Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies最新文献

Un-Settled Questions: Frontier Logic and Satmar Political Theology 未解决的问题:前沿逻辑和萨特玛政治神学

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903292

S. Shuman

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A City Transfigured: The Structure of the Bialystok Jewish Community after World War II 变形的城市:二战后比亚韦斯托克犹太社区的结构

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903280

Joanna Sadowska

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A Specter Haunting Holocaust Studies: The Muselmann 大屠杀研究的幽灵：缪斯曼

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903287

Sharon B. Oster

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Critical Pedagogical Jewish Studies: Whiteness, Racism, and Jewish Ethno/National Fissures 批判性犹太教育学研究：白人、种族主义和犹太民族/国家分裂

IF 0.5 3区社会学

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903281

Elizabeth Ingenthron

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Hasidic-Americans 哈西德派美国人

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903290

J. Karp

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Transmatriation? Avishag the Shunammite in Three Contemporary Israeli Novels Transmatriation吗?当代以色列三部小说中的书念女艾维沙

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903282

Anat Koplowitz-Breier

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On the Construction of National Symbol in S. Y. Abramovitsh's Susati 论阿布拉莫维奇《苏萨提》中国家符号的建构

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903279

Rhona Burns

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Witnessing the Ghost, Letting the Ghost Witness: Exploring the Impediments of Witness Narratives in Holocaust Camp Testimonies through Spectrality and the Metaphor of the Muselmann 见证鬼魂，让鬼魂见证——从“幽灵”和“缪斯曼”的隐喻看大屠杀集中营证言中证人叙述的障碍

IF 0.5 3区社会学

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903285

Alexander Williams

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The Bais Yaakov Network: A Case Study for a Transnationally Sustainable Community Leadership Bais Yaakov网络:跨国可持续社区领导的案例研究

IF 0.5 3区社会学

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903283

Dikla Yogev

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Rooted in Brooklyn 植根于布鲁克林

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903289

J. W. Joselit

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