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Table of Contents: Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry 55(1)

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Issue information for Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry 55(1).

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(2024) “Table of Contents: Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry 55(1)”, Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry 55(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2024v55.00

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Cover image: Etta and Heshel Daitsh (centre), immigrants from Eastern Europe made good, and their South African-born daughter Enid (right) promenading on Muizenberg Beach in Cape Town, c. 1930. Photograph private collection.

Contents

Introduction Shirli Gilbert, Avril Alba, and Adam Mendelsohn

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Special Issue: Jews in South Africa

The Yiddish press and the making of South African Jewry in the British world: exclusion, libel, and Jewish nationalism, 1890–1914 William Pimlott	1
The intertwining of antisemitism and racism in modern South Africa, c. 1880–1939 Rebecca Hodes and Rodney H. Reznek	27
The other radicals: Zionist-socialist youth in apartheid South Africa, 1948–70 Asher Lubotzky	51
Community cookbooks: a new lens on postwar South African Jewish culture Gavin Beinart-Smollan	84
The limits of communal dissent: the rise and fall of the Kollel Yad Shaul as South Africa’s premier outreach organization David Fachler	106

General Articles

A London Jew in the California gold rush Todd M. Endelman	127
Tierra prometida: Jews from Rhodes in the Belgian Congo and Southern Rhodesia, 1910s–1960s Dario Miccoli	152

Reflections

Scholarship on South African Jews: state of the field Shirli Gilbert	176
Responses to Shirli Gilbert’s Scholarship on South African Jews Antony Polonsky	219
Responses to Shirli Gilbert’s Scholarship on South African Jews Deborah Dash Moore	222
Responses to Shirli Gilbert’s Scholarship on South African Jews Rebecca Hodes	226
Responses to Shirli Gilbert’s Scholarship on South African Jews Saul Dubow	230
Responses to Shirli Gilbert’s Scholarship on South African Jews Milton Shain and Richard Mendelsohn	234
Responses to Shirli Gilbert’s Scholarship on South African Jews Veronica Belling	237
Responses to Shirli Gilbert’s Scholarship on South African Jews Jacob Dlamini	241
Writing history about the ties that bind: reflections Riva Krut	246
The making of a South African community on the Rand Riva Krut	251
A changing cast: reflections on the history of antisemitism in South Africa Milton Shain	286

Reviews

The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time, by Miriamne Ara Krummel Geraldine Heng	310
The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess: The Polemics of Sameness in Medieval English Anti-Judaism, by Adrienne Williams Boyarin Sarah Ifft Decker	315
The Fruit of her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women’s Work in Medieval Catalan Cities, by Sarah Ifft Decker Nina Caputo	319
Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture, by Elisha Russ-Fishbane Samantha Katz Seal	323
Jews in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Charity, Community and Religion, 1830–1880, by Alysa Levene Rainer Liedtke	327
Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism, by Max Kaiser Jonathan Hyslop	330
Zwischen Antisemitismus und Apartheid: Jüdinnen und Juden in Südafrika (1948–1990), by Hanno Plass Sarah Schwab	335