Jonathan Karp

Jan 14, 2025 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Allan Arkush |Akiva Schick |Jonathan Karp

Routledge 374 pp., $49.99 The 1870s began auspiciously for the Jews of Germany, when the unification of the German Empire culminated in the adoption of a constitution that finally granted them fully equal rights. The decade ended less happily, however, with the emergence of an antisemitic movement that posed a threat to all of the progress they had made in the previous century.

Aug 7, 2024 | about.simonandschuster.biz | Bob Woodward |Jonathan Karp

NEW YORK, August 7, 2024—Simon & Schuster announced today that it is publishing WAR on October 15, 2024 by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward. The book tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars: Ukraine, the Middle East, and the struggle for the American Presidency. WAR is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous and dangerous periods in Presidential politics and American history with Trump, Biden, and Harris at its center.

May 16, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Jonathan Karp |Reviel Netz |Akiva Schick |Ze'ev Maghen

In our Winter 2024 Issue, Editor Abraham Socher, Jonathan Karp, and Reviel Netz debated the cause behind the surge of anti-Israel protests spreading across the US and the world. Are these just altered displays of antisemitism or something new? Read the continuing discussion, with new entries in the debate:Jonathan Karp asks a Marvin Gaye type of question: What’s Going On with Antisemitism? Reviel Netz continues to see something distinct from classic antisemitism.

May 16, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Jonathan Karp |Akiva Schick |Aryeh Tepper

I’d never heard of, let alone read, Reviel Netz before his powerful essay appeared alongside mine in the Jewish Review of Books. It seems all the more remarkable, then, that despite our different backgrounds and disparate academic disciplines we intersected to a remarkable degree in our intellectual responses to October 7.

Jan 22, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Jonathan Karp |Yehudah Mirsky

A few weeks after the October 7 Black Sabbath massacre by Hamas, an ad from a group called U.S. Labor Against Racism and War showed up in my Facebook feed. How it found me, I’m not exactly sure, but there was nothing particularly surprising about it. My algorithms presumably define me as a progressive type, certainly pro–organized labor, and, if not a pacifist, then most definitely a peacenik.