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Armin Langer

Armin Langer is a student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He is the author of the book Ein Jude in Neukölln: Mein Weg zum Miteinander der Religionen(A Jew in Neukölln: My Path to the Coexistence of Religions) and the editor of the anthology Fremdgemacht and Reorientiert: Jüdisch-Muslimische Verflechtungen (Foreign and Reoriented: Jewish-Muslim Entanglements). He is currently completing his Ph.D. in sociology at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

Being White is Not the Jewish Norm: How the Mishnah Can Help Us Deconstruct a White-normative Approach to Judaism

Dec 31, 2020 | Race

While white Jews might take for granted that ancient Jews looked like them, the evidence is otherwise.

“Anti-Semitism” or “antisemitism”? And Why the Hyphen Matters

Oct 29, 2018 | Antisemitism

Hyphenating the word “antisemitism” gives the erroneous impression that Semitism exists — either as an innate ethnic characteristic of all Jews or as an ideology held by all Jews.

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Being White is Not the Jewish Norm: How the Mishnah Can Help Us Deconstruct a White-normative Approach to Judaism

“Anti-Semitism” or “antisemitism”? And Why the Hyphen Matters