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.

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.

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.

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