Jewish History, Vol. 15, No. 1-3, 2001. (Three Issues).

Octavo, blue cloth with white lettering, 124, 125-264, 265-383 pp., author index. Original wraps bound in. Articles in 15:1 are " Social and religious controls in pre-revolutionary France: The beginnings of modernity," Jay R. Berkovitz, "The aborted candidacy of Rabbi Asher Ginsburg: A failed attempt at modernization," Jonathan Helfand, "How much Latin should a rabbi know? State finance and rabbinical education in nineteenth-century France," Jeffrey Haus, "Book Review: Avner Cohen, Israel and the Bomb," Uri Bar-Joseph, "Book Review: David Kaufman, Shul with a Pool: The Synagogue Center in American Jewish History," Maurie Sacks, "Book Review: Ernestine Schlant, The Language of Silence. West German Literature and the Holocaust," Juergen Nieraad.Articles in 15:2 are " Introduction: The Jewish Community Today and Tomorrow," "Community and subcommunity in small-town America, 1880–1950," Lee Shai Weissbach, "The emergence and development of tradition in reform Jewish worship, 1970–1999," Marc Lee Raphael, "From landsmanshaften to vinkln: Mediating community among Yiddish speakers in America," Simon J. Bronner, "After the Shoah: Continuity and change in the postwar Jewish community of the Netherlands," Chaya Brasz, "Jewish discourse and the Shtetl," Ben Cion Pinchuk, "Book Review: Abraham David, To Come to the Land, Immigration and Settlement in Sixteenth-Century Eretz-Israel (translated by Dena Orden)," Jacob Barnai, "Book Review: Walter Ehrlich, Zion in the Valley: The Jewish Community of St. Louis. Volume 1: 1807–1907," Dana Evan Kaplan. Articles in 15:3 are " Jewish art and non-Jewish culture: The dynamics of artistic borrowing in medieval Hebrew manuscript illumination," Katrin Kogman-Appel, "The once and future Jew: The Croxton Play of the Sacrament, little Robert of Bury and historical memory," Lisa Lampert, "Destruction or Conversion Intention and reaction, Crusaders and Jews, in 1096," David Malkiel, "Book Review: Motti Golani, Israel in Search of a War: The Sinai Campaign, 1955–1956," Gershon Shafir, "Book Review: Yossi Katz, The Religious Kibbutz Movement in the Land of Israel," Henry Near, "Book Review: Graciela Ben Dror, The Catholic Church and the Jews: Argentina 1933–1945," Raanan Rein. …