DAN JOSEPH is Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His books in English include The Teachings of Hasidism, Jewish Mysticism and Jewish Ethics, The Early Kabbalah, and Gershom Scholem and the Mystical Dimension in Jewish History.

• Introduction The Death of Joab: A Midrashic Interpretation of Political History by Ephraim E. Urbach Tacitus on the Jews by Yochanan H. Lewy The Concept of History in Hekhalot and Merkabah Literature by Joseph Dan The Origins of the Jewish Communal Organization in the Middle Ages by Yitzhak F. Baer The Generation of the Spanish Exiles Considers Its Fate by H.H. Ben-Sasson From Apostasy to Return to Judaism: The Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam by Joseph Kaplan The Dispute between Jacob Berab and Levi ben Habib over Renewing Ordination by Jacob Katz Jewish Diplomatic Activities to Prevent Expulsion of the Jews from Bohemia and Moravia in 1744-45 by Barouh Mevorah On the Return of Moses Hess to Judaism: The Background to "Rome and Jerusalem" by Michael Graetz The "Kulturkampf" and the Jews of Germany by Uriel Tal Bibliography Index

DAN JOSEPH is Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His books in English include The Teachings of Hasidism, Jewish Mysticism and Jewish Ethics, The Early Kabbalah, and Gershom Scholem and the Mystical Dimension in Jewish History.

• Introduction The Death of Joab: A Midrashic Interpretation of Political History by Ephraim E. Urbach Tacitus on the Jews by Yochanan H. Lewy The Concept of History in Hekhalot and Merkabah Literature by Joseph Dan The Origins of the Jewish Communal Organization in the Middle Ages by Yitzhak F. Baer The Generation of the Spanish Exiles Considers Its Fate by H.H. Ben-Sasson From Apostasy to Return to Judaism: The Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam by Joseph Kaplan The Dispute between Jacob Berab and Levi ben Habib over Renewing Ordination by Jacob Katz Jewish Diplomatic Activities to Prevent Expulsion of the Jews from Bohemia and Moravia in 1744-45 by Barouh Mevorah On the Return of Moses Hess to Judaism: The Background to "Rome and Jerusalem" by Michael Graetz The "Kulturkampf" and the Jews of Germany by Uriel Tal Bibliography Index

DAN JOSEPH is Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His books in English include The Teachings of Hasidism, Jewish Mysticism and Jewish Ethics, The Early Kabbalah, and Gershom Scholem and the Mystical Dimension in Jewish History.

• Introduction The Death of Joab: A Midrashic Interpretation of Political History by Ephraim E. Urbach Tacitus on the Jews by Yochanan H. Lewy The Concept of History in Hekhalot and Merkabah Literature by Joseph Dan The Origins of the Jewish Communal Organization in the Middle Ages by Yitzhak F. Baer The Generation of the Spanish Exiles Considers Its Fate by H.H. Ben-Sasson From Apostasy to Return to Judaism: The Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam by Joseph Kaplan The Dispute between Jacob Berab and Levi ben Habib over Renewing Ordination by Jacob Katz Jewish Diplomatic Activities to Prevent Expulsion of the Jews from Bohemia and Moravia in 1744-45 by Barouh Mevorah On the Return of Moses Hess to Judaism: The Background to "Rome and Jerusalem" by Michael Graetz The "Kulturkampf" and the Jews of Germany by Uriel Tal Bibliography Index