{"title":"Killing out of compassion: disability, care, and the value of life in the early decades of Israeli statehood","authors":"M. Di Giulio","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2227611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2227611","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47739301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Our most important export commodities”: independence, money, and ethnic purity in the Jewry policy during the Ceaușescu years","authors":"Amedeo Gasparini","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2212283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2212283","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41898867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The text and context of Regina Jonas’s Halakhic work ‘Kann die Frau das rabbinische Amt bekleiden?’","authors":"Sarah Wobick-Segev","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2208526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2208526","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48390336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between familiarity and strangeness: Russian Jews in Josep Sabah’s letters from the coast of Entre Ríos","authors":"Adriana Kanzepolsky","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2176207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2176207","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the correspondence exchanged between Josep Sabah, a teacher originally from the Ottoman Empire, and the leaders of the Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Jewish Colonization Association, institutions that had sent him to Argentina to found a network of Jewish schools in several towns in the province of Entre Ríos, from 1894 to 1922. In the first place, we focus on the contradictory ways through which this cultured Jew, educated in French and Sephardic schools, represents the new settlers sent from Russia to Argentina by the Jewish Colonization Association. Second, we focus on the self-rendering of this teacher in his letters, and on the tensions between the expectations of his employers, the demands of the settlers and the gradual disenchantment with the conditions of life in his adopted country.","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135891181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acting out for the camera: performing Mizrahi masculinity and the politicisation of the Jerusalem neighbourhood, Katamon Tet","authors":"Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2185127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2185127","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Photographs taken in 1978 by photographer Yàakov Shofar portray teenage boys from Katamon Tet, an impoverished Mizrahi Jerusalem neighbourhood. The boys playfully perform for the camera. In one photo, a boy pretends to choke his friend, who uses his body and face to express pain comically. Photographs from this session appeared in Shofar’s photography books Finding a Way Out (1981) and Born in Israel (1984), addressed as a socially engaged practice, reflecting the time's developments in photography. This study aims to reveal the politicization of the photographed youth following social and political occurrences in Katamon Tet, which are unmentioned in the books, and to show that these were pivotal in shaping the images. Drawing on interviews and employing Tina Campt’s term, “The Black Gaze,” I suggest that the boys’ performance reacts to what Shofar represented – a socially privileged outsider. Basing my arguments on debates on photography and imagination, I underscore how the boys’ gestures confront the imagined gaze of the hegemony and reclaim mainstream stereotypes of Mizrahi masculinity. The theatricality of the boys’ performance is situated in relation to the Ohel Yosef community theatre in Katamon Tet, from which various forms of politicized Mizrahi protest emerged.","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44182596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The heat like a boar’s tusk”: the moment of the immigrant’s arrival between historical experience and poetic dimension in Migraciones [Migrations] by Gloria Gervitz","authors":"V. Dolle","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2177527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2177527","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46882950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ladino in Latin America","authors":"R. Igel","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2176213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2176213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43911782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exile between estrangement and second homeland: affective atmospheres and imaginary geographies in the literary texts by exiled Roberto Schopflocher","authors":"Patrick Eser","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2176208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2176208","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42097399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geographies of immigration: Samuel Rawet's Rio De Janeiro and Moacyr Scliar's Porto Alegre","authors":"Saul Kirschbaum","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2176209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2176209","url":null,"abstract":"The work of Moacyr Scliar and that of Samuel Rawet have at least one aspect in common. Scliar, born in Porto Alegre and the son of immigrants, and Rawet, born in Poland but no less “carioca,” dedicated to their cities – hometown or host – a prominent role, giving them, in their writings, almost the position of characters. Scliar's A guerra no Bom Fim and O exército de um homem só, and Rawet's “Reinvenção de Lázaro” and “Madrugada seca,” are eloquent examples of this protagonism. Other authors of Jewish ehtnic origin, immigrants or children of immigrants, such as Ronaldo Wrobel in Traduzindo Hannah and Eliezer Levin in Bom Retiro, followed this path. This article seeks to deepen the analysis of the relationship of the chosen authors with their cities of residence, trying to follow the geographical displacements of Jews who immigrated, notably from Eastern Europe, and their concentration in specific neighbourhoods.","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136276427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}