Jewish History, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 1997 through Vol. 12, No. 2, Fall 1998. (Four Issues),

Octavo, blue cloth with white lettering, 142, 2, 137, 3, 157, 3, 148, 4 pp. Original wraps bound in. In English with Hebrew language abstracts of the articles. Articles in 10:1 are " Jewish attitudes toward history and historical writing in Pre-Modern times," Robert Bonfil, "Da'at Torah—The unqualified authority claimed for halakhists," Jacob Katz, "Introduction," Gad Freudenthal: Forum: Yeshiva and Society in the Nineteeth Century; "The beginnings of modern Jewish society in Hungary in the first half of the nineteenth century," Joseph Ben-David, "Postscript: Ben-David's study forty-five years later," Jacob Katz, "Warsaw-Vilna-Budapest: On Joseph Ben-David's model of the modernization of jewry," Gershon Bacon, "On the Hungarian Yeshiva movement," Mordechai Breuer, "A comparative studies perspective," Shlomo Deshen, "Ben-David, Hungary, and middle eastern Jewry," Harvey E. Goldberg, "Joseph Ben-David's Hungary and Mendelssohn's Berlin," Steven Lowenstein, "Hungarian yeshivot, Lithuanian yeshivot and Joseph Ben-David," Shaul Stampfer.Articles in 11:2 are " In Honorem Haim Schatzker," "Israel and the Holocaust Trauma," Robert S. Wistrich, "The Dreyfus affair and Polish-Jewish interaction, 1890–1914," Antony Polonsky, "The school lives of Jewish children and youth in the third reich," Marion Kaplan, "The genealogy bureaucracy in the third reich," Deborah Hertz, "Registering civilians and aliens in the second world war," Sybil Milton, "Registering the handicapped in Nazi Germany: A case study," Henry Friedlander, "DPs, mothers and pioneers: Women in the She'erit Hapletah," Judith Tydor Baumel,"Herzl writes home," Shmuel Almog. Articles in 12:1 are " In memoriam: Professor Jacob Katz," "From ritual crucifixion to host desecration: Jews and the body of Christ," Robert C. Stacey, "Pucellina of Blois: Romantic myths and narrative conventions," Susan L. Einbinder, "Immaculate flesh and the social body: Mary and the Jews," Denise L. Despres, "Catastrophe and Halakhic Creativity: Ashkenaz —1096, 1242, 1306 and 1298," Haym Soloveitchik: Forum: The Use and Abuse of the Exodus Story: "Legacy: Introductory remarks," Menahem Mor, "Editorial: The use and abuse of the exodus story," Erich S. Gruen, "Did Jews Reshape the tale of the exodus?" Louis H. Feldman, "Some thoughts on greco-roman versions of the Exodus story," John G. Gager, "The exodus traditions: Parody or parallel version?," Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski.Articles in 12:2 are " Crusade historians and the massacres of 1096," Benjamin Z. Kedar, "History, memory, and ideology: Ben-Avigdor and Fin-de-Siècle Hebrew literature," Stephen Katz, "Zeev Jabotinsky and the Revisionist revolt against materialism — In search of a world view," Joseph Heller: Forum: Jewish History in Art and Exhibition: Legacy: "Visualizing pogroms in Russian history," Robert Weinberg, "Depicting the hidden Jew: The liberal dilemma in Vakhrenov's illustrations of the Odessa pogrom," Daniel Gutwein, "Exhibiting history or history in a showcase," Richard I. Cohen, "The Court Jews and the Jewish question," Elliott Horowitz.…