TOC: Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 40.3

Purdue University Press is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies is now online. Volume 40, no. 3, is a regular issue.

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Table of Contents

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

Book Reviews

• Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust by Natalia Aleksiun
  • Reviewed by Helene Sinnreich
• The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture by Samantha Baskind
  • Reviewed by Cordula Grewe
• Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt by Miguel Vatter
  • Reviewed by Bruce Rosenstock