Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume XXXVIII, 2025

Suzanne Faigan and Angelica Jacob
Front Matter and Editorial (pp. i-3) PDF

Jason Goroncy
Attention, Sign-making, and the Tragic: On the Indexing of Ecological Icons in the Work of Harry Nankin (pp. 4-41) PDF
Keywords: Australia, ecology, environment, iconography, cameraless photography

Avital Hecht
The Bergson Group: Hillel Kook and the Effort to Save European Jewry from Extermination during the Shoah (pp. 42-63) PDF
Keywords: Etzel, Bergson Group, saving European Jewry, Hillel Kook, Ben Hecht

Elisheva A. Perelman
The Fringes of the Faith: Abraham Kotsuji, Bernard Geis, and a Judaism of the Japanese Mind (pp. 64-82) PDF
Keywords: Japan, conversion, Abraham Kotsuji, Bernard Geis

Susan Samardjian
The Testimonies of SS Einsatzgruppen Perpetrators: Wartime and Postwar Justifications (pp. 83-103) PDF
Keywords: Einsatzgruppen, Nuremberg Trial, Claude Lanzmann, opportunism, indoctrination

Anne Sarzin
Connecting and Transforming: Eva Engel’s Lifelong Outreach Mission (pp. 104-124) PDF
Keywords: Holocaust survivors, Shoah Foundation, Russian migrants, Courage to Care, Righteous Gentiles

Dovi Seldowitz, Atara Kaye, and Mushka Kaye
International Marriages and Jewish Identity: Unconventional Community Data Sources and the Diasporic Ties of Australian Habad Hasidim (pp. 125-145) PDF
Keywords: Transnational marriage, Australia, diasporas, Hasidism, digital ethnography

Book reviews

Jasmine Beinart
The Japanese Talmud: Antisemitism in East Asia. By Christopher L. Schilling. London: Hurst Publishers, 2023, 144 pp., ISBN: 9781787389540. (pp. 146-148) PDF

Lauren Chalk
The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights: Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials. By Jennifer Barrett (Editor), Avril Alba (Editor), and A. Dirk Moses (Editor). Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025, 241 pp., ISBN: 978-0812253221. (pp. 149-154) PDF
Keywords: new museum, critical heritage studies, Holocaust memory, Holocaust education, antisemitism and human rights

Benjamin J. Elton
Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook. By Marc B. Shapiro. London: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilisation, 2025, 228 pp., ISBN: 9781802077339. (pp. 155-158) PDF
Keywords: Marc Shapiro, Rav Kook, Religious Zionism, Modern Orthodoxy, Jewish intellectual history

Angelica Jacob and Andrea Stern
Growing Up Jewish in India: Synagogues, Customs, and Communities from the Bene Israel to the Art of Siona Benjamin. By Ori Z. Soltes (Editor). New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2021, 252 pp., ISBN13: 9789389136814, and Historical Geography of the Bene Israel in Bombay and Konkan: Their Synagogues and Prayer Halls. By Shaul Sapir. New York: Ktav Publishing House, 2024, 256 pp., ISBN13: 9789655986297. (pp. 159-164) PDF

Darren O’Brien
Hitler’s Female Physicians: Women Doctors during the Third Reich and Their Crimes against Humanity. By Edzard Ernst. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2025, 225 pp., ISBN: 9783031739279. (pp. 165-169) PDF

Paul O’Shea
More Than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-Era Camps and Ghettos. By Jan Láníček (Editor) and Jan Lambertz (Editor). Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2022, pp. ix + 367, ISBN: 9780814349229. (pp. 170-172) PDF

Suzanne D. Rutland
Why Do People Discriminate Against Jews? By Jonathan Fox and Lev Topor. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. vii + 241, ISBN: 9780197580349. (pp. 173-177) PDF
Keywords: antisemitism, religious antisemitism, anti-Zionism, conspiracy theories, government religious discrimination (GRD), society-based religious discrimination (SRD)

Jennifer Skerritt
Jewish Identity in Multicultural Australia. By Jennifer Creese. Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, pp. xv + 242, ISBN: 978-3-031-36347-4. (pp. 178-180) PDF

Contributors (pp. 180-183) PDF