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- Digitization of the original series of Melilah, 1944-1955  Katherine Aron-Beller <kathybeller8@GMAIL.COM> - APT: Jerusalem  Katherine Aron-Beller <kathybeller8@GMAIL.COM> - JOB: New York University - ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/FACULTY FELLOW Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies  Katherine Aron-Beller <kathybeller8@GMAIL.COM> - JOB: Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Social Sciences & Philosophy W3 Professorship for Economy and Society of the Middle East  Katherine Aron-Beller <kathybeller8@GMAIL.COM> - JOB: Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Philosophische Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie W3 Professorship for Politics and Society in the Middle East  Katherine Aron-Beller <kathybeller8@GMAIL.COM> - Query: English Translation of Yosef Haim Brenner's essay  Katherine Aron-Beller <kathybeller8@GMAIL.COM> - Re Query: Eshet Hayyil  Admiel Kosman [kosman@uni-potsdam.de]

Reviewer: Harvey Goldberg Title: Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco Author: Aomar Boum   Reviewer: Erik Greenberg Title: From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture Author: Saba Soomekh   Reviewer: Orit Bashkin Title: Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893-1958 Author: Moshe Behar, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, eds.

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