ToC: Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 39.2

Purdue University Press is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies is now online. Volume 39, no. 2, is a regular issue. 

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Table of Contents

Articles

• "An Ottoman Holy Land: Two Early Modern Travel Accounts and Imperial Subjectivity" 
  • by Orit Bashkin and Sooyong Kim
     
• "Revisiting the 'Cosel Period'. A Fresh Perspective on the Stopping of Western Deportation Trains En Route to Auschwitz, 1942-43" 
  • by Susanne Barth
     
• "Jews, Germans, and Comedy: Re-viewing Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be"
  • by R.J. Cardullo
     
• "'Pursuing Universalism through the Particular: Zionism and Transnational Modernism in Arieli's "In the Light of Venus"" 
  • by Philip Hollander
     
• "The Sabba of Kretchnef: The Life and Death of a Minor Tzaddik" 
  • by Pinchas Giller
     
• "Shoah Selfies, Shoah Selfie Shaming, and Social Photography in Sergei Loznitsa's Austerlitz (2016)"
  • by Daniel Magilow
     
• "The Dog's Passion: Tmol Shilshom's Scripture of Violence" 
  • by Omri Ben-Yehuda

Creative Work

• "Timewound"
• "Solitude of Night"
• "Low Mass"
• "Befindlichkeit"
• "Convalescing"
• "Ne Ilah"

all poetry by Eliot R. Wolfson

Book Forum: Jacques Sémelin, The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940–44 (2019)

• "Introduction"
  • by Jan Burzlaff
• "Jacques Sémelin and the French Recovery of Righteousness"
  • by Robert Gildea
• "Contradictions: Contextualizing Social Solidarity and Jewish Exclusion in World War II France"
  • by Shannon Fogg
• "Social Reactivity and Small Gestures of Solidarity: A Social Anthropologist's Perspective"
  • by Sandra Ott
• "An Ordinary Tale of Solidarity and Survival? Reflections on Jacques Sémelin's The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940–44"
  • by Aliza Luft

Book Reviews

• The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town by Edward Berenson
  • Reviewed by Joel Streicker
• The Portrayal of Jews in Modern Bielarusian Literature by Zina Gimpelevich
  • Reviewed by Anika Walke
• Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity by Peter Schäfer
  • Reviewed by Zev Garber
•  The Spiritual Transformation of Jews by Roberta G. Sands
  • Reviewed by Donald Weber
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