Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Volume 19, Issue 2 (2020)

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Mizrahim in the big city: an inside look at the social and cultural world of middle-class Iraqi immigrants in 1950s and 1960s Israel
Esther Meir-Glitzenstein
Pages: 119-142
Published online: 18 Nov 2019
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Israel’s perception of Jews’ safety during democratization in Argentina (1982–1984): the experiences of Israeli diplomats in Latin American contexts of crisis
Mauricio Dimant
Pages: 143-163
Published online: 15 Jul 2019
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Jewish commentaries on Star Wars: theology, history, and debate
Celia Rothenberg
Pages: 164-180
Published online: 27 Sep 2019
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“Love for my despicable Jews” – Fluctuations in Uri Zvi Grinberg’s attitude towards the Jews of Eastern Europe during the 1920s
Tamar Wolf-Monzon
Pages: 181-204
Published online: 07 Aug 2019
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From pan-Asianism to safari-Zionism: gendered Orientalism in Jewish-Austrian literature
Viktoria Pötzl
Pages: 205-223
Published online: 07 Aug 2019
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A type of copy: on emigration and immigrants in Dvora Baron’s “America”
Tsila Ratner
Pages: 224-246
Published online: 08 Aug 2019
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Brief Words

The foreword to Isaac Rivkind’s Yiddish book, The Struggle Against Gambling Among Jews
Maurice Wolfthal
Pages: 247-258
Published online: 05 Aug 2019
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Review Essays

Essay
Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine’s poet and the other as the beloved
by Dalya Cohen-Mor, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, XI, 105 pp., US$41, 46 (Ebook), ISBN: 978-3-030-24162-9, US$51, 99 (paperback), ISBN: 978-3-030-24161-2
Bilal Tawfiq Hamamra
Pages: 259-261
Published online: 12 Dec 2019
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Forecasting the Holocaust and destruction: on Volks-spirit and hatred of Jews
[Prophet der Vernichtung, Über Volksgeist und Judenhass] by Siegfried Lichtenstaedter, edited, and with accompanying essays, by Götz Aly. Frankfurt, S. Fischer Press, 2019, 283 pp., € 22,00 (hbk.), ISBN: 978-3-10-397421-8 (original in German).
Thomas Klikauer
Pages: 262-264
Published online: 18 Feb 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Jewish aspects in avant-garde: between rebellion and revelation
edited by Mark Gelber and Sami Sjoberg, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2017, 277 pp., £81.99, ISBN 9783110336924
David Herman
Pages: 265-266
Published online: 26 Feb 2020
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The politics of Jewishness in contemporary world literature: the Holocaust, Zionism and colonialism
by Isabelle Hess, London/New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2016, 228 pp., £60, ISBN 9781474269339
Joshua Lander
Page: 266
Published online: 25 Feb 2020
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Space and spatiality in modern German-Jewish history
New German Historical Perspectives 8, edited by Simone Lassig and Miriam Rurup, New York/Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2017, 384 pp., $179.00/£132.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-78533-553-2, $34.95/£27.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-78920-512-1
Hannah Holtschneider
Page: 267
Published online: 24 Feb 2020
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The greater German Reich and the Jews: Nazi persecution policies in the annexed territories 1935–1945
edited by Wolf Gruner and Jörg Osterloh, Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2017, 34 pp., £28.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781785335037
Anna Hájková
Page: 268
Published online: 26 Feb 2020
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Books Received

Books Received
Books Received
Pages: 269-270
Published online: 25 Feb 2020
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Corrections

Correction
Correction
Page: I
Published online: 30 Sep 2019
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Correction
Correction
Page: II
Published online: 09 Oct 2019
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