Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry

Jewish Historical Studies

Volume 48, Issue 1

Issue date: 01 December 2016

Journal: Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry

Binding ties and tension between Washington and London Michael Berkowitz	ix
Solomon Schechter: a Jewish scholar in Victorian England (1882–1902) Theodor Dunkelgrün	1
Schechter’s indebtedness to Zunz Ismar Schorsch	9
Solomon Schechter and medieval European rabbinic literature Ephraim Kanarfogel	17
Schechter’s eye for the extraordinary Ben Outhwaite	35
Schechter’s approach to Jewish liturgy Stefan C. Reif	47
William Robertson Smith, Solomon Schechter and contemporary Judaism Bernhard Maier	64
Against the certain: Solomon Schechter’s theology and religion in his British years, 1882–1902 David B. Starr	74
Wissenschaft and correspondence: Solomon Schechter between Europe and America Mirjam Thulin	109
From juvenile criminal to Jewish scholar: the nineteenth-century Protestant mission among Amsterdam Jews which culminated in a murder attempt on a clergyman Jaap Colthof	138
Jewish involvement in the women’s suffrage movement in Britain: navigating multiple identities in the Diaspora Carole Renard	158
Forgotten terrain: Wilkie Collins’s Jewish explorations Andrew Gasson, William Baker	177
Jews and the English countryside: some notable contributions to conservation, access, and order J. J. Pearlman	200
Book review: Disraeli: The Novel Politician, David Cesarani Michael Ledger-Lomas	225
Book review: Looking Jewish: Visual Culture and Modern Diaspora, Carol Zemel Griselda Pollock	229
Book review: Wartski: The First One Hundred and Fifty Years, Geoffrey C. Munn Nathan Abrams	235
Book review: Mendoza the Jew: Boxing, Manliness and Nationalism, A Graphic History, Ronald Schechter and Liz Clarke David Dee	237
Book review: Tales of Three Cities: Urban Jewish Cultures in London, Berlin, and Paris (1880–1940), Tobias Metzler Laura Vaughan	241
Book review: Jews and Photography in Britain, Michael Berkowitz Lisa Silverman	245
Book review: Embracing a Western Identity: Jewish Oregonians, 1849–1950, Ellen Eisenberg Ava F. Kahn	249
Book review: Chief Rabbi Hertz: The Wars of the Lord, Derek Taylor Miri Freud-Kandel	255
Book review: The Palgrave Dictionary of Medieval Anglo-Jewish History, Joe Hillaby and Caroline Hillaby Robert C. Stacey	258