• Symposium


• Place in Modern Jewish Culture and Society


• Natan M. Meir, Home for the Homeless? The Hekdesh in Eastern Europe


• Yuval Tal, The Social Logic of Colonial Anti-Judaism: Revisiting the Anti-Jewish


• Crisis in French Algeria, 1889-1902


• Scott Ury, The Urban Origins of Jewish Degeneration: The Modern City and the End


• of the Jews, 1900-1939


• Saskia Coenen Snyder, An Urban Semiotics of War: Signs and Sounds in Nazi-


• occupied Amsterdam


• Andrea A. Sinn, Restoring and Reconstructing: Munich for Jews after the Second


• World War


• Vivian Liska, Jewish Displacement as Experience and Metaphor in 20th-Century


• European Thought


• Asher D. Biemann, Imagining a Homeland: The Election of Place and Time


• Mirjam Rajner, The Orient in Jewish Artistic Creativity: The Case of Maurycy


• Gottlieb


• Alec Mishory, Artists' Colonies in Israel


• Björn Siegel, Envisioning a Jewish Maritime Space: Arnold Bernstein and the


• Emergence of a Jewish Shipping Industry in the Interwar Years


• Roy Greenwald, Shifting Places: Representations of Sand in Pre-state Hebrew Poetry


• Vered Madar, Where is Paradise? Place and Time in the Memoirs of Women from


• Yemen


• Book Reviews (arranged by subject)


• Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide


• Alon Confino, A World without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to


• Genocide, Richard Breitman


• Laura Jockusch and Gabriel N. Finder (eds.), Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge,


• Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust,


• Shimon Redlich


• Dov Levin and Zvie A. Brown, The Story of an Underground: The Resistance of the


• Jews in Kovno in the Second World War (trans. Jessica Setbon), David


• Silberklang


• Alvin H. Rosenfeld (ed.), Deciphering the New Antisemitism, Judy Baumel


• -Schwartz


• Milton Shain, A Perfect Storm: Antisemitism in South Africa 1930-1948, Patrick


• Furlong


• David Silberklang, Gates of Tears: The Holocaust in the Lublin District, Samuel


• Kassow


• Darius Stali?nas, Enemies for a Day: Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in


• Lithuania under the Tsars, Samuel Barnai


• Cultural Studies, Literature, and Religion


• Monique R. Balbuena, Homeless Tongues: Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic


• Diaspora, Judith K. Lang Hilgartner


• Emily Miller Budick, The Subject of Holocaust Fiction, Michael P. Kramer


• Natasha Gordinsky, Bishloshah nofim: yetziratah hamukdemet shel Leah Goldberg


• (In Three Landscapes: Leah Goldberg's Early Writings), Allison


• Schachter


• Yfaat Weiss, Nesi'ah venesi'ah medumah: Leah Goldberg begermanyah 1930-1933


• (Journey and Imaginary Journey: Leah Goldberg in Germany, 1930-1933),


• Allison Schachter


• Judy Jaffe-Schagen, Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel, Osnat


• Zukerman Rechter


• Ken Koltun-Fromm, Imagining Jewish Authenticity: Vision and Text in American


• Jewish Thought, Maya Balakirsky Katz


• Nelly Las, Jewish Voices in Feminism: Transnational Perspectives (trans. Ruth


• Morris), Debbie Weissman


• Erica Lehrer and Michael Meng (eds.), Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland,


• Jackie Feldman


• Diana L. Linden, Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American


• Scene, Samantha Baskind


• Tabea Alexa Linhard, Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory, Cynthia Gabbay


• Shaul Magid, Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism, Christianity and the Construction of


• Modern Judaism, David Biale


• Jonatan Meir, Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem (1896-1948) (trans. Avi Aronsky),


• Jonathan Garb


• Raanan Rein, F?tbol, Jews and the Making of Argentina (trans. Marsha Grenzeback),


• Moshe Zimmermann


• Raanan Rein and David M.K. Sheinin (eds.), Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews,


• Sport, and the Making of the Americas, Moshe Zimmermann


• James Ross and Song Lihong (eds.), The Image of Jews in Contemporary China,


• Shalom Salomon Wald


• Henia Rottenberg and Dina Roginsky (eds.), Sara Levi-Tanai: ?ayim shel yetzirah


• (Sara Levi-Tanai: A Life of Creation), Yael Guilat


• Benjamin Schreier, The Impossible Jew: Identity and Reconstruction of Jewish


• American Literary History, Noam Gil


• Carol Zemel, Looking Jewish: Visual Culture and Modern Diaspora, Barbara E.


• Mann


• Shelly Zer-Zion, Habima beBerlin: miysudo shel teatron tziyoni (Habima in Berlin:


• The Institutionalization of a Zionist Theater), Na'ama Sheffi


• History, Biography, and Social Science


• Michael Beizer (ed.), Toledot yehudei rusiyah, vol. 3, mimapekhot 1917 'ad nefilat


• brit hamo'atzot (History of the Jews in Russia: From the Revolutions of


• 1917 to the Fall of the Soviet Union), Theodore H. Friedgut


• Pierre Birnbaum, L?on Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist, David Weinberg


• Irith Cherniavsky, Be'or shineihem: 'al 'aliyatam shel yehudei polin lifnei hashoah


• (In the Last Moment: Jewish Immigration from Poland in the 1930s), Rona


• Yona


• Carmel U. Chiswick, Judaism in Transition: How Economic Choices Shape Religious


• Tradition, Esther Isabelle Wilder


• Daniella Doron, Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France: Rebuilding Family and


• Nation, Shannon L. Fogg


• Adam Ferziger, Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox


• Judaism, Samuel Heilman


• Sylvia Barack Fishman (ed.), Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a


• Social Revolution, Harriet Hartman


• Theodore H. Friedgut, Stepmother Russia, Foster Mother America: Identity


• Transitions in the New Odessa Jewish Commune, Odessa, Oregon, New York,


• 1881-1891, together with Israel Mandelkern, Recollections of a Communist


• (ed. and annotated Theodore H. Friedgut), Jonathan Dekel-Chen


• Norman J.W. Goda, Barbara McDonald Stewart, Severin Hochberg, and Richard


• Breitman (eds.), To the Gates of Jerusalem: The Diaries and Papers of James


• G. McDonald, 1945-1947, Moshe Fox


• Zvi Jonathan Kaplan and Nadia Malinovich (eds.), The Jews of Modern France:


• Images and Identities, Pierre Birnbaum


• Ethan B. Katz, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to


• France, Yuval Tal


• Rebecca Kobrin and Adam Teller (eds.), Purchasing Power: The Economics of


• Modern Jewish History, Luisa Levi D'Ancona Modena


• Eli Lederhendler and Uzi Rebhun (eds.), Research in Jewish Demography and Identity, Steven M. Cohen


• Rebeca Raijman, South African Jews in Israel: Assimilation in Multigenerational


• Perspective, Sergio DellaPergola


• Dov Waxman, Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel,


• Allan Arkush


• Zionism, Israel and the Middle East


• Orit Abuhav, In the Company of Others: The Development of Anthropology in Israel,


• Jack Kugelmass


• Gur Alroey, Zionism without Zion: The Jewish Territorial Organization and Its


• Conflict with the Zionist Organization, Anita Shapira


• Hezi Amiur, Meshek beit haikar: hameshek hame'urav bama?shevet hatziyonit


• (Mixed Farm and Smallholding in Zionist Settlement Thought), Arnon


• Golan


• Naomi Brenner, Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in


• Contact, Yaad Biran


• Yakir Englander and Avi Sagi, Sexuality and the Body in New Religious Zionist


• Discourse (trans. Batya Stein), Sander L. Gilman


• Liora R. Halperin, Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in


• Palestine, 1920-1948, Yael Reshef


• Anat Helman, Israeli National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s, Michael


• Berkowitz


• Orit Rozin, A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the


• New Israeli State (trans. Haim Watzman), Moshe Naor

Richard I. Cohen is the academic director of the Israel Center of Research Excellence (I-Core) for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World. Among his many publications are The Burden of Conscience: French-Jewish Leadership during the Holocaust and Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe. He is an Emeritus Professor of Jewish History in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Bringing together contributions from a diverse group of scholars, Volume XXX of Studies in Contemporary Jewry presents a multifaceted view of the subtle and intricate relations between Jews and their relationship to place. The symposium covers Europe, the Middle East, and North America from the 18th century to the 21st.