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Book SynopsisWinner of the Jewish Music Special Interest Group Paper Prize of 2018 Mazal Tov, Amigos! Jews and Popular Music in the Americas seeks to explore the sphere of Jews and Jewishness in the popular music arena in the Americas. It offers a wide-ranging review of new and old trends from an interdisciplinary standpoint, including history, musicology, ethnomusicology, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and even Queer studies. The contribution of Jews to the development of the music industry in the United States, Argentina, or Brazil cannot be measured on a single scale. Hence, these essays seek to explore the sphere of Jews and popular music in the Americas and their multiple significances, celebrating the contribution of Jewish musicians and Jewishness to the development of new musical genres and ideas.Trade Review“By placing chapters on Jews and popular music in the USA alongside chapters on their South American analogues, the context of these studies becomes subtly altered. This isn’t just because the Argentinian and Brazilian artists discussed are often much less well known globally than American ones, but also because a ‘hemispheric’ focus enables – potentially at least – a destabilisation of the sometimes inward-looking perspective that dominates discussions of Jews, popular music and the USA. As Cohen argues: ‘By adding Jewishness to [the] multidimensional North–South topography, existing histories of political upheaval, activism, population movement, and zealous diplomacy gain new veins of inquiry’ (p. 241). Or, to put it another way, by considering North and South American Jewish popular music together, we might be able to re-position Jewish music in the Diaspora communities of the Americas into a more fluid notion of Diaspora.” Keith Kahn-Harris, Popular Music, Volume 36 - Issue 1 - January 2017Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction, Amalia Ran & Moshe Morad 1. Is "White Christmas" a Piece of Jewish Music?, Ellen Koskoff 2. The Musical Worlds of Jewish Buenos Aires, 1910-1940, Pablo Palomino 3. Tristes Alegrías: The Jewish Presence in Argentina’s Popular Music Arena, Amalia Ran 4. Jacob de Bandolim: A Jewish(-)Brazilian Composer, Thomas George Caracas García 5. Walls of Sound: Lieber and Stoller, Phil Spector, the Black-Jewish Alliance, and the “Enlarging” of America, Ari Katorza 6. Singing from Difference: Jewish Singers-Songwriters in the 1960s and 1970s, Jon Stratton 7. ¡Toca maravilloso! Larry Harlow and the Jewish Connection to Latin Music, Benjamin Lapidus 8. Roberto Juan Rodriguez’ “Timba Talmud”: Diasporic Cuban-Jewish Musical Convergences in New York, Nili Belkind 9. Yiddish Song in Twenty-First Century America: Paths to Creativity, Abigail Wood 10. Fight for Your Right to Partycipate: Jewish American Rappers, Uri Dorchin 11. Gypsy, Cumbia, Cuarteto, Surf, Blah Blah Blah: DJ Simja Dujov and Jewish Musical Eclecticism in Argentina, Lilian M. Wohl 12. Queer Jewish Divas: Jewishness and Queerness in the Life and Performance of Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, and Olga Guillot, Moshe Morad 13. Third Diaspora Soundscapes: Music of the Jews of Islam in the Americas, Edwin Seroussi Closing Notes: The Soundstage of Jewish Life, North and South, Judah M. Cohen Index

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Book SynopsisThe Cairo Genizah has preserved a vast number of medieval and post-medieval letters written in the Jewish variety of Arabic. The linguistic peculiarities of these letters provide an invaluable source for the understanding of the history of the Arabic language and the development of Arabic dialects. This work compares and contrasts various linguistic features of Judaeo-Arabic letters from different periods, and is one of the first studies to present a comprehensive linguistic investigation into non-literary Judaeo-Arabic. Its main focus is to provide an extensive diachronic linguistic description, while distinguishing between features of epistolary Arabic and vernacular phenomena. This study should be of interest to anyone working on the Arabic language, sociolinguistics, general historical linguistics and language typology. "...in the extant volume she [Wagner] has clearly demonstrated that Judeo-Arabic letters are to be viewed as primary source material, capturing important aspects of language understanding of Jews and Judaism in the medieval and early modern Islamic world, and therefore providing essential insights into the linguistic function of a substandard language or ethnolect like Judeo-Arabic." Wout van Bekkum, BiOr no. LXX 3/4Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. General Methodology 3. Corpus 4. Phonology and Orthography 5. Morphology 6. Letter Style, Presentation and Lexicon 7. Syntax 8. General Trends in the Judaeo-Arabic Letters from the Genizah

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Book SynopsisRecent nation-wide surveys of the Jews of France yielded a detailed picture of this community, one of the largest Jewish Diaspora populations, with a long and rich history. This book presents results and analyses of this survey for the first time in English. Key issues explored include demographics, representations of Jewish identity, expressions of community solidarity, social issues, and values. Data was analyzed using multi-dimensional techniques, revealing underlying structural relationships and an axiological typology. The translation of the French edition was expanded for accessibility to an English-speaking audience, including a background on history, socio-political climate and related philosophical works. The cumulative result is the most up-to-date and comprehensive look at the Jews of France at the turn of the third millennium. "...the empirical centerpiece of Cohen’s study is sound, invaluable, and often highly illuminating. In the short space provided this reviewer could not fully do justice to the wealth of information presented there..." Ethan Katz, University of CincinnatiTrade Review"A valuable addition to recent studies of French Jewry; is recommended to all College and University collections." Roger S. Kohn, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews (2012) Vol. 2, No. 1Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to the Jewish Community of France Chapter 2: Empirical Study of the Jews of France at the Turn of the Millennium Chapter 3: French-Jewish Philosophical Writings on Jewish Identity Chapter 4: Reflections and Conclusions on the Jews of France at the Turn of the Third Millennia

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Book SynopsisIn Private Salons and the Art World of Enlightenment Paris, Rochelle Ziskin explores in depth two remarkable private gatherings generating significant art criticism during the middle of the eighteenth century. She demonstrates how the sites harboring them came to embody and disseminate their judgments. One politically active group assembled at the house Mme Doublet shared with amateur Petit de Bachaumont; at her “Mondays” for artists, Mme Geoffrin collaborated with the powerful lover of antiquity Caylus and amateurs including Mariette and Watelet. In focusing on official Salons of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, historians too often overlook the crucial role of these frequent, regular assemblies, where works of art were quite often first assessed and taste shaped. This book will appeal to readers interested in eighteenth-century French artistic culture, journalism, and women’s patronage. The painters discussed include Boucher, Van Loo, Charles Coypel, Cochin, Vien, Pierre, Lagrenée, and Hubert Robert.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Maps Abbreviations Introduction: Two virtuoses, Mme Doublet and Mme Geoffrin 1 Mme Doublet, Bachaumont and “the Parish”  1 The Maison Doublet in 1722  2 The Parish: “Learned Men of All Kinds”  3 The Maison Doublet, Breuilpont and “the Parish”  4 The Boyer Brothers and the Parish  5 “La jolie tête” and “les deux frères:” The Ferriol  6 “The Good Doctor,” “Sage Mairan” and Sainte-Palaye  7 The “Five abbés”  8 An Outpost of the Palais-Royal 2 Shaping Taste, Academic Reform, and Saving the Louvre  1 Reinvigorating the Academy  2 Artists in Paris ca. 1750  3 Saving the Louvre  4 Essai sur la peinture, la sculpture et l’architecture (1751) 3 Politics, Art, Journalism, and Bonds of Friendship at the Maison Doublet  1 Gallicanism, Parlement, and the Parish  2 The abbé Laugier and the Parish  3 The La Curne Brothers: Erudition and Art  4 “La présidente de Meinières, Who Loves Letters”  5 The Maison Doublet 4 Wednesdays and Mondays: Mme Geoffrin and Her bureaux d’esprit and des arts  1 Shaping Taste: Mme Geoffrin’s “Mondays”  2 Caylus: Leading at the Academy, Presiding at the lundis (1747–1752)  3 Who Attended the lundis?  4 Collector Friends: The marquis de Voyer and comte de Vence  5 Paintings, Manuscripts, and Books: Gaignat (1697–1768)  6 Art and Social Mobility: Gaillard de La Bouëxière (1676–1759)  7 “Patriotic” Collecting: Ange-Laurent La Live de Jully (1725–1775)  8 “Nothing … but Van Loos, Bouchers, Pierres, Viens, Doyens”: The Collection of Watelet  9 Other Amateurs at the lundis during the Fifties  10 Marigny’s “compagnons de voyage”: Cochin, Soufflot and abbé Le Blanc  11 Artists of the lundis 5 Paintings Made “Under My Eyes”  1 Antiquity, Encaustic, and “Costume”  2 Mme Geoffrin and Van Loo: They Argued, … They Laughed, They Cried … and … the Painting … Was Finished  3 Apelles Resuscitated: Vien and Mme Geoffrin  4 Vernet: “Imagination” and “Fire”  5 Laborde: Vernet, Greuze, and the Painter’s Revenge  6 Vernet, Boucher and the petit cabinet  7 Hubert Robert: Intimate Views of Mme Geoffrin  8 Lagrenée the Elder and Mme Geoffrin’s “Clandestine Devotion”  9 Mme Geoffrin’s cabinet de compagnie 6 Epilogue: Mme Geoffrin: Advocate and Liaison  1 Agent for the English Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Economic History of European Jews attempts to make sense of the economic foundations of Jewish life in the different parts of late antique and early medieval Europe. In the first part Michael Toch describes the demographic arc, decline, subsequent rise, and spatial distribution of Jewish populations. This data is then broadened to include the range of economic activities. The second part analyses the actual share of Jews in different branches of the economy. This includes the idea of their pioneer role and the notion of an intercontinental network of Jewish commerce, the phenomenon of Jews in agriculture and entrepreneurship, gender roles and the household mode of production, and the difficult subject of the significance of minority status for economic activity, among other subjects. "This is the most up-to-date scholarly reassessment of a century of both overly optimistic and occasionally negative interpretations of Jewish population and economic activities, a boon to students and researchers of the first millennium of the Jewish experience in Europe, and an interesting read for the general public." S. Bowman, University of CincinnatiTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Part I: Stocktaking: Regional Populations and Livelihoods Chapter 1. Byzantium Chapter 2. Italy Chapter 3. Gaul, the Lands of the Franks, France and Germany Chapter 4. The Iberian Peninsula Chapter 5. Eastern Europe Part II: Economic Functions and Significance Chapter 6. Jews, Commerce and Money Chapter 7. Landholding, Crafts, Enterprises, Medicine, and the Internal Jewish Economy Chapter 8. Historical Conclusions Maps Appendix 1: Places of Jewish Settlement in the Byzantine Empire Appendix 2: Places of Jewish Settlement in Italy Appendix 3: Places of Jewish Settlement in France and Germany Appendix 4: Places of Jewish Settlement in Iberia Bibliography

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Book SynopsisEurope is in the midst of a rapid political and economic unification. What does this mean for the Jewish minority – numbering less than 2 million people and still suffering from the aftermath of the Shoah? Will the Jewish communities participate in Europe’s bold venture without risking total assimilation? Are they vibrant enough to form a new Jewish center alongside Israel and the American Jewish community, or are they hopelessly divided and on a “Road to Nowhere”? Different perspectives are predicted, relating to demographical, cultural and sociological aspects. This volume provides exciting, thorough and controversial answers by renowned scholars from Europe, Israel, North- and Latin America – many of them also committed to local Jewish community building.Table of ContentsContents Part I: The Jewish World Context Jews in Europe: Demographic Trends, Contexts and Outlooks Sergio DellaPergola The European Jewish Diaspora: The Third Pillar of World Jewry? Gabriel Sheffer Cultural Pluralism as an American Zionist Option for Solidarity and its Relevance for Today's European Jewry Ofer Schiff Part II: European Jewish Experiences Between Eurasia and Europe: Jewish Community and Identities in Contemporary Russia and Ukraine Vladimir Ze'ev Khanin A Dual, Divided Modernization. Reflections on 200 Years of the Jewish Reform Movement in Germany Micha Brumlik Ghosts of the Past, Challenges of the Present: New and Old "Others" in Contemporary Spain Raanan Rein/ Martina Weisz The Dialectics of the Diaspora. On the Art of Being Jewish in the Swedish Minority Lars Dencik Does European Jewry need a New Ethnic Spiritual Umbrella? Reflections Yosef Gorny Farewell to Europe? On French Jewish Skepticism about the New Universalism Pierre Birnbaum The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora. New Ethno-National Constellations since 1989 Michal Y. Bodeman Reading Between the Lines. Assertion and Reassertion in European Jewish Life Antony Lerman Part III: Anti Semitism, Israel and Jewish Politics Hate Against the Others. About the Fatal Chain Creating Xenophobia and Anti-Semitism Thomas Gergely "Anti-Semites of the Continent Unite!" Is the East Still Different? Raphael Vago Anti-Semitism or Judeophobia? The intellectual Debate in France 2000-2005 Denis Charbit From Anti-Jewish Prejudice to Political Anti-Semitism? On Dynamics of Anti-Semitism in Post-Communist Hungary A Mediterranean Bridge over Troubled Water. Cultural Ideas on How to Reconcile Israel with Its Neighbors and with Europe David Ohana The Future of European Jewry - A Changing Condition in a Changing Context? Shmuel Trigano

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Book SynopsisIn Poetry and Memory in Karaite Prayer Joachim Yeshaya offers an edition of liturgical poems which the Karaite poet Moses Darʿī composed in twelfth-century Egypt as introductory poems for the Torah readings on each Sabbath. The Hebrew text and Judaeo-Arabic heading of each poem are provided in the original order attested in the manuscript NLR Evr. I 802, dated to the fifteenth century. Every poem comes with a commentary section consisting of English commentary essays and bilingual (Hebrew / English) line-by-line annotations. In the conclusion following this edition, Joachim Yeshaya demonstrates how Darʿī’s liturgical poems are among the earliest examples of the introduction of poetry, Andalusian Rabbanite poetical norms, and the “memory” of being exiled from Jerusalem into Karaite prayer.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Transliteration of Arabic Transliteration of Hebrew Introduction Chapter 1 Karaite Liturgy and Poetry Chapter 2 Language, Rhetoric, Prosody Chapter 3 Thematic Elements Chapter 4 Edition Conclusion Alphabetical List of Poems Nos. 1-96 Alphabetical List of Biblical Names Variant Readings Bibliography Index of Names and Subjects Plate Section

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Book SynopsisUnwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933–1945 reconstructs a largely unknown history: during the Second World War, the Mexican government closed its doors to Jewish refugees expelled by the Nazis. In this comprehensive investigation, based on archives in Mexico and the United States, Daniela Gleizer emphasizes the selectiveness and discretionary implementation of post-revolutionary Mexican immigration policy, which sought to preserve mestizaje—the country’s blend of Spanish and Indigenous people and the ideological basis of national identity—by turning away foreigners considered “inassimilable” and therefore “undesirable.” Through her analysis of Mexico’s role in the rescue of refugees in the 1930s and 40s, Gleizer challenges the country’s traditional image of itself as a nation that welcomes the persecuted. This book is a revised and expanded translation of the Spanish El exilio incómodo. México y los refugiados judíos, 1933-1945, which received an Honorable Mention in the LAJSA Book Prize Award 2013.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chaper 1: BACKGROUND Chaper 2: JEWISH REFUGE: A EUROPEAN PROBLEM, 1933–1937 Chapter 3: THE KEY YEAR: 1938 Chapter 4: FROM PROJECTS FOR JEWISH COLONIZATION TO GREATER INFLEXIBILITY, 1939–1940 Chapter 5: SIGNS OF A THAW? THE EARLY YEARS OF MANUEL ÁVILA CAMACHO’S GOVERNMENT, 1941–1942 Chapter 6: THE URGENCY OF REFUGE: 1943–1945 Final Thoughts Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Renaissance to Risorgimento, the Hebrew tombstones of Padua express the cultural currents of their age, in text and art. The inscriptions are mainly rhymed and metered poems, about life, love and faith, while the design and ornamentation of the actual stones reflect prevailing architectural and artistic tastes. Additionally, the inscriptions illuminate the society of Padua's Jews, and the social and cultural changes they underwent during the 330 years covered by this study. Thus these tombstones capture the flow of Italian Jewish culture from Renaissance to Baroque, and from the early modern to the modern era.Trade Review"In conclusion, the book Stones Speak – Hebrew Tombstones from Padua, 1529-1862 is an important contribution to our historical knowledge of the Jewish cemeteries in Italy. It is our hope it will also contribute to the development of future conservation projects of the important and rich architectural and sculptural heritage of Italian Jewry." -Andrea Morpurgo,Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, Issue 10 (Dec 2016).Table of ContentsIntroduction I. Words II. Stones III. Lives Afterword Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Comfort of Kin Monika Schreiber presents a study of the social and religious life of the Samaritans, a minority in modern Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Utilizing approaches ranging from anthropological theory and method to comparative history and religion, she approaches this community from diverse empirical and epistemic angles. Her account of the Samaritans, usually studied for their Bible and their role in ancient history, is enriched by a thorough treatment of the Samaritan family, a powerful institution rooted in notions of patrilineal descent and perpetuated in part by consanguineous marriage (which differs from incest in degree rather than in kind). Schreiber also discusses how the tiny community is affected by its demographic predicament, intermarriage, and identity issues.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Who Are the Samaritans? Part I: Samaritan Ethnicity and Community Chapter 1: A Community of Faith Chapter 2: An Accidental People: A Survey of Samaritan History Chapter 3: A Community of Practice Chapter 4: No Exit, No Entrance? The Bounds of Community Part II: Samaritan Family and Marriage Chapter 5: It’s All in the Family: From Ethnic Identity to Practical Kinship Chapter 6. Bintī li-ibn ʿammhā—My Daughter Is for Her Cousin: Samaritan Marital Preferences Chapter 7: Too Close for Comfort? A Critical View of an Ancient Legacy Chapter 8: Single, Samaritan, Male: A Local Discourse on Minority and Choice Chapter 9: The Family Politic Epilogue: Will the Samaritans Endure?

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Book SynopsisA Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar Across Disciplines and Faiths reflects on medieval and early modern Hebrew linguistics as a discipline that crossed geographic and religious borders and linked up with a plethora of scholarly activities, from Judaeo-Arabic Bible translations to the Renaissance search for the holiest alphabet. This collection of articles presents a cross-section of new research avenues on Hebraism, Karaite, Rabbanite and Christian, with an emphasis on the transmission of linguistic ideas through time and space among different communities, cultures and religious currents. The resulting picture is one of intrinsic variation and dynamic growth as opposed to the linear paradigm of development, culmination and stagnation current in the historiography of Hebrew linguistics.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Paradigms We Live By Irene E. Zwiep I. INDIGENOUS TRADITIONS OF HEBREW LINGUISTICS a. Theories and Practices of Linguistic Analysis Geoffrey Khan, The medieval Karaite tradition of Hebrew grammar José Martínez Delgado, Morphology versus meaning: biblical mixed roots and Andalusian Hebrew lexicographical theories Ronny Vollandt, Whether to capture form or meaning: a typology of early Judaeo-Arabic Pentateuch translations Irene E. Zwiep, The impact of teytsh on diqduq, or: why the metaphor became a noun in early modern Ashkenazi linguistics b. Development of Hebrew Terminology Judith Kogel, Towards a ‘mapping’ of the Hebrew grammatical terminology of the Middle Ages: a history of transmission Ilana Wartenberg, The birth of the medieval Hebrew mathematical language as manifest in Ibn al-Aḥdab Epistle of the Number II. THE LEGACY OF MEDIEVAL HEBREW LINGUISTICS a. Jewish Modes of Preservation and Transmission Mauro Perani, Fragments of linguistic works from the Italian Geniza Stefan C. Reif, Another glance at a gifted grammarian: more on Shabbethai Sofer of Przemysl b. Crossing Faiths, Crossing Disciplines Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, “With that, you can grasp all the Hebrew language”: Hebrew sources of an anonymous Hebrew-Latin grammar from thirteenth-century England Saverio Campanini, The quest for the holiest alphabet in the Renaissance

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Book SynopsisDid the first generation Holocaust writers not warn us against the risks of imagination? Does it not create an illusion that the unimaginable can be imagined, the unrepresentable represented? Clearly this warning has not been taken up by David Grossman. Fully embracing imagination’s power, his novel See under: Love offers a profound reflection on how the twenty-first century can assume the heritage of the Shoah and remember the ‘unmemorable’ in a proper way. The essays in this volume reflect on this one novel, though each from its own angle. Focusing on one single novel shows the surplus value of a multispectral reflection on one central problem, in this case the allegedly inconceivable and unspeakable nature of the Shoah.Table of ContentsThe Contributors Introduction, Marc De Kesel & Katarzyna Szurmiak Summary of the Novel, Jan Ceuppens Quod Vide, or the Displacement of Meaning In the Narrative Construction of Love, Dany Nobus Guerrilla War with Words. The Language of Resistance to the Shoah, Olga Kaczmarek Grossman’s White Room and Schulzian Empty Spaces, Katarzyna Szurmiak The Laugh of a God Who Doesn’t Exist, Marc De Kesel The Perpetrator, Bettine Siertsema Diasporic Remarks, Dirk De Schutter The Holocaust’s Muses – On Voices, Appropriation and Misappropriation in Grossman’s Novel and W.G. Sebald’s Prose Fiction, Jan Ceuppens The Novel Form and the Timing of the Nation, Pieter Vermeulen Torag, Dolgan, Ning, Gyoya, Orga - Diaspora Under the Sign of Salmon, Ortwin De Graef On Some Adornean Catchwords, Erik Vogt Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2015 Bibliography Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries! The AJL Judaica Bibliography Award was established to encourage the publication of outstanding Judaica bibliographies. The intellectual legacy of the ancient community of Iranian Jews rests in several large but neglected Judeo-Persian manuscript collections. The largest in the West, and the third largest collection in the world (198 manuscripts), belongs to the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York. Primarily a work of reference, this Catalog informs scholars in the fields of Judaica and Iranica about the range of subjects (history, poetry, medicine, philology, etc.) that engaged Iranian Jews between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. It reflects the intellectual parameters of Iranian Jewry by describing the extent to which they were acquainted with classical Jewish texts while they were deeply enmeshed in the literary and artistic sensibilities of their Iranian environment.Table of ContentsPreface Table of Transliteration Introduction I. Accounts II. Dīwān III. Epics IV. Folklore and magic V. History VI. Liturgy VII. Medicine IIX.Midrash IX. Miscellany X. Philology XI. Philosophy XII. Religious texts XII. Tales Appendix I Indices 1. Index of MSS with dates and/or colophons 2. Index of names 3. Index of titles and principal headings 4. Index of incipits and first words of lyrical poetry Bibliography

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Book SynopsisRecent nation-wide surveys of the Jews of France yielded a detailed picture of this community, one of the largest Jewish Diaspora populations, with a long and rich history. This book presents results and analyses of this survey for the first time in English. Key issues explored include demographics, representations of Jewish identity, expressions of community solidarity, social issues, and values. Data was analyzed using multi-dimensional techniques, revealing underlying structural relationships and an axiological typology. The translation of the French edition was expanded for accessibility to an English-speaking audience, including a background on history, socio-political climate and related philosophical works. The cumulative result is the most up-to-date and comprehensive look at the Jews of France at the turn of the third millennium. "...the empirical centerpiece of Cohen’s study is sound, invaluable, and often highly illuminating. In the short space provided this reviewer could not fully do justice to the wealth of information presented there..." Ethan Katz, University of CincinnatiTrade Review"A valuable addition to recent studies of French Jewry; is recommended to all College and University collections." Roger S. Kohn, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews (2012) Vol. 2, No. 1Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to the Jewish Community of France Chapter 2: Empirical Study of the Jews of France at the Turn of the Millennium Chapter 3: French-Jewish Philosophical Writings on Jewish Identity Chapter 4: Reflections and Conclusions on the Jews of France at the Turn of the Third Millennia

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Book SynopsisThe Festschrift Darkhei Noam: The Jews of Arab Lands presented to Norman (Noam) Stillman offers a coherent and thought-provoking discussion by eminent scholars in the field of both the history and culture of the Jews in the Islamic World from pre-modern to modern times. Based on primary sources the book speaks to the resilience, flexibility, and creativity of Jewish culture in Arab lands. The volume clearly addresses the areas of research Norman Stillman himself has considerably contributed to. Research foci of the book are on the flexibility of Jewish law in real life, Jewish cultural life particularly on material and musical culture, the role of women in these different societies, antisemitism and Jewish responses to hatred against the Jews, and antisemitism from ancient martyrdom to modern political Zionism.Trade Review"Dr. Norman Stillman is one of the leading scholars of Jewish history, especially the history of the Jews in the Islamic World from pre-modern to modern times. This excellent collection raises questions about the remarkable flexibility of Jewish law in the day to day life of Jews in Arab lands; Jewish cultural life, particularly material and musical culture; the role of women in these different societies; Antisemitism and Jewish responses to hatred against the Jews, up to modern political Zionism." --David B. Levy, Touro College, NY, AJL Reviews, Volume VI, No.1Table of ContentsThe Contributors Foreword: President Boren, President of the University of Oklahoma Introduction by the three editors 1. Karaite and Sadducee Inheritance Law in Light of Yefet ben ʽElī’s Commentary on Genesis 36, Yoram Erder 2. Apes & the Sabbath Problem, Reuven Firestone 3. Notes on the Islamic Toponymy of the Holy Land and Holy City, Jacob Lassner 4. A Look at Women's Lives in Cairo Genizah Society, Renée Levine Melammed 5. The Custom of the Merchants in Geonic Jurisprudence and in Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, Mark Cohen 6. Yiṣhaq-i Kamāl – a Martyr in Bukhārā, Vera Basch Moreen 7. “Those Who Walk in the Court of Our Master the King”. The Sephardic Courtier Tradition Revisited, Jane Gerber 8. Deniers et marchandises; le financement commercial des juifs portugais à Bayonne au XVIIIe siècle, Gerard Nahon 9. A Pioneer Publication in Context: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Gesänge der Marokkanischen Juden (1928/9), Edwin Seroussi 10. Two Judeo-Arabic Translations of the Scroll of Antiochus from Ghardaia (Algeria), Ofra Tirosh Becker 11. Secular Trends and Tradition: Post Immigration Debates and Practices among Yemeni Jews, Bat-Zion Eraqui-Klorman 12. Max Nordau: The Post-Herzl Years, Allan Arkush 13. Bibliography of Prof. Stillman’s Publications, Walker Robins Index

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Book SynopsisThe Babylonian Talmud remains the richest source of information regarding the material culture and lifestyle of the Babylonian Jewish community, with additional data now supplied by Babylonian incantation bowls. Although archaeology has yet to excavate any Jewish sites from Babylonia, information from Parthian and Sassanian Babylonia provides relevant background information, which differs substantially from archaeological finds from the Land of Israel. One of the key questions addresses the amount of traffic and general communications between Jewish Babylonia and Israel, considering the great distances and hardships of travel involved.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements The Contributors Introduction: The Archaeology and Material Culture of the Babylonian Talmud, Markum. J. Geller Land behind Ctesiphon: the Archaeology of Babylonia during the Period of the Babylonian Talmud, St John Simpson ‘Recycling economies, when efficient, are by their nature invisible.’ A First Century Jewish Recycling Economy, Matthew Ponting and Dan Levene The Cedar in Jewish Antiquity, Michael Stone Since when do Women go to Miqveh? Archaeological and Rabbinic Evidence, Tal Ilan Rabbis in Incantation Bowls, Shaul Shaked Divorcing a Demon: Incantation Bowls and BT Giṭṭin 85b, Siam Bhayro Lilith’s Hair and Ashmedai’s Horns: Incantation Bowl Imagery in the Light of Talmudic Descriptions, Naama Vilozny The Material World of Babylonia as seen from Roman Palestine: Some Preliminary Observations, Yaron Eliav Travel Between Palestine and Mesopotamia during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods: A Preliminary Study, Getzel Cohen (z’’l) Shopping in Ctesiphon: A Lesson in Sasanian Commercial Practice, Yaakov Elman Substance and Fruit in the Sasanian Law of Property and the Babylonian Talmud, Maria Macuch Rabbinic, Christian, and Local Calendars in Late Antique Babylonia: Influence and Shared Culture, Sacha Stern ‘Manasseh sawed Isaiah with a Saw of Wood:’ an Ancient Legend in Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Persian Sources, Richard Kalmin Biblical ‘Archaeology’ and Babylonian Rabbis: On the Self-Image of Jews in Sasanian Babylonia, Isaiah Gafni Loanwords in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: Some Preliminary Observations, Theodore Kwasman The Gymnasium at Babylon and Jerusalem, Markham J. Geller and D. T. Potts Index

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Book SynopsisBy looking at the case of Lithuanian yeshivas in Israel, Yohai Hakak’s book explores the internal tensions and dynamics of religious orders during a stage of a relative ‘loss of charisma’, in which the enthusiasm of the founding generation has diminished. It is the first study to include participant observations conducted within these institutions, which are the sacred heart of this segregated and highly religious community. The book highlights the current crisis these fundamentalist institutions are going through marked by a dramatic growth in yeshiva dropout rates. It examines the new and innovative ways the rabbis are trying to respond to the crisis. As part of these attempts the rabbinical discourse portrays a unique utopian and egalitarian world governed by supernatural forces and unlimited spiritual resources and incorporates Western psychological and democratic ideas. "Hakak's book is a great scholarly achievement." Motti Inbari, University of North Carolina at Pembroke "In sum, the book manages to elaborate on important developments and changes in the Haredi world: The emergence of cautious deviance, questioning of old ideals, or the rise of individuality. At the same time Hakak explains how these changes inflict strains upon the social structure of the Haredi world. The book can be therefore recommended particularly to scholars dealing with the development within the Haredi society." Peter Lintl, Institut ür Politische Wissenschaft, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Literature: Fundamentalism and the Haredi Society: Between Tradition and Change Chapter 2: Collecting the Data: Beginnings Chapter 3: The Ideal Haredi Male Body: The Struggles between Body and Soul in Haredi Education Chapter 4: Equality or Excellence in Students’ Achievements Chapter 5: Holy Amnesia: Remembering Religious Sages as Superhumans or as Simply Human Chapter 6: Deviating, Resisting and Challenging the Ideal Male Bodily Model Chapter 7: Psychology and Democracy in the Name of the God? Modern and Secular Discourses on Parenting in the Service of Conservative Religious Aims Chapter 8: Will the Scholars’ Enclave Re-adjust? Bibliography

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Book SynopsisNorbert M. Samuelson is Harold and Jean Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Trained as an analytic philosopher, he went on to establish the Academy of Jewish Philosophy in 1980, which contributed greatly to the professionalization of Jewish philosophy in America. An ordained Reform rabbi, a constructive theologian, and a public intellectual, Samuelson has insisted that philosophy is the very heart of Judaism and that in order to survive in the 21st century Judaism must rethink itself in light of contemporary science. Through his scholarship and organizational work he has brought a Jewish voice to the dialogue of religion and science. Viewing Jewish philosophy as central to the understanding of the Jewish past, Samuelson has explicated the philosophical dimension of Judaism, from the Bible to the present.Table of ContentsThe Contributors Editors’ Introduction to Series Norbert M. Samuelson : An Intellectual Portrait, Jules Simon A Critique of Rosenzweig’s Doctrine: Is It Jewish and Is It Believable?, Norbert M. Samuelson The God of the Theologians, Norbert M. Samuelson The Concept of ‘Nichts’ in Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption, Norbert M. Samuelson The Challenges of the Modern Sciences for Jewish Faith, Norbert M. Samuelson Interview with Norbert M. Samuelson, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisNorbert M. Samuelson is Harold and Jean Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Trained as an analytic philosopher, he went on to establish the Academy of Jewish Philosophy in 1980, which contributed greatly to the professionalization of Jewish philosophy in America. An ordained Reform rabbi, a constructive theologian, and a public intellectual, Samuelson has insisted that philosophy is the very heart of Judaism and that in order to survive in the 21st century Judaism must rethink itself in light of contemporary science. Through his scholarship and organizational work he has brought a Jewish voice to the dialogue of religion and science. Viewing Jewish philosophy as central to the understanding of the Jewish past, Samuelson has explicated the philosophical dimension of Judaism, from the Bible to the present.Table of ContentsThe Contributors Editors’ Introduction to Series Norbert M. Samuelson : An Intellectual Portrait, Jules Simon A Critique of Rosenzweig’s Doctrine: Is It Jewish and Is It Believable?, Norbert M. Samuelson The God of the Theologians, Norbert M. Samuelson The Concept of ‘Nichts’ in Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption, Norbert M. Samuelson The Challenges of the Modern Sciences for Jewish Faith, Norbert M. Samuelson Interview with Norbert M. Samuelson, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOnly a few decades after the Holocaust, Belgian Jews, like most European Jewries, are under the attack of forces stemming from a variety of sources. How do they confront and stand these new hardships? Research done all over Europe from 2012 through 2013 tried to answer this question. Among the cases investigated, the Belgian Jewry is one of the most interesting. It is both versatile and representative, revealing essential components of the general experience of European Jews today. Conceptual considerations pave the way to the study of their plight that has been, by any criterion, anything but “usual". Belgian Jews, it appears, are “like” many other Jewries in Europe but “a little more”. They highlight the question: is allosemitism at all surmountable?Table of ContentsPreface PART A: PREDICAMENTS I. A Sinuous History 2. Antisemitism and Allosemitism 3. Contemporary Perceptions and Attitudes of Europe's Jews PART B: FACING HOSTILITY 4. A Long Story 5. The Belgian Sample 6. Social Features and Perceptions 7. Origins of Jewishness and Community 8. Religiosity and Antisemitism PART C. THE CHALLENGE 9. Belgian Jewry Compared 10. Neo-Jewishness and Allosemitism APPENDIX REFERENCES

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Book SynopsisIn this era of globalization, Jewish diversity is marked more than ever by transnational expansion of competing movements and local influences on specific conditions. One factor that still makes Jewish communities one is the common reference to Israel. Today, however, differentiations and discrepancies in identification and behavior generate plurality and ambiguities about Israel-Diaspora relationships. Moreover the Judeophobia now rife in Europe and beyond as well as the spread of the Palestinian cause as a civil religion make Israel the world’s "Jew among nations.” This weighs heavily on community relations - despite Israel’s active presence in the diaspora. In this context, the contributions to this volume focus on Jewish peoplehood, religiosity and ethnicity, gender and generation, Israelophobia and world Jewry, and debate the perspectives that are most pertinent to confront the question: how far is the Jewish Commonwealth (Klal Yisrael) still an important code of Jewry today?Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD: CHANGING PATTERNS OF ISRAEL-DIASPORA RELATIONS 1. Sergio Della Pergola: Jewish Peoplehood: Hard, Soft, and Interactive Markers 2. Jonathan D. Sarna: From World-Wide People to First-World People: The Consolidation (fn. concentration) of World Jewry 3. Shulamit Reinharz: The “Jewish Peoplehood” Concept: Complications and Suggestions 4. Yosef Gorny: Ethnicity and State Policy: The State of Israel in the Intellectual and Political Discourse of the US Jewish Press 5. Ephraim Yuchtman-Ya’ar and Steven M. Cohen: Close and Distant: The Relations between Israel and the Diaspora PART II. RELIGIOSITY AND ETHNICITY 6. Yael Israel-Cohen: The Reform and Conservative Movements in Israel: Strategies of Peripheral Movements in a Monopolized Religious Market 7. Shlomo Fischer: Two Orthodox Cultures: “Centrist” Orthodoxy and Religious Zionism 8. Margalit Bejarano: Ethnicity and Transnationalism: Latino Jews in Miami 9. Nissim Leon: Strong Ethnicity: The Case of US-born Jews in Israel PART III. GENDER AND GENERATION 10. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz: Orthodox Jewish Women as a Bridge Between Israel and the Diaspora 11. Florinda Goldberg: Gender, Religion, and the Search for a Modern Jewish Identity in "La Rabina" by Silvia Plager 12. Erik H. Cohen: Global Jewish Youth Studies - Towards a Theory 13. Sylvia Barack Fishman: Generational and Cultural Constructions of Jewish Peoplehood PART IV. ISRAELOPHOBIA, ANTI-ZIONISM AND “NEO”-ANTISEMITISM 14. Shmuel Trigano: Debasing Praise: Hatred of the Jews in a Global Age 15. Chantal Bordes-Benayoun: Integration and Antisemitism: The Case of French Jewry 16. Julius H. Schoeps: How Antisemitism, Obsessive Criticism of Israel, and Do-Gooders Complicate Jewish Life in Germany 17. Leonardo Senkman: Anti-Zionist Discourse of the Left in Latin America: An Assessment. 18. Uzi Rebhun, Chaim I. Waxman, Nadia Beider: American Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: A Study of Diaspora in International Affairs PART V. CONFIGURATIONS OF WORLD JEWRY AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL 19. Judit Bokser-Liwerant: Jewish Diaspora and Transnationalism: Awkward (Dance) Partners? 20. Lars Dencik: The Dialectics of Diaspora in Contemporary Modernity 21. Gabi Sheffer: Reflections on Israel and Jerusalem as the Centers of World Jewry 22. Eliezer Ben-Rafael: Israel-Diaspora Relations: "Transmission Driving-belts" of Transnationalism Epilogue: One - After All....for the time being

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Book SynopsisRosa Manus (1881–1942) uncovers the life of Dutch feminist and peace activist Rosa Manus, co-founder of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, vice-president of the International Alliance of Women, and founding president of the International Archives for the Women’s Movement (IAV) in Amsterdam, revealing its rootedness in Manus’s radical secular Jewishness. Because the Nazis looted the IAV (1940) including Manus’s large personal archive, and subsequently arrested (1941) and murdered her (1942), Rosa Manus has been almost unknown to later generations. This collective biography offers essays based on new and in-depth research on pictures and documents from her archives, returned to Amsterdam in 2003, as well as other primary sources. It thus restores Manus to the history from which the Nazis attempted to erase her. Contributors include: Margot Badran, Mineke Bosch, Ellen Carol DuBois, Myriam Everard, Karen Garner, Francisca de Haan, Dagmar Wernitznig, and Annika Wilmers. "The volume touches on all of the important themes of that history—the centrality of peace activism, the impact of the world wars and the rise of fascism, the tensions over imperialism and nationalist resistance in colonized countries, the importance of resources to the persistence of the movement, the vital glue of intimate relationships—and brings to the fore additional ones, including the role of Jewish women, the centrality of Dutch feminists in transnational feminism, and the struggle over preserving the history of the movement." - Leila J. Rupp, University of California, Santa Barbara, in: Women's History Review (2018)Trade Review"The volume touches on all of the important themes of that history—the centrality of peace activism, the impact of the world wars and the rise of fascism, the tensions over imperialism and nationalist resistance in colonized countries, the importance of resources to the persistence of the movement, the vital glue of intimate relationships—and brings to the fore additional ones, including the role of Jewish women, the centrality of Dutch feminists in transnational feminism, and the struggle over preserving the history of the movement." - Leila J. Rupp, University of California, Santa Barbara, in: Women's History Review (2018) "Eindelijk een boek dat licht werpt op een van de belangrijkste Nederlandse feministen [...]. Veel aspecten van dit rijke, tot nu toe vrijwel onbekende leven komen aan bod in het voorbeeldig uitgegeven Rosa Manus (1881-1942). [...] Uiteindelijk gaat het boek over iemand die niet in hokjes past, en die in verzet komt als zij tegen wil en dank het etiket Joods opgeplakt krijgt. Zowel de tekst als foto's tonen ook daadwerkelijk aan dat Rosa Manus vele gezichten had. Voor mij laat dit boek zien dat hoe waardevol én ingewikkeld de strijd tegen de etikettering is, vroeger en nu." - Marjan Schwegman, in: de Nederlandse Boekengids, November 2017, pp. 28-29Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction: Recovering the Legacy of Rosa Manus, Francisca de Haan Part 1 Essays Chapter 1: Rosa Manus: The Genealogy of a Jewish Dutch Feminist, Myriam Everard Chapter 2: Rosa Manus at the 1915 International Congress of Women in The Hague and Her Involvement in the Early WILPF, Annika Wilmers Chapter 3: Rosa Manus, Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb and the Bonds of High-Financial Womanhood, Mineke Bosch Chapter 4: Global Visions: The Women’s Disarmament Committee (1931–1939) and the International Politics of Disarmament in the 1930s, Karen Garner Chapter 5: Trying to Stem the Tide: Rosa Manus’s Peace Activism in the 1930s, Ellen Carol DuBois Chapter 6: Rosa Manus in Cairo, 1935, and Copenhagen, 1939: Encounters with Egyptians, Margot Badran Chapter 7: Memory is Power: Rosa Manus, Rosika Schwimmer, and the Struggle about Establishing an International Women’s Archive, Dagmar Wernitznig Chapter 8: Fateful Politics: The Itinerary of Rosa Manus, 1933–1942, Myriam Everard Part 2 Pictures Part 3 Documents Appendix 1: Rosa Manus – Ancestry Appendix 2: Rosa Manus – Chronology Appendix 3: Rosa Manus – Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers insights into the major Jewish migration movements and rebuilding of European Jewish communities in the mid-twentieth century. Its chapters illustrate many facets of the Jews’ often traumatic post-war experiences. People had to find their way when returning to their countries of origin or starting from scratch in a new land. Their experiences and hardships from country to country and from one community of migrants to another are analyzed here. The mass exodus of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries is also addressed to provide a necessary and broader insight into how those challenges were met, as both migrations were a result of persecution, as well as discrimination.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Diverging groups of Jewish Displaced Persons Manfred Gerstenfeld and Françoise S. Ouzan PART ONE: THE PLIGHT OF THE UPROOTED: SOCIAL AND LEGAL RESPONSES Reflections on the Multinational Geography of Jews after World War II Sergio DellaPergola The Law of Return: A National Solution to an International Issue, 1945–1967 Jacques Amar Healthcare Services for Holocaust Survivors in Post-war Austria, 1945–1953: A Pattern of Jewish Solidarity Ada Schein PART TWO: POST-WAR JEWISH MIGRATION AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA Dilemmas of Minority Politics: Jewish Migrants in Post-war Czechoslovakia and Poland Kateřina Čapková The Post-war Czech-Jewish Leadership and the Issue of Jewish Emigration from Czechoslovakia (1945–1950) Ján Laniček PART THREE: POST-WAR RECONSTITUTION OF JEWISH COMMUNAL LIFE AND DYNAMICS OF IDENTITIES Life during the Camps and After: Displacement and Rehabilitation of the Young Survivors Izio Rosenman American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors’ Return to Jewish Communal Life (1945–1952) Françoise S. Ouzan A Forgotten Post-war Jewish Migration: East European Jewish Refugees and Immigrants in France, 1946–1947 David Weinberg The Post-war Renewal of Jewish Communities in the Netherlands Manfred Gerstenfeld PART FOUR: EMIGRATING TO ISRAEL FROM EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST Reasons for Emigration of the Jews from Poland in 1956–1959 Ewa Węgrzyn Memories of a Forgotten People: A Conflict of Expectations Shmuel Trigano The Reasons for the Departure of the Jews from Morocco 1956–1957: The Historiographical Problems Yigal Bin-Nun Not Just a Language Barrier: Israel’s Media and Communication with New Immigrants in the 1950s Rafi Mann

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Book SynopsisIn Jewish Youth around the World 1990-2010: Social Identity and Values, Erik Cohen offers a rich and multi-faceted picture of Jewish adolescents and young adults today. Based on numerous empirical studies conducted by the author over the course of two decades among various populations in Israel and every major Diaspora country, it considers a range of issues, including: demographics and migration patterns, Jewish identity, involvement in the Jewish community, leisure time activities, values, relationship to Israel and to the global Jewish collective. In-depth analysis of the data uncovers similarities and differences of various sub-populations by nationality, level of religiosity, age, gender and more. The book is pioneering in its comparative approach to Jewish youth around the world.Table of ContentsPreface by Judit Bokser Liwerant Introduction Chapter 1: Jewish Identity Chapter 2: Leisure Time Activities Chapter 3: General Values Among Jewish Youth Chapter 4: Jewish Values Chapter 5: The Holistic Organization of Values Chapter 6: Relationship of Diaspora Jewish Youth to Israel Chapter 7: Israeli Youth: Homeland, Diaspora, and Global Identity Epilogue: Towards a Theory of Global Jewish Youth Studies Afterword by David Zisenwine

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Book SynopsisCan studying an artist’s migration enable the reconfiguration of art history in a new and “global” mode? Michail Grobman’s odyssey in search of a contemporary idiom of Jewish art led him to cross the borders of political blocs and to observe, absorb, and confront different patterns of modernism in his work. His provocative art, his rich archives and collections, his essays and personal diaries all reveal this complexity and open up a new perspective on post-World War II twentieth-century modernism – and on the interconnected functioning of its local models.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Introduction: Across the East-West Divide: A Portrait of the Artist in Transcultural Perspective 1 The Moscow Prelude: Visual Culture of the Cold War Era or the “Second Russian Avant-Garde”?  1 A Familiar Stranger: The Russian Encounter with Modern Art in the 1950s  2 The Impact of the American National Exhibition in Moscow: From Abstraction to Multiple Idioms  3 The “Cognitive Theory” of the Russian Avant-Garde and Its Role in the Formation of Unofficial Modern Art  4 Situating Unofficial Art Politically: Leviathan as a Symbol of Protest 2 The Notion of Modern Jewish Art across Borders  1 Jewish Art and Modern Culture: A Complex Dialogue  2 Renunciation of Art as the “Hidden Tradition” of Jewish Modernism  3 The Conflict between Traditionalist and Modernist Jewish Art  4 The Revival of Art Theory in the USSR and Grobman’s Debt to Malevich  5 The Genesis Myth and Suprematism in Grobman’s Work of the 1960s 3 Jewish vs. Israeli: Cultural Politics and Identity Controversy in the Work of the Leviathan Group  1 Shifting Self-Definitions in Local Art Scenes of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s  2 Grobman’s Jerusalem Diary: The Jewish Artist as “Other” in the Israeli Art World  3 Grobman and Conceptual Art: “Renunciation” vs. “Dematerialization of the Art Object”  4 “To Stand on the Rock of the Word ‘We’”: The Art of the Leviathan Group 4 Postmodern Variations: Too Jewish, Too Russian, Too Israeli  1 The Jewish Artist as Russian Poet and Israeli Serviceman, 1980s–1990s  2 Conclusion: Parallels, Conflicts, and Hybrids of the Patterns of Modernism in the Biography of a Single Artist Appendices: Selected Texts by Michail Grobman  A Manifesto of Magical Symbolism  B Selected Theoretical Notes  C First Manifesto of the Leviathan Group  D Second Manifesto of the Leviathan Group  E Third Manifesto of the Leviathan Group (Part of the Leviathan Group’s Installation at the Abattoires 89 International Festival of Artistic Groups in Marseille, Which Was Dedicated to the Bicentennial of the French Revolution, Plate 68)  F The Biblical Construction of the Square  G The Riddle of Levitan  H The Second Russian Avant-Garde Bibliography Plates Index

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Book SynopsisThe New Ethnic Studies in Latin America aims at going beyond and against much of Jewish Latin American historiography, situating Jewish-Latin Americans in the larger multi-ethnic context of their countries. Senior and junior scholars from various countries joined together to challenge commonly held assumptions, accepted ideas, and stable categories about ethnicity in Latin America in general and Jewish experiences on this continent in particular. This volume brings to the discussions on Jewish life in Latin America less heard voices of women, non-affiliated Jews, and intellectuals. Community institutions are not at center stage, conflicts and tensions are brought to the fore, and a multitude of voices pushes aside images of homogeneity. Authors in this tome look at Jews’ multiple homelands: their country of birth, their country of residence, and their imagined homeland of Zion. "This volume brings together an important series of chapters that pushes ethnic studies to greater complexity; therefore, this work is critical in laying the foundation for what Jeffrey Lesser has called the new architecture of ethnic studies in Latin America." - Joel Horowitz, St. Bonaventure University, in: E.I.A.L. 28.2 (2017) "Overall, this collection serves as a stimulating invitation to scholars of Latin American ethnic studies. It offers multiple models of scholarship that go beyond and against traditional narratives of Jewish Latin America." -Lily Pearl Balloffet, University of California Santa Cruz, in: J.Lat Amer. Stud. 50 (2018) "These essays manage to bring to the fore stories of Jews whose journeys have been sidelined until now. Their stories demonstrate that identities are always a work in progress, a continuous dance between ancestry, history, and culture." - Ariana Huberman, Haverford College, in: American Jewish History 103.2 (2019)Trade Review"This volume brings together an important series of chapters that pushes ethnic studies to greater complexity; therefore, this work is critical in laying the foundation for what Jeffrey Lesser has called the new architecture of ethnic studies in Latin America." - Joel Horowitz, St. Bonaventure University, in: E.I.A.L. 28:2 (2017) "Overall, this collection serves as a stimulating invitation to scholars of Latin American ethnic studies. It offers multiple models of scholarship that go beyond and against traditional narratives of Jewish Latin America." - Lily Pearl Balloffet, University of California Santa Cruz, in: J.Lat Amer. Stud. 50 (2018) "These essays manage to bring to the fore stories of Jews whose journeys have been sidelined until now. Their stories demonstrate that identities are always a work in progress, a continuous dance between ancestry, history, and culture." - Ariana Huberman, Haverford College, in: American Jewish History 103:2 (2019)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction, Raanan Rein, Stefan Rinke and Nadia Zysman Remaking Ethnic Studies in the Age of Identities, Jeffery Lesser Factory, Workshop, and Homework: A Spatial Dimension of Labor Flexibility among Jewish Migrants in the Early Stages of Industrialization in Buenos Aires, Nadia Zysman Becoming Polacos: Landsmanshaftn and the Making of a Polish-Jewish Sub-ethnicity in Argentina, Mariusz Kałczewiak Ethnicity and Federalism in Latin America: Rethinking the National Experience of Jews and Middle Eastern Descendants in Argentina, Mauricio Dimant "For an Arab There Can Be Nothing Better Than Another Arab”: Nation, Ethnicity and Citizenship in Peronist Argentina, Ariel Noyjovich and Raanan Rein Otherness in Convergence: Arabs, Jews, and the Formation of the Chilean Middle Sectors, 1930-1960, Claudia Stern The Untold History: Voices of Non-affiliated Jews in Chile, 1940-1990, Valeria Navarro-Rosenblatt The Other as a Mirror: Representation of Jews and Palestinians on Argentinian and Chilean Television Screens, Gabriela Jonas Aharoni In the Land of Vitzliputzli: German-Speaking Jews in Latin America, Liliana Ruth Feierstein Epilogue: The Centesimal Nisman, David M.K. Sheinin Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry an international group of scholars examines aspects of religious belief and practice of pre-emancipation Sephardim and Ashkenazim in Amsterdam, Curaçao and Surinam, ceremonial dimensions, artistic representations of religious life, and religious life after the Shoa. The origins of Dutch Jewry trace back to diverse locations and ancestries: Marranos from Spain and Portugal and Ashkenazi refugees from Germany, Poland and Lithuania. In the new setting and with the passing of time and developments in Dutch society at large, the religious life of Dutch Jews took on new forms. Dutch Jewish society was thus a microcosm of essential changes in Jewish history.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Part 1: Messianic Hopes and Redemption 1 The Phoenix, the Exodus and the Temple: Constructing Self-identity in the Sephardi Congregation of Amsterdam in the Early Modern Period  Limor Mintz-Manor 2 In the Land of Expectation: The Sense of Redemption among Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jews  Matt Goldish Part 2: Aspects of Daily Religious Life 3 Religious Life among Portuguese Women in Amsterdam’s Golden Age  Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld 4 The Amsterdam Way of Death: R. Shimon Frankfurt’s Sefer ha-hayyim (The Book of Life), 1703  Avriel Bar-Levav 5 Reading Yiddish and Lernen: Being a Pious Ashkenazi in Amsterdam, 1650–1800  Shlomo Berger Z”l 6 From Yiddish to Dutch: Holiday Entertainment between Literary and Linguistic Codes  Marion Aptroot Part 3: Jewish Religion in Troubled Waters: The Dutch-Sephardi Diaspora Overseas 7 A Tale of Caribbean Deviance: David Aboab and Community Conflicts in Curaçao  Evelyne Oliel-Grausz 8 The Dutch Jewish Enlightenment in Surinam, 1770–1800  Jonathan Israel Part 4: Ceremonial Dimensions 9 Jewish Liturgy in the Netherlands: Liturgical Intentions and Historical Dimensions  Wout van Bekkum 10 Paving the Way: “Deaf and Dumb” Children and the Introduction of Confirmation Ceremonies in Dutch Judaism  Chaya Brasz Part 5: Jewish Identity and Religiosity 11 Religion, Culture (and Nation) in Nineteenth-century Dutch Jewish Thought  Irene E. Zwiep 12 “Religiosity” in Dutch Jewish Art in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries  Rivka Weiss-Blok Part 6: The Master: Images of Chief Rabbi Jozeph Zvi (Hirsch) Dünner 13 “The Great Eagle, the Pride of Jacob”: Joseph Hirsch Dünner in Dutch-Jewish Memory Culture  Bart Wallet 14 Image(s) of “The Rav” through the Lens of an Involved Historian: Jaap Meijer’s Depiction of Rabbi Joseph Hirsch Dünner  Evelien Gans Part 7: Religious Life after the Catastrophe: Post-1945 Developments 15 The Return to Judaism in the Netherlands  Minny E. Mock-Degen 16 Vanishing Diaspora? Jews in the Netherlands and Their Ties with Judaism: Facts and Expectations about Their Future  Marlene de Vries

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Book SynopsisIsrael Celebrates is about the intersection where Israeli inventiveness and Jewish tradition meet: the holidays. It employs the anthropological history of four Jewish holidays as celebrated in Israel in order to track the naturalization of Jewish rituals, myths, and symbols in Israeli culture throughout “the long twentieth century” of Zionism and on to the present, and to demonstrate how a new strand of Judaism developed in Israel from the grassroots. But could this grassroots Israeli culture develop into a shared symbolic space for both Jews and Arabs? By probing the political implications of the minutiae of life, the book argues that this popular culture might come to define Jewish identity in Israel of the 21st century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction – Israeli Civic Culture as a Jewish Culture Civic Culture Israeli Culture, Jewish Culture(s) The Anthropological History of Israeli Holidays Structure of the Book Chapter One – Jewish Family: Passover Passover in Jewish Cultures of the Past The Seder in the Yishuv and in Israel The 1960s on: The Rise of the Extended Family “What do I have in common with these people?” Why the Haggadah? The Seder in the Jewish Culture of the Diaspora Conclusion: The Jewish Extended Family in Israeli Public Culture Chapter Two – Environment: Tu Bishvat Tu Bishvat in Jewish Cultures of the Past Arbor Day and Tu Bishvat Trees and Planting in the New Hebrew Culture The Mandate Era: National Planting Ceremonies Planting Ceremonies in Independent Israel: Ecology and Politics Tu Bishvat in Israeli Culture: The Environmental-Political Track Tu Bishvat in Israeli Culture: The Environmental-Apolitical Track Tu Bishvat in Adult Culture: Active Nostalgia Tu Bishvat in American Jewish Culture Tu Bishvat and Arbor Day: Reciprocal Relations Conclusion: Nostalgia as a Cultural Force Chapter Three – Public Space: Yom Kippur Yom Kippur as an Anomaly Historical Yom Kippur The Israeli version of Yom Kippur: The Suspension of Transportation The Suspension of Economic Activity “Online Fasting”: What do People Do? Heshbon Nefesh: Ecology and Politics The Jewishness of Public Space Conclusion: The Jewish Public Space Chapter Four – Freedom: Yom Ha’atzma’ut Yom Ha’atzma’ut: The Initial Second Thoughts Spontaneity and Artificiality Doing Something on Yom Ha’atzma’ut Wandering the City Streets From Picnic to Cookout Memorial Day and the Torch-Lighting Ceremony Yom Ha’atzma’ut in the Diaspora Israeli Arabs and Yom Ha’atzma’ut Conclusion: An Empty Day? Chapter Five – Citizenship: The “Nationalization” of Jewish Culture in Israel The Assimilative Power of the Jewish Culture in Israel The Nationalizing of the Israeli Jewish Culture Nationalizing the Jewish Culture: Its Ramifications for Jewish Identity in Israel Nationalizing the Jewish Culture: Its Ramifications for Arab Identity in Israel Epilogue: Political Fantasy and Cultural Reality References

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Book SynopsisJewish Love Magic: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages is the first monograph dedicated to the supernatural methods employed by Jews in order to generate love, grace or hate. Examining hundreds of manuscripts, often unpublished, Ortal-Paz Saar skillfully illuminates a major aspect of the Jewish magical tradition. The book explores rituals, spells and important motifs of Jewish love magic, repeatedly comparing them to the Graeco-Roman and Christian traditions. In addition to recipes and amulets in Hebrew, Aramaic and Judaeo-Arabic, primarily originating in the Cairo Genizah, also rabbinic sources and responsa are analysed, resulting in a comprehensive and fascinating picture. “Due to the general neglect of the topic in previous scholarship, the richness of the research corpus and the scientific precision of the author, Saar’s Jewish Love Magic is an important volume that should be on the shelf of every scholar focusing on ancient Jewish magic, but also on Jewish culture and cultural history in general. Furthermore, the book is an enjoyable read also for a non-specialist audience thanks to its clarity and fluency.” - Alessia Belusci, Yale University, in: Journal of Semitic Studies 64.2 (2019) “This is a valuable foray into the relationship between institutionalised religion and magic and the complex question of ‘legitimacy’. Overall, the book presents a compelling case for the existence of Jewish ‘love magic’.” -Ann Jeffers, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.5 (2019)Trade Review“Due to the general neglect of the topic in previous scholarship, the richness of the research corpus and the scientific precision of the author, Saar’s Jewish Love Magic is an important volume that should be on the shelf of every scholar focusing on ancient Jewish magic, but also on Jewish culture and cultural history in general. Furthermore, the book is an enjoyable read also for a non-specialist audience thanks to its clarity and fluency.” - Alessia Belusci, Yale University, in: Journal of Semitic Studies 64.2 (2019)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction 1 What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Magic)? A Survey of Ancient Love Magic  1 Historical Background  2 Main Features of Love Magic  3 The Magical Rationale  4 The Uses and Abuses of Love Magic  5 The Silence of the Targets: Reactions to Love Magic and Counter Spells  6 Summary 2 Making Love, Making Hate Practices of Jewish Love Magic  1 Introductory Remarks  2 Magical Practices: An Overview  3 Products of Magical Practices  4 From Theory to Practice 3 Of Loviel and Other Demons The Verbal Aspects of Jewish Love Magic  1 Introductory Remarks  2 Linguistic Aspects  3 Appeals and Demands: The Magical Formulae  4 Literary Devices in the Magical Formulae  5 Magical Signs 4 A Time to Love and a Time to Hate The Temporal Aspects of Jewish Love Magic  1 Written in the Stars  2 The Timing of Magical Practices  3 Temporal References in Magical Products  4 Summary 5 You Shall Not Walk in Their Statutes? The ‘Jewishness’ of Jewish Love Magic  1 Introductory Remarks  2 Prohibited or Permitted Love? The Legitimacy of Love Magic in Judaism  3 Traits of Jewish Love Magic  4 Jewish and Non-Jewish Love Magic: Some Differences  5 Conclusions Summary  1 In the Previous Chapters …  2 What is Jewish Love Magic? A Second Look Bibliography Index of Manuscripts Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisIn The Jewish Museum: History and Memory, Identity and Art from Vienna to the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem Natalia Berger traces the history of the Jewish museum in its various manifestations in Central Europe, notably in Vienna, Prague and Budapest, up to the establishment of the Bezalel National Museum in Jerusalem. Accordingly, the book scrutinizes collections and exhibitions and broadens our understanding of the different ways that Jewish individuals and communities sought to map their history, culture and art. It is the comparative method that sheds light on each of the museums, and on the processes that initiated the transition from collection and research to assembling a type of collection that would serve to inspire new art.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction: Why Jewish Museums? The Strauss Collection and the Anglo-Jewish Exhibition 1 Isaac Strauss and his Collection 2 The Historic Anglo-Jewish Exhibition in London, 1887 The Jewish Museums of Austria-Hungary: Vienna, Prague, and Budapest 3 Introduction: The Jewish Museum in Vienna 4 The Determining Factors in the Establishment of the Museum 5 The Jewish Museum of Vienna, 1895–1906 6 The Exhibits 7 The Jewish Museum of Prague 8 The Jewish Museum of Budapest From The Bezalel National Museum to The Israel Museum 9 Historical Background 10 To Realize a Dream: Boris Schatz and the Bezalel Museum in the Formative Years, 1906–12 11 The Years 1909–14 12 Boris Schatz’s Utopian Museum as Charted in his Book, Jerusalem Rebuilt 13 The Bezalel Museum in the Years following World War I, 1919–26 14 From The Bezalel National Museum to The Israel Museum: Mordechai Narkiss’s Vision and Achievements: 1932–1957 Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJewish Religious Architecture explores ways that Jews have expressed their tradition in brick and mortar and wood, in stone and word and spirit, from the biblical Tabernacle to contemporary Judaism. Social historians, cultural historians, art historians and philologists have come together in this volume to explore this extraordinary architectural tradition.  Trade Review"(...) this book of essays fills a needed gap in Jewish art and material culture. It is the first that provides an expansive overlook of Jewish architecture from biblical times to our days, attempting to include side by side known and well-studied monuments with lesser-known chapters of the long history and vast geography of the Jewish experience." - Shalom Sabar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in: Review of Biblical Literature 08/2021.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figure  Introduction  Steven Fine 1  The Biblical Tabernacle: From Sinai to Jerusalem  Carol Meyers 2  The Temple of Jerusalem in Biblical Israel  Victor Avigdor Hurowitzז״ל 3  The Second Temple of Jerusalem: Center of the Jewish Universe  Joseph L. Angel 4  Herod’s Temple: An Ornament to the Empire  Peter Schertz and Steven Fine 5  Synagogues in the Greco–Roman World  Steven Fine 6  The Ancient Synagogues of Asia Minor and Greece  Mark Wilson 7  Synagogues in the Islamic World  Joshua Holo 8  Synagogues of Spain and Portugal during the Middle Ages  Vivian B. Mann 9 Western Ashkenazi Synagogues in Medieval and Early Modern Europe  Ena Giurescu Heller 10  Synagogues in Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern Period  Batsheva Goldman-Ida 11  Christian Perceptions of Jewish Sacred Architecture in Early Modern Europe  Yaacov Deutsch 12  Jewish Sacred Architecture in the Spanish and Portuguese Diaspora  Ronnie Perelis 13  Jewish Sacred Architecture in the Ottoman Empire  Reuven Gafni 14  Synagogues in India and Myanmar  Jay A. Waronker 15  Italian Synagogues from 1492 to the Present  Samuel D. Gruber 16  Reimagining the Synagogue in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries  Jess Olson 17  Modern Synagogue Architecture  Samuel D. Gruber 18  The Sacred Architecture of Contemporary Hasidism  Maya Balakirsky Katz 19  The Sukkah as Sacred Architecture  Shulamit Laderman 20  The Eruv: From the Talmud to Contemporary Art  Margaret Olin

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Book SynopsisJewish Languages in Historical Perspective is devoted to the diverse array of spoken and written language varieties that have been employed by Jews in the Diaspora from antiquity until the twenty-first century. It focuses on the following five key themes: Jewish languages in dialogue with sacred Jewish texts, Jewish languages in contact with the co-territorial non-Jewish languages, Jewish vernacular traditions, the status of Jewish languages in the twenty-first century, and theoretical issues relating to Jewish language research. This volume includes case studies on a wide range of Jewish languages both historical and modern and devotes attention to lesser known varieties such as Jewish Berber, Judeo-Italian, and Karaim in addition to the more familiar Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Yiddish, and Ladino. "On top of Brill’s Journal of Jewish Languages and a number of recent publications providing systematic overviews of Jewish languages as well as related theoretical discussions, this volume is a valuable addition to the increasing interest in Jewish languages and linguistics." -Wout van Bekkum, Groningen, Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXVI 3-4 (2019)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction  Lily Kahn Part 1: Jewish Languages and Sacred Texts 1 The Aramaic of the Zohar: The Status Quaestionis  Alinda Damsma 2 Translation of the Tanakh into Crimean Karaim: History, Manuscripts, and Language  Henryk Jankowski Part 2: Jewish Languages in Contact 3 Single-Script Mixed-Code Literary Sources from the Cairo Genizah and Their Sociolinguistic Context  Meira Polliack 4 Yiddish in the Hungarian Setting  Szonja Ráhel Komoróczy Part 3: Jewish Vernacular Traditions 5 Jewish Berber: A Brief Linguistic Sketch  Rachid Ridouane 6 Modern Judeo-Italian in the Light of Italian Dialectology and Jewish Interlinguistics through Three Case Studies: Judeo-Mantuan, Judeo-Venetian, and Judeo-Livornese  Maria Maddalena Colasuonno Part 4: The Status of Jewish Languages in the Twenty-First Century 7 Mind the Gap! The Schism between Perceptions of the Yiddish Language and Yiddish Cultural Realities  Helen Beer 8 Ladino: Past and Present  Hilary Pomeroy Part 5: Theoretical Approaches to Jewish Languages 9 Judeo-Arabic Language or Jewish Arabic Sociolect? Linguistic Terminology between Linguistics and Ideology  Esther-Miriam Wagner 10 Jewish Languages and Their Typology: Issues and Models  Frank Alvarez-Pereyre Index

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Book SynopsisIn Ordinary Jerusalem, Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire and thirty-five scholars depict the ordinary history of an extraordinary global city in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods. Utilizing largely unknown archives, they revisit the holy city of three religions, which has often been defined solely as an eternal battlefield and studied exclusively through the prism of geopolitics and religion. At the core of their analysis are topics and issues developed by the European Research Council-funded project “Opening Jerusalem Archives: For a Connected History of Citadinité in the Holy City, 1840–1940.” Drawn from the French vocabulary of geography and urban sociology, the concept of citadinité describes the dynamic identity relationship a city’s inhabitants develop with each other and with their urban environment.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Contributors Note on Transliteration Introduction: Opening Ordinary Jerusalem  Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire Part 1: Opening the Archives, Revealing the City Introduction  Gudrun Krämer 1 Placing Jerusalemites in the History of Jerusalem: The Ottoman Census [sicil-i nüfūs] as a Historical Source  Michelle U. Campos 2 Introducing Jerusalem: Visiting Cards, Advertisements and Urban Identities at the Turn of the 20th Century  Maria Chiara Rioli 3 The Ethiopian Orthodox Community in Jerusalem: New Archives and Perspectives on Daily Life and Social Networks, 1840–1940  Stéphane Ancel 4 Between Ottomanization and Local Networks: Appointment Registers as Archival Sources for Waqf Studies. The Case of Jerusalem’s Maghariba Neighborhood  Şerife Eroğlu Memiş 5 Foreign Affairs through Private Papers: Bishop Porfirii Uspenskii and His Jerusalem Archives, 1842–1860  Lora Gerd and Yann Potin 6 The Brotherhood, the City and the Land: Patriarchal Archives and Scales of Analysis of Greek Orthodox Jerusalem in the Late Ottoman and Mandate Periods  Angelos Dalachanis and Agamemnon Tselikas Part 2: Imperial Allegiances and Local Authorities Introduction  Beshara Doumani 7 The State and the City, the State in the City: Another Look at Citadinité  Noémi Lévy-Aksu 8 Collective Petitions (ʿarż-ı maḥżār) as a Reflective Archival Source for Jerusalem’s Networks of Citadinité at the End of 19th Century  Yasemin Avcı, Vincent Lemire, and Ömür Yazıcı Özdemir 9 Back into the Imperial Fold: The End of Egyptian Rule through the Court Records of Jerusalem, 1839–1840  Abla Muhtadi and Falestin Naïli 10 An Institution, Its People and Its Documents: The Russian Consulate in Jerusalem through the Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Empire, 1858–1914  Irina Mironenko-Marenkova and Kirill Vakh 11 Diplomacy, Communal Politics, and Religious Property Management: The Case of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the Early Mandate Period  Konstantinos Papastathis 12 Comparing Ottoman Municipalities in Palestine: The Cases of Nablus, Haifa, and Nazareth, 1864–1914  Mahmoud Yazbak Part 3: Cultural Networks, Public Knowledge Introduction  Edhem Eldem 13 Municipal Jerusalem in the Age of Urban Democracy: On the Difference between What Happened and What is Said to Have Happened  Jens Hanssen 14 Reading the City, Writing the Self: Arabic and Hebrew Urban Texts in Jerusalem, 1840–1940  Yair Wallach 15 Arab-Zionist Conversations in Late Ottoman Jerusalem: Saʿid al-Husayni, Ruhi al-Khalidi and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda  Jonathan Marc Gribetz 16 Ben-Yehuda in his Ottoman Milieu: Jerusalem’s Public Sphere as Reflected in the Hebrew Newspaper Ha-Tsevi, 1884–1915  Abdul-Hameed Al-Kayyali and Hassan Ahmad Hassan 17 Men at Work: The Tipografia di Terra Santa, 1847–1930  Leyla Dakhli 18 The St. James Armenian Printing House in Jerusalem: Scientific and Educational Activities, 1833–1933  Arman Khachatryan 19 The Wasif Jawharriyeh Collection: Illustrating Jerusalem during the First Half of the 20th Century  Issam Nassar Part 4: Sharing the City: Contacts, Claims and Conflicts Introduction  Gadi Algazi 20 “The Preservation and Safeguarding of the Amenities of the Holy City without Favour or Prejudice to Race or Creed”: The Pro-Jerusalem Society and Ronald Storrs, 1917–1926  Roberto Mazza 21 Governing Jerusalem’s Children, Revealing Invisible Inhabitants: The American Colony Aid Association, 1920s–1950s  Julia R. Shatz 22 Epidemiology and the City: Communal vs. Inter-communal Health Policy-Making in Jerusalem from the Ottomans to the Mandate, 1908–1925  Philippe Bourmaud 23 Being on a List: Class and Gender in the Registries of Jewish Life in Jerusalem, 1840–1900  Yali Hashash 24 The Tramway Concession of Jerusalem, 1908–1914: Elite Citizenship, Urban Infrastructure, and the Abortive Modernization of a Late Ottoman City  Sotirios Dimitriadis 25 Waqf Endowments in the Old City of Jerusalem: Changing Status and Archival Sources  Salim Tamari 26 The Limitations of Citadinité in Late Ottoman Jerusalem  Louis Fishman Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFrom Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times is a polyphonic collection of essays in honor of Jane S. Gerber’s contributions as a leading scholar and teacher. Each chapter presents new or underappreciated source materials or questions familiar historical models to expand our understanding of Sephardic cultural, intellectual, and social history. The subjects of this volume are men and women, rich and poor, connected to various Sephardic Diasporas—Spanish, Portuguese, North African, or Middle Eastern—from medieval to modern times. They each, in their own way, challenged the expectations of their societies and helped to define the religious, ethnic, and intellectual experience of Sephardim as well as surrounding cultures throughout the world.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Jane S. Gerber: An Appreciation  Brian M. Smollett> Introduction: From Catalonia to the Caribbean  Federica Francesconi and Stanley Mirvis> Part 1: The Medieval Mediterranean 1 In the Beginning Was the Poem: Hebrew Prefatory Verse in Golden Age al-Andalus  Maud Kozodoy> 2 Some Customs of Jews in Medieval Spain  Norman Roth> 3 Textiles Travel: The Role of Sephardim in the Transmission of Textile Forms and Designs  Vivian B. Mann> 4 The Jews of Medieval Spain: Community, Marginality and the Notion of a Mediterranean Society  Jonathan Ray> Part 2: Women of the Genizah 5 Independent Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt: Enterprise and Ambiguity  Judith R. Baskin> 6 A Look at Medieval Egyptian Jewry and Environs: Challenges and Coping Mechanisms as Reflected in the Cairo Genizah Documents  Renée Levine Melammed> Part 3: Italy and Western Europe 7 The Sephardic Jewish Merchants of Venice, Port Jews, and the Road to Modernity  Benjamin Ravid> 8 The Merchants at the Casino: Sephardic Elites and Leisure Time in Eighteenth-Century Livorno  Francesca Bregoli> 9 LaJébéra et Les Confréries de la Nation Juive Portugaise de Bayonne au XVIIIe Siècle  Gérard Nahon ל״ז> Part 4: Jews under Islam 10 Jews in the Central Islamic Lands in the Eleventh Century  D.G. Tor> 11 Syrian-Jewish Emigration to Egypt  Yaron Harel> 12 How Jews Became “Moroccan”  Daniel J. Schroeter> Part 5: The Modern Experience 13 The Trial of Joshua Montefiore and the Limits of Atlantic Jewish Inclusion  Stanley Mirvis> 14 The Absorption of Outsiders: Gibraltarian and North Africans in London’s Portuguese Jewish Community  Aviva Ben-Ur> 15 From Childhood to Old Age in Twenty-Four Years: The Ecole Maïmonide in Algiers, 1940–1964  Jessica Hammerman> 16 Millàs Vallicrosa in Jerusalem (1937–1938)  Thomas F. Glick> Part 6: Documents: Unknown Sephardic Voices 17 “And if I Could, I Would Leave Her More”: Women’s Voices, Emotions, and Objects from the Venetian Ghetto in the Seventeenth Century  Federica Francesconi> 18 Jews and Muslims in Egypt at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century: Two Responsa of Ḥakham Ḥayim Capusi  Matt Goldish> 19 A Report by Franz von Dombay in 1789 on the Moroccan Court Mentioning Jewish Courtiers  Norman (Noam) A. Stillman> The Writings of Jane S. Gerber Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses a lacuna in the study of Jewish and Israeli history - that of journeys taken by Jews in the 20th century towards Israel – which is also a neglected subject in the more general fields of migration and refugee studies. Dr. Gadi BenEzer, a psychologist and anthropologist, eloquently shows how such journeys are life changing events that affect individuals, families, and communities in a variety of ways. Based on narrative research of Jewish people who have undergone journeys on their way to Israel from around the world, the author is able to pose original questions and give initial convincing answers. The powerful personal accounts are followed by a thought-provoking analysis.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Researching Journeys in Migration and Refugee Studies part 1: Journey Stories 1 Building Independence: The Journey of Elisha from Syria 2 From Loss to Belonging: The Journey of Yirmi from Poland 3 Setting Out to the Open Spaces: The Journey of Bracha from Yemen 4 Towards the Place Where the Future Will Begin: The Journey of Yair from Transnistria 5 A Generation Going on the Way: The Journey of Oscar from Iraq 6 From Auschwitz to “Flowers from Israel”: The Journey of Yigal from Germany 7 God Loves Me: The Journey of Rivka from the Ukraine 8 The Journey of the Jewish People: The Journey of Saul from Afghanistan 9 Going to “Paris”: The Journeys of Alyna and Alex from Romania 10 A Journey of Reclaimed Honor: The Journey of Simon from Libya 11 The Partisan’s Journey: The Journey of Frieda from Poland part 2: Migration and Refugee Journeys: the Case of Jewish Migrants/Refugees Journeying to Israel 12 The Journey as a Meaning Category 13 Children on Journeys 14 Identity During the Journey 15 The Encounter with Israel as a Part of the Journey Maps of the Journeys Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAt first glance, this book might appear to be yet another study on anti-Semitism in Argentina, supplementing those portraying this Southern Cone country as a Nazi shelter and perpetrator of anti-Jewish acts. Accounts of the last military dictatorship (1976-1983), which was responsible for the disappearance of thousands of people of Jewish origin, have contributed to this image. Memories that Lie a Little, however, challenges this view, shedding new light on Jewish experiences during the military dictatorship. Based on extensive archival research, it maps the positions of a wide range of Jewish organizations toward the military regime, opening the way for a better understanding of this complex historical period. If, then, the dictatorship was not actually anti-Semitic in the strictest sense of the term, why is it remembered as such? Historical research is complemented here by a reconstruction of the ways in which the notion of the regime’s anti-Semitism was crafted from early on, and an examination of its uses, as well as the changes that this narrative underwent in the following years.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Jewish Community between the “Cámpora Spring” and the Assault on Power by the Military Junta 2 The March 24, 1976, Coup d’état and Acceptance of the Discourse on the “Anti-subversive Struggle” 3 Reactions to Manifestations of Public and Clandestine Anti-Semitism during the Last Military Dictatorship 4 The Dimensions of “Normalcy” and the Flourishing Public Life of Jewish Institutions 5 Between the Collapse of the Regime and Fractures within the Jewish Community 6 Conflicting Discourses and Representations of the Jewish Community regarding its Conduct during the Last Military Dictatorship: The Case of DAIA 7 Nueva Presencia and Resistance to the Military Dictatorship Conclusions-Memories that Lie a Little Glossary: Institutions Bibliography Index

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