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Issue16 / December 2019

Focus

Israel: A Diaspora of Memories

edited by Michèle Baussant, Dario Miccoli and Esther Schely-Newman

  • Introduction by Michèle Baussant, Dario Miccoli and Esther Schely-Newman                                        
  • From Shelilat ha-Galut to Shelilat ha-Geulah in Narratives of Moroccan and Ethiopian Origin by Emanuela Trevisan Semi                                        
  • From a Returning Jewish Diaspora to Returns to Diaspora Spaces: Israeli-Ethiopians Today by Lisa Anteby-Yemini                                        
  • “Who gave you the right to abandon your prophets?”
    Jewish Sites of Ruins and Memory in Egypt
    by Michèle Baussant                                        
  • Poetics of Identity: Mizrahi Poets between Here and There, Then and Now by Esther Schely-Newman                                        
  • The Nakba in Israeli History Textbooks: Between Memory and History by Avner Ben-Amos                                        
  • Beyond and Despite the State: Young Religious Settlers’ Visions of Messianic Redemption by Perle Nicolle-Hasid                                        
  • Employing Women Immigrants from France in Israeli French-Speaking Companies: Honey Trap or Safety Net? by Shirly Bar-Lev and Karin Amit                                        

Discussion

Dana E. Katz The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice
Discussion by Cristiana Facchini Discussion by Nicholas Terpstra

Reviews

  • Naomi Leite Unorthodox Kin
    Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging
    Davide Aliberti                                        
  • Asa Maron, Michael Shalev (eds.) Neoliberalism as a State Project
    Changing the Political Economy of Israel
    Ira Sharkansky                                        
  • Petra Ernst Schtetl, Stadt, Staat
    Raum und Identität in deutschsprachig-jüdischer Erzählliteratur des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts
    Francisca Solomon                                        
  • Shir Hever The Privatization of Israeli Security
    Aide Esu                                        
  • Jalal Al-e-Ahmad The Israeli Republic
    An Iranian Revolutionary’s Journey to the Jewish State
    Lior Sternfeld                                        
  • James Loeffler Rooted Cosmopolitans
    Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
    Marcella Simoni                                        
  • Lewis Glinert The Story of Hebrew
    Alessandro Guetta                                        
  • Vincenzo Pinto (ed.) Bundist Legacy after the Second World War
    Real Place Versus Displaced Time
    Nethanel Treves                                        
  • David Fraser Anti-Shechita Prosecutions in the Anglo-American World, 1855-1913
    “A major attack on Jewish freedoms ...”
    Todd M. Endelmann                                        
  • Eden K. McLean Mussolini’s Children
    Race and Elementary Education in Fascist Italy
    Michele Sarfatti                                        

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  • Israel: A Diaspora of Memories by Michèle Baussant, Dario Miccoli and Esther Schely-Newman                                        
  • From Shelilat ha-Galut to Shelilat ha-Geulah in Narratives of Moroccan and Ethiopian Origin by Emanuela Trevisan Semi                                        
  • From a Returning Jewish Diaspora to Returns to Diaspora Spaces: Israeli-Ethiopians Today by Lisa Anteby-Yemini                                        
  • “Who gave you the right to abandon your prophets?”
    Jewish Sites of Ruins and Memory in Egypt
    by Michèle Baussant                                        
  • Poetics of Identity: Mizrahi Poets between Here and There, Then and Now by Esther Schely-Newman                                        
  • The Nakba in Israeli History Textbooks: Between Memory and History by Avner Ben-Amos                                        
  • Beyond and Despite the State: Young Religious Settlers’ Visions of Messianic Redemption by Perle Nicolle-Hasid                                        
  • Employing Women Immigrants from France in Israeli French-Speaking Companies: Honey Trap or Safety Net? by Shirly Bar-Lev and Karin Amit                                        

Discussion

Dana E. Katz
The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice
Discussion by Cristiana Facchini
Discussion by Nicholas Terpstra

Reviews

Naomi Leite Unorthodox Kin
Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging
by Davide Aliberti                                        
Asa Maron, Michael Shalev (eds.) Neoliberalism as a State Project
Changing the Political Economy of Israel
by Ira Sharkansky                                        
Petra Ernst Schtetl, Stadt, Staat
Raum und Identität in deutschsprachig-jüdischer Erzählliteratur des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts
by Francisca Solomon                                        
Shir Hever The Privatization of Israeli Security by Aide Esu                                        
Jalal Al-e-Ahmad The Israeli Republic
An Iranian Revolutionary’s Journey to the Jewish State
by Lior Sternfeld                                        
James Loeffler Rooted Cosmopolitans
Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
by Marcella Simoni                                        
Lewis Glinert The Story of Hebrew by Alessandro Guetta                                        
Vincenzo Pinto (ed.) Bundist Legacy after the Second World War
Real Place Versus Displaced Time
by Nethanel Treves                                        
David Fraser Anti-Shechita Prosecutions in the Anglo-American World, 1855-1913
“A major attack on Jewish freedoms ...”
by Todd M. Endelmann                                        
Eden K. McLean Mussolini’s Children
Race and Elementary Education in Fascist Italy
by Michele Sarfatti