Shira Klein is an associate professor and chair of history at Chapman University. A National Jewish Book Award finalist, she focuses on both modern Italian Jewry and disinformation in the digital age.
Shira Klein
By Shira Klein
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Opinion We’re Israelis who study fascism. This week, our country took a terrifying step toward the abyss
A newly proposed bill aiming to quash political dissent at universities is straight out of the illiberal playbook
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Opinion The shocking truth about Wikipedia’s Holocaust disinformation
Why Wikipedia cannot be trusted: It repeatedly allows rogue editors to rewrite Holocaust history and make Jews out to be the bad guys
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Community Jews must push for more diverse children’s books
In 1990, my family spent the summer in England. Curled up on a couch in an Oxford bookstore, rain drumming gently on the window, I happily turned the pages of a book I’d found on the shelf called “Tintin in the Congo.” I didn’t notice that it depicted Black people as racist stereotypes. As a…
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