Jewish Studies 39

In this volume:

Union News

Turning Points in Jewish Society

Friedrich Battenberg and Robert Ries – Introduction

Robert Ries – Between Two Cultures: Identity Crises within the Families of 18th Century Court Jews

Eberhard Wolff – Between Jewish and Professional Identity: Jewish Physicians in Early 19th Century Germany – The Case of Phoebus Philippson

Thomas Kollatz – Modernity and Tradition as Reflected in German Sermons Delivered by Orthodox Rabbis

Gabriele von Glasenapp – Jewish Emancipation Processes and Cultural Change in the Light of German Ghetto Tales

Holocaust Studies: The Universal Aspect

Yehuda Bauer – Opening Remarks

Gershon Greenberg

Deborah Lipstadt

Moshe Zimmerman

Yisrael Gutman

Audience Comments

Responses

Yehuda Bauer

Yisrael Gutman

Moshe Zimmerman

Deborah Lipstadt

Gershon Greenberg

Yehuda Bauer – Closing Remarks

Articles

Sylvie Anne Goldberg – Categories of Time: Scales and Values in Ashkenazi Culture

Tapani Harviainen – Abraham Firkovich as Collector of Dispersed Minorities and their Manuscripts in the Light of His Personal Archive in St. Petersburg

Shifra Sznol – Medieval Judeo-Greek Bibliography Texts and Vocabularies

Research Institutes Around the World

Ladislau Gyemant – "Dr. Moshe Carmilly" Institute of Hebrew and Jewish History

Book Reviews

Harvey E. Goldberg – Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore, Volumes 19-20

Howard Tzvi Adelman – Abraham David, To Come to the Land: Immigration and Settlement in Sixteenth-Century Eretz-Yisrael

Doctoral Dissertations in Jewish Studies Around the World

Lists of Contributors

Hebrew Section

Union News

Zeev Gries – The Jewish Book as an Agent of Culture in the 18th-19th Centuries

Eliezer Schweid – The Holocaust at the End of the Twentieth Century from a Theological and Scholarly Perspective

Fifty Year Anniversary of Moshe Shamir's Book He Walked in the Fields

Michal Arbell – Manhood and Nostalgia: A Reading of 'He Walked in the Fields', in Light of His Contemporaries

Gad Kaynar – The Play 'He Walked in the Fields': A Milestone in the History of Israeli Theatre

Judd Ne'eman – Dominant Fiction in the Fields

Avigdor W.G. Poseq – On Hebrew Literature and Israeli Sculpture: 'He Walked in the Fields': Tumarkin's Sculpture

Jewish Law in the State of Israel

Menachem Elon – Opening Remarks

Shlomo Daichovsky – State Rabbinical Courts in Israel

Moshe Drori – Property Issues in the Decision of the Rabbinical Courts and their Effect on Israeli Law

Dov. I. Frimer – The Influence of Israeli Law on Mishpat Ivri

Shmuel Shilo – Mishpat Ivri in Israel as a Reflection on the Contemporary Society

Menachem Elon – Closing Remarks

State of Remarks

Magen Broshi – Fifty Years of Dead Sea Scrolls Research in Israel

Book Reviews

Hannah Kasher – The Messianic Idea in Jewish Philosophy during the Middle Ages – Dov Schwartz

Meir Malul – Parents and Child in Ancient Near East and the Bible – Joseph Flishman

Avriel Bar-Levav – Catalogue of the Library of Gershom Scholem on Jewish Mysticism

Shmuel Bernstein – The 'Yetzer': The Kabbalistic Psychology of Eroticism and Human Sexuality – M. Rotenberg

New Books and Journals in Jewish Studies

Doctoral Dissertation in Jewish Studies in Israel

List of Contributors