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Volume 41, Issue 3


Articles


“In Der Nakht Fun Nitl . . .”: Christmas Folklore, Mythology and Stories in Yiddish
by Jordan A. Chad

German Jewish Soldiers and the Celebration of Yom Kippur in Wartime: Patriotic Images and Jewish Aspirations
by Edgar L. Feige and William Velvel Moskoff

Nation versus State: A Comparative Inquiry into A. D. Gordon’s and Hannah Arendt’s Social and Political Thought and Their Views of the Jewish State
by Asaf J. Shamis

Dissidence of a Communist Yiddish Writer: The Soviet Life and Fate of Сhaim Gildin
by Gennady Estraikh

People’s Houses in Eretz Yisrael and Israel and the Memory of the Holocaust
by Esther Grabiner

You Cannot Feel a Mother’s Heart: The Centrality of Women in the Hasidic Music of Yom Tov Ehrlich
by Tzipora Weinberg

The American Jewish Community and the Bosnian War
by Hamza Karčić

Dreadful Noise: Jean-Claude Pecker on Loss, Remembrance, and Silence
by Esther Raizen


Creative Work


“A Blessing for a Proud Home”: When the Anthropologist of Religion Was Tasked with Composing a Prayer
by Elazar Ben-Lulu


Book Forum: In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The 1918–1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust,
by Jeffrey Veidlinger


The Expressive Dimension of Anti-Jewish Violence
William W. Hagen

State Collapse, Ideology, and the Pogroms
Eric Lohr

Telos, Contingency, and Locating the “Onset of the Holocaust”
Amber N. Nickell

There Was Something Qualitatively Different About the Period
Donald J. Raleigh

Preparing the Ground? On Proving Causation versus Association Between Pogroms and the Holocaust
Polly Zavadivker

Response
Jeffrey Veidlinger


Reviews


Teaching the Shoah: Mandate and Momentum, edited by Zev Garber and Kenneth L. Hanson
reviewed by Peter Zaas


Cover Art


"Mother's Marks"
Artwork by David Friedman


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