Competing for the youth: Jewish scout identity, religion, and gender during the Holocaust in France by Balint, B

“…Charting the trajectories of individual young people and Jewish youth groups within the context of the war, the Holocaust, and French Jewish history reveals their radicalized and accelerated wartime development. …”

From a young Jewish model to a Salvation Army Officer by Mercédesz Viktória Czimbalmos, Dóra Pataricza

“…Hence, this contribution aims to provide an addendum to the Jewish history of the country in the late 1800s and to briefly reflect on the nature of Jewish–Christian relations of the era. …”
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Rescuing the Jews in Lithuania during World War II: Practices of Creating a Lithuanian Museum Narrative by Rūta Šermukšnytė

“…The analysis of four cases (Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History, ‘Sugihara House’ in Kaunas, The Ninth Fort of Kaunas, ‘Lost Shtetl’ museum under construction in Šeduva) is used to answer these questions. …”
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On the Journey Through Ukraine: Representations of the Holocaust in Friedrich Gorenstein’s Traveling Companions by Ronell Anna P.

“…Gorenstein’s writing grapples with the complex relationship between the geographical space of Ukraine and the memory of the Holocaust and exposes his readers to the permutations of Jewish history and geography while focusing on the concepts of uprootedness, homelessness, and alienation as well as mass murder and irredeemable evil.…”
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On Triads, Teleology, and Tensions in <i>Antiquities</i> 18–20 by Daniel R. Schwartz

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Sprawozdanie z międzynarodowej konferencji naukowej A Lost World? Jewish International Lawyers and New World Orders (1917–1951), Jerozolima, 24–25 maja 2021 r. by Marta Baranowska

“…Jewish International Lawyers and New World Orders (1917–1951)”, which was organized in Jerusalem, May 24th–25th, 2021, by the International Law Forum of the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, together with the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow (Leipzig University) and the Jacob Robinson Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. …”
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Contesting history and identity formation in Paul and in South Africa by Zorodzai Dube

“…Instead, Paul contested the Jewish history and identity, claiming that his Gentile Christians were, in fact, the true Jews – how so? …”
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The Religion of Idumea and Its Relationship to Early Judaism by Yigal Levin

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Elements of the universe in Philo’s De Vita Mosis: Cosmological theology or theological cosmology? by Gert J. Steyn

“…After a brief survey of Philo’s inclination to interpret Jewish history in the light of Greek cosmology, the study proceeds with his universe as symbolised in the high priest’s vestments. …”
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« D’homme à homme » : Récits de rencontres entre Yekkes et Arabes en Palestine/Israël (années 1930 et 1940) by Patrick Farges

“…In view of the recent interest in the gendered aspects within German-Jewish history – including issues of masculinity – the time is ripe to focus on the interactions between German-Jewish immigrants (‘Yekkes’) and their Middle Eastern environment – especially their Arabic neighbours – before and after the war of 1948 and the “partition” of Palestine. …”
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Justice at the House of <i>Yhw(h)</i>: An Early Yahwistic <i>Defixio in Furem</i> by Gad Barnea

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The <i>Lulav</i>: Early Modern Polemical Ethnographies and the Art of Fencing by Ahuvia Goren

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Une identité en éclats : écrire sa vie de Juif errant. Les écrivains juifs contemporains de langue française après 1945 by Clara Lévy

“…More specifically, this article will demonstrate how Jewish writers seek to recreate the territory they have lost through recourse to an extremely diverse set of materials (autobiographical souvenirs, the most significant episodes of Jewish history, and even legends susceptible to remobilisation). …”
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Text Recognition Model for Yiddish in 'Vaybertaytsh' Typeface, Based on Community Regulations by Ronny Reshef, Mirjam Gutschow

“…The models and dataset offer valuable contributions to the digital humanities, specifically for research on linguistics, Jewish History and related fields.…”
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Hebrew as a Subject of Research and Teaching in Poland from the Early 16th Century to the 20th Century. A Contribution to Further Reflections by Roman Marcinkowski

“…The 20th century saw the emergence of numerous centres for Hebrew studies at leading Polish universities, offering full-time Bachelor and Master’s programmes, conducting interdisciplinary research, developing scholarly publications in the field and establishing organizations aiming to promote research on Jewish history, culture and language. …”
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The Great War in Poland-Lithuania from A Jewish Perspective: Modernization and Orientalization by Martin Ernst Rudolf Arndt

“…The paper also demonstrates that this historical phase of Jewish history, as it deeply involves the problem of secularization, is connected to intricate problems of identity. …”
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The Sea Travel by Synesius by M.V. Griger

“…The following conclusions have been made: 1) sailing remained an important occupation of Jews in Alexandria; 2) on the one hand, the onomastic data prove that Jews of the Eastern Mediterranean were still under the Greek cultural influence; 3) on the other hand, numerous evidence suggest that Jews not only adhered to their religion, but already knew the rabbinic version of Judaism; 4) Synesius’s letter shows the process of development of a new image of the Jew, in which the ancient anti-Jewish Hellenistic tradition synthesized with the Christian knowledge of the Jewish history. The position of Jews changed from a strange and largely poor nation, similar to other nations of the region, to the status of practically the only religious minority in the state.…”
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Contrasting Conceptions of <i>Teshuvah</i>: Between “Repentance” and “Atonement”—A Case Study of the Beta Israel Community (Ethiopian Jews) by Sharon Z. Shalom

“…The Ethiopian Jews of the Beta Israel community are unique in the annals of Jewish history. The community maintained its Jewish identity and devotedly upheld observance of the mitzvot, even in the face of grave physical and spiritual difficulties and unrelenting attempts to persuade them to abandon their religion. …”
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Rebuilding the community and the church post-COVID-19 by Pieter Verster

“…The catastrophic destructions of the Temple in Jewish history led to different reactions. Although they left a serious mark on all of Israel’s future endeavours and the prophets warned the people of the coming disasters, they also proclaimed hope, even after the destruction. …”
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The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict in the Memory of the Past the Jewish Nation: From Holocaust to Holocaust by Fahmi Mubarok, Ahmad Rezy Meidina

“…This paper explores the dynamics of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the perspective of Jewish history and collective memory, with a particular focus on the Holocaust as a point of departure. …”
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