Makom Issue No. 1 (PDF)
The University of Chicago’s Undergraduate Journal of Jewish Thought January 2012 / Tevet 5772, Issue No. 1
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief Ethan Schwartz
The Identity of Commemorative Music: Holocaust Repertoire within the Western Canon Kirsten Paige
Textual Intercourse: Exploring the Sexual Laws of the Torah Hannah Spiro
The Reconstructed American Jew: Mordecai Kaplan’s Enduring Influence Jeremy Rozansky
Toward a Constructive Tisha B’Av: Rethinking the Saddest Day of the Jewish Year Michael Lipkowitz
Symposium: Jewish Chosenness and the Contemporary World Doni Bloomfield, Chana Messinger, Ethan Schwartz, Zev Hurwich, Dory Fox, Jonathan Nathan
The Tourist Police Dory Fox
Something Like Home Zachary Conn
Yehuda Amichai’s “Gods Come and Go, the Prayers Remain Forever”: An original translation from the Hebrew Etan Heller
Makom Issue No. 2 (PDF)
The University of Chicago’s Undergraduate Journal of Jewish Thought June 2012 / Sivan 5772, Issue No. 2
Letter from the Layout Editor Danya Lagos
When Is Now, Now? Martin Buber’s Conception of Time Michael Snow
Redemptive Violence: Meir Kahane and the Reworking of Identity Max Budovitch
Symposium: Jewish Communities on the Margins Jeremy Rozansky, Eliza Brown, Kayla Higgins, Elli Cohn, Ethan Schwartz
Esther and Action: Beyond a Narrative of Development Faith Laken
Why Is This Other Different from All Other Others? Love in the Time of Passover Eric M Gurevitch
Bernard Malamud’s The Fixer: Violent Accusations and Accusations of Violence Dory Fox
“You’re an Anti-Dentite!” The Representation of Jews on Television Since the Nineties Eric Thurm
Sticky Hands Danya Lagos
Makom Issue No. 3 (PDF)
The University of Chicago’s Undergraduate Journal of Jewish Thought January 2013/ Tevet 5773, Issue No. 3
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief Gabriel Shapiro
Phinehas, Abraham, and the Ethics of Imagination Michael Francus
The Universality of Suffering: A Theological Commentary on Chagall's White Crucifixion Michael Goldschmidt
How Jewish was the Holocaust? Jon Catlin
Symposium: Sociology and Theology in Jewish Religious Practice Jonathan Nathan, Dory Fox, Kayla Kirshenbaum, Eric Singerman, and Avi Levin
"She Got What She Deserved": Representations of Transgressive Womanhood in Jewish Literature, 1900-1924 Leah Reis-Dennis
Great Art and the Unending Story of Joseph Gabriel Shapiro
Makom Issue No. 4 (PDF)
The University of Chicago’s Undergraduate Journal of Jewish Thought May 2013 / Sivan 5773, Issue No. 4
Letter from the Layout Editor Dory Fox
Jahzeiah Leo Mercer
A Wittgensteinian Reading of “The Golden Calf ” Doni Bloomfield
Symposium: Is There A Jewish Aesthetic? Jonathan Nathan, Michael Francus, Eric Gurevitch, Jonathan Katz, and Dory Fox
Communion of the “I,” “Thou,” and “He”: the Conditions and Limits of Community for Emmanuel Levinas and Joseph B. Soloveitchik Libbi Williams
Rabbis, Politics, and Dissent: How Should Our Clergy Engage in Affairs of State? Ben Silver
The Stories We Don’t Tell: A Review of the film The Flat Eliza Brown
Makom Issue No. 5 (PDF)
The University of Chicago’s Undergraduate Journal of Jewish Thought April 2014 / Nissan 5774, Issue No. 5
Letter from the Co-Editor-in-Chief Doni Bloomfield
Medical and Rabbinical Authority Regarding Intersex, Gender Identity, and Jewish Law Danya Lagos
Catastrophe as Religious Experience: Levinas, Leibowitz, and the Shoah Jonathon Catlin
Theodor Herzl's Political Zionism and the Jewish Nation-State Kyuhyun Jo
Conflicting Agency, Baseless Choices, and the Modern Orthodox Jew Josh Halpern
Gender and the Avot Ben Silver
Makom Issue No. 6 (PDF)
The University of Chicago Undergraduate Journal of Jewish Studies June 2019, Issue No. 6
Letter from the Editors Hillel Steinmetz and Raina Weinstein
On Mount Moriah Gilad Barach
The Use of Accents and Pausal Forms in List Sections of the Twenty-One “Prose” Books of the Hebrew Bible Kadya Chavkin
Rabbi’s Parentage and the Rabbinic Patriarchate Evan Gorstein
From the General to the Specific: The State of Israel in Rav Soloveitchik’s Political Philosophy Benjamin Simon
Rabbinic Conceptions of Torah In Avot And Its Role in The Establishment of a New Religious Society Hillel Steinmetz
Mission Statement
Makom aims to provide undergraduates from the University of Chicago and elsewhere with a forum for serious intellectual engagement with Jewish topics. Targeted specifically at undergraduates and drawing upon the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, Makom seeks to create a space that is serious enough to stimulate genuine and fulfilling discourse while comfortable enough to encourage undergraduates to take risks in their thinking and writing about Jewish issues. Of particular relevance are Jewish students who want to engage with their Jewishness in a more intellectual way, and students of all backgrounds who are interested in Jewish studies but whose primary academic focus is in a different area. For the former, Makom offers a space in which the intellectual life that is characteristic of the University can be applied specifically to exploring Jewish identity, and for the latter, a space in which they can safely investigate their academic interests in Jewish studies. Ultimately, Makom strives to cultivate a rich undergraduate discourse on Jewish topics, to connect undergraduates with the Center for Jewish Studies, and to contribute to both the academic and Jewish communities of the University of Chicago.
Editorial Policy
Makom encourages submissions from undergraduate students interested in Jewish studies in the form of essays, articles, reviews, works of art, opinion pieces, and letters to the editor. Submissions will be accepted and published on the basis of their relevance to Makom’s mission statement, space available, and on their intellectual and creative merit. However, Makom reserves the right to decline to publish submissions based on the discretion of the editors, and to edit any material submitted for publication for spelling, grammar, length, and both legal and professional standards of journalistic integrity. No anonymous submissions will be published.
Commitment to Intellectual Diversity
Makom is dedicated to appropriately representing undergraduates’ diversity of views on Jewish issues. Our commitment is to serious intellectual engagement with Judaism and Jewishness, not to any specific stances that such engagement may take. As such, the opinions articulated herein are to be understood as solely those of the authors, and not necessarily reflective of the Makom editorial board.