Roberta Rosenberg Farber is Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology at Yeshiva University and Touro College. Simcha Fishbane is Executive Assistant to the President and Associate Professor Jewish Studies at Touro College.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 The Transformation of Violent Experiences: A Psychological PerspectiveChapter 3 Jewish Religious Communities and Wife AbuseChapter 4 The Treatment of Violence and Extra-Judicial Exercise of Law and Justice in Jewish LawChapter 5 Jewish Violence in Antiquity: Three DimensionsChapter 6 "Mercy is Vouchsafed From Heaven:" Halakhah's Response to Violence As Expressed In the Arukh Hashulkhan Orach Haim- Sections 560 and 576-8Chapter 6 Legitimate Violence in Formative JudaismChapter 7 Violence as a Factor in the Communal Life of the Montreal Jewish Community in the Early Twentieth CenturyChapter 8 Anglo-Jewry and Military Conscription During the Great WarChapter 9 Novel Anti-Semitisms: Vampiric Reflections of the jew Britain, 1875-1914Chapter 10 The Personification of Excess: Antisemitism and the Wages of AlienationChapter 11 Ploughshares into Swords: Contemporary Religious Zionists and moral ConstraintsChapter 12 "From The Depths I Have Called To You": Jewish Reflections on September 11th and Contemporary TerrorismChapter 13 Is There a "halakhic" Response to the Problem of Evil?Chapter 14 Contributors