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Volume 30,
Number 1 • March 2006
Table of Contents
Articles
Adam Teller. Hasidism and the Challenge of Geography: The Polish Background to the Spread of the Hasidic movement
Magda Teter and Edward Fram. Apostasy, Fraud, and the Beginnings of Hebrew Printing in Cracow
Meira Polliack. Rethinking Karaism: Between Judaism and Islam
Alanna E. Cooper. Conceptualizing Diaspora: Tales of Jewish Travelers in Search of the Lost Tribes
Bernard D. Cooperman. Ethnicity and Institution Building among Jews in Early Modern Rome
Reuven Shoham. Intertextuality and Its Meaning in Natan Zach's “'Enosh kehazir yamav” (As for man, his days are as grass)
Gilead Morahg. Borderline Cases: National Identity and Territorial Affinity in A. B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani
Review Essay
Gennady Estraikh. At the Edge of Soviet State Control
Book Reviews
General Studies
Ivan G. Marcus. The Jewish Life Cycle: Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times.
Shlomo Deshen
Lisa Lampert. Gender and Jewish Difference: From Paul to Shakespeare.
Sheila E. Jelen
Michael Stanislawski. Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning.
Alan T. Levenson
Ancient Israel and the Near East
Ronald Hendel. Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory and History in the Hebrew Bible.
Steven Weitzman
Daniel Friedmann. To Kill and Take Possession: Law, Morality, and Society in Biblical Stories.
Victor H. Matthews
Judaism in Late Antiquity
Azzan Yadin. Scripture as Logos: Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash.
Eliezer Diamond
Medieval History, Literature, and Thought
Mark D. Meyerson. A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain.
Eric Lawee
Modern History, Literature, and Thought
Joseph Davis. Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller: Portrait of a Seventeenth-Century Rabbi.
Edward Fram
Alan T. Levenson. Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism: Defenses of Jews and Judaism in Germany, 1871-1932.
Keith Pickus
Yaacov Shavit and Shoshana Sitton. Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine—The Creation of a Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948.
Arieh Saposnik
Jay Howard Geller. Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953.
Y. Michal Bodemann
Tamar El-Or. Next Year I will Know More: Literacy and Identity among Young Orthodox Women in Israel.
Harriet Hartman
David Ellenson. After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity.
Ken Koltun-Fromm
Ellen M. Umansky. From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews.
Stephen J. Whitfield
Rachel Heuberger. Aron Freimann und die Wissenschaft des Judentums.
Michael A. Meyer
Chaim I. Waxman. Jewish Baby Boomers: A Communal Perspective.
Riv-Ellen Prell
Gennady Estraikh. In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with Communism.
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