 'Judaism as Tragic Existence'." Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 39 (1994): 131-150.
• In Search of the "Harmonious Jew": Judah L. Magnes between East and West. John L. Sills Memorial Lecture.  Berkeley, 1993.
• "The Fall and Rise of Jewish Historicism: The Evolution of the Akademie für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (1919-1934)."  Hebrew Union College Annual 63 (1992): 107-144.
• "Remembering Zakhor: A Super-Commentary." History and Memory 4 (Fall/Winter 1992): 129-146.
• Nomi Maya Stolzenberg and David N. Myers, "Community, Constitution and Culture: The Case of the Jewish Kehilah." Michigan Journal of Law Reform 25 (Spring and Summer 1992): 633-670.
• "Dual Loyalty in a Post-Zionist Era." Judaism (Summer 1989): 333-343.
• "History as Ideology: The Case of Ben Zion Dinur, Zionist Historian 'Par Excellence'."  ­Modern Judaism (May 1988): 167‑194. 
• "The Scholem‑Kurzweil Debate and Modern Jewish Historiography."  Modern Judaism (October 1986): 261‑285.

AppendiCes and encyclopedia entries

• “Geschichte” (entry) in Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, vol. II (2012): 437-450.
• Entries in The Oxford Dictionary of Jewish Religion, Encyclopaedia Judaica, and Zeman Yehudi hadash.
• Historical Appendix in Reuven Porat, ­The History of the Kibbutz: Collective Education, 1904-1929, 150-193. Norwood, PA: Norwood Editions, 1985.