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Reviews

  • "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza--a Review." Markaz Review, Feb 28, 2025.
  • "No Accident: On Two New Books About the Occupied Territories." Los Angeles Review of Books, March 1, 2024.
  • "An Act of Dissimilation: On Max Czollek’s “De-integrate!”  Los Angeles Review of Books, July 10, 2023
  • "No Home at All?: On Kenneth B. Moss's 'An Unchosen People.'" Los Angeles Review of Books, October 19, 2022.
  • "An Ontology of Hate: On Shaul Magid's Meir Kahane." Los Angeles Review of Books, April 7, 2022.
  • "Butchery in the Bloodlands." Review of Jeffrey Veidlinger, In the Midst of Civilized Europe, Literary Review, February 2022.
  • "Margins of History: On Shay Hazkani's 'Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War.'" Los Angeles Review of Books, November 24, 2021.
  • "A Combustible Compound: On Paul Hanebrink’s “A Specter Haunting Europe” and Elissa Bemporad’s “Legacy of Blood.” Los Angeles Review of Books, January 20, 2021.
  • Review of Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader by Derek Penslar. Israel Studies Review 25 (2020): 154-156.
  • “Between Past and Present, Jew and Arab: An Exchange between Gil Anidjar and David N. Myers.” AJS Review 34 (2010): 400-403
  • “Victory and Sorrow.” Review of Khirbet Khizeh by S. Yizhar. The New Republic, October 22, 2008: 44-47.
  • Review of The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine. Los Angeles Jewish Journal, December 31, 2004.
  • Review of Mémoire juive et nationalité allemande: Les juifs berlinois à la Belle Époque by Jacques Ehrenfreund. Jewish History (Fall 2003).
  • "Ha‑Yahadut ha‑reformit: teguvah yehudit le‑modernah." ­Review of Michael A. Meyer, Response to Modernity. Ha-Doar, February 24, 1989: 14‑17.
  • Review of ­Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution by Christopher Browning. Holocaust and Genocide Studies 3, no. 1 (1988). 
  • Review of ­Political Principles in Maimonidean Halakha (Hebrew) by Gerald J. Blidstein. AJS Review (Fall 1987): 282‑290.
  • Review of ­Hitler and the Armenian Genocide by Kevork Bardakjian. Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2, no. 1 (1987).

Jewish Quarterly Review (JQR)

  • “Editor’s Introduction: Reflections on the State of Eastern European Jewish Studies.” Jewish Quarterly Review 112, no. 2 (2022): 215-217.
  • “Editor's Introduction: Rethinking Georg Simmel's “The Stranger” in an Age of Strangeness.” Jewish Quarterly Review 111, no. 2 (2021): 289-292.
  • “Editor’s Note.” Jewish Quarterly Review 112, no. 4 (2022): 599-600.
  • "Revisiting the History of Modern Jewish Scholarship: A Bicentennial Perspective." Jewish Quarterly Review 109, no. 3 (2019): 331-333. ​
  • "Editor's Introduction: The Commemorative Moment of 2017." Jewish Quarterly Review 108, no. 4 (2018): 517-519. 
  • "Editor's Introduction: Enlightening and Enlighteners: German Jews and Education in the Maskilic Age and Beyond: Editor’s Introduction." Jewish Quarterly Review 106, no. 3 (2016): 313-315.  
  • "Editor's Introduction: On Gerson Cohen’s “Blessing of Assimilation” a Half Century Later." Jewish Quarterly Review 106, no. 4 (2016): 429-432. 
  • David N. Myers and Pini Dunner, "A Haredi Attack on Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik: A Battle over the Brisker Legacy." Jewish Quarterly Review 105, no. 1 (2015): 131-138.​
  • "Coming to America: The Reception of Sepharad and Ashkenaz in America." Jewish Quarterly Review 105, no. 2 (2015): 141-144. ​
  • "Editor’s Introduction: Jorge Luis Borges and the Jewish Question." Jewish Quarterly Review 104, no. 3 (2014): 335-338. 
  • "Midrash, Testimony, and the Angel of Interpretation: Geoffrey Hartman in Jewish Studies." Jewish Quarterly Review 103, no. 2 (2013): 129-132. 
  • "Editor’s Introduction." Jewish Quarterly Review 103, no. 4 (2013): 431-433. 
  • “A Novel Look at Moshe Idel’s East-West Problem,” Jewish Quarterly Review 102, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 289-296.
  • "New Last Words of Yiddish." Jewish Quarterly Review 102, no. 1, (2012): v-vii.  
  • "Editor's Introduction: History and Mysticism." Jewish Quarterly Review 101, no. 4 (2011): 479-481. 
  • "The Return of the Repressed: Modern Jewish Studies in JQR." Jewish Quarterly Review 100, no 3 (2010): 345-348. 
  • "Editor’s Introduction: The Condition of Travel." Jewish Quarterly Review 99, no. 4 (2009): 437-438. ​
  • “Kitaj’s Napkin Map.” Jewish Quarterly Review 99:4 (Fall 2009) 547–550. 
  • "Recalling Zakhor : A Quarter-Century's Perspective." Jewish Quarterly Review 97, no. 4 (2007): 487-490. 
  • "Language and the Jews." Jewish Quarterly Review 96, no. 4 (2006): 467-469.  ​
  • "Overcoming Matter?" Jewish Quarterly Review 95, no. 3 (2005) v-vi.  
  • "Editor's Introduction." Jewish Quarterly Review 95, no. 1 (2005): v-vi.  
  • "America?" Jewish Quarterly Review 94, no. 4 (2004): v-viii. 
  • Elliott Horowitz and David N. Myers, "Editors' Introduction." Jewish Quarterly Review 94, no. 1 (2004): vii-ix.  ​​​
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