Jewish History, Vol. 15, No. 1-3, 2000. (Three Issues): No. 1: The Press and the Jewish Public Square, Guest Co-Editor: Derek J. Penslar. No. 3: Time, Progess, and Memory: Between Jewish and Christian Time, Guest Co-Editor: Elisheva Carlebach.

Octavo, blue cloth with white lettering, 124, 125-264, 265-383 pp., author index. Original wraps bound in. Articles in 14:1 are " Editorial," Kenneth Stow, Adam Teller, "Introduction: The press and the Jewish public sphere," Derek Penslar, "Creating a taste for news: Historicizing Judeo-Spanish periodicals of the Ottoman Empire," Sarah Abrevaya Stein, "Jewish politics and the press: The ``reception'' of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (1860)," Jonathan Frankel, "``Speaking to Moyshe'': The early socialist Yiddish press and its readers," Tony Michels, "The rise and fall of Die Zeit (Di tsayt): The fate of an encounter between culture and politics," Rachel Rojanski, "Elisheva Carlebach, John M. Efron, and David N. Myers (eds.), "Jewish History and Jewish Memory: Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi," David B. Ruderman.Articles in 14:2 are " The attitude toward mamzerim in Jewish society in late antiquity," Meir Bar-Ilan, "Some thoughts on ``The attitude toward mamzerim in Jewish society in late antiquity''" Shaye J.D. Cohen, "Jews and Judaism in the rhetoric of popular preachers: The Florentine sermons of Giovanni Dominici (1356–1419) and Bernardino da Siena (1380–1444)," Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, "Technical expertise and the construction of the rural Yishuv, 1882–1948," Derek Jonathan Penslar, "The library of the Study Hall in Volozhin, 1762: Some notes on the basis of a newly discovered manuscript," Gershon David Hundert, "Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life," Natan Sznaider. Articles in issue 14:3 are " Introduction," Elisheva Carlebach, "Questions of times: Conflicting time scales in historical perspective," Sylvie Anne Goldberg, "Progress and tradition in medieval Ashkenaz," Ephraim Kanarfogel, "Invention and convention: Jewish and Christian critique of the Jewish fixed calendar," Joanna Weinberg, "Jews, Christians, and the endtime in early modern Germany," Elisheva Carlebach, "Between hope and despair: Conceptions of time and the German-Jewish experience in the nineteenth century," Nils Roemer.…