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The mind of the Holocaust perpetrator in fiction and nonfiction Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Stephanie Bird
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Jacob’s younger brother: Christian-Jewish relations after Vatican II Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Peter Admirand
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Performing modernism: a Jewish avant-garde in Bucharest Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Corina L. Petrescu
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The compromise of return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Joseph Cronin
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 Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Ruth Murphy
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The people of the book and the camera: photography in the Hebrew Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Ayelet Kohn
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Listening to the languages of the people: Lazare Sainean on Romanian, Yiddish and French Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 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 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 Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Guy Shaked
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Israel. A history in 100 cartoons Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Matt Reingold
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 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 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 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 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 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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Advertising occultism in the Jewish press in Poland Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 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...
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Books received Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Anna Hájková
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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Why are these Passover ads different from all other ads? Sephardim, Ashkenazim, and the American Jewish consumer identity Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Makena Mezistrano
This study uses advertisements for matzah from two prominent American Jewish language newspapers – Forverts in Yiddish, La Vara in Ladino – to demonstrate that matzah was a common cultural and reli...
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Hidden in plain sight: advertisements for Jewish ritual objects in Germany, 1871–1933 Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Hannah-Lea Wasserfuhr
Jewish ritual objects are rather niche products and yet, the advertisements, as well as other factors, indicate an industrial scale production during the German Second Empire (1871–1918) and the We...
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Advertisements in the historical Jewish press: an introduction Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Agnieszka Jagodzińska
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Resilience and identity: a study of Jewish Lebanese citizens’ experiences and perspectives Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Leila Uwaydah
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Jewish child soldiers in the bloodlands of Europe Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Roos Haer
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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Out of Africa: letters of Jewish detainees in the British internment camps, 1944–1948 Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Daniela Ozacky Stern
This paper explores the experiences of Jewish right-wing underground members who were imprisoned in detention camps in Eritrea, Sudan, and Kenya during the British Mandate rule over Palestine from ...
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Books Received Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Yaron Peleg
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 22, No. 4, 2023)
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The Kosher Capones: a history of Chicago’s Jewish gangsters Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Michael Woodiwiss
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Staging Hillula: Ariel Bension and Avraham Zvi Idelsohn in early twentieth-century Jerusalem Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Edwin Seroussi, James Loeffler
The writer, Zohar scholar and Zionist activist Ariel Bension (1880–1932) has attracted attention of late from scholars seeking to recover an alternative vision of Zionism with Mizrahi roots in Otto...
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Cochin in Sethu’s Aliyah: provincializing Jewish identity Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Jintu Alias, Soni Wadhwa
ABSTRACT An interest in Jewish topographies involves looking at Jewish presence in locations that help relocalize Jewish space. In this article, we argue that the task of reading Jewish identity as a diaspora community calls for a location and geography specific response, especially in aesthetic discourses that unfold Jewish identity situated outside the Eurocentric contexts. Such location-specific
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The nun in the synagogue. Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Eugene J. Fisher
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2024)
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Unity and diversity in contemporary antisemitism: the Bristol-Sheffield Hallam colloquium on contemporary antisemitism Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Alvin H. Rosenfeld
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Jewish religious architecture: from Biblical Israel to modern Judaism Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Barry L. Stiefel
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Yiddish historians and the struggle for a Jewish history of the Holocaust Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Tomasz Kamusella
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Debra Shostak
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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A Woman Called Moses: a prophet for our time Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Nathan MacDonald
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 22, No. 4, 2023)
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Singing in a foreign land: Anglo-Jewish poetry 1812-1847 Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Joseph Phelan
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 22, No. 4, 2023)
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Perfect goodness and the God of the Jews: a contemporary Jewish theology Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 John Barton
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 22, No. 4, 2023)
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Kurt Eisner. A modern life Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Jakub S. Beneš
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 22, No. 4, 2023)
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Forgotten genocide. Khurbm, 1914-1922: prelude to the holocaust: the beginning Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Eric Lohr
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 22, No. 4, 2023)
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Andalus and Sefarad: on philosophy and its history in Islamic Spain Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Charles Burnett
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 22, No. 4, 2023)
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“The messiah waits for you!”: agency and Zionism in the German-Jewish reception of a Talmudic tale Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Ghilad H. Shenhav
ABSTRACT This article presents the unique reception of the Talmudic tale about the messiah at the gates of Rome (BT, Sanhedrin 98a) among German-Jewish intellectuals in the early twentieth century. Thereby, the article offers a new perspective on the relations between messianism, Zionism, and human agency in German-Jewish thought. In tractate Sanhedrin, Yehoshua ben Levi asks the messiah about the
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Cartooning from the right: Israel’s Religious Zionist cartoonists and the judicial overhaul Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Matt Reingold
ABSTRACT Political cartoons are valuable cultural artifacts which not only capture moments in time but also offer the illustrator’s insight into those moments. This essay examines how three of Israel’s Religious Zionist cartoonists have illustrated the first three months of the 2023 nationwide protests and the judicial overhaul that sparked them. Shay Charka, Or Reichert, and Reut Bortz all self-identify
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Minorities aiding minorities? British Jewish response to Armenian suffering in the late Victorian era Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Oded Steinberg
ABSTRACT This essay delves into the humanitarian response of British Jews towards the suffering of the Armenians during the Hamidian massacres (1894–7). The essay argues that this humanitarian act is a very early and hardly known attempt by Jews to aid members of other non-Jewish groups. This “external” humanitarian act perhaps fits the scholarly argument concerning the nineteenth century’s watershed
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Minister Eötvös’s alliance with Neolog Jewry in Hungary and his defeat at 1868–69 Jewish Congress Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Gábor Gángó
ABSTRACT Considering the importance of Minister Baron József Eötvös (1813–1871) in the study of Jewish history and tradition in Hungary, this article undertakes a thorough revision of his life and activities. It focuses on a critical point in his Jewish policies: the 1868–69 Jewish Congress. The first part of the article analyzes Eötvös’s pre-1848 thinking and activities in the context of the social
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Killing out of compassion: disability, care, and the value of life in the early decades of Israeli statehood Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Marco Di Giulio
ABSTRACT This article examines the case of Gizela Kafri, who stood trial for killing her severely disabled three-year-old son in 1964. This case sparked a public debate over mercy killing and eventually contributed to the passage of the “Law for the Treatment of Retarded Persons” in Israel five years later. Placing this event within its broader historical context reveals how competing valuations of
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Books Received Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-23
Published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 22, No. 3, 2023)
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The text and context of Regina Jonas’s Halakhic work ‘Kann die Frau das rabbinische Amt bekleiden?’ Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Sarah Wobick-Segev
ABSTRACT This article proposes a close reading of Jonas’s halakhic treatise with two central goals. The first is to locate Jonas’s text within the broader debates on the changing role of women in Judaism and contemporary European society and the changing role of rabbis in Central Europe (and beyond). We will see how her thesis reflected broader social and cultural trends that shaped modern European
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Between familiarity and strangeness: Russian Jews in Josep Sabah’s letters from the coast of Entre Ríos Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Adriana Kanzepolsky
This article analyzes the correspondence exchanged between Josep Sabah, a teacher originally from the Ottoman Empire, and the leaders of the Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Jewish Colonizati...
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Acting out for the camera: performing Mizrahi masculinity and the politicisation of the Jerusalem neighbourhood, Katamon Tet Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi
Photographs taken in 1978 by photographer Yàakov Shofar portray teenage boys from Katamon Tet, an impoverished Mizrahi Jerusalem neighbourhood. The boys playfully perform for the camera. In one pho...
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Ladino in Latin America Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Regina Igel
Struggle against oblivion may be the common denominator linking the Sephardic culture, as Prof. Jacobo Sefami rightly observes. Involved in this struggle in the literary field are the Mexican autho...