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Va-yo'el Moshe: The Most Anti-Zionist and Anti-Israeli Jewish Text in Modern Times 瓦约埃尔·摩西:现代最反犹太复国主义和反以色列的犹太文本

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2023.a904508

M. Keren-Kratz

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Ya'qūb al-Qirqisānī's Twenty-Fifth through Thirty-Seventh Exegetical Principles 雅'qūb al-Qirqisānī《第二十五至三十七释经原则》

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2023.a904509

J. Habib

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From Sinai to This Day: Hermann Cohen's and Franz Rosenzweig's Recasting of the Giving of the Torah 从西奈半岛到今天:赫尔曼·科恩和弗朗茨·罗森茨威格对给予托拉的重新演绎

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2023.a904507

Orr Scharf

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New Science in Old Yiddish: Jewish Vernacular Science and Translation in Early Modern Europe 古意第绪语中的新科学:近代早期欧洲的犹太方言科学及其翻译

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2023.a904505

M. Jánošíková, Iris Idelson-Shein

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The Mishnah's Reader: Reconsidering Literary Meaning 密西拿的读者:重新考虑文学意义

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2023.a904503

B. Wimpfheimer

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Writing the Talmud Anew: Shlomo Sirilio's Renaissance Edition of the Jerusalem Talmud 重新书写塔木德:Shlomo siilio的文艺复兴版耶路撒冷塔木德

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2023.a904504

Yakov Z. Mayer

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Hebrew Gomel: Space, Genre, Modernity 希伯来戈麦尔:空间、体裁、现代性

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2023.a904506

Natasha Gordinsky, Rafi Tsirkin-Sadan

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The Myth of the Jew: Negating the Negation 犹太人的神话:否定否定

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2023.0021

Nitzan Lebovic

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Martin Buber's Dialogical History: Theopolitics as a Critique of the History of Human Power 马丁·布伯的《对话史:作为人类权力史批判的神权政治》

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2023.0018

Yemima Hadad

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Breathing, Nostrils, and the Press: Rethinking the Hebrew–Yiddish Axis in the United States, 1870–1900 呼吸、鼻孔和新闻:重新思考美国的希伯来语-意第绪语轴心，1870-1900

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2023.0020

Yael Levi

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