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Issue3issue / n. 2 (2024)

Focus

Jewish Experiences during the Great Depression in East Central Europe (1929 – 1934)

edited by Ulrich Wyrwa and Klaus Richter

  • Introduction by Ulrich Wyrwa and Klaus Richter                                        
  • Introduction
  • Introduction by Francesca Bregoli                                        
  • Introduction by Anna Lissa                                        
  • Introduction
  • Introduction by Verena Buser and Chiara Renzo                                        
  • Introduction by Francesco Di Palma and Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe                                        
  • Introduction by Marie-Pierre Ulloa                                        
  • 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
  • The Great Depression and its Effect on Hungarian Jews by Péter Buchmüller and Ágnes Kelemen                                        
  • Jewish News and Reflections on the Great Depression in Czechoslovakia by Daniela Bartakova                                        
  • Jews, the Great Depression, and the “Lithuanianisation” of the National Economy by Klaus Richter                                        
  • The World Economic Crisis. Jewish Experiences and Responses in Latvia by Paula Oppermann                                        
  • Looting and Killing are Permitted: Rumors in the November 1918 Pogrom in Lviv by Jan Kutílek                                        
  • David Diringer’s Refugee Itinerary: From Foreign Student in Fascist Italy to Academic in Post-War Britain by Anna Teicher                                        
  • “Good Moral Conduct” in an Italian Concentration Camp: Women’s Daily Lives in Ferramonti di Tarsia, 1940‒1943 by Susanna Schrafstetter                                        
  • Wilhelma, Israel: An Interface of Israeli and German Settlement Histories by Danny Goldman                                        
  • Conversion and Masculinity in Thirteenth-Century England: One Man’s Decision to Leave the Priesthood for Judaism by Rebekah Sewell                                        
  • Between Rabbinic and Knightly Masculinities: Constructing Gendered Identities Among Jewish Young Men in Medieval Ashkenaz by Eyal Levinson                                        
  • “We Are No Soldiers”: Jewish Unmanliness in English Renaissance Drama by Becky S. Friedman                                        
  • On Kabbalah and “Wasted Seed” in Seventeenth-Century Poland: A Chapter in the History of the Male Jewish Body by Avinoam J. Stillman                                        
  • Sodomy, Homosociality and Friendship among Jewish and Christian Men: The Proceedings Against Lazarro de Norsa (Modena, 1670) by Katherine Aron-Beller                                        
  • Paternal Affliction: Emotions and Masculinity among Eighteenth-Century Italian Jewish Merchants by Francesca Bregoli                                        
  • A Modern Lycaon: Recalling Ovid’s Metamorphoses in The Merchant of Venice by Noam Pines                                        
  • Tza’ar ba’ale hayyim: Jewish Animal Rights Advocacy and Vegetarianism, from Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Ha-Kohen Kook’s A Vision of Vegetarianism and Peace to Jonathan Safran Foer by Piergabriele Mancuso                                        
  • Kids f or Calves : Children Against Slaughter in Fin – de – siècle Jewish Literature by Naama Harel                                        
  • Troubling the Boundaries: Human and Animal Spaces in Yitzhak Orpaz’s Nemalim (Ants) and Italo Calvino’s La formica argentina (The Argentine Ant) by Anna Lissa                                        
  • The Expression of Israeli Southern Periphery’s Voices Through the Symbolism of Domestic versus Wild Animal by Ilanit Ben-Dor Derimian                                        
  • Man, Interrupted: Abjection, Animality and Agency in Donkey by Sami Berdugo by Riki Traum                                        

Research Paths

Resilient Women, Rebuilt Lives: A Study of JDC’s Work in Szeged after the Holocaust Dóra Pataricza                                         From Rabbi to Reviser: Once More on Giovanni Antonio Costanzi (1702-1786), a Convert in the Service of the Holy Office Miriam Benfatto                                         Antisemitism and the Image of Jews and Muslims in Nineteenth Century French Colonial Algerian Writings Sharon Vance                                         Between Corfu and Athens: Moisis Caimis’ Contribution to the Making of Greek Jewry (1885-1916) Joana Bürger                                         “My Arabic Is Mute”: The Demise of Arabic Literature by Iraqi Jews and Their Shift to Writing in Hebrew Reuven Snir                                         “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                                        

Review Essay

Back to the Sources. Over Five Thousand Documents on the “Persecution and Murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany.” On the Completion of a 16-Volume Edition Ulrich Wyrwa                                         A Poet in Search of His Voice: Nathan Alterman before “The Seventh Column” Arie M. Dubnov                                        

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?”
  • 2 June 2021 Call for Papers – Jewish Masculinities, 1000-1800;

Editorial

  • In memory of Federico Damonte
  • CDEC Foundation: A new Venue for the Library and Archive Gadi Luzzatto Voghera                                        
  • Ten Years of Quest Guri Schwarz                                        

Discussion

Daniel Boyarin The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto
Discussion by Arie M. Dubnov Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust
Discussion by Anton Weiss-Wendt Discussion by Marius Turda Reply by Ari Joskowicz Andrea Riccardi La guerra del silenzio. Pio XII, il nazismo, gli ebrei
Discussion by Michele Sarfatti Discussion by Susan Zuccotti Hillel J. Kieval Blood Inscriptions: Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder in Europe’s Fin de Siècle
Discussion by Robert Weinberg Discussion by Michal Frankl David Kertzer Un Papa in guerra. La storia segreta di Mussolini, Hitler e Pio XII
Discussion by Liliana Picciotto Tudor Parfitt Hybrid Hate: Conflations of Antisemitism and Anti-Black Racism from the Renaissance to the Third Reich
Discussion by Monica Miniati Sasha R. Goldstein - Sabbah Baghdadi Jewish Networks in the Age of Nationalism
Discussion by Esther Meir-Glitzenstein Discussion by Marcella Simoni Sol Goldberg, Scott Ury, and Kalaman Weiser, eds. Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism
Discussion by Ulrich Wyrwa Magda Teter Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth
Discussion by Diego Quaglioni Discussion by Kenneth Stow 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

Reviews

  • Mara Josi Rome 16 October 1943: History, Memory, Literature
    Michele Sarfatti                                        
  • Sharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida, eds. Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today
    Francesco Cassata                                        
  • Magda Teter Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism
    Matteo Caponi                                        
  • Tamás Turán Ignaz Goldziher as a Jewish Orientalist: Traditional Learning, Critical Scholarship, and Personal Piety
    George Y. Kohler                                        
  • Liat Steir-Livny Holocaust Representations in Animated Documentaries: The Contours of Commemoration
    Guido Vitiello                                        
  • Omer Bartov Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past
    Hana Kubátová                                        
  • Natalie Zemon Davis Listening to the Languages of the People: Lazare Sainéan on Romanian, Yiddish, and French
    Andreea Kaltenbrunner                                        
  • Sara Airoldi Nazione in patria. Sionismo e identità ebraica in Italia 1918-1938
    Arturo Marzano                                        
  • James McAuley The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France
    Katharina Hüls-Valenti                                        
  • Barbara E. Mann The Object of Jewish Literature: A Material History
    Martina Mampieri                                        
  • Dan Stone The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
    Anna Veronica Pobbe                                        
  • Radu Ioanid La Roumanie et la Shoah: Destruction et survie des Juifs et des Roms sous le régime Antonescu, 1940-1944
    Stefan Ionescu                                        
  • Laura Almagor Beyond Zion: The Jewish Territorialist Movement
    Stefan Vogt                                        
  • Jessica M. Marglin The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean
    M’hamed Oualdi                                        
  • Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff eds. Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making
    Piera Rossetto                                        
  • Laurent Joly La falsification de l’histoire. Éric Zemmour, l’extrême droite, Vichy et les Juifs
    Valeria Galimi                                        
  • Liora R. Halperin The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past
    Yair Wallach                                        
  • Luciano Allegra La povertà degli ebrei. Voci dal ghetto
    Davide Mano                                        
  • Alma Rachel Heckman The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging
    Orit Ouaknine Yekutieli                                        
  • Chiara Becattini La memoria dei campi. La Risiera di San Sabba, Fossoli, Natzweiler – Struthof, Drancy
    Elena Pirazzoli                                        

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  • Jewish Experiences during the Great Depression in East Central Europe (1929 – 1934) by Ulrich Wyrwa and Klaus Richter                                        
  • Miscellanea 2024
  • Jewish Masculinities, 1200-1800 by Francesca Bregoli                                        
  • Created from Animals: Thinking the Human Animal Difference in Jewish and Hebrew Literature by Anna Lissa                                        
  • Miscellanea 2022
  • Training for Aliyah: Young Jews in Hachsharot across Europe between the 1930s and late 1940s by Verena Buser and Chiara Renzo                                        
  • Jewish Minorities between Nation-Building and Emigration in late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century East Central Europe by Francesco Di Palma and Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe                                        
  • From the Other Shore: Transnational Jewish Journeys Along Africa’s Shores by Marie-Pierre Ulloa                                        
  • 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
  • The Great Depression and its Effect on Hungarian Jews by Péter Buchmüller and Ágnes Kelemen                                        
  • Jewish News and Reflections on the Great Depression in Czechoslovakia by Daniela Bartakova                                        
  • Jews, the Great Depression, and the “Lithuanianisation” of the National Economy by Klaus Richter                                        
  • The World Economic Crisis. Jewish Experiences and Responses in Latvia by Paula Oppermann                                        
  • Looting and Killing are Permitted: Rumors in the November 1918 Pogrom in Lviv by Jan Kutílek                                        
  • David Diringer’s Refugee Itinerary: From Foreign Student in Fascist Italy to Academic in Post-War Britain by Anna Teicher                                        
  • “Good Moral Conduct” in an Italian Concentration Camp: Women’s Daily Lives in Ferramonti di Tarsia, 1940‒1943 by Susanna Schrafstetter                                        
  • Wilhelma, Israel: An Interface of Israeli and German Settlement Histories by Danny Goldman                                        
  • Conversion and Masculinity in Thirteenth-Century England: One Man’s Decision to Leave the Priesthood for Judaism by Rebekah Sewell                                        
  • Between Rabbinic and Knightly Masculinities: Constructing Gendered Identities Among Jewish Young Men in Medieval Ashkenaz by Eyal Levinson                                        
  • “We Are No Soldiers”: Jewish Unmanliness in English Renaissance Drama by Becky S. Friedman                                        
  • On Kabbalah and “Wasted Seed” in Seventeenth-Century Poland: A Chapter in the History of the Male Jewish Body by Avinoam J. Stillman                                        
  • Sodomy, Homosociality and Friendship among Jewish and Christian Men: The Proceedings Against Lazarro de Norsa (Modena, 1670) by Katherine Aron-Beller                                        
  • Paternal Affliction: Emotions and Masculinity among Eighteenth-Century Italian Jewish Merchants by Francesca Bregoli                                        
  • A Modern Lycaon: Recalling Ovid’s Metamorphoses in The Merchant of Venice by Noam Pines                                        
  • Tza’ar ba’ale hayyim: Jewish Animal Rights Advocacy and Vegetarianism, from Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Ha-Kohen Kook’s A Vision of Vegetarianism and Peace to Jonathan Safran Foer by Piergabriele Mancuso                                        
  • Kids f or Calves : Children Against Slaughter in Fin – de – siècle Jewish Literature by Naama Harel                                        
  • Troubling the Boundaries: Human and Animal Spaces in Yitzhak Orpaz’s Nemalim (Ants) and Italo Calvino’s La formica argentina (The Argentine Ant) by Anna Lissa                                        
  • The Expression of Israeli Southern Periphery’s Voices Through the Symbolism of Domestic versus Wild Animal by Ilanit Ben-Dor Derimian                                        
  • Man, Interrupted: Abjection, Animality and Agency in Donkey by Sami Berdugo by Riki Traum                                        

Research Paths

  • Resilient Women, Rebuilt Lives: A Study of JDC’s Work in Szeged after the Holocaust by Dóra Pataricza                                        
  • From Rabbi to Reviser: Once More on Giovanni Antonio Costanzi (1702-1786), a Convert in the Service of the Holy Office by Miriam Benfatto                                        
  • Antisemitism and the Image of Jews and Muslims in Nineteenth Century French Colonial Algerian Writings by Sharon Vance                                        
  • Between Corfu and Athens: Moisis Caimis’ Contribution to the Making of Greek Jewry (1885-1916) by Joana Bürger                                        
  • “My Arabic Is Mute”: The Demise of Arabic Literature by Iraqi Jews and Their Shift to Writing in Hebrew by Reuven Snir                                        
  • “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

Arie M. Dubnov
The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto
Discussion by Arie M. Dubnov
Ari Joskowicz
Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust
Discussion by Anton Weiss-Wendt
Discussion by Marius Turda
Reply by Ari Joskowicz
Andrea Riccardi
La guerra del silenzio. Pio XII, il nazismo, gli ebrei
Discussion by Michele Sarfatti
Discussion by Susan Zuccotti
Hillel Kieval
Blood Inscriptions: Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder in Europe’s Fin de Siècle
Discussion by Robert Weinberg
Discussion by Michal Frankl
David Ketzer
Un Papa in guerra. La storia segreta di Mussolini, Hitler e Pio XII
Discussion by Liliana Picciotto
Tudor Parfitt
Hybrid Hate: Conflations of Antisemitism and Anti-Black Racism from the Renaissance to the Third Reich
Discussion by Monica Miniati
S. R. Goldstein-Sabbah
Baghdadi Jewish Networks in the Age of Nationalism
Discussion by Esther Meir-Glitzenstein
Discussion by Marcella Simoni
Kalaman Weiser, Sol Goldberg and Scott Ury
Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism
Discussion by Ulrich Wyrwa
Magda Teter
Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth
Discussion by Diego Quaglioni
Discussion by Kenneth Stow
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

Reviews

Mara Josi Rome 16 October 1943: History, Memory, Literature by Michele Sarfatti                                        
Sharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida, eds. Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today by Francesco Cassata                                        
Magda Teter Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism by Matteo Caponi                                        
Tamás Turán Ignaz Goldziher as a Jewish Orientalist: Traditional Learning, Critical Scholarship, and Personal Piety by George Y. Kohler                                        
Liat Steir-Livny Holocaust Representations in Animated Documentaries: The Contours of Commemoration by Guido Vitiello                                        
Omer Bartov Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past by Hana Kubátová                                        
Natalie Zemon Davis Listening to the Languages of the People: Lazare Sainéan on Romanian, Yiddish, and French by Andreea Kaltenbrunner                                        
Sara Airoldi Nazione in patria. Sionismo e identità ebraica in Italia 1918-1938 by Arturo Marzano                                        
James McAuley The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by Katharina Hüls-Valenti                                        
Barbara E. Mann The Object of Jewish Literature: A Material History by Martina Mampieri                                        
Dan Stone The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Anna Veronica Pobbe                                        
Radu Ioanid La Roumanie et la Shoah: Destruction et survie des Juifs et des Roms sous le régime Antonescu, 1940-1944 by Stefan Ionescu                                        
Laura Almagor Beyond Zion: The Jewish Territorialist Movement by Stefan Vogt                                        
Jessica M. Marglin The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean by M’hamed Oualdi                                        
Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff eds. Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making by Piera Rossetto                                        
Laurent Joly La falsification de l’histoire. Éric Zemmour, l’extrême droite, Vichy et les Juifs by Valeria Galimi                                        
Liora R. Halperin The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past by Yair Wallach                                        
Luciano Allegra La povertà degli ebrei. Voci dal ghetto by Davide Mano                                        
Alma Rachel Heckman The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging by Orit Ouaknine Yekutieli                                        
Chiara Becattini La memoria dei campi. La Risiera di San Sabba, Fossoli, Natzweiler – Struthof, Drancy by Elena Pirazzoli