Vol 12, No 1 (2015)

Table of Contents

Articles

“I Thought I Could Endure Him But Now I Cannot” – Gendered Sensory Landscapes in MKetubot 7.7-10 and Parallels
Natalie C. Polzer
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Jewish Women and Positive Time-bound Commandments: Reconsidering the Rabbinic Texts
Anat Israeli
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Elderly Swedish Jewish Men and Egalitarianism: A Narrative Study
Elisabeth Punzi
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Biographical Essays

Chava Rosenfarb’s Early Life Writing: “Bergen-Belsen Diary, 1945”
Ruth Panofsky
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Home and the Female Scholar: Re-visiting the Salamans’ Archives
Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen
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Book Reviews

Chalmers, Beverly. Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices Under Nazi Rule. Surrey, UK: Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd., 2015
Rachel E. Silverman
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Gindin, Thamar E. The Scroll of Esther: Behind the Mask (Megillat Ester: Me-’ahorei ha-masekhah), Zeresh Publications, 2015.
Rachel Adelman
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Dunlap, Annette B. The Gambler’s Daughter: A Personal and Social History. Albany, NY: Excelsior Editions, 2012.
Jennifer Lander
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Goodman, Pearl. Peril: From Jackboots to Jack Benny. Dundas, Ontario: Bridgeross Communications, 2012.
Susan Landau-Chark
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Abraham-Klein, Dahlia. Spiritual Kneading Through the Jewish Months: Building the Sacred through Challah. [n.p.] Shamashi Press, 2015. PDF.
Rebecca K. Scheckler
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Zarchi, Nurit. In Her Shadow. Tel-Aviv: Miscal – Yediot Ahronoth Books and Chemed Books, 2013. [Hebrew]
Nitza Keren
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Govrin, Michal. Love on the Shore, A Novel. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2013. [Hebrew].
Nitza Keren
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Anton, Maggie. Rav Hisda’s Daughter, Book 1: Apprentice: a Novel of Love, the Talmud, and Sorcery. New York: Plume, 2012.
David B. Levy
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Gillis-Carlebach, Miriam. “Each Child is My Only One: Lotte Carlebach-Preuss, The Portrait of a Mother and Rabbi’s wife.” Translated by Dorothea Shefer Vanson. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2014.
Beverley Chalmers
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Moskowitz, Nathan. Kuzmino Chronicles: Memoirs of Teenage Holocaust Survival (Kindle Edition), 2015. E-book.
Merle Carrus
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Poetry Review Essays

The Fevered World: A Poetry Review Essay
Edith Covensky
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Memoirs

Dreaming of Mashiach
Ricky Rapoport Friesem
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