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JUDAISM Steven T. Katz. Editor Cornell University

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a distinctive, interdiscipli nary forum for discussion of the modern Jewish experience since the Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment. Its contributors address topics pertinent to

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Variations of Jewish Feminism: The Traditional, Modern, and Postmodern Approaches Holocaust Survivors as

Immigrants.The Case of Israel

and the Cyprus Detainees

"Bubermania":The Jewish Movement in Vienna, 1917-1919

De-Romanticized Zionism in

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Communities

of Violence Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages

David Nirenberg In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of vio

lence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, orf even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, how

ever, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this provocative book, he focuses on specific attacks against

minorities in fourteenth-century France and the Crown of

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against Jews, Muslims, lepers, and prostitutes?were often

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reshaped the available discourses on minorities.

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ing a remarkable sensitivity to the specific circum stances in which acts of violence against minorities took

place, and linking together in challenging ways the treatment of Jews, Muslims, prostitutes, lepers, and other groups.... This is a book that displays brilliance and verve_"?David Abulafia, Cambridge University

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PROOFTEXTS

In Future Issues

Gershon Shaked on Revisiting the New-Wave Writers

Joel Rosenberg on the Representation of Jews in Film

Erella Brown on Agnon's Mediterranean Fantasy

Aryeh Wineman on the Hasidic Parable

Reviews of Zionist Historiography, Judeo-Persian Literature, and Shaked's Literary Television Series

THE ANTHOLOGICAL IMAGINATION IN JEWISH LITERATURE A special issue edited by david stern, January 1997

Yisrael Bartal on the Project of Kinnus in Zionist Literature

Eliezer Segal on the Talmud As Encyclopedia

David Roskies on Anthologizing the Holocaust

Raymond P. Scheindlin on Modem Collections of Medieval Poetry

and others

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