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Volume 40, Issue 3

Articles


Silkworms of Exile: Jewish History and Collective Memory in the Kabbalistic Works of Meir ibn Gabbai
by Hartley Lachter

I am grateful to fate for this hour of grace: Children and Motherhood in the Life and Writings of Rosa Lebensbaum
by Carina Alexandroff Pinhas

Ronny Someck and the Politics of Popular Poetry
by Hannan Hever

The Oriental Other (Jew, Muslim, Christian) in Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter
by Kathleen M. Gyssels


Forum: Contemporary Critical Jewish Studies


Sanctuary, Civil Disobedience, and Jewish Law
by Jonathan Zasloff


Creative Work


Selected Poetry
by Grzegorz Kwiatkowski


Book Forum: Sol Goldberg, Scott Ury, and Kalman Weiser, eds., Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism


Introduction
by Glenn Dynner

Antisemitism and Pogroms
by Anna Cichopek-Gajraj

Context and Continuity in Histories of Antisemitism
by Paul Hanebrink

The Politics of Defining Antisemitism
by Joshua Shanes

Reinvigorating the Field: A Critical Intervention in the Study of Antisemitism
by Emilie Wiedemann


Reviews


Natalia Aleksiun, Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust
reviewed by Helene Sinnreich

Samantha Baskind, The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture
reviewed by Cordula Grewe

Miguel Vatter, Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt
reviewed by Bruce Rosenstock


Cover Art


"Shalom 2022"
by David Greenfield


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