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Piety, Purity, and Pain: The Head Shaving Ritual for Women In Ultra-Orthodox Communities and Its Underlying Concept of Halachah 虔诚、纯洁与痛苦：极端东正教社区妇女的剃头仪式及其蕴含的 "哈拉卡 "理念

Modern Judaism: A Journal Of Jewish Ideas And Experience Pub Date : 2024-05-22 DOI: 10.1093/mj/kjae010

Iris Brown

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Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Covenant and World Religions: Irving Greenberg, Jonathan Sacks, and the Quest for Orthodox Pluralism Alon Goshen-Gottstein，《盟约与世界宗教》：欧文-格林伯格、乔纳森-萨克斯和对东正教多元化的追求

Modern Judaism: A Journal Of Jewish Ideas And Experience Pub Date : 2024-05-21 DOI: 10.1093/mj/kjae009

Eugene Korn

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Beyond Hasidism: Tracing the Cultural Legacies of Israel Ba’al Shem Tov 超越哈西德教派：追溯以色列巴姆托夫的文化传统

Modern Judaism: A Journal Of Jewish Ideas And Experience Pub Date : 2024-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/mj/kjae013

Elly Moseson

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The Human Being as the Image of God 作为上帝形象的人类

Modern Judaism: A Journal Of Jewish Ideas And Experience Pub Date : 2024-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/mj/kjae014

I. Greenberg

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Alan T. Levenson, Maurice Samuel: Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian Alan T. Levenson, Maurice Samuel：一位世俗犹太反叛者的生平与书信

Modern Judaism: A Journal Of Jewish Ideas And Experience Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI: 10.1093/mj/kjae011

Stephen Whitfield

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Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers, American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, A Hasidic Village in Upstate New York Nomi M. Stolzenberg 和 David N. Myers，《American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, A Hasidic Village in Upstate New York》（《美国什特尔：纽约州北部哈西德派村庄基里亚斯-乔尔的形成》）。

Modern Judaism: A Journal Of Jewish Ideas And Experience Pub Date : 2024-02-09 DOI: 10.1093/mj/kjae002

M. Keren-Kratz

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Modern Judaism: A Journal Of Jewish Ideas And Experience Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1093/mj/kjae005

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