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An Ottoman Sephardi Trousseau

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2021-09-29 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2021.0027

Dina Danon

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The Fruits of Halakhah

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2021-09-29 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2021.0029

Mira Balberg

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Islamic Influences on the Emergence of Historical Sensibilities among the Karaites: The Story of the Tower of Babel 伊斯兰教对卡拉派历史敏感性产生的影响:巴别塔的故事

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2021-09-29 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2021.0025

Marzena Zawanowska

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Isaac the Blind's Letter and the History of Early Kabbalah 《盲人以撒的信和早期卡巴拉的历史》

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2021-09-29 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2021.0024

Avishai Bar-Asher

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Holocaust Lists and Inventories: Recording Death vs. Traces of Lived Lives 大屠杀名单和清单:记录死亡与活着的生命的痕迹

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2021-09-29 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2021.0030

Leora Auslander

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Order in Crisis: Jewish Relief Workers during the Prague Plague of 1713 危机中的秩序:1713年布拉格瘟疫期间的犹太救济工作者

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2021-09-29 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2021.0028

Joshua Teplitsky

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Stars without a Table: Planetary Horocrators from the Cairo Geniza 没有桌子的星星:开罗天文馆的行星天文仪

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2021-09-29 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2021.0026

G. Bohak

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What Led Gordon to Compose Man and Nature? Gordon's Neglected Criticism of Metmann's Life and Nature (1909) 是什么促使戈登创作人与自然?戈登对梅特曼《生命与自然》的忽视批评(1909年)

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2021-09-29 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2021.0022

Yuval Jobani

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A Cultural History of Bilingual Charters from Catalonia: Language and Identity 加泰罗尼亚双语宪章的文化史:语言和身份

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2021-06-04 DOI: 10.1353/JQR.2021.0008

M. Perry

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Georg Simmel Wishing to "Save" Otto Weininger, or the Blurring Definitions of (Philosemitic) Science and (Antisemitic) Pseudoscience 乔治·西梅尔希望“拯救”奥托·魏宁格，或者(哲学的)科学和(反犹的)伪科学的模糊定义

The Jewish Quarterly Review Pub Date : 2021-06-04 DOI: 10.1353/JQR.2021.0016

T. Singer

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