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"Cover Page" -- "Title Page" -- "Contents" -- "The Indestructible Jews" -- "Title Page" -- "Preface" -- "Introduction: Illusions of History: Man, God, and the Clash of Ideas" -- "PRELUDE TO ACT I: Prescription for Survival" -- "Chronology For Act I: From Abraham to Jesus" -- "ACT I. The Manifest Destiny" -- "SCENE 1. The Intellectual Conception" -- "SCENE 2. The Double Revelation" -- "SCENE 3. Kings Without Divine Crowns" -- "SCENE 4. Canon and Charisma" -- "SCENE 5. The Voice of the Prophets" -- "SCENE 6. The Call to Nationalism" -- "SCENE 7. At the Crossroads of Fate" -- "Prelude to Act II: The Road to Mishna" -- "ACT II. The Existentialist Dilemma" -- "Chronology for Act II: From Jesus to Ben-Gurion" -- "THE FIRST CHALLENGE. The Expanding Society of the Roman World" -- "THE SECOND CHALLENGE. The Interim Society of the Parthian-Sassanid World" -- "Birth of the Talmud" -- "THE THIRD CHALLENGE. The Open Society of the Islamic World" -- "PROGRAM NOTE. A Cross-Examination of the Crucifixion" -- "THE FOURTH CHALLENGE. The Closed Society of the Feudal World" -- "THE FIFTH CHALLENGE. The Regression of the Ghetto Age" -- "THE SIXTH CHALLENGE. The Sick Society of the Scientific Age" -- "Jews and God in the Twentieth Century" -- "Jews and God in Communist Russia" -- "Jews and God in Fascist Germany" -- "From Isaiah to Hitler" -- "The Zionist Revolution" -- "ACT III. The Paradox of the Diaspora" -- "Chronology for Act III: From Ben-Gurion to the Messiah" -- "Illusion and Reality" -- "The Diaspora Escape Hatch" -- "The Diaspora and the World" -- "The Jewish Sisyphus" -- "The Function of Israel" -- "Bibliography" -- "The Jews in America" -- "Epigraph" -- "Introduction. American Judaism: Wasteland or Renaissance?" -- "A Note to the Reader" -- "I. THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE (1654–1776)" -- "Grandees and Marranos".

This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy illustrates the history of the Jews in Calabria from the end of the fourth century, where the first archaeological evidence of their presence appears, to 1541. Between the fourth and tenth centuries, there is a gap in the evidence while the first documentary records appear in the eleventh century, dating from Norman times. The Normans were succeeded by the Hohenstaufen, who were subsequently replaced by the Angevins and, in 1438, by the Aragonese. Under the Aragonese the Jewish community grew and flourished, reinforced by refugees from the Iberian Peninsula and Sicily. It was at that point that the Jewish population of Calabria reached its maximum expansion and there was a Jewish presence in most townships and many villages until their expulsion by Emperor Charles V in 1540. The documents in this volume describe the political, economic, and social aspects of Jewish life in Calabria primarily between 1438 and 1540. The documents are preceded by an introduction, outlining the history of the Jews in Calabria and have been furnished with summaries and references, providing a useful tool for further research. In addition a bibliography, list of sources, abbreviations, and indices are included.

The author relies on novel approaches to chronicles and historical documents to disprove what medieval and certain contemporary authors write about the Khazarian origin of the East European Jews. He explains why the Jews of the Sassanid and Byzantine empires migrated to the Caucasus and further on to Atil, the capital of Khazaria, and how they became military leaders and made the title of Bek (supreme commander of the army of khaganate) hereditary. He disproves the allegations of those who insist that the khagan (believed to be a reincarnation of the god Tengri on Earth) and the top crust of the country's nobles embraced Judaism (if this had happened it would have been a gross violation of the central Judaic dogmas). The author cites the results of the latest genetic studies of the Jews which prove beyond a doubt that the Sephardic, Ashkenaz, and Mizrahi Jews descended from common Mid-Eastern ancestors.

Queer Jews describes how queer Jews are changing Jewish American culture, creating communities and making room for themselves, as openly, unapologetically queer and Jewish. Combining political analysis and personal memoir, these essays explore the various ways queer Jews are creating new forms of Jewish communities and institutions, and demanding that Jewish communities become more inclusive

This essay reviews the following works:Migrations: Poem, 1976–2020. By Gloria Gervitz. Translated from the Spanish by Mark Schafer. New York: New York Review Books, 2021. Pp. 304. $20.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781681375700.Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture. By Mariusz Kałczewiak. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2020. Pp. viii + 320. $49.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780817320393.The Other/Argentina: Jews, Gender, and Sexuality in the Making of a Modern Nation. By Amy K. Kaminsky. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. Pp. xviii + 262. $95.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781438483290.Competing Germanies: Nazi, Antifascist, and Jewish Theater in German Argentina, 1933–1965. By Robert Kelz. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 372. $25.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781501739866.Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation. By Claudio Lomnitz. New York: Other Press, 2021. Pp. 464. $27.99 hardcover. ISBN: 9781635420708.Nuestra América: Utopía y persistencia de una familia judía. By Claudio Lomnitz. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2018. Pp. 336. $14.00 paperback. ISBN: 9786071660084.Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film. By Stephanie M. Pridgeon. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pp. ix + 208. $50.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781487508142.Armed Jews in the Americas. Edited by Raanan Rein and David M. K. Sheinin. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2021. Pp. 264. $142.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9789004462533.Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey through the Twentieth Century. By Sarah Abrevaya Stein. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. Pp. vi + 336. $28.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780374185428.La vocación desmesurada: Una biografía de Alberto Gerchunoff. By Mónica Szurmuk. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana Editorial, 2018. Pp. 431. $23.54 paperback. ISBN: 9789500761482.Portrayals of Jews in Contemporary Argentine Cinema: Rethinking Argentinidad. By Mirna Vohnsen. Suffolk: Tamesis Books, 2019. Pp. 205. $99.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781855663374.