A conference on Polish‐Jewish relations

A Special Skill. V. V. Chepko, Goroda Byelorussii v pervoy polovine XIX veka. Ekonomicheskoe razvitie (The Economic Development of the Towns of Byelorussia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century). Minsk: Byelorussian State University, 1981. 144pp. 1.20 roubles.

Jewish Anti‐Fascist Committee. Shimon Redlich. Propaganda and Nationalism in Wartime Russia: The Jewish Antifascist Committee in the USSR, 1941–1948. Boulder, Col.: East European Quarterly, 1982.236 pp. (East European Monographs, 58).

Unwelcome Guests David Prital (ed.). In Search of Self: The Soviet Jewish Intelligentsia and the Exodus. Jerusalem: Mount Scopus Publications, 1982. 262pp.

Antisemitic Classic. Lev Aleksandrovich Korneev. Klassovaya sushchnost sionizma (The Class Essence of Zionism). Kiev. Politizdat Ukrainy, 1982. 263 pp. (Critique of the Ideology and Policies of Anti‐Communism Series). 10,000 copies. 1.20 roubles.

The Super‐Powers in the Middle East. Adeed Dawisha and Karen Dawisha (eds.). The Soviet Union in the Middle East: Policies and Perspectives. London: Heinemann Educational Books for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1982. 172 pp. Tables. Index. (Political Science/World Affairs). £5.50; and R.V. Borisov, SShA. Blizhnevostochnaya politika v 70‐e gody (United States Policy Towards the Middle East in the 1970s). Moscow: Nauka, 1982. 216 pp.     

The search for Jewish identity in Russia∗

A NARROW PERSPECTIVE ON SOVIET DISSENT

DISSENT IN THE USSR. POLITICS, IDEOLOGY, AND PEOPLE, ed. by Rudolf L. Tökés. Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. xiv, 453 pp. Index. $4.95, £3.50 paperback.

SOVIET JEWISH SCHOOLS

JEWISH SCHOOLS UNDER CZARISM AND COMMUNISM: A STRUGGLE FOR CULTURAL IDENTITY, by Zvi Halevy. New York, Springer, 1976. 239 pp. $14.50.

>THE SOVIET JEWISH EMIGRATION MOVEMENT

COURTS OF TERROR. SOVIET CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND JEWISH EMIGRATION, by Telford Taylor, Alan Dershowitz, George Fletcher, Leon Lipson and Melvin Stein. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1976, xi + 187 pp. Illus. Appendices. $6.95.

LE GRAND RETOUR, by Christian Jelen and Léopold Unger. Paris, Albin Michel, 1977, 348 pp. Illus. Bibl.

FROM MOSCOW TO JERUSALEM. THE DRAMATIC STORY OF THE JEWISH LIBERATION MOVEMENT AND ITS IMPACT ON ISRAEL, by Rebecca Rass with the collaboration of Morris Brafman. New York, Shengold, 1976. 256 pp. $8.95

TWO NAZI SATELLITES, SLOVAKIA AND BULGARIA

THE PARISH REPUBLIC: HLINKA'S SLOVAK PEOPLE'S PARTY 1939–1945, by Yeshayahu Jelinek. Columbia University Press, 1976. viii, 206 pp. Bibl. Index. (East European Monographs, No. XIV.) $18.75, £7.20.

BULGARIEN — LAND OHNE ANTISEMITISMUS, by Wolf Oschlies. Erlangen, Ner Tamid Verlag, 1976. 168 pp. Illus. Docs. DM 18.80.

AN UNSATISFACTORY STUDY

THE SOVIET UNION AND BLACK AFRICA, by Christopher Stevens. London, New York, Macmillan, 1976. xii + 236 pp. Appendices. Bibl. Index. £10.00.     

Disability,pain and love in Jewish cosmology?

Individuals with disabilities face numerous barriers that limit their inclusion within the Jewish community (Trieschmann 2001 Trieschmann, R. B. 2001. “Spirituality and Energy Medicine.” Journal of Rehabilitation 67 (1): 26–32.[Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). While many Jewish communities have progressed and moved towards an attitude of ‘acceptance’ and ‘tolerance’ for people with disabilities out of religious obligation, it is often a practice without the spiritual ethical governing force and guiding principles of respect, equality, and human rights (Shatz and Wolowelsky 2004 Shatz, D., and J. B. Wolowelsky. 2004. Mind, Body, and Judaism: The Interaction of Jewish Law with Psychology and Biology. Ktav Publishing House: Yeshiva University Press. [Google Scholar]). People with disabilities are stereotyped as dependent, draining, incompetent, pitiful, victims, freaks, angels, embarrassments, innocent, pathetic, and asexual social burdens (Nario-Redmond 2010 Nario-Redmond, M. R. 2010. “Cultural Stereotypes of Disabled and Non-Disabled Men and Women: Consensus for Global Category Representations and Diagnostic Domains.” British Journal of Social Psychology 49: 471–488.10.1348/014466609X468411 [Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). What is lacking is the consideration of people with disabilities as human beings. This injustice is most evident, painful, and damaging at an individual and communal level when it comes to Jewish singles and their pursuit of intimate relationships. A central Jewish value, right, and goal, one that is strongly promoted in Israeli society, is that of committed intimate relationships. However, this value does not apply to people with disabilities     

Jewish studies underground in Leningrad in the 1980s†

ABSTRACT

This article is a first-hand report of a participant and leader of a number of underground initiatives within the “refuseniks’” community which aimed to encourage Jewish studies. These underground initiatives involved seminars (scholarly as well as public), excursions through Jewish historical sites, and the publication of a samizdat journal. In short, these initiatives sought to recover and disseminate knowledge of Jewish history and culture.     

Exploring the Adaptive Capacities of Shared Jewish–Arab Organizations in Israel

Nonprofits have unique strategic concerns, including their dependence on external resources, the management of multiple stakeholders, perceptions about their organizational legitimacy as well as their primary focus on the social value of their organizational mission (Stone and Brush 1996). For shared Jewish–Arab organizations in Israel that are seeking to promote a ‘shared society,’ the obstacles in navigating these various challenges are particularly pronounced and require a very unique kind of adaptive capacity (see Letts et al. 1999; Connolly and York 2003; Strichman et al. 2007). Often operating outside of the general consensus, these organizations are faced with the significant challenge of promoting values of partnership, equality and mutual interests among two populations that are often at odds. This research seeks to shed light on how shared Arab–Jewish nonprofits are continually working to strengthen organizational capacities to more effectively carry out their particular organizational mission, given the myriad of challenges they face.     

Anti‐semitism and the Jewish community of Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne

After briefly outlining the historical development of the Jewish community in Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne, this article examines the extent to which anti‐Semitism was a major concern in the life of modern North‐East Jewry. The focus of this discussion is on the 1930s and 1940s, a period when anti‐Semitism assumed greater significance. What this artcle revals is that on Tyneside, even though the fear of anti‐Semitism gave rise to active responses from within the local Jewish community, anti‐Semitism remained small scale. The experience of Newcastle's Jewish community should caution us against overstating the prevalence of anti‐Semitism in British society.