Jewish Studies 41

In this volume:

Union News

Articles

Gershon Greenberg – The Holocaust Apocalypse of Ya'akov Moshe Harlap

Avriel Bar-Levav – We are where we are not: the Cemetery in Jewish Culture

The Thirteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies

The Bearing of Arms and Military Service of Jews from Ancient Rome to the Enlightenment

Helmut Castiritius – Forward

Israel J. Yuval – Rabbinical Perspectives on the Bearing of Weapons By the Jews

Helmut Castiritius – Military Service and Militance among Jews in Late Classical Antiquity

Christine Magin – Armed Jews in Legal Sources from the High and Late Middle Ages

Friedrich Battenberg – Court Jewry and the Bearing of Weapons in Early Modern Times

Book Review

Harry Fox (le Beit Yoreh) – Biography, Stories, Tall Tales: Fishing for Gullibility

Tzvi Howerd Adelman – In Zion and Jerusalem By Abraham David

HEBREW SECTION

Union News

The Thirteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies

Menachem Elon – Welcoming Adress

Session in Memory of E. E. Urbach

Ya'akov Sussmann – The Yerushalmi in the Literature of the Rishonim: 100 Years after "Ahavat Zion ViYerushalaim"

Jonah Frankel – The Study of the Ashkenazi Siddur: 200 Years after the Heidenheim Siddur

Israel Ta-Shma – Prof. E. E. Urbach "Baalei Ha-Tosafot" – 50 Years after Its Appearance

Vered Noam – Beit Shammai and the Sectarian Halakha

Gedaliahu Alon: 50 Years after His Deat

Shmuel Safrai – Gedaliahu Alon the Teacher

Yeshayahu Gafni – On Gegaliahu Alon and His Role in the Study of Rabbinic Historiography

Doron Mendels – The Gracco-Roman Background in Gedaliahu Alon's Scholarship

Bezalel Bar-Kochva – Everyone has His Gedaliahu Alon

Articles

Zeev gries – A Bibliographer and A Librarian as an Agent of Culture: The Contribution of Abraham Ya'ari to the Study of Jewish Print in Eastern Europe

Tzvi Mark – On Laughter and Foolishness as the Worship of God: Reading "The Story of the Humble King" of R. Nahman of Bratslav

Julia Schwarzmann – The Commentator as Editor: Gersonides' Commentary on Ecclesiastes

Book Reviews

Devorah Dimant – David Flusser: Judaism of the Second Temple Period – Qumran and Apocalypticism

Binyamin Elizur – The Historical Dictionary's Edition of the Yerushalmi

Haim Weiss – New Books and Periodical in Jewish Studies