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Issue19 / June 2021

Focus

From the Other Shore: Transnational Jewish Journeys Along Africa’s Shores

edited by Marie-Pierre Ulloa

  • Introduction by Marie-Pierre Ulloa                                        
  • Casablanca la juive: Public and Private Architecture 1912-1960 by Jean-Louis Cohen                                        
  • In the Shadows of the Shoah and Apartheid: Recovering Traces of “Difficult Pasts” of German-Jewish Refugees in South Africa by Steven Robins                                        
  • Between Italy and Ethiopia, Western and African Judaism: The Story of Taamrat Emmanuel, a Jewish Intellectual from Ethiopia by Emanuela Trevisan Semi                                        
  • Holocaust and the Indian Ocean: Jewish Detention in Mauritius (1940-1945) by Kirk Sides                                        

Research Paths

“My Arabic Is Mute”: The Demise of Arabic Literature by Iraqi Jews and Their Shift to Writing in Hebrew Reuven Snir                                        

Call for Papers

  • 3 November 2021 Call for Papers – miscellaneous issue
  • 5 October 2021 Call for Papers – Animals and Environment in Jewish Thought and Literature
    “For whom shall we Say the World has been Created?”

Discussion

Magda Teter                                         Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth
Discussion by Diego Quaglioni Discussion by Kenneth Stow

Reviews

  • Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Heß (eds.) Antisemitism in the North
    History and State of Research
    Hakon Harket                                        
  • Maria Chiara Rioli A Liminal Church
    Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946-1956
    David Ketzer                                        
  • Wendy Lower The Ravine
    A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed
    Elissa Bemporad                                        
  • Manuela Consonni and Vivian Liska (eds.) Sartre, Jews, and the Other
    Rethinking Antisemitism, Race and Gender
    Brian Klug                                        

All Issues

  • issue 20 / December 2021
  • issue 19 / October 2021
  • issue 18 / December 2020
  • issue 17 / September 2020
  • issue 16 / December 2019
  • issue 15 / August 2019
  • issue 14 / December 2018
  • issue 13 / August 2018
  • issue 12 / December 2017
  • issue 11 / October 2017
  • issue 10 / December 2016
  • issue 09 / October 2016
  • issue 08 / November 2015
  • issue 07 / July 2014
  • issue 06 / December 2013
  • issue 05 / July 2013
  • issue 04 / November 2012
  • issue 03 / July 2012
  • issue 02 / October 2011
  • issue 01 / April 2010
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    Issues in Contemporary Jewish History

    Registrazione Tribunale Milano n. 403 del 18/09/2009

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Focus

  • From the Other Shore: Transnational Jewish Journeys Along Africa’s Shores by Marie-Pierre Ulloa                                        
  • Casablanca la juive: Public and Private Architecture 1912-1960 by Jean-Louis Cohen                                        
  • In the Shadows of the Shoah and Apartheid: Recovering Traces of “Difficult Pasts” of German-Jewish Refugees in South Africa by Steven Robins                                        
  • Between Italy and Ethiopia, Western and African Judaism: The Story of Taamrat Emmanuel, a Jewish Intellectual from Ethiopia by Emanuela Trevisan Semi                                        
  • Holocaust and the Indian Ocean: Jewish Detention in Mauritius (1940-1945) by Kirk Sides                                        

Research Paths

  • “My Arabic Is Mute”: The Demise of Arabic Literature by Iraqi Jews and Their Shift to Writing in Hebrew by Reuven Snir                                        

Discussion

Magda Teter                                        
Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth
Discussion by Diego Quaglioni
Discussion by Kenneth Stow

Reviews

Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Heß (eds.) Antisemitism in the North
History and State of Research
by Hakon Harket                                        
Maria Chiara Rioli A Liminal Church
Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946-1956
by David Ketzer                                        
Wendy Lower The Ravine
A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed
by Elissa Bemporad                                        
Manuela Consonni and Vivian Liska (eds.) Sartre, Jews, and the Other
Rethinking Antisemitism, Race and Gender
by Brian Klug