Jewish Studies – Journal of the World Union of Jewish Studies has appeared since 1996, when it replaced the WUJS Newsletter, which had been published since 1970. It presents original innovative essays in all fields of Jewish Studies, and includes lists of new publications in these fields.
In this volume:
Articles
The Thirteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies
Ruth R. Wisse – The Pain and the Gain of Proposing a Canon
Monika Adamczky-Garbowska & Antony Polonsky – Caught in Half-Sentence: Polish-Jewish Writing Before World War I and in Inter War Poland
Jonathan D. Sarna – Jewish Culture Comes to America
Book Reviews
Wout Jac. Van Bekkum – Don Vidal Benveniste's Melitsat Efer ve-Dinah, By Matti Huss
Scott Ury – Can We Go Home Again: Shmuel Werses and the Lost World of East European Jewry
HEBREW SECTION
Articles
Yair Zakovitz – On the Canon of the Heart: the Genetics of Canonization in Hebrew Literature
Ya'akov Sussman – At the Completion of the Concordances' Project by the Kossovsky Family
Menachem Elon – The "Other" in MISHPAT IVRI and in the Decisions (Judiciary) of The Supreme Court
Abraham Melamed – The Image of the "Other" in medieval Jewish Thought: Between Gender and Color
Sagit Mor – The Status of Female Captives on their Return to the Jewish Community in the Talmudic Literature
Alon Goshen-Gotstein – Polemomania-Methodological Reflection on the Study of the Judeo-Christian Controversy between the Talmudic Sages and Origin over the Interpretations of the Song of Songs
Yochanan Cohen-Yashar – Philo Alexandronius – On the Change of Names
Michal Arbel – "Three Sisters": Notes on Narrative Closure in the Fiction of S. Y. Agnon
Book Reviews
Aviad Hacohen – The Writing of Judge Prof. Menachem Elon
Nahem Ilan – Zeev Gries - The Book as an Agent of Culture
Ron Margolin – Emmanuel Levinas – Nine Talmudic Readings
Yael Shemesh – Uriel Simon – "Seek Peace and Pursue it" – Topical Issues in the Light of the Bible
Aviad Hacohen – A Selection of Prof. Saul Lieberman's Letters
Haim Weiss – New Books and Periodicals in Jewish Studies