In this Issue

Table of Contents

Imperial Embraces and Ethnic Challenges: The Politics of Jewish Identity in the Bohemian Lands

Hillel J. Kieval
pp. 1-17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0079
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Building Slovak Jewry: Communal Reorientation in Interwar Czechoslovakia

Rebekah Klein-Pejšová
pp. 18-40
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0085
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Negotiating Jewish Belonging in Postwar Slovakia (1945–48)

Anna Cichopek-Gajraj
pp. 41-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0090
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The Menorah Journal and Shaping American Jewish Identity: Culture and Evolutionary Sociology

Matthew Kaufman
pp. 61-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0095
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The Picaresque Voice of Bare Life: Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird

Bernhard Malkmus
pp. 80-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0100
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Jewish Survival, Divine Supervision, and the Existence of God

Moti Mizrahi
pp. 100-112
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0105
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The Messiah and the Bodhisattva: Anti-Utopianism Re-Revisited

Leah Kalmanson
pp. 113-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0077
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Not Judging by Appearances: The Role of Genotype in Jewish Law on Intersex Conditions

Hillel Gray
pp. 126-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0083
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Women and Communal Prayer

Joel B. Wolowelsky
pp. 149-160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0088
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The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election (review)

Saul Lerner
pp. 161-164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0093
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Zeal for Zion: Christians, Jews and the Idea of the Promised Land (review)

Dan Cohn-Sherbok
pp. 164-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0098
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Judah L. Magnes: An American Jewish Nonconformist (review)

David Tal
pp. 165-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0103
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Three Jewish Journeys Through an Anthropologist’s Lens (review)

Yoram Bilu
pp. 167-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0075
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Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation (review)

Rebekah Klein-Pejšová
pp. 171-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0081
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The Enigma of Isaac Babel: Biography, History, Context (review)

Lauren Kaminsky
pp. 173-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0086
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Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture since the 1880s (review)

Nadja Berkovich
pp. 175-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0091
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Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds (review)

Jennifer Marston William
pp. 178-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0096
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In the Demon’s Bedroom: Yiddish Literature and the Early Modern (review)

Marion Aptroot
pp. 180-182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0101
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Holocaust as Fiction: Bernhard Schlink’s “Nazi” Novels and Their Films (review)

Bill Niven
pp. 182-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0072
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Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust (review)

Dennis Deletant
pp. 184-185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0078
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Tödliche Maskeraden: Julius Streicher und die “Lösung der Judenfrage (review)

D. E. Showalter
pp. 186-187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0084
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The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide (review)

Stephen G. Fritz
pp. 187-190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0089
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Deutsch-jüdische Identität und Überlebenskampf in Berlin (review)

Dietmar Schenk
pp. 190-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0094
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The Eichmann Trial (review)

Mary J. Gallant
pp. 192-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0099
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Driven to Darkness: Jewish Émigré Directors and the Rise of Film Noir (review)

Lawrence Baron
pp. 194-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0104
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A River Flows From Eden: The Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar (review)

Mark Verman
pp. 197-199
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0076
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Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (review)

David R. Blumenthal
pp. 200-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0082
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Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls: An Assessment of Old and New Approaches and Methods (review)

Sidnie White Crawford
pp. 202-204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0087
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Why Study Talmud in the Twenty-first Century? The Relevance of the Ancient Jewish Text to Our World (review)

Richard Hidary
pp. 204-206
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0092
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Biblical Seductions: Six Stories Retold Based on Talmud and Midrash (review)

Alice Ogden Bellis
pp. 206-208
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0097
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Glory and Agony: Isaac’s Sacrifice and National Narrative (review)

Yael Halevi-Wise
pp. 209-211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0102
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Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority (review)

Leonard Greenspoon
pp. 211-213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0074
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Contributors to This Issue

pp. vii-viii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0073
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Book Notes

pp. 214-226
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0080
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