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• Ordinary Moments of Demise: Photographs of the Jewish Home in Late 1930s Germany.

  Author:Ofer AshkenaziFrom:Jewish Social Studies (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 202111,564 words Article 1610LHistorians of interwar Germany have noted the transformation in the perception of "the ordinary " under Nazism. This article analyzes private photographs of the Jewish home as responses to this transformation. Taken and...

• A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture.

  Author:Saul ZarittFrom:Jewish Social Studies (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 202115,039 words Article 1560LThis manifesto calls for a translational paradigm for Yiddish Studies and for the broader study of modern Jewish culture. The manifesto takes as a paradigm an early name for the Yiddish language, taytsh, which initially...

• "The Passionate Few": Youth and Yiddishism in American Jewish Culture, 1964 to Present.

  Author:Sandra FoxFrom:Jewish Social Studies (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 202113,336 words Article 1980LIn the last two decades, journalists have chronicled a contemporary "Yiddish Revival," focusing in particular on the language's popularity among a subculture of young Jews. But, while the Holocaust and other...

• Swastikas on Jacob-Schiff-Strasse: The Peculiar History of Jewish Street Names in Frankfurt, 1872-1938.

  Author:Max LazarFrom:Jewish Social Studies (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 202111,321 words Article 1880LThis article uses the history of Jewish street names in Frankfurt to challenge prevailing narratives about World War I's deleterious effect on Jewish integration in Germany. It also shows how spatial theory can raise new...

• The Rhodes Blood Libel of 1840: Episode in the History of Ottoman Reforms.

  Author:Olga BorovayaFrom:Jewish Social Studies (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 202111,292 words Article 1870LSince historians assume that the Rhodes blood libel of 1840 was a small-scale version of the contemporaneous Damascus Affair, Rhodian Jews, too, are believed to have been rescued by Moses Montefiore and other European...

• Kindling Enlightenment: A Social History of the Jewish Candle Tax in Russia.

  Author:Eliyana R. AdlerFrom:Jewish Social Studies (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 202110,858 words Article 1660LThis article offers an alternative social history of the candle tax, generally viewed as part of the failed experiment of state-run Jewish schools in the Russian Empire. Building on scholarship that suggests the schools...

• When Der Struwwelpeter Made Aliyah: Germanness in Hebrew Children's Literature during Israel's Nation-Building Era.

  Author:Yael DarrFrom:Jewish Social Studies (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 20218,908 words Article 1590LFocusing on Hebrew-language children's books published in Palestine in the 1930s and 40s by first-generation immigrants from German-speaking countries, this article explores the cultural and social legacy that this...