Jeff Lesser, who is in São Paulo this summer, wrote this New York Times opinion piece about the unrest in Brazil

Eric Goldstein’s essay, “How German Were German Jews in America in the Nineteenth Century?  A View from Baltimore,” received the 2012 Joseph L. Arnold prize for the best essay on Baltimore history.

Gyan Pandey has published A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States with Cambridge University Press.

Congratulations to Jeffrey Lesser and Eric Goldstein. Each authored a chapter in the book 1929: Mapping the Jewish World (Diner and Estraikh, eds., NYU Press), which has been named the winner of the National Jewish Book Award (anthology).