Joel L. Kraemer, the John Henry Barrows Professor Emeritus in the Divinity School and Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago died in Chicago on Thursday, October 11th,…

In his memoir, Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian, published in 2012, Bernard Lewis wrote (page 95): “While my principal concern had for some time been…

By David Biale, University of California, Davis —— The world of Jewish Studies lost one its most urbane and sensitive readers of Hebrew literature with the death of Alan Mintz…