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Volume 43, Issue 1


Articles


Melodrama and Holocaust Memorialization: Historicizing Pathos in Distant Journey
by Rachel Schaff

Holocaust Sublime: The Naturalization of a Feeling
by Yasmine Eve Lucas

“It’s Doubtful . . . It Isn’t Even Logical, It Can’t Be Proved, and It’s Crazy”: Gaslighting, Suspicion, and Insinuations in the Early Works of Amos Oz
by Reut Ben-Yaakov

Special Cluster: Jews and Race in the Caribbean, edited by Dana Y. Rabin and Hilit Surowitz-Israel


Introduction
by Dana Y. Rabin and Hilit Surowitz-Israel

Boundless Generosity: A Tribute to Dara Goldman (February 21, 1971–May 13, 2022)
by Elena Delgado

Once We Were . . . Jewish Legacies and Intersectional Fabulations in Contemporary Cuba
by Dara E. Goldman with contributions by Carlos J. Alonso

Whiteness as Process: Jewish Suffrage in Jamaica, 1750–1820
by Dana Y. Rabin

Three Sketches of Character: The Legacy of Isaac Mendes Belisario
by Stanley Mirvis

“Authentic Masks”: Narrating Jewish Refugee Transit to the Caribbean in Felicia Rosshandler’s Passing Through Havana
by Sarah Phillips Casteel and Rosa de Jong

Blackness, Coloniality, and Gender in the Liberation of Occupied France
by Nadège Veldwachter

Concluding Thoughts on Our Special Cluster
by Hilit Surowitz-Israel


Book Forum: Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from its Inception to the Present, edited by François Guesnet and J. Tomaszewski


Introduction
by Glenn Dynner

On Jewish Self-Government in Old Poland
by Hanna Węgrzynek

Delegated Governance: Rethinking the Idea of Premodern Jewish Autonomy
by Magda Teter

Judenräte, Jewish Self-Help, and Underground as Forms of Jewish Leadership During the Holocaust
by Katarzyna Person

Paradise Lost? Jewish History, Communal Records, and the Search for Autonomy
by Scott Ury

Rejoinder
by François Guesnet


Book Reviews


Tom Navon, Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust: Otto Heller (1897–1945)
reviewed by Konstantin Mogarichev

Olga Gershenson, New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre
reviewed by Rebecca Margolis


Cover Art


"Model T" (2024)
Artwork by Bette Levy


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