Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Volume 22, Issue 4 (2023)

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Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Volume 22, Issue 4 (2023)

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“Efforts and labour defeat all resistance”: autobiographies of Jewish female students of the early twentieth century about the path to higher medical education in the Russian Empire
Oksana Drach
Pages: 379-399
Published online: 14 Mar 2022
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Promoting tolerance through historical memory A discussion with the founders of the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia, Mexico
Alexander Woodman
Pages: 400-411
Published online: 25 Apr 2022
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“The great sin of today is the ‘politicization’ of our Judaism, the great need, the ‘Judaization’ of our politics”: Leon Roth and the possibilities of a Jewish critique of Zionist politics
Yaacov Yadgar
Pages: 412-437
Published online: 03 May 2022
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Architectural analysis of the colonial-era Algiers synagogues
Naouel Nessark, Mohamed Dahli & Dominique Jarrassé
Pages: 438-460
Published online: 08 Jul 2022
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Cemeteries as representing national identity: trends in Jewish burial in Jerusalem during British rule (1917–1948)
Kobi Cohen-Hattab
Pages: 461-481
Published online: 05 Jul 2022
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Israeli euro-visions: the Jewish state as media event
Daniel Mahla
Pages: 482-502
Published online: 17 Oct 2022
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The Meites sisters and the Spanish Civil War: women's support for Republican Spain from within and without
Raanan Rein
Pages: 503-521
Published online: 15 Jan 2023
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“Hosts, not guests, in Israel”: younger generations of Russian Israelis on the path to active citizenship
Larissa Remennick & Anna Prashizky
Pages: 522-542
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Kivrei tsadikim as holy places? The tsadikification process of Jewish cemeteries in the state of Israel
Doron Bar
Pages: 543-566
Published online: 20 Feb 2023
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Acting out for the camera: performing Mizrahi masculinity and the politicisation of the Jerusalem neighbourhood, Katamon Tet
Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi
Pages: 567-593
Published online: 14 Mar 2023
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Jews and crime in medieval Europe
by Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2021, 459 pp., $89.99, ISBN 9780814345597
Trevor Dean
Pages: 594-595
Published online: 25 Jul 2022
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Songs of Sonderling: commissioning Jewish émigré composers in Los Angeles, 1938-1945
by Jonathan L. Friedmann and John F. Guest, Lubbock, TX, Texas Tech University Press, 2021, 224 pp., $34.95, ISBN: 9781682830796
Lily Hirsch
Pages: 595-596
Published online: 28 Jul 2022
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Singing in a foreign land: Anglo-Jewish poetry 1812-1847
by Karen Weisman, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018, 264pp., £62 (hardback), ISBN 9780812250343
Joseph Phelan
Pages: 596-597
Published online: 01 Sep 2023
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A Woman Called Moses: a prophet for our time
by Jean-Christophe Attias (trans. Gregory Elliott), London, Brooklyn, NY, Verso, 2020, 198pp., £16.99, ISBN 978-1-78873-639-8
Nathan MacDonald
Pages: 597-598
Published online: 01 Sep 2023
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Perfect goodness and the God of the Jews: a contemporary Jewish theology
by Jerome Yehuda Gellman, Boston, Massachusetts, Academic Studies Press, 2019, 184 pp., ISBN 9781618118387
John Barton
Pages: 598-599
Published online: 01 Sep 2023
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Andalus and Sefarad: on philosophy and its history in Islamic Spain
by Sarah Stroumsa, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2019, 248 pp., £30 (hardcover), ISBN 9780691176437
Charles Burnett
Pages: 599-600
Published online: 01 Sep 2023
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Unity and diversity in contemporary antisemitism: the Bristol-Sheffield Hallam colloquium on contemporary antisemitism
edited by Jonathan C. Campbell and Lesley D. Klaff, Academic Studies Press, 2019, 245 pp., $119.00, ISBN 9781618119667
Alvin H. Rosenfeld
Pages: 600-601
Published online: 06 Sep 2023
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Jewish religious architecture: from Biblical Israel to modern Judaism
by Steven Fine, Leiden, Netherlands, Brill, 2020, 382 pp., €165.00 $198.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-90-04-37009-8
Barry L. Stiefel
Pages: 601-602
Published online: 01 Sep 2023
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Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture
by Judith Ruderman, Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, 2019, 262 pp., $90 (hardcover), ISBN 9780253036957
Debra Shostak
Pages: 602-603
Published online: 01 Sep 2023
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Kurt Eisner. A modern life
by Albert Earle Gurganus, Rochester, NY, Camden House, 2018, 577 pp., £45 (Hardback), ISBN: 978-1-64014-015-8
Jakub S. Beneš
Pages: 604-605
Published online: 01 Sep 2023
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Forgotten genocide. Khurbm, 1914-1922: prelude to the holocaust: the beginning
by Alexander Gendler, Varda Books, 2019, 344 pp., $125, ISBN 9781590450567
Eric Lohr
Pages: 605-606
Published online: 01 Sep 2023
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The Kosher Capones: a history of Chicago’s Jewish gangsters
by Joe Kraus, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2019, 240pp., $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781501747311
Michael Woodiwiss
Pages: 606-607
Published online: 04 Oct 2023
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The Yiddish historians and the struggle for a Jewish history of the Holocaust
by Mark Smith, Detroit, Michigan, US, Wayne State University Press, 2019, 463 pp., £73.50 (Hardback), ISBN 9780814346129
Tomasz Kamusella
Pages: 607-608
Published online: 01 Sep 2023
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Books Received

Books Received
Pages: 609-610
Published online: 04 Oct 2023
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