From the Editors ~ Matti Bunzl and Rachel Havrelock


From the President ~ Jonathan D. Sarna


From the Executive Director ~ Rona Sheramy


Iron Age wall at Tel Beersheba. Photo courtesy of Carol Meyers. Foregrounding Ordinary Israelite Women ~ Carol Meyers


Marxism and the Bible ~ Roland Boer


The Failed Marriage with the Ten Lost Tribes ~ Dina Stein


Hayyim Nachman Bialik, 1923. Photo by Zoltan Kluger. Courtesy of the Government Press Office, State of Israel National Photo Collection. The Vicissitudes of 'Am Ha-'areẓ ~ Azzan Yadin-Israel


Laluzer Farizada recorded by his daughter. Courtesy of the Israel Folktale Archives named in honor of Dov Noy (IFA) at the University of Haifa. Jewish Folklore as Counterculture ~ Dan Ben-Amos


Else Lasker-Schüler, 1912. Courtesy of the Else Lasker-Schüler estate, Jerusalem, Israel. Literature as Jewish "Popular Culture" in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe: The Historical Novel ~ Jonathan Skolnik


The sanctuary of the Great Synagogue of Oran. It now serves as a mosque. Courtesy of the author Algerian Jews, French Colonialism, and the Question of Nonelite History ~ Joshua Schreier


Muslim-Algerian kitchen, Algeria, 1982. Courtesy of the author. Living Side by Side, Really?! ~ Joëlle Bahloul


Photo from the Ansky Expedition. Courtesy of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Shtetl: Toward the Study of Jewish Vernacularity ~ Jeffrey Shandler


Portrait of Ita Kalish. Courtesy of the family of Ita Kalish. Gender and Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia ~ ChaeRan Y. Freeze


Reproduced from the October 1949 issue of Yungvarg, the IWO Yiddish children's magazine. Courtesy of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Fighting Anti-Semitism and Jim Crow: "Negro-Jewish Unity" in the International Workers Order ~ Jennifer Young


Mulberry Street, New York City, 1947. Photograph by Sid Grossman. © Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. On Common Ground: The New York Photo League, Jews, and Urban Photography, 1936–1951 ~ Deborah Dash Moore


Sha'ar Ha'aliya Absorption Camp, Haifa, 1950. Photograph by Robert Capa. © International Center of Photography. Courtesy of Magnum Photos Encounters in an Israeli Line: Sha'ar Ha-'aliyah, March 1950 ~ Rhona Seidelman


"The People Demand Social Justice" ~ Jonathan Simons


Reproduced from The Property by Rutu Modan (Drawn and Quarterly, 2013), 10. Courtesy of the publisher. The Practice of Everyday Space ~ Barbara Mann


AJS Perspectives Fall 2014: The People's Issue People versus Ideas ~ Riv-Ellen Prell