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Volume 44, Issue 1

Articles


“America Was God’s Country, New York the City of Miracles”: Urbanization and Redemption in Joseph Roth’s Job: The Story of a Simple Man (1930)
by Ariel Yehudith Pridan

Routes to Survival in Krakow and the Surrounding Areas: HGIS Database in Research on the Holocaust in the Territory of the General Government
by Alicja Jarkowska, Łukasz Borowski, Stanisław Szombara, and Kamil Maciuk

Forum on Contemporary Critical Jewish Studies


My Father’s Falafel: Yemeni Jews and (Cultural) Appropriation
by Ari Ariel

Interview


Interview with Israeli Playwright Joshua Sobol
by Eric J. Sterling

Joseph Schechtman’s Life and Work (Special Cluster)
edited by Brian Horowitz


Introductory Note
by Brian Horowitz

Politics, the Unifying Thread in Joseph Schechtman’s Life and Works: State Power in Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Shadow
by Brian Horowitz

Joseph Schechtman’s Perspective on Jewish Migration from Arab Countries
by Moshe Naor

Won’t We Have “Ukrainians of Mosaic Faith?”: Joseph Schechtman, Ukrainian Zionists, and Imagining the Ukrainian-Jewish Alliance
by Olga Petrova

The Natural Right of the Jewish People: Joseph Schechtman and the Creation of Israel
by Neil Rogachevsky

Cover Art


Illumination of Chapter 2: 4–6, from Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living, by Debra Band and Menachem Fisch. Artwork by Debra Band. Collection of the Library of Congress.


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