Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Volume 16, Issue 3 (2017)

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Special Section: The Art of Cultural Translation: Performing Jewish Traditions in Modern Times

Obituary

Obituary
Alan Mintz, 1947–2017
Glenda Abramson
Page: 357
Published online: 24 Jul 2017
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Violence and the Hebrew language: Jewish nationalism and the university
Eyal Chowers
Pages: 358-376
Published online: 04 Apr 2017
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“Jewish History” beyond binary conceptions: Jewish performing musicians in Vienna around 1900
Klaus Hödl
Pages: 377-394
Published online: 05 Jul 2017
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Can the two go together? Archaeology and sanctity at the Western Wall and surrounding area, 1967–1977
Doron Bar & Kobi Cohen-Hattab
Pages: 395-415
Published online: 15 May 2017
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Special Section: The Art of Cultural Translation: Performing Jewish Traditions in Modern Times

Introduction
The art of cultural translation: performing Jewish traditions in modern times
Zehavit Stern
Pages: 416-418
Published online: 26 Jul 2017
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Bridges to a bygone Jewish past? Abraham Tendlau and the rewriting of Yiddish folktales in nineteenth-century Germany
Aya Elyada
Pages: 419-436
Published online: 17 Jul 2017
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The hasidic story and the Yiddish cabaret: folk performance as a barbaric disruption in S. Y. Agnon’s The Bridal Canopy
Zehavit Stern
Pages: 437-450
Published online: 27 Jul 2017
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Performing the past in hasidic tales
Justin Jaron Lewis
Pages: 451-464
Published online: 26 Jul 2017
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Ester Rokhl Kaminska and the legitimization of Yiddish theatre
Shelly Zer-Zion
Pages: 465-480
Published online: 21 Jul 2017
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Temple of art on Second Avenue
Edna Nahshon
Pages: 481-497
Published online: 28 Jul 2017
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On the architecture of the ephemeral: The Eternal Sukkah of the Jahalin tribe
Diego Rotman
Pages: 498-514
Published online: 28 Jul 2017
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Book Reviews

Book Review
A political and economic history of the Jews of Afghanistan
Eunan O’Halpin
Pages: 515-516
Published online: 13 Mar 2017
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The Jews of the Channel Islands and the rule of law 1940–1945 – “quite contrary to the principles of British justice”
Paul Sanders
Pages: 516-517
Published online: 26 Jul 2017
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For God and country? Religious student-soldiers in the Israel defence forces
James Eastwood
Pages: 517-518
Published online: 02 Aug 2017
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Loyal sons: Jews in the German army in the Great War
Michael Berkowitz
Pages: 518-519
Published online: 01 Aug 2017
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Suddenly the sight of war: violence and nationalism in Hebrew poetry in the 1940s
Peter Lawson
Pages: 519-520
Published online: 01 Aug 2017
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Jewish participation in the fire service in the Second World War: last voices
Linsey Robb
Pages: 520-521
Published online: 17 Aug 2017
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Purchasing power. The economics of modern Jewish history
Chris Wrigley
Pages: 521-522
Published online: 17 Aug 2017
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In the shadows of memory: the Holocaust and the third generation
Maria Roca Lizarazu
Pages: 522-523
Published online: 17 Aug 2017
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Judeo-Arabic literature in Tunisia, 1850–1950
Arie Schippers
Pages: 523-525
Published online: 17 Aug 2017
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Holocaust legacy in post-Soviet Lithuania: people, places and objects
Agne Cepinskyte
Pages: 525-526
Published online: 17 Aug 2017
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The Israeli nation-state: political, constitutional, and cultural challenges
Sharon Weinblum
Pages: 526-527
Published online: 17 Aug 2017
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Books Received

Books Received
Books Received
Pages: 528-529
Published online: 24 Jul 2017
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Editorial Board

Editorial Board
Page: ebi
Published online: 22 Aug 2017
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