1. Professor Menahem Stern

   Editorial Pages: i - ii

2. Summaries

   Abstract Pages: 7 - 9

3. Change in the cultural patterns of a Jewish society in crisis: Italian Jewry at the close of the sixteenth century

   • Robert Bonfil

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 30

4. In defense of Jewish humanism

   • Hava Tirosh-Rothschild

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 57

5. Passports and piety: Apostasy in nineteenth-century France

   • Jonathan I. Helfand

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 83

6. Remarriage among Jews and christians in nineteenth-century eastern Europe

   • Shaul Stampfer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 114

7. Reflections on the state of polish-Jewish historical study

   • M. J. Rosman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 130

8. Books received

   BookReview Pages: 131 - 131