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History of the Jews in the Basque Country (thirteenth–nineteenth centuries) by JAUREGI, NERE JONE INTXAUSTEGI

“…There has been extensive research into the history of the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula. However, not all areas have received the same attention, as is the…”
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The Wertheimer saga and escape (1870–1940) by GORBERG, MARISSA, KOIFMAN, FÁBIO

“…This article aims to study the trajectory of the Franco-Jewish Wertheimer family from a micro-historical perspective, as a starting point for a broader…”
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Martin Buber’s engagement with Hebrew as political activism by SCHARF, ORR

“…This article follows Martin Buber’s (1878–1965) engagement with Hebrew in the context of his political activism, focusing on the 1930s and 1940s. It examines…”
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A Ptolemaic petition from a ‘Judeo-Egyptian’ (Ἰουδαιοαιγύπτιος) by BLUMELL, LINCOLN H., HULL, KERRY

“…This article presents an edition of an unpublished Ptolemaic papyrus presently housed in the Matsushita Museum of Art in Kirishima, Japan. The papyrus comes…”
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Averting the gaze in Eliyahu de Vidas’ Reshit Hokhmah by SACHS-SHMUELI, LEORE, GROSS, ARIEL

“…This article explores the Kabbalistic framework enhancing the sanctity of guarding the eyes (shemirat ha-eynayim), a key theme in early modern moralistic…”
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A Moroccan Jew’s journey into Anglican Christianity by OHANA, MICHAL AZIZA

“…This study outlines John Xeres’ journey from a traditional Jewish upbringing in Safi, a Moroccan Atlantic coastal city, to Anglican Christianity in England, in…”
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NOTE: A newly discovered and identified bilingual Targum manuscript by FRAADE, STEVEN D.

“…In memory of Geza Vermes ל"ז This note announces and publishes for the first time a heretofore unknown and unidentified fragment of a medieval codex manuscript…”
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Jewish exegesis and a vernacular translation of the Hebrew Bible by ALFONSO, ESPERANZA

“…San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca, MS. I.i.8 (=E8) and MS. I.i.6 (=E6) are complementary parts of an almost complete Bible, translated from Latin,…”
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Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ and the earliest commentaries on the Ṣefer Yeẓīra by DE CALLATAŸ, GODEFROID

“…Modern scholarship has revealed that the impact of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ in the general history of ideas was more extended, ramified and lasting than previously…”
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Amy Williams and Bill Niven, National and Transnational Memories of the Kindertransport: Exhibitions, Memorials, and Commemorations by BALINT, BARNABAS

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Timothy H. Lim, The Earliest Commentary on the Prophecy of Habakkuk by DEVRIES, MICHAEL

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Lost and found manuscripts of Targum by EFRATI, SHLOMI

“…In this article I describe the re-identification of two Targum manuscripts thought to be lost. (1) A Pentateuch with Targum formerly held in the convent of S…”
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Amsalu Tefera and Loren T. Stuckenbruck (eds), Representations of Angelic Beings in Early Jewish and in Christian Traditions by MCCARRON, ALEXANDER

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The image of the non-Jew in the responsa of David Zvi Hoffmann by BLOCH, EMMANUEL J.

“…This article has a double focus. First, it sheds new light on David Zvi Hoffmann (1843–1931), an important rabbinic scholar, born in the Austrian Empire but…”
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Judeo-Syriac in late antiquity and the Middle Ages by BHAYRO, SIAM

“…In 2012 the term ‘Judeo-Syriac’ was coined independently by two scholars to refer to Syriac written in Jewish Aramaic/Hebrew script, in texts from late…”
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Daniel J. Lasker, Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism by FRANK, DANIEL

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David M. Gitlitz, Living in Silverado: Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico by ABRAHAM, DOUGLAS B.

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Two Judeo-Spanish ‘Marrano’ hymns in the liturgy of the Jews of Cochin by NAHON, PETER

“…The liturgy of the Jews of Cochin, Kerala, is extant in several manuscripts, the oldest dating back to the end of the seventeenth century. Among the Hebrew…”
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Benjamin Schliesser, Jan Rüggemeier, Thomas J. Kraus and Jörg Frey (eds), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World by PEARCE, SARAH

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Vespasian’s raids in the Jaffa region reconsidered by ARBEL, YOAV

“…According to Josephus, raiding the countryside of conquered cities was a standard Roman practice during the suppression of the First Jewish Revolt (66–70 ce ),…”
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