Intro -- Contents -- Symposium: Jews and Gender: The Challenge to Hierarchy -- Modern Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Feminism -- Two Models of Modernization: Jewish Women in the German and the Russian Empires -- A Political Tradition? American Jewish Women and the Politics of History -- The Jewish Response to the Third Reich: Gender at the Grassroots -- Women's Bodies and the Rise of the Rabbis: The Case of Sotah -- The Impact of Feminism on Rabbinic Studies: The Impossible Paradox of Reading Women into Rabbinic Literature -- The Midrashic Enterprise of Contemporary Jewish Women -- Imagining "Masculinity" in the Jewish Fin de Siècle -- The Modernist Erotics of Jewish Tradition: A View from the Gallery -- Body-building, Character-building, and Nation-building: Gender and Military Service in Israel -- Replaying the Rape of Dinah: Women's Bodies in Israeli Cultural Discourse -- Jewish Women in Transition: A Comparative Sociodemographic Perspective -- Essays -- Bearing Witness to the "Differend": Jean-François Lyotard, the Postmodern Intellectual, and "the jews" -- As Families Remember: Holocaust Memoirs and Their Transmission -- Review Essays -- Postmodernism and the Jewish Question -- Beyond Heroism and Victimhood: Gender and Holocaust Scholarship -- People of the Image -- On the Brink of Peace? More Israeli Memoirs -- Book Reviews -- Antisemitism, Holocaust and Genocide -- Werner Bergmann and Rainer Erb, Antisemitism in Germany: The Post-Nazi Epoch since 1945 -- Rachel Feldhay Brenner, Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum -- Peter Gay, My Jewish Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin -- Zvi Gitelman (ed.), Bitter Legacy: Confronting the Holocaust in the USSR -- Marianne Hirsch, Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory.

Hermann Kurthen, Werner Bergmann, and Rainer Erb (eds.), Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification -- Paul Marcus, Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps, and the Mass Society -- Dan Michman, Hashoah vehikrah: hamsagah, minuah, vesugiyot yesod (The Holocaust and Holocaust Research: Conceptualization, Terminology and Basic Issues) -- Katherine Morris (ed.), Odyssey of Exile: Jewish Women Flee the Nazis for Brazil -- Donald L. Niewyk (ed.), Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival -- Dalia Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman (eds.), Women in the Holocaust -- Alan S. Rosenbaum (ed.), Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide -- Milton Shain, Antisemitism -- Efraim Sicher (ed.), Breaking Crystal: Writing and Memory after Auschwitz -- History and the Social Sciences -- Alina Cala, The Image of the Jew in Polish Folk Culture -- Nancy L. Green (ed.), Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora -- Paula E. Hyman, The Jews of Modern France -- Isabelle Maynard, China Dreams: Growing Up Jewish in Tientsin -- Jack Salzman and Cornel West (eds.), Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States -- Stuart Svonkin, Jews against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil Liberties -- Language, Literature and the Arts -- Elizabeth Bellamy, Affective Genealogies: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and the "Jewish Question" after Auschwitz -- Bernhard Böschenstein and Sigrid Weigel (eds.), Ingeborg Bachmann und Paul Celan. Poetische Korrespondenzen -- Bryan Cheyette (ed.), Between "Race" and Culture: Representations of "the Jew" in English and American Literature -- Robert Fleisher, Twenty Israeli Composers: Voices of a Culture -- Dominick LaCapra, History and Memory after Auschwitz.

Dominick LaCapra, Representing the Holocaust: History, Theory, Trauma -- Catherine Soussloff (ed.), Jewish Identity in Modern Art History -- Religion, Thought and Education -- Edward Alexander, Irving Howe: Socialist, Critic, Jew -- Bernard J. Bergen, The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and "The Final Solution" -- Arnold M. Eisen, Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community -- Emil L. Fackenheim, Jewish Philosophers and Jewish Philosophy -- Judith Hauptman, Rereading the Rabbis: A Woman's Voice -- Harvey Warren Meirovich, A Vindication of Judaism: The Polemics of the Hertz Pentateuch -- Jack Wertheimer (ed.), Tradition Renewed: A History of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America -- Zionism, Israel and the Middle East -- Eitan Bentsur, Haderekh lashalom 'overet beMadrid (The Road to Peace Crosses Madrid) -- Louise Fischer (ed.), Chaim Weizmann, hanasi harishon: mivhar igerot uneumim (Chaim Weizmann: Selected Letters and Speeches) -- Reuven Kaminer, The Politics of Protest: The Israeli Peace Movement and the Palestinian Intifada -- Zach Levey, Israel and the Western Powers 1952-1960 -- Yaakov Markovitzky, Gahelet lohemet: giyus huz laarez bemilhemet ha'azmaut (Fighting Ember: Gahal Forces in the War of Independence) -- Henry Near, The Kibbutz Movement: A History, vol. 2, Crisis and Achievement 1939-1995 -- Itamar Rabinovich, The Brink of Peace: The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations -- Uri Savir, The Process: 1,100 Days that Changed the Middle East -- Zaki Shalom, David Ben-Gurion: medinat yisrael veha'olam ha'aravi, 1949-1956 (David Ben-Gurion: The State of Israel and the Arab World, 1949-1956) -- Letter to the Editor -- Response -- Contents for Volume XVII -- Note on Editorial Policy.

Volume XVI in this well-received annual series contains an up-to-date survey of gender issues in modern Judaism. It includes original essays on Orthodox Judaism and feminism, American Jewish women, female rabbis, the impact of feminism on rabbinic study, masculinity, Jewish women in the ThirdReich, and gender and military service.

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