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"Your Favourite Jewish Girl, Apart From Your Mum": Introducing the Modern Jewess in Image and Text “你最喜欢的犹太女孩，除了你的妈妈”:介绍现代犹太形象和文字

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-05 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2021.0037

Keren Rosa Hammerschlag

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The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City by Scott D. Seligman (review) 斯科特·D·塞利格曼（Scott D.Seligman）的《1902年的犹太肉大战：移民家庭主妇与袭击纽约市的暴乱》（The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902：Immigrant Housewives and The Riots That Shook New York City）（评论）

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-05 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2021.0038

Melissa R. Klapper

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The Modern Jewess and Her Wondering Jewish Identity 现代犹太妇女及其奇怪的犹太身份

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-05 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2021.0034

P. Lassner

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Life? Or Theatre? by Charlotte Salomon (review) 的生活?或剧院吗?夏洛特·所罗门(书评)

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-05 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2021.0042

Chloe Julius

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Coming Home, 2021 回家，2021

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-05 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2021.0039

A. Roe

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Through the Bay Window: Harriet Lane Levy's 920 O'Farrell Street as Modernist Memoir 透过海湾的窗户：哈里特·莱恩·利维的奥法雷尔街920号现代主义回忆录

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-05 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2021.0031

L. Harrison-Kahan

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A Voice of Her Own: The New Young Jewish Woman in Gail Parent's Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1972), Louise Blecher Rose's The Launching of Barbara Fabrikant (1974), and Susan Lukas's Fat Emily (1974) 她自己的声音:盖尔·帕尔特的《希拉·莱文死在纽约》(1972)、路易斯·布莱切尔·罗斯的《芭芭拉·法布里坎特的诞生》(1974)和苏珊·卢卡斯的《胖艾米丽》(1974)中的新犹太年轻女性

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-05 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2021.0035

Samantha Pickette

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Femmes Fatales, Biblical Heroines, and Sensual Beauties: Who Is the Modern Jewess in the Art of Ephraim Moses Lilien 蛇蝎美人、圣经中的女英雄和性感美女:谁是以法莲·摩西·利连艺术中的现代犹太女性

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-05 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2021.0041

Lynne Swarts

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Redressing Power Through Hasidic Drag: Julie Weitz in My Golem as the Great Dominatrix 通过哈西德派的阻力来释放力量：朱莉·韦茨在《我的偶像》中饰演大主宰

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-05 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2021.0032

Hannah Schwadron

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Revisiting the "Cosel Period": A Fresh Perspective on the Stopping of Western Deportation Trains En Route to Auschwitz, 1942–1943 重温“科塞尔时期”：1942–1943年西方驱逐列车在奥斯威辛途中停运的新视角

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-30 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2021.0023

Susanne Barth

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