Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1 (2024)

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Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1 (2024)

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Special Sections: Anthropology of Jewishness in the Twenty-First Century; Latin American Jewish Culture

Special Section I: Anthropology of Jewishness in the Twenty-First Century

Introduction
Introduction: anthropology of Jewishness in the twenty-first century
Rohee Dasgupta & Yulia Egorova
Pages: 1-4
Published online: 29 Nov 2022
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“We’re alone in this together”: the anthropology of fear and Jewish attitudes to antisemitism
Jennifer Creese
Pages: 5-25
Published online: 21 Nov 2022
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Inventing culture: structure and symmetry in Jewish life and ritual
Samuel Cooper & Shlomo Guzmen-Carmeli
Pages: 26-46
Published online: 24 Nov 2022
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Searching for Jewish spirituality: the narrative identity of new age Jews in Israel
Rachel Werczberger
Pages: 47-64
Published online: 24 Nov 2022
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The quest for Jewish anthropology in Germany post-1945
Dani Kranz
Pages: 65-89
Published online: 01 Dec 2022
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“‘Are you Jewish?’”: ethnography and Indian Jewish identities
Maina Chawla Singh
Pages: 90-106
Published online: 01 Dec 2022
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Special Section II: Latin American Jewish Culture

Article
From the “Land of the Future”: how Latin American Jews became global
Luis S. Krausz & Ilan Stavans
Pages: 107-125
Published online: 22 Feb 2023
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Between familiarity and strangeness: Russian Jews in Josep Sabah’s letters from the coast of Entre Ríos
Adriana Kanzepolsky
Pages: 126-146
Published online: 27 Mar 2023
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Exile between estrangement and second homeland: affective atmospheres and imaginary geographies in the literary texts by exiled Roberto Schopflocher
Patrick Eser
Pages: 147-162
Published online: 26 Feb 2023
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Geographies of immigration: Samuel Rawet's Rio De Janeiro and Moacyr Scliar's Porto Alegre
Saul Kirschbaum
Pages: 163-172
Published online: 22 Feb 2023
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Sabbatai, Sebastião: immersion and dissimilation in “A balada do falso messias”
Eviatar Oren
Pages: 173-181
Published online: 16 Feb 2023
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Open Access
Article
Vilém Flusser’s Brazilian cities
Gabriel Salvi Philipson
Pages: 182-202
Published online: 23 Feb 2023
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Topographies of memory in the short stories Judite and Réquiem para um solitário by Samuel Rawet
Kathrin Sartingen & Tatjana Wais
Pages: 203-216
Published online: 22 Feb 2023
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Article
Ladino in Latin America
Regina Igel
Pages: 217-229
Published online: 06 Mar 2023
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“The heat like a boar’s tusk”: the moment of the immigrant’s arrival between historical experience and poetic dimension in Migraciones [Migrations] by Gloria Gervitz
Verena Dolle
Pages: 230-244
Published online: 06 Mar 2023
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Contextualizing Jewish temples
edited by Tova Ganzel and Shalom Holtz, Leiden, Netherlands, Brill, 2021, 242 pp., 109 Euro, ISBN 9789004444799
Angela Costley
Pages: 245-246
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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Deḇar Śepatayim: an Ottoman Hebrew chronicle from the Crimea (1683–1730)
written by Krymchak Rabbi David Lekhno, translated, and edited by Yaron Ben-Naeh, Dan Shapira, and Aviezer Tutian, Boston, MA, Academic Studies Press, 2021, 261 pp., $109, ISBN 9781644696194
Golda Akhiezer
Pages: 246-247
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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Book Review
Disputed Messiahs: Jewish and Christian messianism in the Ashkenazic world during the reformation
by Rebekka Voß, translated by John Crutchfield, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2021, 352 pp., $94.99, ISBN 9780814341650
Bryan Givens
Pages: 247-248
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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Embodied differences. The Jew's body and materiality in Russian literature and culture
by Henrietta Mondry, Boston, Academic Studies Press, 2021, 268 pp., £91.50 (hard cover), ISBN 9781644694879
Maria Rubins
Pages: 248-250
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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Book Review
Israeli foreign policy: a people shall not dwell alone
by Uri Bialer, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2020, 357pp., £41, ISBN: 9780253046208
Geoffrey Levin
Pages: 250-251
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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Book Review
Jewish child soldiers in the bloodlands of Europe
by David M. Rosen, New York, Routledge, 2022, 138 pp., £96 (hardback), ISBN 9781003193487
Roos Haer
Pages: 251-252
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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The Jews of England and the revolutionary era, 1789-1815
by Jeremy Smilg, London, Vallentine Mitchell, 2021, 254 pp., ISBN 9781912676729
Shmuel Feiner
Pages: 252-253
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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“Wahrscheinlich wird es unser Untergang sein” Der Bericht von Erich und Elsbeth Frey an ihre ausgewanderten Töchter (1942) [This will probably be our destruction: the report of Erich and Elsbeth Frey for their emigrated daughters]
by Kurt Schilde, Berlin, Lukas Verlag, 2019, 215pp., €19,80, ISBN 9783867323048
Anna Hájková
Pages: 253-254
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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Latent memory: human rights and Jewish identity in Pinochet's Chile
by Maxine Lowy, University of Wisconsin Press, 2022, 319 pp., $79.95, ISBN 9780299335809
Gustavo Guzmán
Pages: 254-255
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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Book Review
Mosaic Fictions: writing identity in the Spanish Civil War
by Emily Robins Sharpe, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2020, 224 pp., $55, ISBN 9781487513153
Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
Page: 256
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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Book Review
The Purity and Sanctuary of the Body in Second Temple Judaism
by Hannah Harrington, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Verlag, 2019, 420pp., €110,00 (hardback), ISBN 9783525571286
Sandra Jacobs
Page: 257
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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Book Review
Reappraising the history of the Jews in the Netherlands
edited by Hans Blom, David J. Wertheim, Hetty Berg, and Bart T. Wallet, translated by David McKay, London, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press, 2021, 578 pp., £60 (hardback), ISBN 9781786941879
Sietske van der Veen
Pages: 257-258
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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Book Review
The Rebellion of the Daughters. Jewish women runaways in Habsburg Galicia
by Rachel Manekin, Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2020, 284 pp., £30, ISBN: 9780691207094
Scott Berg
Pages: 259-260
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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Book Review
Shadows in the city of light: Paris in postwar French Jewish writing
edited by Sara Horowitz, Amira Bojadzija-Dan and Julia Creet, Albany, NY, SUNY Press, 2021, 278 pp., $95 (hardback), ISBN 9781438481753
Sean Hand
Pages: 260-261
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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Book Review
The nun in the synagogue. Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel
by Emma O’Donnell Polyakov, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020, 243pp., £23.95, ISBN 9780271087252
Eugene J. Fisher
Pages: 261-262
Published online: 15 Sep 2023
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The Superwoman and other writings by Miriam Michelson
edited by Lori Harrison-Kahan, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2019, 387pp., $84.99 (hardback), $36.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780814343579
Emma Berg Saavedra
Pages: 262-263
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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The underground world of secret Jews and Africans: two tales of sex, magic, and survival in colonial Cartagena and Mexico City
by Jonathan Schorsch, Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2021, 192pp., $24.95, ISBN: 9781558769533
Aimee Dávila Hisey
Pages: 263-264
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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Books Received

Books received
Pages: 265-266
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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