Post-Holocaust Immigration and Hassidic Leadership: The Cases of Viznitz and Satmar by Menachem Keren-Kratz

“…This is one of only a few academic studies that explore post-Holocaust Hassidism, with a specific focus on the effects of forced immigration on its development. Throughout Jewish history, large-scale immigration and the inevitable need to adapt to new political, religious, and cultural circumstances had a profound influence on the way Jews conducted their religious affairs. …”
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Anti-Semitic thought and defense: Ptolemaic Egyptian writers’ rewriting of Exodus narrative by Shuai Zhang

“…At the same time, it has important academic value for the study of Jewish history.…”
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Does the Mosaic Law Obligate Christians? The Fate of the Gentiles in <i>Ḥizzuq ʾEmunah</i> by 16th-Century Karaite Jewish Polemicist Isaac Ben Abraham of Troki by Golda Akhiezer

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Bernard Lewis dan Apologia Barat by Adian Husaini

“…Bernard Lewis was known as a good writer and an orientalist who concentrated on Islamic and Jewish history. Exactly, he was the one who introduced the discourse of ‘Clash of Civilizations’ for the first time through his article “The Roots of Muslim Rage” in Atlantic Monthly journal released on September, 1990. …”
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Joyce’s “Nameless” Hero and Hungarian Jewish Experience by Goldmann Márta

“…The essay considers the background of James Joyce’s “nameless” hero, Leopold Bloom in Ulysses, from the point of view of his Hungarian Jewish ancestry: his family history in the Western Hungarian town of Szombathely and the Jewish history of his town. It shows how a certain reading of the “Circe” and “Cyclops” episodes of Ulysses reveals them in hindsight as anticipating the nightmarish future of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. …”
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“You are Cursed by the God YHW:” an early Hebrew inscription from Mt. Ebal by Scott Stripling, Gershon Galil, Ivana Kumpova, Jaroslav Valach, Pieter Gert van der Veen, Daniel Vavrik

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Rethinking Amalek in This 21st Century by Steven Leonard Jacobs

“…Over the course of Jewish history, Amalek has served as the symbolic enemy of the Jewish people (e.g., Armenians, Nazis, Palestinians); indeed, all of the enemies of the Jews were and are understood to be descendants of the original Amalekites, and thus worthy not only of enmity but of destruction as well (e.g., Haman, Antiochus, Titus, Hadrian, Torquemada, Khmelnitsky, Hitler). …”
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Children of Holocaust Survivors: The Experience of Engaging with a Traumatic Family History by Irene Esther Krauskopf, Glen William Bates, Roger Cook

“…The first captured <i>a sense of immersion without choice</i> in the family story emanating from extreme loss and grief and a deep awareness of the communal nature of Jewish history. The second theme encompassed <i>a compulsion and desire to leave a meaningful legacy</i> of their parents’ experiences for future generations. …”
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A.B. Ranovich's legacy in the context of studying the Hasmonean state by M.N. Karanaev

“…Ranovich was critical of “bourgeois” historians and refused their approach to studying Jewish history. However, this made him focus on the socio-economic features of the Hasmonean state and thus he proved that the Hellenistic states encouraged slavery. …”
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“More plotting yet?”: Rewriting Mariam and Herod and Revising Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam for the Early Modern English Stage by Sophie Lemercier-Goddard

“…More importantly, they entertain a closer connection with the earlier play, beyond the common narrative arc found in Jewish history: borrowed motifs and verbal echoes suggest the male playwrights remodelled Cary’s neo-Senecan tragedy into a spectacular gruesome melodrama for the first, and a Jacobean revenge tragedy for the latter. …”
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On islands of oil: Jews and Zionism in the Persian Gulf, 1880-1948 by Kvindesland, E

“…<p>This dissertation studies Jewish history in the modern Persian Gulf with a transregional look towards Zionism and the British mandate of Palestine. …”

The Genesis of Jewish Genealogy by Aaron Demsky

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Lev Vygotsky between two revolutions: on the political self-determination of the scientist by Vladimir S. Sobkin, Tatiana A. Klimova

“…Particular attention is paid to the author’s attitude to religious texts, which allows to select a characteristic feature of the «double vision» of real events of the revolution against the background of the Jewish history. The comments help to single out features of the political identity of the young Lev Vygotsky in the period between the two revolutions, which is important to study his biography and understanding of his world view.…”
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Festers frygtforløsende funktion i jødisk religion by Marianne Schleicher

“…Concretely, the article asks, what anxiety relief do these four calendar feasts offer in different phases of Israelite-Jewish history of religion? DANSK RESUME: For at nå dybere end den erkendelse, at stramt regulerede ritualer og affektive fester synes at optræde i par, spørger denne artikel ind til, hvorfor det forholder sig således. …”
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Proměny vzdělávání českých Židů za vlády Josefa II. by Iveta Cermanová

“…The decade of Joseph II’s reign was crucial for Jewish history in the Habsburg monarchy. For the first time, in the context of the growing Enlightenment-absolutist tendencies of the state and changing attitudes towards members of non-Catholic Christian denominations, the Jewish issue became an important part of state policy, and the monarch did not hesitate to intervene in almost all spheres of Jewish life during his reign. …”
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Solomon and his retelling of the ancient israelite history: an examination of the literary structure of ch.7-9 and ch.10-19 in the Wisdom of Solomon by Sun, J

“…<p>Although the Wisdom of Solomon occurs with high frequency in scholarly discussions on the conceptual development of wisdom at different stages in early Jewish history, alongside an exploration of Hellenistic influence on the Jewish religion, monographs dedicated to the book are not many. …”

A Jewish lawgiver in a Greek world: Moses in Josephus' Antiquities in light of Plutarch's Lives by Westwood, U

“…In the preface to the Antiquities, Josephus introduces Moses, the lawgiver, as the central figure in Jewish history. Moses is presented in terms which are familiar from the traditions about lawgivers in the Greek world, but Josephus also adapts the category of lawgiver itself to fit Moses in particular. …”

Germans or Jews? German-speaking Jews in post-war Europe: an introduction by Čapková, K, Rechter, D

“…German-Speaking Jews in Post-War Central Europe’ organized by the Leo Baeck Institute in London in cooperation with the Leo Baeck Institute in New York and the Institute of Contemporary History (Czech Academy of Sciences), and held at the Center for Jewish History in New York in the summer of 2017. Many German-speaking Jews experienced discrimination and feared violence in the post-war months and years not because they were Jewish, but rather because they were German. …”

Street art as a cultural and educational project by Gerkerova Alexandra

“…The study was conducted in 2015-2021 within the framework of the projects: “Odessa Street Art Festival”, “Travel of the TIS robot in time”, “Along the paths of the Jewish history”, “Flying over Odessa”. The idea of creating a street art object as a cultural and educational project belongs to Aleksey Shkurat, the head of the Peach art studio. …”
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God as Dionysus: Martin Buber's reception of Friedrich Nietzsche by van Straten, R

“…<p>Martin Buber was a source of inspiration for a generation of young German Jews at the beginning of the twentieth century; throughout his career, however, he was also criticised by scholars of Jewish history and mysticism. In response, Buber and contemporary scholars alike have tended to split the development of his thought into two main phases: the earlier mystical phase, which sought to realise the divine, and the more mature dialogic phase, which overturns mysticism and instead attempts to encounter God.…”