Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2 (2024)

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In Brief

Brief Report
“Our most important export commodities”: independence, money, and ethnic purity in the Jewry policy during the Ceaușescu years
Amedeo Gasparini
Pages: 267-275
Published online: 24 May 2023
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Resilience and identity: a study of Jewish Lebanese citizens’ experiences and perspectives
Leila Uwaydah
Pages: 276-281
Published online: 02 Jan 2024
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Articles

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Driving social change: the power of public opinion – understanding the network dynamics in German-Jewish periodical culture, 1750s–1930s
Susanne Marten-Finnis
Pages: 282-304
Published online: 16 Feb 2023
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Open Access
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The text and context of Regina Jonas’s Halakhic work ‘Kann die Frau das rabbinische Amt bekleiden?’
Sarah Wobick-Segev
Pages: 305-326
Published online: 08 May 2023
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Killing out of compassion: disability, care, and the value of life in the early decades of Israeli statehood
Marco Di Giulio
Pages: 327-347
Published online: 30 Jun 2023
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“The messiah waits for you!”: agency and Zionism in the German-Jewish reception of a Talmudic tale
Ghilad H. Shenhav
Pages: 348-368
Published online: 24 Aug 2023
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Minister Eötvös’s alliance with Neolog Jewry in Hungary and his defeat at 1868–69 Jewish Congress
Gábor Gángó
Pages: 369-388
Published online: 31 Jul 2023
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Minorities aiding minorities? British Jewish response to Armenian suffering in the late Victorian era
Oded Steinberg
Pages: 389-419
Published online: 03 Aug 2023
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Staging Hillula: Ariel Bension and Avraham Zvi Idelsohn in early twentieth-century Jerusalem
Edwin Seroussi & James Loeffler
Pages: 420-443
Published online: 19 Sep 2023
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Out of Africa: letters of Jewish detainees in the British internment camps, 1944–1948
Daniela Ozacky Stern
Pages: 444-469
Published online: 13 Dec 2023
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Cochin in Sethu’s Aliyah: provincializing Jewish identity
Jintu Alias & Soni Wadhwa
Pages: 470-487
Published online: 15 Sep 2023
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Introduction
Advertisements in the historical Jewish press: an introduction
Agnieszka Jagodzińska
Pages: 488-491
Published online: 11 Jan 2024
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Free Access
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Why are these Passover ads different from all other ads? Sephardim, Ashkenazim, and the American Jewish consumer identity
Makena Mezistrano
Pages: 492-517
Published online: 16 Jan 2024
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Advertising occultism in the Jewish press in Poland
Samuel Glauber
Pages: 518-543
Published online: 17 Jan 2024
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Hidden in plain sight: advertisements for Jewish ritual objects in Germany, 1871–1933
Hannah-Lea Wasserfuhr
Pages: 544-566
Published online: 11 Jan 2024
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Book Reviews

Book Review
The people of the book and the camera: photography in the Hebrew
by Ofra Amihai, Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 2022, 284 pp., $80 (hardcover), ISBN 9780815637455
Ayelet Kohn
Page: 567
Published online: 05 Mar 2024
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Israel. A history in 100 cartoons
by Colin Shindler, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 383 pp., £29.99, ISBN 9781107170131
Matt Reingold
Pages: 567-568
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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The mind of the Holocaust perpetrator in fiction and nonfiction
by Erin McGlothlin, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2021, 360pp., $92.99, ISBN 9780814346150
Stephanie Bird
Pages: 569-570
Published online: 06 Mar 2024
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“The soul seeks its melodies”. Music in Jewish thought
by Dov Schwartz, Boston, Academic Studies Press, 2022, 326 pp., $139, ISBN 9798887190723
Guy Shaked
Pages: 570-571
Published online: 01 Mar 2024
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Jacob’s younger brother: Christian-Jewish relations after Vatican II
by Karma Ben-Johanan, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2022, 352pp., $31.95, ISBN 9780674258266
Peter Admirand
Pages: 571-572
Published online: 05 Mar 2024
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Book Review
The compromise of return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust
by Elizabeth Anthony, Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2021, 288 pp., $36.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780814348383
Joseph Cronin
Pages: 572-573
Published online: 05 Mar 2024
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Book Review
A summer of mass murder. 1941 rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust
by George Eisen, West Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue University Press, 2023, 409 pp., $39.99, ISBN 9781612497754
Barnabas Balint
Pages: 573-574
Published online: 25 Mar 2024
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Book Review
London Yiddishtown. East end Jewish life in Yiddish sketch and story, 1930-1950. selected works of Katie Brown, A.M. Katzer and I.A. Lisky
translated by Vivi Lachs, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2021, 257 pp., $92, ISBN 9780814348499
William Pimlott
Pages: 574-575
Published online: 02 Apr 2024
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Book Review
Surviving the ghetto. Toward a social history of the Jewish community in 16th century Rome
by Serena Di Nepi, translated by Paul Rosenberg, Leiden, Brill, 2021, 283pp., 144 Euro, ISBN: 9789004431188
Elena Lolli
Pages: 575-576
Published online: 22 Mar 2024
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Colonialism and the Jews in German history. From the Middle Ages to the 20th century
edited by Stefan Vogt, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 321 pp., £85 (hardback), ISBN 9781350155732
Doron Avraham
Pages: 577-578
Published online: 25 Mar 2024
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Books Received

Books Received
Page: 579
Published online: 05 Apr 2024
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