The symposium that kicks off the latest volume of Studies in Contemporary Jewry focuses on the city that is at the very center of contemporary Jewish life, both geographically and culturally. Jerusalem is an extremely engaging and beautiful city as well as a source of continual controversy and contestation. The authors in the symposium discuss a wide range of topics, with a focus on politics and culture, offering readers provocative views on the city over the last 120 years.

• Jonathan D. Sarna, The Transformation of "Next Year in Jerusalem" in the Postwar American Haggadah


• Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Poetry in the City with No Horizon: Reading Jerusalem with Leah Goldberg, Zelda Mishkovsky, and Yehuda Amichai


• Benjamin Z. Kedar, On Discontents with Jerusalem's Sanctity


• Arie M. Dubnov and Noah Hysler Rubin, The New "New Jerusalem" as Gateway to the East: British Visions for the Hebrew University


• Assaf Selzer, The Wandering Hebrew University, 1914-1967


• Assaf Shelleg, Jerusalem, 1968: Meaningful Disharmonies


• Reuven Gafni, The Religio-Cultural Soundtrack of an Urban Era: The Creation and Shaping of the Ashkenazic Cantorial Scene in Jerusalem, 1900-1958


• Menachem Klein, Jordanian Jerusalem and Its Mayor, Rouhi al-Khatib


• Hillel Cohen, The Palestinians in Jerusalem, 1967-2022: Modes of Resistance, Modes of Accommodation


• Book Reviews (arranged by subject)


• Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide


• Batya Brutin, Etched in Flesh and Soul: The Auschwitz Number in Art, Efraim Sicher


• Christoph Dieckmann and Arkadi Zeltzer (eds.), Distrust, Animosity and Solidarity: Jews and Non-Jews during the Holocaust in the USSR, Kiril Feferman


• Hillel Kieval, Blood Inscriptions: Science, Modernity and Ritual Murder at Europe's Fin de Siècle, Moshe Zimmermann


• Andrew Kornbluth, The August Trials: The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland, Kamil Kijek


• Monty Noam Penkower, After the Holocaust, Batya Brutin


• Erez Pery, Hakolno'a umangenon hahashmadah hanatzi (Cinema and the Nazi Death Apparatus), Liat Stier-Livny


• David Slucki, Gabriel N. Finder, and Avinoam Patt (eds.), Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust, Louis Kaplan


• Cultural Studies, Literature, and Religion


• Charles Dellheim, Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern, Ronit Milano


• Gennady Estraikh, Transatlantic Russian Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century, David Stromberg


• Sonia Gollance, It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity, Jenna Weissman Joselit


• Rachel B. Gross, Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice, Michelle Shain


• Anat Helman, Deganiyah pinat Hollywood: tarbut tzrikhah ufnai bereshit hamedinah (Consumer Culture and Leisure in the Young State of Israel), Yechiam Weitz


• Ari Katorza, Stairway to Paradise: Jews, Blacks, and the American Music Revolution, Jonathan Karp


• Vivi Lachs (trans.), London Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930-1950: Selected Works of Katie Brown, A.M. Kaizer, and I.A. Lisky, Rebecca Wolpe


• Henrietta Mondry, Embodied Differences: The Jew's Body and Materiality in Russian Literature and Culture, Sander L. Gilman


• Amos Morris-Reich, Photography and Jewish History: Five Twentieth-Century Cases, Deborah Dash Moore


• Idit Pintel-Ginsberg, The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives, Shaul Stampfer


• Isaac Bashevis Singer, Old Truth and New Cliches, ed. David Stromberg, Jan Schwarz


• David Weinfeld, An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism, Stephen J. Whitfield


• Marina Zilbergerts, The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, Amir Banbaji


• History, Biography, and Social Studies


• Natalia Aleksiun, Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust, Moshe Rosman


• Elizabeth Anthony, The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust, Marsha L. Rozenblit


• Daniel Aschheim, Kreisky, Israel and Jewish Identity, Steven Beller


• Katharina Friedla and Markus Nesselrodt (eds.), Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939-1959): History and Memory of Deportation, Exile and Survival, Na'ama Seri-Levi


• Rebecca Kobrin (ed.), Salo Baron: The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America, Michael A. Meyer


• Andreas Krass, Moshe Sluhovsky, and Yuval Yonay (eds.), Queer Jewish Lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine: Biographies and Geographies, Matan Boord


• Lilach Lev Ari, Contemporary Jewish Communities in Three European Cities: Challenges of Integration, Acculturation and Ethnic Identity, Janiv Stamberger


• Jason Lustig, A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture, Anna Holzer-Kawa?ko


• Uzi Rebhun, Dani Kranz, and Heinz Sünker, A Double Burden: Israeli Jews in Contemporary Germany, Olaf Glöckner


• Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, Challenge and Conformity: The Religious Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women, Sylvia Barack Fishman


• Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East


• Doron Bar and Kobi Cohen-Hattab, Kedushah be'eyn hase'arah: hakotel hama'aravi bein yahadut leyisreeliyut 1967-2000 (Holiness in the Eye of the Storm: The Judaism and Israeliness of the Western Wall, 1967-2000), Motti Inbari


• David Guedj, Or bema'arav: hatarbut ha'ivrit bemaroko, 1912-1956 (The Hebrew Culture in Morocco, 1912-1956), Daniel J. Schroeter


• Ilana Rosen, The Shaddely-Babbelies: A Memoir of Growing up in a Jerusalem Hungarian Family, Efraim Sicher


• M.M. Silver, Zionism and the Melting Pot: Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics, Avi-Ram Tzoreff


• Rona Yona, Niheyeh kulanu halutzim: tenu'at ha'avodah veha'aliyah mipolin 1923-1936 (Zionists without Borders: Polish-Jewish Pioneers and the Rise of the Labor Movement in Palestine, 1923-1936), Aviva Halamish


• Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXXV

Richard I. Cohen is Professor Emeritus in modern Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, recently served as the academic director of the Israel Center of Research Excellence (I-Core) for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World and was formerly the Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in French Jewry Studies. His research interests have focused on the history of Jews in western and central Europe and on the interrelationship between art and society in the modern period. He recently co-authored Samuel Hirszenberg 1865-1908. A Polish Jewish Artist in Turmoil.