Volume 27, Number 2 • 2003
Table of Contents
Articles
Jonathan Schofer. Spiritual Exercises in Rabbinic Culture
Leib Moscovitz. “Designation is Significant”: An Analysis of the Conceptual Sugya in bSan 47b-48b
Don Seeman. Martydom, Emotion and the Work of Ritual in R. Mordecai Joseph Leiner’s Mei Ha-Shiloah
Nancy Sinkoff. The Maskil, the Convert, and the ‘Agunah: Joseph Perl as a Historian of Jewish Divorce Law
Review Essays
Olga Litvak. You Can Take the Historian Out of the Pale, But Can You Take the Pale Out of the Historian?: New Trends in the Study of Russian Jewry
Book Reviews
David Aaron. Biblical Ambiguities: Metaphor, Semantics and Divine Imagery
Marc Brettler
Shelley Matthers.First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity
René S. Bloch
Shemaryahu Talmon, Jonathan Ben-Dov, and Uwe Glessmer, Editors. Qumran Cabe 4. XVI: Calendrical Texts. Discoveries in the Judean Desert, XXI
Sacha Stern. Calendar and Community: A History of the Jewish Calendar, 2nd Century BCE-10th Century CE
Joseph M. Baumgarten
Menahem Kahana. Sifre Zuta Deuteronomy: Citations from a New Tannaitic Midrash
Joshua Kulp
Charolette Elisheva Fonrobert. Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender
Gail Labovitz
Christine Hayes. Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities
Joshua Kulp
Martin S. Jaffee. Torah in the Mouth: Writing and Oral Tradition in Palestinian Judaism, 200 BCE-400 CE
W. David Nelson
Avinoam Cohen. Ravina and Contemporary Sages: Studies in the Chronology of Late Babylonian Amoraim
Jay Rovner
Ephraim Kanarfogel. Peering Through the Lattices: Mystical, Magical and Pietist Dimensions in the Tosafist Period
Jeffrey R. Woolf
Anna Foa. The Jews of Europe after the Black Death
Bernard Dov Cooperman
Haim Beinart. The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
Benjamin R. Gampel
Eric Lawee. Isaac Abarbanel’s Stance Toward Tradition: Defence, Dissent, and Dialogue
Avraham Gross
Kenneth Stow. Theater of Acculturation: The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century
Elliot Horowitz
Abraham Miguel Cardozo. Selected Writings
Matt Goldish
Ken Koltun-Fromm. Moses Hess and Modern Jewish Identity
Michael A. Meyer
Kimmy Caplan. Orthodoxy in the New World: Immigrant Rabbis and Preaching in America (1881-1924)
Seth Farber
Michael Alexander. Jazz Age Jews
Robert A. Rockaway
Mikhail Krutikov. Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914
Olga Litvah
Jeffrey Veidlinger. The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage
Edna Nahshon
Daniel J. Elazar and Rela Mintz Geffen. The Conservative Movement in Judaism: Dilemmas and Opportunities
Michael B. Greenbaum. Louis Finkelstein and the Conservative Movement: Conflict and Growth
Mordecai M. Kaplan. Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan. Volume I, 1913-1934
Steven M. Glazer
Walter P. Zenner A Global Community: The Jews from Aleppo, Syria
Marianne Sanua
Jeffrey A. Summit. The Lord’s Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship
Ruth Langer
Jerold S. Auerbach. Are We One? Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel
Steven T. Rosenthal. Irreconcilable Differences? The Waning of the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel
Leonard Fein
Steven M. Cohen and Arnold M. Eisen. The Jew Within: Self, Family and Community in America
Rela Mintz Geffen
|
