VCU Menorah Review :: Summer/Fall 2008

Menorah Review is an electronic journal dealing with all areas of Judaic culture, distributed without charge via the internet. Issues appear biannually: winter/spring and summer/fall.

Peter Bergson’s Mission Impossible
A review by Rafael Medoff
Rabbinical Dynamics in the Babylonian Talmud
A review essay by Matthew Schwartz
The Aesthetic Grit of a Yiddish Prose Master Finds Translation
A review essay by Philip Hollander
The Ancient Grudge: The Merchant of Venice and Shylock’s Christian Problem
Second of three installments, by Jack D. Spiro
Two Poems
By Richard E. Sherwin

Editor:
Jack D. Spiro

Editorial Consultant:
Cliff Edwards

Production:
VCU Creative Services

Contributing Editors:
Paul R. Bartrop
Frank E. Eakin Jr.
Cliff Edwards
Esther Fuchs
Daniel Grossberg
Peter J. Haas
Herbert Hirsch
Brian Horowitz
Frederic Krome
Radael Medoff
Robert Michael
Rochelle L. Millen
Matthew B. Schwartz
Richard E. Sherwin
Jonathan T. Silverman
Kristin Swenson
Melvin I. Urofsky
Sarah B. Watstein
Leon J. Weinberger
Steven F. Windmueller

Resources:
VCU Center for Judaic Studies

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Center for Judiac Studies

Comments and manuscripts are welcome.
Address all correspondence to:
Center for Judaic Studies
P.O. Box 842021
Richmond, Virginia 23284-2021

Phone: (804) 827-0909 | E-mail: jdspiro@vcu.edu

Updated: 01/07/2008