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A Sephardic female odyssey: homecoming in Ruth Knafo Setton’s The Road to Fez Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Chaimae Belahrache, Brahim Barhoun
Moroccan Jewish writer Ruth Knafo Setton’s novel, The Road to Fez, challenges the Eurocentric silencing of Sephardic female agency. Setton depicts a reverse exile through her main character, Brit, ...
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The forgotten wartime letters of Abraham Benaroya (1943–1945): an unusual story of Jewish resistance in Greece and Nazi-Germany Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Shai Srougo
Focusing on Abraham Benaroya, a prominent labor leader in southeastern Europe, this research examines his experiences during World War II, a period often neglected in prior studies. Existing schola...
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Dialogue and challenge: wildflowers in contemporary Israeli art mirrored in history Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Shahar Marnin-Distelfeld
This article looks at images of wildflowers in contemporary Israeli art and their evolution in Israel's visual cultural. Wildflowers were regarded a part of the Zionist ideology in strengthening th...
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“Nothing anti-state was said”: jews and anti-semites in interwar Latvia through the eyes of the local security service, 1924–1940 Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Yaacov Falkov
Since its establishment in the mid-1920s, Latvia’s national security service paid close attention to the country’s Jewish community and its haters among local nationalists. Some Jews were considere...
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The genesis of and internal tensions in the halakhic philosophy of Yeshayahu Leibowitz Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Ari Ackerman
The main focus of scholarship on Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s philosophy and social criticism has been on his books and articles that were composed after his immigration to Palestine in 1935 at the age of...
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The Jews of Mosul and Ezra Laniado’s memorial Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Dena Attar
Iraq's second city Mosul was once home to an ancient Jewish community whose history coincided in part with that of Baghdadis who were the majority of Iraqi Jews, but also differed significantly. Th...
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Live chickens on the balcony and fish in the bathtub: private upkeep of Jewish traditions in the post-war Soviet Union Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Anna Prashizky
This article sheds light on the clandestine maintenance of Jewish traditions in the Soviet Union after World War II, focusing on Ashkenazi Jews in the European part of the country. It draws on post...
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“A heart crushed into a thousand pieces, yet full of joy”: the hybrid emotional ideal for approaching suffering and grief in the Hasidic commentary to the Zohar Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Leore Sachs- Shmueli
This study examines the Hasidic interpretation of the Zohar, focusing specifically on the genre of Hasidic commentaries to the Zohar. Hasidic interpreters positioned themselves within the Kabbalist...
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The Weavers of Trautenau. Jewish Female forced labor in the Holocaust Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Lauren Fedewa
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Re-envisioning Jewish identities: reflections on contemporary culture in Israel and the diaspora Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Sharon Zelnick
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Space and Time under Persecution: The German-Jewish experience in the Third Reich Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Sandra Lipner
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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England’s Jews: finance, violence and the crown in the thirteenth century Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Hope Doherty-Harrison
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Siddur hatefillah: the jewish prayer book. Philosophy, poetry, and mystery Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Alessandro Grazi
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Challenge and conformity: the religious lives of orthodox Jewish women Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Lea Taragin-Zeller
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Derrida's Marrano Passover. Exile, survival, betrayal and the meta-physics of non-identity Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Eva-Maria Aigner
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Shochet: a memoir of Jewish life in Ukraine and Crimea Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Ellie Schainker
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Resonating repentance: selichot and the performance of Mizrahi identity in the Israeli public sphere Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Abigail Wood, Naomi Cohn Zentner
The present article explores the revitalization of the Sephardi selichot (penitential prayers) custom in recent decades in Israel. From melodies that formed part of an early morning synagogue servi...
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Reclaiming Biblical Heroines: Portrayals of Judith, Esther and the Shulamite in Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Art Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Mati Meyer
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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King Zog and the Jews in Albania before World War II Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Visar Malaj
Ahmet Zog was the “King of the Albanians” from September 1928 until April 1939, when the country was invaded by fascist Italy. During his reign Albania experienced an unprecedented period of relati...
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Forms of exile in Jewish literature and thought. Twentieth-century Central Europe and migration to America Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Ari Linden
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Jewish women’s history from antiquity to the present Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Hannah Zaves-Greene
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Transleithanian Paradise. A history of the Budapest Jewish community, 1738–1938 Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Alice Freifeld
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Shadows of identity: the experience of Jewish soldiers in the Ukrainian military Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Nadia Iermakov, Nehemia Stern, Uzi Ben-Shalom
This article delves into the study of Jewish identity within the Ukrainian army, providing a detailed exploration of the experiences of soldiers with Jewish backgrounds fighting at the front lines ...
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Midge and Esty: performing extraordinary Jewish womanhood in twenty-first century television Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Rebekah Slodounik
The two main characters in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017) and Unorthodox (2020), Midge and Esty, traverse, circumvent, and subvert norms of behaviour that their husbands, families, and communitie...
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In search of Zion: reconsidering the political category of Zionist utopias Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Stefania Ragaù
This article focuses on the so-called Zionist utopias in order to reconsider these unprecedented Jewish utopian novels, which arose in the late nineteenth century, from a different perspective to t...
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London Yiddishtown. East end Jewish life in Yiddish sketch and story, 1930-1950. selected works of Katie Brown, A.M. Katzer and I.A. Lisky Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 William Pimlott
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2024)
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Books Received Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-05
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2024)
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A summer of mass murder. 1941 rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Barnabas Balint
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2024)
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Colonialism and the Jews in German history. From the Middle Ages to the 20th century Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Doron Avraham
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2024)
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The plight of Jewish deserted wives, 1851–1900: a social history of east European Agunah Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Yael C.B. Machtinger
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Surviving the ghetto. Toward a social history of the Jewish community in 16th century Rome Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Elena Lolli
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2024)
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Performing modernism: a Jewish avant-garde in Bucharest Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Corina L. Petrescu
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Viktor Frankl and the Shoah: advancing the debate Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Ruth Murphy
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The mind of the Holocaust perpetrator in fiction and nonfiction Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Stephanie Bird
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2024)
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Jacob’s younger brother: Christian-Jewish relations after Vatican II Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Peter Admirand
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2024)
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The compromise of return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Joseph Cronin
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2024)
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The people of the book and the camera: photography in the Hebrew Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Ayelet Kohn
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2024)
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Listening to the languages of the people: Lazare Sainean on Romanian, Yiddish and French Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Nicola Perencin
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Hybrid Hate. Conflations of antisemitism and anti-Black racism from the renaissance to the Third Reich Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Clive Gabay
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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“The soul seeks its melodies”. Music in Jewish thought Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Guy Shaked
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2024)
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Israel. A history in 100 cartoons Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Matt Reingold
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2024)
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United we stand, divided we fall. Union organization and political activism among Jewish woodworkers in early-twentieth-century Buenos Aires Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Walter L. Koppmann
This article focuses on the formation of the working class in Argentina, specifically within the Jewish East-European sector of the furniture industry during the early twentieth century. It examine...
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From getto to swamps? Lasting Nazi fake news about sending deported Jews to drain the Pripet Marshes Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Sławomir Łotysz
Beginning in October 1941, a rumour circulated in the occupied territories and in the press of the free world that Jews deported from the ghettos were being sent to the Pripet Marshes for land recl...
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The Purity and Sanctuary of the Body in Second Temple Judaism Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Sandra Jacobs
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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Mosaic Fictions: writing identity in the Spanish Civil War Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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Books received Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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Embodied differences. The Jew's body and materiality in Russian literature and culture Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Maria Rubins
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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Deḇar Śepatayim: an Ottoman Hebrew chronicle from the Crimea (1683–1730) Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Golda Akhiezer
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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Contextualizing Jewish temples Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Angela Costley
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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The underground world of secret Jews and Africans: two tales of sex, magic, and survival in colonial Cartagena and Mexico City Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Aimee Dávila Hisey
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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The Jews of England and the revolutionary era, 1789-1815 Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Shmuel Feiner
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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Disputed Messiahs: Jewish and Christian messianism in the Ashkenazic world during the reformation Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Bryan Givens
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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Shadows in the city of light: Paris in postwar French Jewish writing Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Sean Hand
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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Latent memory: human rights and Jewish identity in Pinochet's Chile Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Gustavo Guzmán
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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Reappraising the history of the Jews in the Netherlands Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Sietske van der Veen
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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The Superwoman and other writings by Miriam Michelson Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Emma Berg Saavedra
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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Israeli foreign policy: a people shall not dwell alone Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Geoffrey Levin
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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The Rebellion of the Daughters. Jewish women runaways in Habsburg Galicia Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Scott Berg
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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“Wahrscheinlich wird es unser Untergang sein” Der Bericht von Erich und Elsbeth Frey an ihre ausgewanderten Töchter (1942) [This will probably be our destruction: the report of Erich and Elsbeth Frey for their emigrated daughters] Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Anna Hájková
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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Advertising occultism in the Jewish press in Poland Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Samuel Glauber
Press advertisements are a key source for the history of Jewish occultism in Eastern Europe. From the late nineteenth century, modern occult currents engaged many Jews in Eastern Europe, who consul...