Liverpool University Press is pleased to inform you of the latest content in JOURNAL OF JEWISH STUDIES.

Liverpool University Press is pleased to inform you of the latest content in JOURNAL OF JEWISH STUDIES.

Published in partnership with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Journal of Jewish Studies (JJS) is an internationally renowned, peer-reviewed academic journal for the promotion of research into all aspects of Jewish studies.

Volume 76, issue 1 opens in memoriam of Stephen Livesey Ashworth: JJS Copy-Editor & Typesetter 1986–2023. Research articles in the issue explore the symbolism of Hadrian’s Judaean ‘Adventus’ coins, the impact on Jewish identity of the ‘aurum coronarium’ tax, and the origins of the fixed Jewish calendar. It also covers R. Abraham Shalom’s views on practice and belief in the fifteenth century, Danish-Jewish dilemmas of belonging, British colonialism’s influence on the Baghdadi Jewish diaspora, the reception of Haim Naḥman Bialik in North Africa, and calendar reform and Orthodox activity in the Second Vatican Council. You will also find reviews of the latest publications in the field.

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IN MEMORIAM

STEPHEN LIVESEY ASHWORTH: JJS COPY-EDITOR & TYPESETTER 1986–2023

MARGARET VERMES

RESEARCH ARTICLES

HADRIAN’S JUDAEAN ADVENTUS COINS: A QUESTION OF PERSPECTIVE

MIRIAM BEN ZEEV HOFMAN

THE ROLE OF THE COLON IN MS ERFURT OF THE TOSEFTA

SHIRA SHMIDMAN

A JEWISH TAX WITH A LATIN NAME: THE AURUM CORONARIUM

ALAN APPELBAUM