Publications:

BOOKS:

-The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2018)

-Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America (University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2014)

-Jewish Art: A Modern History, co-authored with Larry Silver (London: Reaktion Books, 2011)

-The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches (New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2008; paperback 2010), co-edited anthology of essays with Ranen Omer-Sherman.

-Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007)

-Raphael Soyer and the Search for Modern Jewish Art (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2004)

-Current book project: Moses Jacob Ezekiel: Confederate, Expatriate, Jewish Sculptor (Forthcoming Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2025)

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES:

-Moses Jacob Ezekiel¿s Portrait Bust of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise (1899), American Jewish Archives Journal 73, no. 2 (2021): 18-29.

-Moses Jacob Ezekiel, Eve Hearing the Voice, Object Narrative, MAVCOR Journal 5, no. 2  (2021), unpaged (8 pages).
https://mavcor.yale.edu/mavcor-journal/object-narratives/moses-jacob-ezekiel-eve-hearing-voice

-Of Masks, Mockery, and Modernism: Alexander Z. Kruse's Self-Portrait of an Art Critic, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 5, no. 2 (Fall 2019): 1-25. https://editions.lib.umn.edu/panorama/article/of-masks-mockery-and-modernism/

-Propaganda in the Best and Purest Sense of the Word: Early Representations of the Warsaw Ghetto in American Culture, American Jewish History. American Jewish History 103, no. 2 (2019): 125-45.

-Transgressions, Archie Rand, and the Bible in Contemporary Art, AJS Perspectives (Spring 2017): 30-32.

-Bernard Perlin, Judaism and the Lower East Side. In Aaron Rosen, ed., In Focus: Orthodox Boys 1948 by Bernard Perlin (London: Tate Research Publication, 2016). http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus/orthodox-boys-bernard-perlin/judaism-lower-east-side

-Judging a Book by its Cover: Bernard Picart's Jews and Art History, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 15, no. 1 (March 2016): 1-23.

-Navigating the Worldly and the Divine: Jewish American Artists on Judaism and their Art, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 32, no. 1 (Fall 2013): 27-42

-Allegory vs. Authenticity: The Commission and Reception of Howard Chandler Christy's The Signing of the Constitution of the United States, Winterthur Portfolio 46, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 63-92.

-Looking Jewish: The State of Research on Modern Jewish Art, coauthored with Larry Silver.  Jewish Quarterly Review 101, no. 4 (Fall 2011): 631-652.

-Jack Levine (1915-2010), A Real Human Guy. American Art 25, no. 2 (Summer 2011): 120-123.

-Weegee's Jewishness, History of Photography 34, no. 1 (February 2010): 60-78.

-Imaging the Book: Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America, Art Criticism 24, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 7-20.

-Everybody Thought I was Catholic: Audrey Flack's Jewish Identity, American Art 23, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 104-115.

-The Other Among the Other: Bernard Picart's Etchings of Amsterdam's Jews, Jewish Social Studies 13, no. 2 (Winter 2007): 40-64.

-The Fockerized Jew?: Questioning Jewishness as Cool in American Popular Entertainment, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 25, no. 4 (Summer 2007): 3-17.

-Midrash and the Jewish American Experience in Jack Levine's Planning Solomon's Temple, Ars Judaica 3 (2007): 73-90.

-Distinguishing the Distinction: Picturing Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Holland, Journal for the Study of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry 1, no. 1 (February 2007): 1-13.

-The 'True' Story: Life Magazine, Horace Bristol, and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck Studies 15, no. 2 (Winter 2004): 40-74.

-Effacing Difference: Larry Rivers' History of Matzah (The Story of the Jews), Athanor 17 (Summer 1999): 87-95.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND EXHIBITION CATALOG ESSAYS:

-Audrey Flack: With Darkness Comes Stars, An Exhibition. In Audrey Flack: With Darkness Comes Stars, exhibition catalog (New York: Hollis Taggart, 2024), 8-41.

-Broken Eggs/Broken Dreams. In Heike Bauer, Andrea Greenbaum, and Sarah Lightman, eds., Bodies and Borders in Jewish Women's Comics (Syracuse: Syracuse Univ. Press, 2023), 17-25.

-Jewish Artists Begin to Make Their Mark. In Adam Mendelsohn and Jonathan Sarna, eds., American Jewish Culture, 1865-1900 (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press), 109-56.

-Audrey Flack: A Force of Nature, in Audrey Flack: A Force of Nature, 1949-1956, exhibition catalog (New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries), 6-31.

-Esther in American Art. In Stuart Halpern, ed., Esther in America: The Scroll's Interpretation in, and Impact on, the United States (New York: Yeshiva Univ. Press, 2020), 219-39.

-Foreword. For Gay Block and Malka Drucker, eds., Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust, 2nd edition (Santa Fe: Radius Books), 9-11.  

-Everyman vs. Superman: Harvey Pekar, Comics, and Cleveland. In John Grabowski and Sean Martin, eds., Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2020), 80-101.

-Moses Jacob Ezekiel's Religious Liberty (1876) and the Nineteenth-Century Jewish American Experience. In Michelle Facos, ed., A Companion to Art in the Long Nineteenth Century: From Revolution to World War (Boston, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018), 1-16.

-Joe Kubert's Yossel: April 19, 1943, Faith, and Art History's Precedents. In Kenneth Koltun-Fromm and Assaf Gamzou, eds., Sacred Texts and Comics: Religion, Faith, and Graphic Narratives (Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2018), 193-210.

-Leon Uris, Mila 18, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in American Culture. In Eliyana Adler and Sheila Jelen, eds., Absorbing Encounters: Constructing American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 2017), 215-43.

-Archie Rand: Sixty Paintings from the Bible. In Samantha Baskind, ed., Archie Rand: Sixty Paintings from the Bible (Cleveland: Galleries at CSU, 2016): 3-27.

-Archie Rand: The Book of Judith. In Samantha Baskind, ed., Archie Rand: The Book of Judith, exh. cat. (Cleveland: Galleries at CSU, 2016), unpaged (8 pages).

-Picturing The Holiest Thing: Joe Kubert's Children of the Warsaw Ghetto. In Derek Parker Royal, ed., Visualizing Jewish Narrative (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), 171-84.

-Peter Blume's Jewish Experience. In Peter Cozzolino, ed., Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), 145-63.

-Perspective from the Fine and Plastic Arts, coauthored with Larry Silver. In Nadia Valman and Laurence Roth, eds., The Routledge Companion to Modern Jewish Cultures (London: Routledge, 2014), 95-107.

-American Jewish Artists. Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies. Edited by David Biale, New York: Oxford Univ. Press. Launched 8/29/2012. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199840731/obo-9780199840731-0081.xml?rskey=LQe0F4&result=1&q=

-There is No There There: Commentary from a Pragmatic Scholar of Jewish American Art. In James Elkins and David Morgan, eds., Re-Enchantment (London: Routledge, 2008), 244-249.

-Reading the Fine Print: Jewish Printmakers in Twentieth-Century America. In Simon Zalkind, ed., Good Impressions: American Master Prints of the 1920's, 30's and 40's (Denver, CO: Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, 2008): unpaged (13 pages).

GUEST EDITOR:

-Co-editor with Chaya Halberstam and Mira Sucharov, AJS Perspectives: The Art Issue (Fall 2021)
https://associationforjewishstudies.org/docs/default-source/ajs-perspectives/ajs_perspectives_fall_2021_web.pdf?Status=Master&sfvrsn=5e20f4a3_3

-Art Editor
Chaya Halberstam and Mira Sucharov, eds., AJS Perspectives: The Protest Issue (Spring 2021)
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/docs/default-source/ajs-perspectives/ajs_perspectives-protest-issue0bd05966-e039-4a1b-9bca-95d884189c07.pdf?sfvrsn=8688cd46_9

-Art Editor
Chaya Halberstam and Mira Sucharov, eds., AJS Perspectives: The Unfinished Issue (Fall 2020)
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/docs/default-source/ajs-perspectives/unfinished/ajs-perspectives-unfinished-web.pdf?sfvrsn=9ef69106_4

BOOK REVIEWS, EXHIBITION REVIEWS, AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES:

-Book review of Is Superman Circumcised?: The Com¬plete Jew¬ish His¬to¬ry of the World¿s Great-est Hero by Roy Schwartz, Jewish Book World (June 2022).

-Book review of Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern, by Charles Dellheim, Jewish Book World (December 2021).

-Minna Citron, Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive, 2021.  

-Audrey Flack, Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive, 2021

-Ruth Gikow, Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive, 2021.

-George Segal, Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 16 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020).

-Book review of Sweet Noise: Love in Wartime, by Max Hirshfeld, Jewish Book World (July 2020).

-Book review of Fighting on All Fronts: John Rothenstein in the Art World, by Adrian Clark, Jewish Historical Studies 51, no. 1 (2020): 342-44.

-Book review of Facing Survival, by David Kassan, Jewish Book World (January 2020).

-Exhibition review of Georgia O¿Keeffe: Living Modern at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 5, no. 1 (Spring 2019).
http://editions.lib.umn.edu/panorama/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/06/Baskind-review-of-Georgia-OKeeffe.pdf

-Book review of Behold the Man: Jesus in Israeli Art, by Amitai Mendelsohn, Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief 15, no. 3 (2019): 381-82.

-Book review of Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene, by Diana Linden, in Richard I. Cohen, ed., Place in Modern Jewish Culture and Society (Studies in Contemporary Jewry) (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018): 257-59.

-Book review of Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art, edited by Irvin Ungar, Jewish Book World (2018).  

-Larry Rivers, in Allgemeines Künsterlexikon (Artists of the World), vol. 99 (Munich/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019), 66-68. In German.

-George Segal, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 22 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020).

-Book review of Looking Jewish: Visual Culture and Modern Diaspora, by Carol Zemel, Ars Judaica 13 (2017): 143-45.

-Book review of The Life and Time of Moses Jacob Ezekiel: American Sculptor, Arcadian Knight, by Peter Adam Nash, American Jewish Archives Journal 68, no. 2 (2016): 115-18.

-Book review of Jewish Mad Men: Advertising and the American Jewish Experience, by Kerri P. Steinberg, American Jewish History 100, no. 2 (April 2016): 295-97.

-Book review of Superman is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way, by Harry Brod, Journal of Jewish Identities 7, no. 2 (July 2014): 88-90.

-Book review of After Weegee, by Daniel Morris, Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture 6 (2013): 170-172.

-Art, American: Before 1940, and Art, American: Since 1940. In Judith Baskin, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish History, Religion, and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011: 30-32, 32-34.

-Ben-Zion, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011: 883-84.

-Book review of From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books, and Masters of the Comic Book Universe Revealed!, by Arie Kaplan, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 29, no. 2 (Winter 2011): 165-68.

-Book review of Imagining Jewish Art: Encounters with the Masters in Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj, by Aaron Rosen, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 29, no. 4 (Summer 2011): 177-79.

-Book review of Marc Chagall on Art and Culture and Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative by Benjamin Harshav, Jewish Quarterly Review 98, no. 1 (Winter 2008): 135-38.

-Jewish Virtual Library, 17 entries on Jewish American artists and Jewish art

-Raphael Soyer, Jack Levine, and Larry Rivers, in Stephen H. Norwood and Eunice Pollack, eds., Encyclopedia of American Jewish History (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, Inc., 2007): 654-55; 658-59; 662-64.

-Art: United States, in Encyclopaedia Judaica, vol. 2, 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan, 2006), 513-517.

-49 entries on Jewish American artists and critics in Encyclopaedia Judaica (22 vols.), 2nd ed. (Detroit: Macmillan, 2006):

Samuel Adler (vol. 1, 407), Saul Baizerman (vol. 3, 69), Will Barnet (vol. 3, 169), Leonard Baskin¿ (vol. 3, 201), Ben Benn (vol. 3, 366-67), Ben-Zion (vol. 3, 392), Theresa Bernstein (vol. 3, 485), Hyman Bloom (vol. 3, 781), Peter Blume (vol. 4, 9), Ilya Bolotowsky (vol. 4, 50), ¿Jonathan Borofsky¿ (vol. 4, 91) Solomon Nunes Carvalho (vol. 4, 502), Judy Chicago (vol. 4, 612), Jo Davidson (vol. 5, 476), ¿Jim Dine¿ (vol. 5, 669-70), Moses Jacob Ezekiel (vol. 6, 648), Herbert Ferber (vol. 6, 759), Helen Frankenthaler (vol. 7, 203-204), Leon Golub¿ (vol. 7, 746), Adolph Gottlieb¿ (vol. 8, 10), Clement Greenberg (vol. 8, 67-68), William Gropper¿ (vol. 8, 94), Philip Guston¿ (vol. 8, 149), Joseph Gutmann (vol. 8, 154), Joseph Hirsch (vol. 9, 126), Alex Katz (vol. 12, 8-9), R.B. Kitaj (vol. 12, 205-206), Lee Krasner (vol. 12, 338), Barbara Kruger (vol. 12, 374-75) Ibram Lassaw (vol. 12, 502-503), Jack Levine (vol. 12, 718), Sol LeWitt (vol. 12, 769-70), Roy Lichtenstein (vol. 12, 799), Seymour Lipton (vol. 13, 77), Morris Louis (vol. 13, 222), Louis Lozowick (vol. 13, 239), Henry Mosler (vol. 14, 564), Louise Nevelson (vol. 15, 129-30), Jules Olitski (vol. 15, 404-405), Philip Pearlstein (vol. 15, 706), Abraham Rattner (vol. 17, 114-15), Larry Rivers (vol. 17, 347), Mark Rothko¿ (vol. 17, 487), George Segal (vol. 18, 246), Richard Serra (vol. 18, 314), Moses Soyer (vol. 19, 65), Raphael Soyer (vol. 19, 65-66), Nancy Spero (vol. 19, 97-98), and William Zorach (vol. 21, 669)

-Book review of Impossible Images: Contemporary Art after the Holocaust, edited by Shelley Hornstein, Laura Levitt, and Laurence J. Silberstein, American Jewish History 91, no. 1 (March 2003): 169-71.

PUBLISHED INTERVIEWS

-Zap! Bam! Swoosh! and So Much More: A Conversation with Jeremy Dauber about American Comics, PB Daily (December 27, 2021.
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/zap-bam-swoosh-and-so-much-more-a-conversation-with-jeremy-dauber-about-american-comics

-Depth and Luminosity: A Conversation with David Kassan, Jewish Book Council (January 2020).

-Plain Dealing Women: Lois Lane and the Origin of the Comic Book Heroine (an Interview with Laura Siegel Larson). Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 9, no. 6 (December 2018), 634-44.

-A Conversation with Miriam Katin. In Samantha Baskind and Ranen Omer-Sherman, eds., The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008), 237-43.

ARTICLES IN THE MAINSTREAM PRESS

-Cleveland¿s Jewish Community Punches Above its Weight Class, Tablet Magazine (February 20, 2024)
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/cleveland-punches-above-weight

-In Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, a nearly 40-year-old sculpture assumes new meaning, Jewish News Syndicate (January 25, 2024)
https://www.jns.org/in-tel-avivs-hostages-square-a-nearly-40-year-old-sculpture-assumes-new-meaning/

-80 Years ago, a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising play aimed to save European Jews,¿ Jewish News Syndicate (April 18, 2023)
https://www.jns.org/80-years-ago-a-warsaw-ghetto-uprising-play-aimed-to-save-european-jews/

-Find Out If Your Ancestor Is Among These 19th-Century Silhouettes in This Newly Digitized Collection, Smithsonian Magazine (April 7, 2023)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/find-out-if-your-ancestor-is-among-these-19th-century-silhouettes-in-this-newly-digitized-collection-180981947/

-Philip Pearlstein Painted the Naked Truth, Smithsonian Magazine (January 9, 2023)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/philip-pearlstein-painted-the-naked-truth-180981407/

-Why the U.S. Rejected, Then Embraced, a Detroit Industrialist¿s Rare Collection of Asian Art, Smithsonian Magazine (December 16, 2022)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-us-rejected-then-embraced-detroit-industrialists-rare-collection-asian-art-180981254/

-Arlington National Cemetery¿s Confederate Monument Has a Troubling History, Washington Post (October 7, 2022)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/10/07/arlington-national-cemetary-confederate-monument/

-also appeared in the Houston Chronicle and Connecticut Post

-The Story Behind One of the Most-Mocked Paintings in U.S. History, Smithsonian Magazine (July-August 2022). In print and online.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/howard-chandler-christy-signing-constitution-mocked-180980344/

-The Lost Story of Lexington, the Record-Breaking Thoroughbred, Races Back to Life, Smithsonian Magazine (June 8, 2022)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/lexington-one-of-the-greatest-race-horses-of-all-time-comes-roaring-back-to-life-180980132/

-Before the Riddler, Batman¿s Archenemy Was Hitler, Smithsonian Magazine (March 3, 2022)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/before-the-riddler-batmans-archenemy-was-hitler-180979667/

-Happy Birthday, George Washington, Washington Post (February 21, 2022)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/02/21/happy-birthday-george-washington/

-What Are We Missing in the Debate Around NYC City Hall¿s Jefferson Statue?, Hyperallergic (November 4, 2021)
https://hyperallergic.com/688942/what-we-are-missing-in-the-debate-around-nyc-city-halls-jefferson-statue/

-The Legacy of Artist Audrey Flack, Smithsonian Magazine (August 2021)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/stand-aside-old-masters-feminist-artist-cultivating-her-old-mistress-legacy-180978318/

-Personal Best: The Photography Dynasty That Made Everyone Look Great, Smithsonian Magazine (June 2021): 7-9.

-Online version titled: The Story Behind the Photography Studio That Captured America
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/bachrach-photography-studio-captured-america-180977701/

-On the Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Recalling the Hope It Offers, Hyperallergic (April 18, 2021)
https://hyperallergic.com/638058/on-the-anniversary-of-the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising-recalling-the-hope-it-offers/

-Siona Benjamin Paints Lilith of the Present, Lilith (March 11, 2021)
https://lilith.org/2021/03/siona-benjamin-paints-lilith-of-the-present/

-The Jewish Sculptor of the Confederacy, Tablet Magazine (January 21, 2021)
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/stonewall-jackson-moses-jacob-ezekiel-vmi

-Which Statues Should Fall?, Jewish Renaissance (October 2020): 13-15.

-Remembering the children of the Warsaw Ghetto on the 75th anniversary of the uprising. Religion News Service (April 19, 2018)
https://religionnews.com/2018/04/19/remembering-the-children-of-the-warsaw-ghetto-on-the-75th-anniversary-of-the-uprising/

-The Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Is About Much More Than Just the Uprising. Time (April 18, 2018)
http://time.com/5245019/warsaw-ghetto-uprising-memory/

-A Warsaw Ghetto TV Drama From Mr. Twilight Zone. Forward (April 19, 2016)
http://forward.com/culture/film-tv/339009/a-warsaw-ghetto-tv-drama-from-mr-twilight-zone/?attribution=articles-article-listing-1-headline