Joshua Shanes

Joshua Shanes is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston. An expert in modern Jewish political and cultural history (particularly Jewish nationalism and Orthodoxy), he currently lives in Chicago with his wife and six children.

The Tulsa massacre wasn’t a ‘race riot’ — it was a pogrom

Joshua ShanesMay 31, 2021

Why, one of my teachers asked, did America have a Holocaust museum on the Washington Mall before any museum to African-American history was planned?

Embracing Anti-Semitic Hungarian Leader, Netanyahu Betrays Zionism

Joshua ShanesApril 10, 2018

The government of Israel, founded to protect Jews from the evils of anti-Semitism, is now in bed with one of its most virulent manifestations.

Rethinking Orthodoxy in Trump’s America

Joshua ShanesJanuary 13, 2017

Many progressive Orthodox Jews –- isolated and even ostracized in their communities -– face a crisis of religious identity in the age of Trump.