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Volume 42, Issue 1


Articles


Actor in History: A Hasidic Tsadik’s Journey from Uman to Brownsville
by Ora Wiskind

Precarious Tolerance: Jews on the Early Modern Habsburg Frontier
by Timothy Olin

Necessary Exorcisms: Intercessory Law in S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk
by Paul Eisenstein

Change and Decline in London’s Jewish East End: The Yiddish Sketches of Katie Brown
by Vivi Lachs

“Have You Ever Waited for Someone?”: On Yehudit Hendel’s Unpublished Novella “Kartisim le-Sammy Davis”
by Guy Ehrlich

Different Binding: The Myth of the Binding of Isaac in Two Israeli Documentary Films on Combat Stress Reaction
by Adam Tsachi

Seeing Again, Seeing Anew: Documentary Reenactments in Contemporary Israeli Cinema
by Raz Yosef

The Poetics of Marginality in Israel: Ars Poetika and the Russophone Poets of the 1.5 Generation
by Alex Moshkin


Forum: Reading “Jewish Critics of Zionism” After 10/7


Zionism and the Politics of Complexity
by Emily Filler

The Shofar Anti-Zionism Issue: After October 7
Steven Fine

Anti-Israelism and the Jewish Left: The Pursuit of Extremes
Jonathan Karp

How Do We Talk to Each Other About Zionism in Jewish Studies? What Happened to Critical Engagement?
Laura Levitt

Settler Colonialist? In Israel? Not All
Shay Pilnik

Settler Colonialism, “From the River to the Sea,” and the Israeli Case after October 7
Lior B. Sternfeld

Guest Editor’s Response
Shaul Magid


Reviews


Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II, by Karma Ben-Johanan
reviewed by Yaakov Ariel

Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism, by Marc Caplan
reviewed by Sophie Duvernoy

Cover Art


Solomon's Judgement
Artwork by Melita Kraus


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