Micro-Yizkor and Hasidic Memory: A Post-Holocaust Letter from the Margins by Isaac Hershkowitz

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L'anti - sujet. Le rapport entre l'individu et la loi dans la littérature rabbinique classique by Ron Naiweld

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Teshuva by Ghila Amati, Miri Freud-Kandel

“…Originating from biblical precepts, Teshuva has undergone substantive elaboration in Rabbinic literature and further intellectual treatment in subsequent Jewish writings. …”
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The Messiah,s Portrait in the Literature of the Second Temple Period by Alexander TARASENKO

“…Only after 70 CE do the sources stress his role as a teacher. The rabbinic literature either tries to level out his significance for the future history of Israel or just glosses over his role. …”
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Captured by Religious Texts: The Jew as a Child in the Merchant of Venice and the Jew of Malta by Hamza Ladjroud

“…In so doing, we are likely to reconstruct the image of the Jew from a religious textual background, whose imagination is quixotically captured in the scriptures of the Old Testament and Rabbinic Literature. The article offers an analysis of mainly Shylock‘s and Barabbas‘ rhetoric in accord with theories of captivity as developed and implemented by Garry Ebersole in his authoritative book Captured by Texts: Puritain to Post-modern images of Indian Captivity in an attempt to unearth the ideological roots of Shylock‘s as well as Barabbas‘ religious discourse of separatism and overweening opinion of the Devine Preference of Jews over anything nonJew. …”
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Death and Afterlife by Harris Bor

“…The biblical message is that only God, as the source of life, and his prophets can be counted on to guide human beings in this life. Rabbinic literature, especially the Talmud (c. 500 CE), continues the biblical focus on life and expresses discomfort with death. …”
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