Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures

Avriel Bar-Levav is associate professor in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israel. He is also head of the Center for the Study of the Relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims and co-editor of Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture. His fields of study include history of the Jewish book, Jewish attitudes toward death, ego documents, and Jewish ethical literature. Uzi Rebhun is professor and head of the Division of Jewish Demography and Statistics at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds the Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel-diaspora relations. His fields of study include Jewish demography, Jewish sociology, and Israel-Diaspora relations.

Symposium

Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures

Avriel Bar-Levav, Library Awareness and Textual Intimacy in Contemporary Jewish Culture

Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky, Digital Research of Jewish Texts: Challenges and Opportunities

Yaniv Hagbi, Textual Transmission as Textual Participation: The Case of Materialism in S.Y. Agnon's Perception of Language

Jan Schwarz, The Lost Souls of Meshugah: Textual Transmission of Isaac Bashevis Singer's World Literature

Gennady Estraikh, Yiddish Publishing in the Soviet Union, 1953-1991

Andreas Lehnardt, The Discovery and Recovery of Hebrew Manuscripts: The Case of Germany

Edwin Seroussi, The Jewish Liturgical Music Printing Revolution: A Preliminary Assessment

Ido Ramati, Media in the Dissemination of Land of Israel Songs

Guy Bracha, Digitization of Jewish Nahda Texts: "Knowing the Enemy" or Preserving a Heritage?

Yigal S. Nizri, "Fit to Sacrifice on the Altar of Print": Approbation Letters and the Printing of 19th-Century Moroccan Halakhic Books

Arndt Engelhardt, Transferring Jewish Knowledge: F.A. Brockhaus as a Publisher of Judaica and Orientalia

Dan Tsahor, Knowledge and the Making of a Jewish Nation: Encyclopedia, Historical Narrative, and the Origins of Jewish Nationalism


Essay

Adi Livny, Fighting Partition, Saving Mount Scopus: The Pragmatic Binationalism of D.W. Senator (1930-1949)


Book Reviews (arranged by subject)

Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide

Eliyana R. Adler and Sheila E. Jelen (eds.), Reconstructing the Old Country: American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades, Sean Martin

Eugene M. Avrutin, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, and Robert Weinberg (eds.), Ritual Murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Beyond, David Biale

Batya Brutin, Hayerushah: hashoah biytzirotehem shel omanim yisreelim benei hador hasheni (The Inheritance: The Holocaust in the Artworks of Second Generation Israeli Artists), Tamara Abramovitch

Diana Dumitru, The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union, Samuel Barnai

Mark Edele, Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Atina Grossmann (eds.), Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union, Zvi Gitelman

Amir Goldstein, Derekh rabat panim: tziyonuto shel Zeev Jabotinsky lenokhah haantishemiyut (Zionism and Anti-Semitism in the Thought and Action of Ze'ev Jabotinsky), Avi Shilon

Patrizia Guarnieri, Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration under Fascism: From Florence to Jerusalem and New York, Sergio DellaPergola

Cultural Studies, Literature, and Religion

Ken Frieden, Travels in Translation: Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction, Nancy Sinkoff

Sarah Hammerschlag, Broken Tablets: Levinas, Derrida, and the Literary Afterlife of Religion, Michael Roubach

Vivian Liska, German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy, Paul Mendes-Flohr

Edna Nahshon (ed.), New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway, Vassili Schedrin

Karen E.H. Skinazi, Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Naomi Mandel

Jeffrey Summit, Singing God's Word: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism, Sonja K. Pilz

History, Biography, and Social Science

Matthew Baigell, The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935, Diana L. Linden

Matthew Baigell, Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art, 1880-1940, Diana L. Linden

Ido Bassok, Tehiyat hane'urim: mishpahah vehinukh beyahadut polin bein milhamot ha'olam (Revival of Youth: Family and Education among Interwar Polish Jewry), Samuel D. Kassow

Shannon L. Fogg, Stealing Home: Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942-1947, Renée Poznanski

Zvi Gitelman (ed.), The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany, Larissa Remennick

Maxine Jacobson, Modern Orthodoxy in American Judaism: The Era of Rabbi Leo Jung, Samuel Heilman

Kamil Kijek, Dzieci Modernizmu: Swiadomosc, kultura i socjalizacja polityczna mlodziezy zydowskiej w II Rzeczpospolitej (Children of Modernism: The Consciousness Culture and Political Socialization of Jewish Youth in the Second Polish Republic), Samuel D. Kassow

Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella Safran (eds.), Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography, Harvey E. Goldberg

Ber Kotlerman, Broken Heart/Broken Wholeness: The Post-Holocaust Plea for Jewish Reconstruction of the Soviet Yiddish Writer Der Nister, Mikhail Krutikov

Simone Lässig and Miriam Rürup (eds.), Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History, Shulamit Volkov

Eli Lederhendler, American Jewry: A New History, Jeffrey S. Gurock

Vladimir Levin, Mimahpekhah lemilhamah: hapolitikah hayehudit berusiyah, 1907-1914, (From Revolution to War: Jewish Politics in Russia, 1907-1914), Brian Horowitz

Jacob Jay Lindenthal, Abi Gezunt: Explorations into the Role of Health and the American Jewish Dream, together with The Lindex: A Companion to Abi Gezunt, Gil Riback

Sean Martin, For the Good of the Nation: Institutions for Jewish Children in Interwar Poland: A Documentary History, Shaul Stampfer

Uzi Rebhun, Jews and the American Religious Landscape, Yaakov Ariel

Jacques Roumani, David Meghnagi, and Judith Roumani (eds.), Jewish Libya: Memory and Identity in Text and Image, Emanuela Trevisan Semi

Maurice Samuels, The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews, Michael R. Marrus

Mel Scult (ed.), Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, vol. 2, 1934-1941, Noam Pianko

Jeffrey Veidlinger (ed.), Going to the People: Jews and the Ethnographic Impulse, Dani Schrire

Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East

Tal Dekel, Transnational Identities: Women, Art, and Migration in Contemporary Israel, Lynne Swarts

Michael Feige, 'Al da'at hamakom: mehozot zikaron yisreelim (Al Da'at Ha'makom: Israeli Realms of Memory), ed. David Ohana, Edna Lomsky-Feder

Yaron Harel, Damesek nikhbeshah zemanit: hatziyonut beDamesek 1908-1923, Norman (Noam) A. Stillman

Yaron Harel, Zionism in Damascus: Ideology and Activity in the Jewish Community at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, trans. D. Gershon Lewental, Norman (Noam) A. Stillman

Dana Hercbergs, Overlooking the Border: Narratives of Divided Jerusalem, Menachem Klein

Abigail Jacobson and Moshe Naor, Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine, Yair Wallach

Michal Kravel-Tovi, When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel, Harvey E. Goldberg

Daniel Kupfert Heller, Jabotinsky's Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism, Joseph Heller

Colin Shindler, The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron, Joseph Heller

Tamar Wolf-Monzon, Bahir vegavohah kezemer:Ya'akov Orland: poetikah, historiyah, tarbut. (Ya'acov Orland: Poetics, History, Culture), Jehoash Hirshberg

Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXXII

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