Publications

Books

Covenantal Thinking: Essays on the Philosophy and Theology of David Novak
The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Articles in Refereed Journals

“Inaccessible Objects: Armin Loeb’s Tallit Katan at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,” Material and Visual Cultures of Religion Journal 9, no. 2 (2026).
“An Island Named Zion: The Political Theology of Theodor Herzl,” Political Theology, 25(7), 722–739.
“The Specter of Marcion: De-Canonizing the Old Testament in Twenty-First Century Germany,” The Journal of Religion 103, no. 4 (October 2023)
“Revolt against Time: Jean Améry on the Constitution of the Self,” New German Critique 50, no. 1 (148) (2023)
“Whose Museum Is It? Jewish Museums and Indigenous Theory,” Comparative Studies in Society and History. 2021;63(4):798-824.
“From Aher to Marcion: Martin Buber’s Understanding of Gnosi s“, Wesleyan University. Journal contribution. (2013)
Revelation and Anti-Theology in the Thought of Martin Buber,” [Hebrew]. Wesleyan University. Journal contribution. (2013)

Refereed Book Chapters

“Covenant, Torah, and the Failed Promise of Jewish Museums.” Making Promises: Oaths, Treaties, and Covenants in Multi-Jurisdictional and Multi-Religious Societies, edited by Pamela Klassen, Monique Scheer, and Benjamin Berger, 197–219. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025.
“Living with Others: Religious Objects and the Ritual of the Museum in Post-Secular Society.” Museums as Ritual Sites: Civilizing Rituals Reconsidered, edited by James Bielo and Lieke Wijnia, 19-34. London and New York: Routledge, 2025.
Co-authored with Paul Nahme, “Covenantal Thinking in the Post-Polemic Age.” In Covenantal Thinking: Essays on the Theology and Philosophy of David Novak, edited by Paul Nahme and Yaniv Feller, 3-10. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024.
Romantic Politics in the Thought of Gustav Landauer and Leo Baeck
Oy Tannenbaum, Oy Tannenbaum!: The Role of a Christmas Tree in a Jewish Museum
Oy Tannenbaum, Oy Tannenbaum!: Zur Rolle des Weihnachtsbaums in einem jüdischen Museum
What Hope Remains? Leo Baeck as a Reader of Job
Martin Buber’s Dialogical Humanism
Über den Makom: Exil und Schöpfung im Werk Barbara Honigmanns

Magazine Articles and Podcast Interviews

Julianna Gonzalez, “Exploring memory through art at the University of Florida.” The Florida Finibus, February 24^th, 2025.
Bernardo Montás, “Gainesville exhibit chronicles Oct. 7 Hamas attack aftermath.” WUFT TV, February 19^th, 2025.
“Kristallnacht’s legacy still haunts Hamburg – even as the city rebuilds a former synagogue burned in the Nazi’s pogrom.” The Conversation, November 5^th, 2024.
Áine Pennello, “Gainesville reflects on the first anniversary of Oct. 7 attacks in Israel.” WUFT NPR radio station, October 7^th, 2024.
Interview with Björn Siegel, “Ein Blick auf und in die Museen.” Jüdische Geschichte Kompakt podcast, July 6^th, 2024.
A conversation with Amir Engel on The Jewish Imperial Imagination. New Books Network podcast, March 3^rd, 2024
“Imagining Empire with Leo Baeck.” Fifteen Eighty-Four, November 15^th, 2023.
A panel conversation with Shaul Magid on Meir Kahane and Political Theology. The Kroc Cast: Peace Studies Conversations podcast, July 7, 2022.
“Tradition and Enlightenment,” JMB Journal 23: 29-35. Spring 2022. Parallel German translation: “Tradition und Aufklärung,” translated by Sylvia Zirden.
“Too Good to be True? The new, pluralistic permanent exhibit at the Museum of the Jewish People feels increasingly at odds with its surroundings,” Tel Aviv Review of Book, Summer 2021.

Book Reviews

Jeffrey Abt, Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough: Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York (New York: Berghahn, 2024), Journal of the History of Collections (June 2025). https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhaf019

Diana Lobel, The Quest for God and the Good

“Panthers and Lions,” book panel on Shaul Magid’s Meir Kahane

Steffi de Jong, The Witness as Object: Video Testimony in Memorial Museums

Maurice-Ruben Hayoun, Leo Baeck: Repräsentant des liberalen Judentums

W. John Morgan and Alexandre Guilherme, Buber and Education: Dialogue as Conflict Resolution

Judith Butler, Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism

Willi Goetschel, The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought

Magazine Articles and Podcast Interviews

“Tradition and Enlightenment,” JMB Journal 23: 29-35. Spring 2022. Parallel German translation: “Tradition und Aufklärung,” translated by Sylvia Zirden.
“Too Good to be True? The new, pluralistic permanent exhibit at the Museum of the Jewish People feels increasingly at odds with its surroundings,” Tel Aviv Review of Book, Summer 2021.