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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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