ABSTRACT This article examines the founding and first decade of Colegio Tarbut, Argentina’s first comprehensive trilingual Jewish school. Tarbut introduced a novel educational model in response to dissatisfaction with existing supplementary Jewish schools. Influenced by social and cultural factors, it integrated English, Spanish, and Hebrew into a full-day secular curriculum. Using archival records and oral testimonies from founders and their descendants, the study highlights Tarbut’s alignment with Jewish identity as well as academic excellence. Its model of integration marked a departure from previously fragmented educational structures, offering a pioneering vision that reshaped Jewish education for youth in Argentina.

ABSTRACT From the mid-1700 s, care for the Jewish elderly poor and the disabled was important to the Amsterdam Jewish community. Prior to World War II, the Sephardi Portuguese community had established five small residential Old Age Homes, the Ashkenazi community had founded one large institution, and private Jewish charities supported six more Homes. The Nazis murdered all residents of these Homes. After the war, two Homes, the Joodse Invalide (Beth Shalom) and Beth Menoecha, housed elderly Jews. They merged to form the Beth Shalom Senior Home, which today provides care for the city’s Jewish elderly in a traditional Jewish environment.

ABSTRACT This article examines how Mykhailo Maksymovych, a prominent nineteenth-century Ukrainian scholar and public intellectual, portrayed Jews in his historical and literary writings. Drawing on published works, personal documents, and unpublished manuscripts, it explores how his Orthodox religiosity, romantic historiographical style, and Cossack heritage shaped his consistently negative depictions of Jews. Particular focus is given to how his religious beliefs intensified anti-Jewish attitudes through motifs of collective guilt and supersessionism. Using methods from intellectual history and metaphor theory, the article shows how admiration for biblical texts coexisted with hostility toward contemporary Jews within established Christian interpretive patterns.

ABSTRACT Historian Yosef Haim Yerushalmi claimed Jews have historically neglected horizontal interfaith alliances. I examine this idea through the Mortara Affair, the scandal over the Catholic Church’s 1858 kidnapping of a young Jewish boy in Bologna. I apply contemporary reporting and existing scholarship on British and American Jews’ actions, with a focus on collaborations with Christians. Expanding on prior research, I comprehensively list American protest meetings and discuss the complexity of Sir Moses Montefiore’s (of the Board of Deputies of British Jews) relationship with a leading Protestant organization. These findings show how American and British Jews advanced their interfaith relationships.

ABSTRACT The study focuses on how the so-called ‘Jewish question’ was reflected in the Czechoslovak censuses of 1921 and 1930, as reported in the periodical press of the time. Using selected periodicals as examples, it illustrates the forms of nationalist agitation directed at Jews, the typical arguments used, and the range of opinions within the Jewish community. Monitoring the choice of nationality in the censuses both before and after they took place makes it possible to capture not only the agitation (positive or negative), but also the evaluation of the results when nationalists labelled Jews as culprits of the unsatisfactory outcome.

ABSTRACT During the 1860s, a significant change occurred in the maskilic linguistic ideology. The emergence of Hebrew newspapers offered young maskilim a platform to debate the nature and goals of modern Hebrew literature. Through a series of literary criticism pieces and the intense polemics that surrounded them, this article explores the shift in the perception of Hebrew and its role in modern Jewish life. It shows how the legitimacy of critiquing Hebrew-language works slowly formed, and how the willingness to critic Hebrew literature reflected a strong commitment to the normalization of Hebrew according to the model of contemporary European literatures.

ABSTRACT This paper explores the theme of loss and the sudden disappearance of Jews from the landscape of the Moroccan society in Chapter XI of Lahcen Benaziza’s the Splendid Life of a Frequent Traveler (2024) (SLFT). Breastmilk siblinghood (Tizdi /ⵜⵉⵣⴷⵉ) is invoked as an aspect of Moroccan culture to foreshadow the shared cultural dynamics of Jewish-Muslim coexistence in Morocco. In this paper, we show how memories and experiences of Moroccan Jews through literary works can shape the perception of the individual and collective identity of Moroccans who had close contact with Moroccan Jews.

ABSTRACT This article examines the breakdown of Quaker–Jewish relations stemming from the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, tracing how the Religious Society of Friends’ Palestinian advocacy has provoked accusations of antisemitism. It argues that deepening Jewish divisions over Israel and antisemitism has combined with the hardening of Quaker support for Palestinian causes to partially reshape Jewish perceptions of Quaker Holocaust rescue efforts. The study shows how the Quakers’ reputation for moral clarity – rooted in these endeavors – has been reinterpreted through contemporary political frameworks, illuminating how the volatility and fluidity of Holocaust memory extend to rescuers.

ABSTRACT This paper sheds light on the intersections between the Talmud question and the status of Jewish women in nineteenth-century discourses spanning the German-speaking domain and Eastern Europe. Drawing on Samuel Holdheim’s critique of rabbinic law and its parallels to Alexander McCaul’s Netivot ʿOlam, it traces the subsequent debates among Eastern European intellectuals. This study demonstrates how this charged discourse invoked arguments about women’s rights to reassess the authority of the Talmud. The convergence of anti-Talmudic critique and the ‘woman question’ led thinkers to discredit the debate as anti-Jewish polemic, thus contributing to ideological entrenchment and the marginalization of internal reform.