Aharon Appelfeld et Philip Roth : le réel, l’imaginaire, le double et le fantastique by Orly Toren

“…In contrast, Roth’s musings about Jewish history in the 20th century in his Operation Shylock are structured as a re-appropriation and a parody of the classical fantastic genre, where Appelfeld, as well as Roth himself, are set as fictional characters and doppelgängers of themselves. …”
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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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Suicide in Judaism with a Special Emphasis on Modern Israel by Eliezer Witztum, Daniel Stein

“…Heroic suicide is praised throughout the Jewish history, from the suicide of Samson and the collective suicide in Masada, to the collective readiness of Jews in Medieval times and during the Holocaust to kill themselves rather than succumb to their enemies. …”
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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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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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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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“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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Placed Upon the Landscape, Casting Shadows: Jewish Canadian Monuments and Other Forms of Memory by Norman Ravvin

“…Alongside these sites it considers how Canadian Jewish literature presents possibilities for Jewish history and language to mark the Canadian landscape though a consideration of Leonard Cohen and Eli Mandel. …”
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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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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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Le Yiddishland newyorkais: la mémoire enracinée (The Yiddishland New Yorker: the Ingrained Memory) by Annie Ousset-Krief

“…The Lower East Side has become the place where part of American Jewish history took place, and as such, is a sacred place. …”
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Nurturing a Society of Learners: Suggestions from Traditional Jewish Pedagogy for Medical Education by Jacob Urkin, Edward Fram, Allen Jotkowitz, Sody Naimer

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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. …”