AMILAT se enorgullece en presentar el sexto volumen de su serie Judaiica Latinoamericana , que incluye los trabajos presentados en la Sección de Judaísmo Latinoamericano del XIV Congreso Mundial de Estudios Judaicos, realizado en Jerusalem en 2005, por investigadores establecidos en las Américas, Europa e Israel. Este volumen, multidisciplinario y pluritemático, refleja la creciente relevancia y visibilidad de las investigaciones sobre judaísmo latinoameric¬cano, así como su lenta pero constante integración con los estudios sobre otras áreas históricas, geográficas, sociales y culturales del judaísmo mund¬dial. Efectivamente, cada vez son más los investigadores que perciben la correlación entre las experiencias judías en América Latina y en otras reg¬giones del globo. Al mismo tiempo, se presta creciente atención a lo que diferencia y asemeja a las diversas realidades judías dentro de la misma América Latina, y a la necesidad de comprender las peculiaridades dist¬tintivas de cada una de ellas.

Contents: Articles Reuven Kiperwasser: The Visit of the Rural Sage – Text, Context and Intertext in a Rabbinic Narrative Nicham Ross: A Tale of One Stone and What Lay Beneath It – The Literary Trajectory of a Legend from The Tales of the Baal Shem Tov (Shivhei ha-Besht) until the Writings of S. Y. Agnon Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman: Society, Economy, Religion, and Magic - Jews and Muslims in the Tribal Sphere Nina Pinto-Abecasis: ‘Ja Ja Ja’ and ‘The European’ – Gender in Nicknaming Among the Jews of Tetuan Miri Yousov-Shalom: ‘May he be with her in Hell’ – A Structural Analysis of Stories from Romania in the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA) Rachel Ben-Cnaan and Ravit Raufman: ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ – The Haredi Version in a National-Religious Virtual Forum Towards a History of Folkloristics Haim Weiss: Science, Folklore and Rationality in Dream Discourse during Late-Antiquity Review Ilana Rosen: Immigrant Narrative and Discourse in a Multi-Cultural Setting

For contents press on Sample pages which is located on the right of the cover photo. The Journal of Rural Cooperation (JRC) is an interdisciplinary journal focusing on cooperatives and related rural organizations in developed and less developed countries. Topics of particular interest are cooperatives facing trends of globalization and privatization, the web of cooperative-community relationships, and cooperatives as part of such broader systems as mainstream economics, economies in transition, the social economy or related alternative paradigms. Journal of Rural Cooperation Home Page

Kerem Hemed – Hochmat Israel As the New Yavneh is a monograph and an annotated index to Kerem Hemed (1833–1856), the journal of Hebrew Haskalah in Galicia and Italy. It includes a comprehensive monograph on the journal and its writers, the subject matters discussed in it and its editorial orientation as part of the Study of Judaism movement. The journal represents the creative efforts of the Hebrew scholars of ‘Hochmat Israel,’ the Study of Judaism, in the 19th century. The book is the third in the monographs and indexing project of Hebrew Haskalah periodicals published by Magnes Press. Previously, it published The Gate to Haskalah: An Annotated Index to Hame’asef, the First Hebrew Journal of the Haskalah (1783–1811) , 2000; and Bikurei Ha’itim The ‘First Fruits’ of Haskalah: An Annotated Index to Bikurei Ha’itim, the Hebrew Journal of the Haskalah in Galicia (1820–1831) , 2005. The monograph delineates the background of the publication of Kerem Hemed, its editors and its major writers, such as Shlomo Yehudah Rapoport (SHIR), Shmuel David Luzzatto (SHaDaL), and Nahman Krochmal (RaNaK), and its relations to periodicals published before and afterward. It discusses the variety of topics in Jewish Studies published in the journal, such as Bible, biblical criticism and commentary, Talmud, its sages, and studies about them, and the Mishnah. There were also studies on the Hebrew language, Jewish history, and newly discovered medieval Hebrew manuscripts, such as biblical commentary by noted biblical scholars as Abraham Ibn Ezra, talmudic interpretation and historical review of Judaism as presented by the scholars of Hochmat Israel, as well as some secular subjects and science.

The Terminology of the Yerushalmi: The Main Terms analyzes the principal terms in this Talmud for the first time. It treats more than 200 such expressions, based on the systematic scrutiny of all occurrences of each of these terms. The work is aimed at professional scholars and academic students of rabbinic literature, as well as traditional students of the Talmud.

This book deals with intellectual capacity and the diversity in cinema since the Lumiere brothers in the late nineteenth century and Murray Rosenberg at the beginning of the twentieth century, through international masterpieces (Hitchcock, Welles, Godard, etc.) and the best Israeli films ('Sallah Shabati', 'Metzitzim', 'Bikur Ha-Tizmoret', and 'Waltz with Bashir'). This book was awarded the BAHAT PRIZE, 2007. The BAHAT PRIZE is awarded annually in memory of Professor Yaacov Bahat

The present volume charts ways that may allow a larger number of historians to experiment with the comparative method. It contains articles that deal with history and problems of comparative history as well as studies that demonstrate the potential of symmetrical, asymmetrical, parallel and cross comparisons. The studies include comparisons of the Roman and Inca empires, of Muslim networks of renewal of the eighteenth century, of serfdom in Russia and slavery in the American South, of early modern European expansion and present-day globalization, of modern welfare states, and of multiple modernities. Comparative studies of feudalism exemplify some of the method’s pitfalls. The volume concludes with a report by three faculty members on the problems encountered while teaching a course in comparative history. Contributors: Peter Baldwin, Elisheva Baumgarten, Esther Cohen, Michael Confino, S.N. Eisenstadt, Tamar Herzog, Benjamin Kedar, Jürgen Kocka, Sabine MacCormack, Diego Olstein, Susan Reynolds and Ruth Roded.

The publication of Korot 2007–2008 has to our regret been seriously delayed. There has, however, already been considerable interest toward the next issues, and thus we trust that Volume 20 will appear within the annual timetable. The main part of this issue of Korot consists of research reports from a workshop on the subject “History as Argument in Biomedicine: Representations of National Socialist ‘Euthanasia’ Between Politics and Historiography, ca. 1945–2000.” This workshop was part of a research project in the context of the Coordinated Research Program “Cultures of Memory” (Sonderforschungsbereich “Erinnerungskulturen”) located at the University of Giessen, Germany. The meeting took place in Beit Hagath in Ein Karem, Jerusalem, on January 29th, 2007. Other themes presented in this volume include questions on the experimental method and on reproductive choices as seen in Talmudic literature, on medieval Jewish physicians in the Arabic cultural area, on Karaite physicians, and on the relationship between modern medicine and the Kabbala, ending with the early stages of the medical profession in Eretz Israel. They thus cover nearly 2,000 years of Jewish medical history. The volume is, as usual, bilingual (English and Hebrew), with contributions from Germany, France and Finland, in addition to Israel. Korot is unique as the only journal devoted to Jewish aspects of the history of medicine and science. To quote Prof. Leibowitz (z”l), one of the first initiators of Korot, the purpose of the publication is: ...preference for topics based on sources not readily accessible to our colleagues abroad in their researches. Avoiding, as far as possible, a narrow parochial approach, we hope to enlarge the knowledge of medical historical facts and concepts in a field often regarded as somewhat esoteric.1 It is our hope that the present volume of Korot has succeeded in this endeavor. Our special thanks are due to Dr. Kenneth Collins for his kind assistance in the proofreading stage. Our next issue will emphasize the subject of Jews and medicine in the Renaissance period, e.g., Tuviah Cohen and Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo. Our readers are warmly invited to submit articles connected with these subjects, but also any other historical essays related to Jewish aspects of the history of medicine and science, for publication. Letters to the editor and brief historical notes are also welcome. Helena Paavilainen Guest editor