CONTENT

Richard G. Marks:
David d’Beth Hillel and Jacob Sapir: Their Encounters with Temple Hinduism in 19th Century India

Sebastian Musch:
Linking the Jewish people to India: Friedrich Korn (1803-1850) and his theory of Universal Revelation through Astrotheology

Hans-Michael Haußig:
Indische Religionen als Gegenstand religionsphilosophischer Entwürfe. Salomon Formstecher und Samuel Hirsch über indisches „Heidentum“

Aleš Weiss:
Buddhism as a Tool of Polemic and Self-definition among German Rabbis in the 19th and early 20th Century

Rachel Albeck-Gidron:
At Opposite Ends of Asia – Contact between East Asian Culture and Modern Hebrew Literature from the Late Nineteenth Century until Today. A Historiographical and Linguistic Study

Emily Sigalow:
From Jewish Prominence to Buddhist Prominence: Julius Goldwater and the Jewish-Buddhist Encounter from 1924-1958

Yaakov Ariel:
A New Kind of Jew: Allen Ginsberg and Asian Spirituality

Mira Niculescu:
JewBus are not what they used to be. A call for a diachronic study of the phenomenon of the Jewish Buddhists

David Landau and Nina Rageth:
Indian Sufism in Israel: A Musically Orchestrated Interaction

Hiroshi Ichikawa:
Prospects of Japanese Translation of the Babylonian Talmud

CONFERENCE REPORTS

Eva Rohland:
Nachwuchsworkshop „Der Centralverein als Teil des deutsch-jüdischen Kultursystems?“ Frankfurt am Main, 7.-8. Dezember 2016

Oskar Czendze:
Konferenz “Re-Framing American Jewish History and Thought: New Transnational Perspectives”, Potsdam/Berlin, 20.-22. Juli 2016

BOOK REVIEWS