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research and raises questions for future study.
Dr. Shifra Schnoll is an independent scholar of
the culture and language of the Jews of Greece.
In the section on Personalities Alexander Nicolič
of describes Dr. Kalmi Baruch.
In the Documents section Yaron Ben-Naeh
publishes a “letter of consent” from the
community of Larissa (1741), Moisés Orfali
publishes a letter from R. Raphael Jacob Matalon
of Jerusalem to the community of Ragusa and
Jacob Geller presents a document concerning
the Chief Rabbi of the Principalities of Moldova
and Wallchia.
In the Book Review section Prof. Daniel J. Lasker
of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev reviews
new publications regarding the Karaites, Dr.
Orit Ramon reviews the book by Dafna Izraeli
on the Jewish community of Georgia, Prof.
Joseph Chetrit of Haifa University reviews Izhak
Avishur's edition of the Aleppan Sharh on the
Torah and Prof. Shmuel Moreh of the Hebrew
University reviews the studies by Lev Hakak on
the Jews of Iraq.

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