Swimming against the Current

Shaul Seidler-Feller is a doctoral candidate in modern Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Judaica consultant at Sotheby’s New York. Together with Sharon Liberman Mintz and David Wachtel, he coedited The Writing on the Wall: A Catalogue of Judaica Broadsides from the Valmadonna Trust Library.David N. Myers holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA, where he directs the Luskin Center for History and Policy. He is the author or editor of fifteen books in the field of Jewish history.

• Introduction: A Portrait of Chaim Seidler-FellerShaul Seidler-Feller and David N. MyersBibliography of Publications by Chaim Seidler-Feller Part I. The Sources of the Tradition: Bible and TalmudOrder as Meaning: Juxtaposition in the Bible Isaac GottliebBehind Every Great Prophet Is a Woman: The Women in Exodus 2 in Talmudic InterpretationShana Strauch Schick Study of Torah as a Discourse of Violence: Milhamtah shel Torah, Variations on a Theme Aryeh CohenDiscipleship in Rabbinic Literature Moshe Halbertal Secular Legal Paradigms and Talmudic Law: Rav Tsa'ir on Legal Loopholes Elana Stein Hain Part II. Jewish Thought and Theology Buber, Scholem, and the Me'or enayim: Another Perspective on a Great Controversy Avraham Yizhak (Arthur) Green On Not Finishing the Work: A Commentary on Avot 2:16 143Michael WalzerThe Faith of Abraham Howard Wettstein The Ascent and Decline of the "Historical Jew" Moshe Idel Divine Command Theory in Jewish Law and Ethics Elliot N. Dorff Part III. Modern Jewish History and Sociology Polio Season: Transformations of Philip Roth's "Jewish Mother" from Sophie Portnoy to Marcia Steinberg Sylvia Barack Fishman Go to School, Work, Marry, Have Children, Be Jewish: Jewish Women and Jewish Men in the United States and Israel Sergio DellaPergola The Day of Reckoning: Max Radin and the Rule of Law in International War Crimes Eugene R. Sheppard Antisemitism: Reflections and Ruminations Deborah E. Lipstadt Part IV. Zionism and Jewish Politics Sovereignty and Ethics in the Thought of Rabbi Ḥayyim David Halevi Suzanne Last Stone Rabbi Shlomo Goren on the Maimonidean Law of Siege: An Essay on the Ethics of Jewish Warfare David Ellenson Invoking the Indigenous, for and against Israel Carole Goldberg Jewish Folk Art and Ideology: The Śimhat Torah Flag through the Ages Shalom Sabar Student Tributes Meira Wolkenfeld Adam GreenwaldMayim Bialik Jonathan Jacoby Colleague Tributes Laurie L. Levenson Edward Feld David Berner Saul Andron List of Contributors