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Issue3issue / December 2020

Focus

Genealogies of Sepharad (“Jewish Spain”)

edited by Daniela Fleser, Michal Rose Friedman and Asher Salah

  • Introduction by Daniela Fleser, Michal Rose Friedman and Asher Salah                                        
  • Introduction by Marion Aptroot                                        
  • Introduction by Michèle Baussant, Dario Miccoli and Esther Schely-Newman                                        
  • Introduction by Elissa Bemporad and Thomas Chopard                                        
  • Introduction
  • Introduction by Laura Brazzo and Reto Speck                                        
  • Introduction
  • Introduction by Michele Sarfatti                                        
  • Introduction by Robert S.C. Gordon and Emiliano Perra                                        
  • Introduction by Petra Ernst, Jeffrey Grossman and Ulrich Wyrwa                                        
  • Introduction by Tullia Catalan and Cristiana Facchini                                        
  • Introduction
  • Introduction by Serena Di Nepi and Arturo Marzano                                        
  • Introduction by Marcella Simoni                                        
  • Introduction by Emanuela Trevisan and Piera Rossetto                                        
  • Introduction by Werner Bergman and Ulrich Wyrwa                                        
  • Introduction by Cristiana Facchini                                        
  • Introduction by Laura Brazzo and Guri Schwarz                                        
  • Sephardi Women in Ángel Pulido’s Correspondence by Paloma Díaz-Mas                                        
  • A History of Histories—of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Exchange
    A.S. Yahuda and the International Trade of Antiquities, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, 1902-1944
    by Allyson Gonzalez                                        
  • Jews and Judaism in the Writings of Enrique Jardiel Poncela and his Daughter Evangelina Jardiel by Asher Salah                                        
  • A Tale in the Language of “My Mother Spain”
    Carmen Pérez-Avello’s Un muchacho sefardí
    by Tabea Linhard                                        
  • Archives of the Sephardi Kitchen by Harry Eli Kashdan                                        
  • Pedagogies of Citizenship
    Sepharad and Jewishness in Spanish and Catalan Documentary Film and Television
    by Hazel Gold                                        
  • Spain’s Jewish Genealogies in the “Sephardi Portraits” of Daniel Quintero by Daniela Fleser and Adrián Pérez Melgosa                                        
  • Ancestry, Genealogy, and Restorative Citizenship
    Oral Histories of Sephardi Descendants Reclaiming Spanish and Portuguese Nationality
    by Rina Benmayor and Dalia Kandiyoti                                        
  • How, When, and Why Did Yiddish Become a Modern Culture? by David E. Fishman                                        
  • Marking Territory: A Flâneur’s Failure in I. L. Peretz’s Mayses by Marc Caplan                                        
  • “To Hell with Futurism, Too!”
    The Metamorphoses of Western and Eastern European Modernism in Yiddish Manifesto
    by Daria Vakhrushova                                        
  • An American in Shtetl: Seeing Yiddish Europe Through the Eyes of Molly Picon by Debra Caplan                                        
  • A Quest for Yiddishland: The 1937 World Yiddish Cultural Congress by Gennady Estraikh                                        
  • 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                                        

Research Paths

“Poor Jews! You Get Blamed for Everything!”
Hope and Despair in a Galician Yiddish Newspaper during the Revolutions of 1848–49*
Rebecca Wolpe                                        
The Buffer Zone: Ottoman Maskilim and their Austro-Hungarian Counterparts. A Case Study*
Tamir Karkason                                        

Editorial

  • Ten Years of Quest Guri Schwarz                                        

Discussion

Francesca Trivellato                                         The Promise and Peril of Credit
What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society
Discussion by Oliver Schulz Discussion by Germano Maifreda Paul Hanebrink                                         A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism
Discussion by Joanna Beata Michlic Discussion by Zoltán Kékesi Daniel Boyarin                                         Judaism
The Genealogy of a Modern Notion
Discussion by Luca Arcari Discussion by Daniel Barbu Dana E. Katz                                         The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice
Discussion by Cristiana Facchini Discussion by Nicholas Terpstra Liliana Picciotto                                         Salvarsi
Gli ebrei d'Italia sfuggiti alla Shoah 1943-1945
Discussion by Juliane Wetzel Discussion by Gabriella Gribaudi Cynthia M. Baker                                         Jew
Discussion by Michael Berkowitz Discussion by Michael L. Satlow David I. Kertzer                                         The Pope and Mussolini
The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
Discussion by Raffaella Perin Discussion by Paolo Zanini Chaim Gans                                         A Political Theory for the Jewish People
Discussion by Ian S. Lustick Discussion by Samuel H. Brody Maud S. Mandel                                         Muslims and Jews in France
History of a conflict
Discussion by Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun Discussion by Bryan S. Turner Ernst Toller                                         Complete Works: Critical Edition
Discussion by Steven Schouten

Reviews

  • Christoph Jahr Paul Nathan
    Publizist, Politiker und Philanthrop 1857-1927
    Johann Nicolai                                        
  • Martin Goodman Josephus’s The Jewish War
    A Biography
    Steve Mason                                        
  • Ian S. Lustick Paradigm Lost
    From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality
    Menachem Klein                                        
  • Antonella Salomoni Le ceneri di Babij Jar
    L’eccidio degli ebrei di Kiev
    Simone Attilio Bellezza                                        
  • Mark L. Smith The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust
    Daniela Ozacky-Stern                                        
  • Paul Mendes-Flohr Martin Buber
    A Life of Faith and Dissent
    Enrico Lucca                                        
  • David Kowalski Polens letzte Juden
    Herkunft und Dissidenz um 1968
    Beate Kosmala                                        
  • Dafna Hirsch, ed., Encounters
    History and Anthropology of the Israeli-Palestinian Space
    Tamir Sorek                                        
  • Susanne Theresia Kord Lovable Crooks and Loathsome Jews
    Antisemitism in German and Austrian Crime Writing Before the World Wars
    Lisa Silverman                                        
  • Hana Kubátová, Jan Láníček (eds.) Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust
    History and Memory
    Tim Corbett                                        
  • Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire (eds.) Ordinary Jerusalem 1840-1940
    Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City
    Nimrod Luz                                        
  • Judith Lindenberg (ed.) Premiers savoirs de la Shoah
    Antoine Burgard                                        
  • Sara Yael Hirschhorn City on a Hilltop
    American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement
    Caterina Bandini                                        
  • Michael Brenner Der lange Schatten der Revolution
    Juden und Antisemiten in Hitlers München 1918 bis 1923
    Ulrich Wyrwa                                        
  • Irene Aue-Ben-David Deutsch-jüdische Geschichtschreibung im 20 Jahrhundert
    Zu Werk und Rezeption von Selma Stern
    Dominique Bourel                                        
  • Joshua Teplitsky Prince of the Press
    How One Collector Built History's Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library
    Mirjam Thulin                                        
  • Aomar Boum, Sarah Abrevaya Stein (eds.) The Holocaust and North Africa
    Piera Rossetto                                        
  • Cordelia Hess The Absent Jews
    Kurt Forstreuter and the Historiography of Medieval Prussia
    Ingo Haar                                        
  • 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                                        

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Focus

  • Genealogies of Sepharad (“Jewish Spain”) by Daniela Fleser, Michal Rose Friedman and Asher Salah                                        
  • Thinking Europe in Yiddish by Marion Aptroot                                        
  • Israel: A Diaspora of Memories by Michèle Baussant, Dario Miccoli and Esther Schely-Newman                                        
  • The Pogroms of the Russian Civil War at 100: New Trends, New Sources by Elissa Bemporad and Thomas Chopard                                        
  • Miscellanea 2018
  • Holocaust Research and Archives in the Digital Age by Laura Brazzo and Reto Speck                                        
  • Miscellanea 2017
  • Italy’s Fascist Jews: Insights on an Unusual Scenario by Michele Sarfatti                                        
  • Holocaust Intersections in 21st-Century Europe by Robert S.C. Gordon and Emiliano Perra                                        
  • The Great War. Reflections, Experiences and Memories of German and Habsburg Jews (1914-1918) by Petra Ernst, Jeffrey Grossman and Ulrich Wyrwa                                        
  • Portrait of Italian Jewish Life (1800s-1930s) by Tullia Catalan and Cristiana Facchini                                        
  • Miscellanea
  • Travels to the “Holy Land”: Perceptions, Representations and Narratives by Serena Di Nepi and Arturo Marzano                                        
  • Israelis and Palestinians Seeking, Building and Representing Peace. A Historical Appraisal by Marcella Simoni                                        
  • Memory and Forgetting among Jews from the Arab-Muslim Countries. Contested Narratives of a Shared Past by Emanuela Trevisan and Piera Rossetto                                        
  • The Making of Antisemitism as a Political Movement. Political History as Cultural History (1879-1914) by Werner Bergman and Ulrich Wyrwa                                        
  • Modernity and the Cities of the Jews by Cristiana Facchini                                        
  • Jews in Europe after the Shoah. Studies and Research Perspectives by Laura Brazzo and Guri Schwarz                                        
  • Sephardi Women in Ángel Pulido’s Correspondence by Paloma Díaz-Mas                                        
  • A History of Histories—of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Exchange
    A.S. Yahuda and the International Trade of Antiquities, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, 1902-1944
    by Allyson Gonzalez                                        
  • Jews and Judaism in the Writings of Enrique Jardiel Poncela and his Daughter Evangelina Jardiel by Asher Salah                                        
  • A Tale in the Language of “My Mother Spain”
    Carmen Pérez-Avello's Un muchacho sefardí
    by Tabea Linhard                                        
  • Archives of the Sephardi Kitchen by Harry Eli Kashdan                                        
  • Pedagogies of Citizenship
    Sepharad and Jewishness in Spanish and Catalan Documentary Film and Television
    by Hazel Gold                                        
  • Spain’s Jewish Genealogies in the “Sephardi Portraits” of Daniel Quintero by Daniela Fleser and Adrián Pérez Melgosa                                        
  • Ancestry, Genealogy, and Restorative Citizenship
    Oral Histories of Sephardi Descendants Reclaiming Spanish and Portuguese Nationality
    by Rina Benmayor and Dalia Kandiyoti                                        
  • How, When, and Why Did Yiddish Become a Modern Culture? by David E. Fishman                                        
  • Marking Territory: A Flâneur’s Failure in I. L. Peretz’s Mayses by Marc Caplan                                        
  • “To Hell with Futurism, Too!”
    The Metamorphoses of Western and Eastern European Modernism in Yiddish Manifesto
    by Daria Vakhrushova                                        
  • An American in Shtetl: Seeing Yiddish Europe Through the Eyes of Molly Picon by Debra Caplan                                        
  • A Quest for Yiddishland: The 1937 World Yiddish Cultural Congress by Gennady Estraikh                                        
  • 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                                        

Research Paths

  • “Poor Jews! You Get Blamed for Everything!”
    Hope and Despair in a Galician Yiddish Newspaper during the Revolutions of 1848–49*
    by Rebecca Wolpe                                        
  • The Buffer Zone: Ottoman Maskilim and their Austro-Hungarian Counterparts. A Case Study*
    by Tamir Karkason                                        

Discussion

Francesca Trivellato                                        
The Promise and Peril of Credit
What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society

Discussion by Oliver Schulz
Discussion by Germano Maifreda
Paul Hanebrink                                        
A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism
Discussion by Joanna Beata Michlic
Discussion by Zoltán Kékesi
Daniel Boyarin                                        
Judaism
The Genealogy of a Modern Notion
Discussion by Luca Arcari
Discussion by Daniel Barbu
Dana E. Katz                                        
The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice
Discussion by Cristiana Facchini
Discussion by Nicholas Terpstra
Liliana Picciotto                                        
Salvarsi
Gli ebrei d'Italia sfuggiti alla Shoah 1943-1945

Discussion by Juliane Wetzel
Discussion by Gabriella Gribaudi
Cynthia M. Baker                                        
Jew
Discussion by Michael Berkowitz
Discussion by Michael L. Satlow
David I. Kertzer                                        
The Pope and Mussolini
The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
Discussion by Raffaella Perin
Discussion by Paolo Zanini
Chaim Gans                                        
A Political Theory for the Jewish People
Discussion by Ian S. Lustick
Discussion by Samuel H. Brody
Maud S. Mandel                                        
Muslims and Jews in France
History of a conflict

Discussion by Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun
Discussion by Bryan S. Turner
Ernst Toller                                        
Complete Works: Critical Edition
Discussion by Steven Schouten

Reviews

Christoph Jahr Paul Nathan
Publizist, Politiker und Philanthrop 1857-1927
by Johann Nicolai                                        
Martin Goodman Josephus’s The Jewish War
A Biography
by Steve Mason                                        
Ian S. Lustick Paradigm Lost
From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality
by Menachem Klein                                        
Antonella Salomoni Le ceneri di Babij Jar
L’eccidio degli ebrei di Kiev
by Simone Attilio Bellezza                                        
Mark L. Smith The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust by Daniela Ozacky-Stern                                        
Paul Mendes-Flohr Martin Buber
A Life of Faith and Dissent
by Enrico Lucca                                        
David Kowalski Polens letzte Juden
Herkunft und Dissidenz um 1968
by Beate Kosmala                                        
Dafna Hirsch, ed., Encounters
History and Anthropology of the Israeli-Palestinian Space
by Tamir Sorek                                        
Susanne Theresia Kord Lovable Crooks and Loathsome Jews
Antisemitism in German and Austrian Crime Writing Before the World Wars
by Lisa Silverman                                        
Hana Kubátová, Jan Láníček (eds.) Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust
History and Memory
by Tim Corbett                                        
Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire (eds.) Ordinary Jerusalem 1840-1940
Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City
by Nimrod Luz                                        
Judith Lindenberg (ed.) Premiers savoirs de la Shoah by Antoine Burgard                                        
Sara Yael Hirschhorn City on a Hilltop
American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement
by Caterina Bandini                                        
Michael Brenner Der lange Schatten der Revolution
Juden und Antisemiten in Hitlers München 1918 bis 1923
by Ulrich Wyrwa                                        
Irene Aue-Ben-David Deutsch-jüdische Geschichtschreibung im 20 Jahrhundert
Zu Werk und Rezeption von Selma Stern
by Dominique Bourel                                        
Joshua Teplitsky Prince of the Press
How One Collector Built History's Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library
by Mirjam Thulin                                        
Aomar Boum, Sarah Abrevaya Stein (eds.) The Holocaust and North Africa by Piera Rossetto                                        
Cordelia Hess The Absent Jews
Kurt Forstreuter and the Historiography of Medieval Prussia
by Ingo Haar                                        
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