Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- ANCIENT PERIOD -- The Causes of the Alexandrian Pogrom and the Visit of Agrippa I to Alexandria in 38 CE / Sanders, Lionel Jehuda -- Sectarianism in the Mishnah: Memory, Modeling Society, and Rabbinic Identity / Cohn, Naftali S. -- Power and the (Re)Creation of Collective-Cultural Memory in Early Judaism: The Case of the Mishnah / Lightstone, Jack N. -- MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN PERIODS -- Maimonides vs. Nahmanides on Historical Consciousness and the Shaping of Jewish Identity / Diamond, James A. -- Community and Sacrality: Jewish Customs and Identity in Early Modern Worms / Bell, Dean Phillip -- Criticism and Tradition: Leon Modena, Azariah de' Rossi, and Elijah Levita Bahur on Kabbalah and the Hebrew Vowels / Adelman, Howard Tzvi -- MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS -- American Jewish Immigrants and the Invention of Europe / Wenger, Beth S. -- North American Hasidim: Between Modernity and the Old World / Lapidus, Steven -- The Challenge of Memory for Yiddish Language Activists in Montreal / Anctil, Pierre -- Identities, Communities, and the Infrastructures of History: Creating Canadian Jewish Archives in the 1930's and 1970's / Menkis, Richard -- The Shoah, the Sacred, and Jewish Victim Identity in Postwar Germany and North America: The Scar Without the Wound and the Wound That Did Not Close / Baader, Benjamin M. -- Macro and Micro Insights into Contemporary Jewish Identities: Europe, Israel, and the United States / Goldscheider, Calvin |