From the Editors ~ Matti Bunzl and Rachel Havrelock


From the President ~ Jonathan D. Sarna


From the Executive Director ~ Rona Sheramy


Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Jürgen Habermas Anxiety and Anti-Semitism: Emotions and Judeophobia ~ Jonathan Judaken


Psychoanalytic Literary Theory and the Hebrew Bible ~ Ilona Rashkow


Trauma, Identity Formation, and Anxiety ~ Tamar Kamionkowski


Spring 2015: The Anxiety Issue Christian Anxieties and Jewish Dreams: Jewish Kingship during the Early Middle Ages ~ Alexandra Cuffel


During recent debates about the conscription of ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Jews, haredi opponents of the draft have distributed flyers like this one decrying what they call hardakim (Haredim kalim, or “Haredim lite”) who conspire with the evil state (this time, the Jewish state of Israel, not Tsarist Russia) to snatch tender young Haredi boys and dispatch them to the army. Image courtesy of Daniel Mahla. Anxiety in Uniform ~ Derek J. Penslar


Etching of Franz Kafka by Jan Hladík, 1978. "Like a Weather Vane in the Mountains": Kafka's Anxieties ~ Iris Bruce


The Curable and Incurable Anxieties of Woody Allen ~ Marat Grinberg


Detail from “Infographic: Survey of Jewish Americans” Pew Research Center, Washington, DC (December, 2013). Two Jewish Anxieties ~ Steven M. Cohen


Artwork Featured in The Anxiety Issue ~ Deb Sokolow