The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $250,000 grant to rewrite the history of the Jews in the Middle East. By Lyn Julius, JNS.org For some years now, the creeping politicization of the arts and social sciences in Western universities has been a cause for concern. Now the rewriting of Jewish history in the Middle East and North Africa has received a huge boost. The U.S.-based academics Lior Sternfeld, Michelle Campos and Orit Bashkin have been awarded a $250,000 grant to “reimagine” Jewish life in the Middle East before Zionism. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), one...