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Esther Schor

Esther Schor is the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor of American Jewish Studies and professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author, most recently, of Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language (Metropolitan Books). She is currently at work on a biography of Horace Kallen.

Fall 2020

Horace Kallen, George Washington, and the Borah Affair

Esther Schor

Was a quote from George Washington about isolationism real or fake, as Senator William Borah maintained, in a serious blow to Horace Kallen’s reputation?

Spring 2019

America’s Jewish Bridegroom

Esther Schor

Horace Kallen can be found in the ill-starred pantheon of prolific writers known for only one thing: one novel, one sonnet, one treatise, or, in his case, one idea. That idea is “cultural pluralism.”

September 5, 2018

“When Orchards Burn Their Lamps of Fiery Gold”

Esther Schor

Emma Lazarus’s 1882 poem for Rosh Hashanah responded to the crises of her day, foreshadowed “The New Colossus,” and resonates today.

Fall 2016

Inventing American Judaism

Esther Schor

Unlike the Jews of Venice, whose charter was anxiously renegotiated every decade or so, American Jews participated in civic life, confidently building themselves a future.

Fall 2011

Freedom Riders

Esther Schor

There is nothing subtle about the theme that runs throughout Philadelphia's National Museum of American Jewish History.