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  • From: "Jonathan D. Safren" <yonsaf AT beitberl.beitberl.ac.il>
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  • Subject: Mehqere Hag - Vol. 10
  • Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:30:32 +0200

     The Center for Jewish Holiday Studies at Beit Berl College is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 10 1998) of its annual, Mehqere Hag (Holiday Studies): A Journal of Jewish Culture. This is the first volume to include articles in English as well as Hebrew, with English-language summaries of the Hebrew articles.
     Following are the Table of Contents of Vol. 10 and subscription information.

Table of Contents

English Section
Remy Landau            Romancing the Old Moon
Erica Simmons          Collective Memory and Historical Consciousness in the Passover
                             Seder and the Haggadah                                                       Shimon M. Glick        The Haggadah as an Educational Model

Abstracts of Hebrew Articles

Hebrew Section
Holiday and Festival Studies
Israel Koren              The Hebrew Calendar - Transitoriness and Eternity
Shmuel Dothan (z”l)    From the Holiday of Hanukkah to the  “Holiday of the Hasmoneans" -
                              The Growth of a Zionist "National Festival"
Haya Feigenboim Ben-Ayun           Hezekiah’s Passover (2 Chronicles 30)

Holidays in the Aggadah
Shlomo Weissblueth     Why the Torah Was Not Given to the Gentiles

Holiday Customs and Traditions
Zechariah Goren          On Ushpizin
Menashe Elyashiv        On the Custom of Putting on Tefillin on Tisha B’ Av

Wedding Customs
Naftali Toker              The Precept of Making the Poor Rejoice by Inviting Them
                              to Wedding Feasts
Zvi Friedhaber            The Place of the Tanzhaus in the Life of the Worms Jewish
                              Community According to R. Juspa Shammash’s Minhagim

Holiday Studies and the Computer
Amnon Till   Jewish Holidays on the Internet

Addenda
Joseph Tabory            A List of Articles on Jewish Holidays

Zechariah Goren          Addenda to the Article “Reflections on an Ancient Arboreal
                               Holiday on the 15th of Shevat” (Mehqere Hag 7)

Abstracts of English Articles
 

Subscriptions
     Subscriptions and back issues may be obtained by writing the editor at the following address, or the undersigned:

Dr. Yosef Roth-Rotem
Chief Editor
Mehqere Hag
Center for Jewish Holiday Studies
Beit Berl College
44905 Beit Berl Post Office
Israel
e-mail: intmoed AT beitberl.ac.il

     Subscriptions - NIS 50.00 or $12.00 per annum. Postage in Israel is included. Foreign subscriptions should include $2.00 per volume for airmail postage and handling.
     Volumes 1-9 are available at the same price for individual volumes. Orders of 5 or more back issues will receive a 20% discount if paid for in Israeli currency.

Sincerely,
Jonathan D. Safren
Editor of the English Section
Mehqere Hag
Center for Jewish Holiday Studies
Beit Berl College
44905 Beit Berl Post Office
Israel
e-mail: yonsaf AT beitberl.beitberl.ac.il
 
 


  • Mehqere Hag - Vol. 10, Jonathan D. Safren, 11/26/1998

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