Jewish Studies 49

“Jewish Studies" is published annually by the World Union of Jewish Studies (WUJS) and provides an outlet for the publication of articles, studies, documents and various other contents in Jewish studies. The journal publishes articles in Hebrew and in English, which undergo a review process. The journal focuses on studies of a methodological programmatic nature and reviews various areas of Jewish studies. The journal was first published in 1971 under the title "Newsletter of the World Union of Jewish Studies". Since 1996 it is published in its current form as "Jewish Studies - Journal of the World Union of Jewish Studies". In addition to articles, the journal publishes a section for recent WUJS news and publications, as well as reviews of new books published in the various fields of Jewish studies.

The articles in the volume:

Essays Resulting from the Session "Menahem Stern's Contributions to Research: Twenty Years after his Death" at the Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies (2009)

Daniel R. Schwartz - Menahem Stern as a Classical Philologist

Albert l. Baumgarten – Menahem Stern as a Historian of the Jews in the Second Temple Period

Isaiah Gafni – Menahem Stern as a Historian of the Mishnaic and Talmudic Periods

Moshe David Herr – Menahem Stern as a Scholar of Jewish Studies and Litterae humaniores

Yakir Englander and Orit Kamir – Body and Shame in the World of the Tannaaim and Amoraim

Yechiel Tzeitkin – "The Straight Path which our Forefathers Followed": "Total" Interpretation of Biblical Narratives in Provencal Exegesis

Ofer Elior – Rabbi Yom Tov Lipmann Muhlhausen Investigates the Sounds of the Spheres

Shlomo Glicksberg and Shlomo Kassierer – The Halakhah and Meta-Halakhah Codification Debate: Rabbi Chaim ben Bezalel and the Maharal of Prague

Margalit Shilo – "I Have Only Paradoxes to Offer" – The Case of Suffrage in the Jewish Community of Mandatory Palestine (1917-1926)

New Books and Periodicals in Jewish Studies

Manuscripts and Annotated Critical Editions

Journals

Anthologies, Jubilee and Memorial Books

Monographs