Mizrekh- Мизрех

Ber Boris Kotlerman is a researcher and senior faculty member at the Rena Costa Center for Yiddish Studies and the Interdisciplinary Program in Contemporary Jewry, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) and Head of the Research Center for Jewish Culture and Yiddish, Far-Eastern State Academy for Humanities and Social Studies (Russia).

• Contents: Ber Boris Kolterman: Non-Imagined Communities – Dov Schwartz: China as International Dateline: The Count of the Days and the Modes of Dispute in Sefer ha-Kuzari – Aaron Demsky: «The Sect that Plucks out the Sinews»: Onomastics as an Identity Marker for Kaifeng Jewry – Jonathan Goldstein: Secular, Jewish, Filipino, and Zionist: From Marranos to «Bagel Boys» – Henry Srebrnik: American Rabbis, Pastors and Jewish Leftists in Support of the Birobidzhan Project in the 1930’s – Xu Xin: A Separate Minority Group without Ethnic Status: The «Descendants of Kaifeng Jews» since 1950 – Ber Boris Kotlerman: The Old Birobidzhan Synagogue and City Planning in the Mid-1980’s: The Last Confrontation – Dan Ben-Canaan: A Continuing Quest for a Peaceful Resting Place: The Relocating Process of the Harbin Jewish Cemetery to Huangshan – Iosif Brener: The «Third Birobidzhan»: An Unrealized Decision about Establishing a Jewish Cemetery in Birobidzhan in 1947 – Dov Israel Fogel: Some Adjudication Principles of the Chief Rabbi of Harbin Aaron Moshe Kisilev according to His Responsa Mishberey Yam – Zohar Amar: «Buddha’s Hand» or The Kashrut-Problem of the «Finger Etrog»: A Chapter from the Life of the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai (1942) – Hillel Weiss: On the Trail of «A Strip of the Land of Israel» in Japan: Following the Translation of Agnon’s Writings into Japanese – Yosef Rivlin: Casting Lots for Decisions in Questions of Saving a Life – Velvl Chernin: «Grandma Mera’s Old Talit»: Atheism and Judaism in Birobidzhan of the 1960’s according to Heshl Rabinkov’s «Nayshtot» – Tmima Davidovitz: The Analects by Confucius in the Light of the Bible and Rabbinical Thought.