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  • Fishbane, S. (2016). Back to the yeshiva: The social dynamics of an Orthodox Sabbath morning service. In S. Fishbane & E. Levine (Eds.), Contention, controversy, and change - Evolutions and revolutions in the Jewish experience (Vol. 2, pp. 206-218). New York, NY: Touro College Press.

  • Fishbane, S. (2016). Behind the Purim mask: The symbolic representation of the rituals and customs of Purim. In S. Fishbane & E. Levine (Eds.), Contention, controversy, and change - Evolutions and revolutions in the Jewish experience (Vol. 2, pp. 135-205). New York, NY: Touro College Press.

  • Fishbane, S. (2016). Holy and licit magic and halacha: The case of the Aruch HaShulcan. In I. Podolskaya (Ed.), Studies in Jewish history and culture: Proceedings of the twenty-second annual International Conference on Jewish Studies (pp. 17-33). Moscow, Russia: Sefer.

  • Fishbane, S. (2016). The impact of culture and cultures upon Jewish customs and rituals: Collected essays. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press.

  • Fishbane, S., & Levine, E. (Eds.). (2016). Contention, controversy, and change - Evolutions and revolutions in the Jewish experience (Vol. 1). New York, NY: Touro College Press.

  • Fishbane, S., & Levine, E. (Eds.). (2016). Contention, controversy, and change - Evolutions and revolutions in the Jewish experience (Vol. 2). New York, NY: Touro College Press.

  • Fishbane, S. (2011). The shtiebelization of modern Jewry: Studies in custom and ritual in the Judaic tradition: Social-anthropological perspectives. Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press. This material can be found here.

  • Fishbane, S. (2011). The symbolic representation of the Sefer Torah. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Jewish Studies (pp. 131-163). Moscow, Russia: Moscow Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization (Sefer). This material can be found here.

  • Fishbane, S. (2011). The symbolic representation of the Torah scrolls. The Maqom Journal for Studies in Rabbinic Literature, XXI, 1-44. This material can be found here.

  • Fishbane, S. (2010). Count your blessings: Jewish mourning rituals during the spring season (Sefirat Haomer). In T. Yoreh, J. Aubrey, J. Lewis, & M. Segal (Eds.), Vixens disturbing vineyards: Embarrassment and embracement of scriptures: Festschrift in honor of Harry Fox (leBeit Yoreh) (pp. 315-345). Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press. This material can be found here.

  • Fishbane, S. (2010). Jewish beards: The symbolic representation of the rabbinic beard. In V.V. Mocalova (Ed.), Academic Series: Vol. 30. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Jewish Studies (Vol. I, pp.113-129). Moscow, Russia: Moscow Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization (Sefer). This material can be found here.

  • Fishbane, S. (2009). Does Judaism give women time off for good behavior? The case of women working on Rosh Hodesh. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International Conference of Jewish Studies: Part 2, (pp. 105-127). Moscow, Russia: Moscow Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization (Sefer). This material can be found here.

  • Fishbane, S. (2008). Does Judaism give women time off for good behavior? The Maqom Journal for Studies in Rabbinic Literature, XIV, 1-30. This material can be found here.

  • Fishbane, S. (2008). The boldness of an halakhist: An analysis of the writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein the Arukh Hashulhan: A collection of social-anthropological essays. Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press. This material can be found here.

  • Fishbane, S. (2008). The ritual of Kapparot. Jewish Journal of Sociology, 50(1), 67-76. This material can be found here.

  • Fishbane, S. (2007). Deviancy in early rabbinic literature: A collection of socio-anthropological essays.  Boston, MA: Brill. This material can be found here.

  • Fishbane, S. (2007). Mercy is vouchsafed from heaven: Halakhah's response to violence as expressed in the Arukh Hashulkhan Orach Haim - sections 560 and 577-8. In R. R. Farber & S. Fishbane (Eds.), Jewish studies in violence: A collection of essays (pp. 105-121). Lanham, MD: University Press of America. This material can be found here.

  • Fishbane, S. (2007). Voodoo or Judaism: the ritual of Kapparot. In O.V. Belova (Ed.), Folk medicine and magic in Slavic and Jewish cultural tradition (pp. 32-58). Moscow: Sefer.

  • Fishbane, S. (2006). Every dream becomes valid only by its interpretation: Dreams, dream interpretations and dream interpreters in the Babylonian Talmud. In O. V. Belova (Ed.), Dreams and visions in Slavic and Jewish cultural tradition (pp. 29-64). Moscow, Russia: Sefer, International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies.

  • Fishbane, S. (2006). The structure and implicit message of Mishnah Tractate Nazir. In J. Neusner and A. J. Avery-Peck (Eds.), The Mishnah in Contemporary Perspective, Part 2 (pp. 110-135). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. This material can be found here.

  • Fishbane, S. (2005). In the case of women-any hand which makes many examinations is to be praised: Niddah as viewed by the rabbis of the Mishnah. In R. M. Kaplanov & V. V. Mochalova (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies, 1, 43-66. Moscow: Sefer. This material can be found here.

  • Fishbane, S. (2004). Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil: The physically handicapped in the Mishnah. In E. Weiner, & K. Burmistrov (Eds.), Problems of Jewish identity: In memoriam of Professor Eugene Weiner (pp. 33-50). Moscow, Russia: Sefer. This material can be found here.

  • Fishbane, S. (2004). The case of the modified mamzer in early rabbinic texts. In R. M. Kaplanov, & V. V. Mochalova (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies, 2, (pp. 44-56). Moscow: Sefer.

  • Fishbane, S. (2001). Four East European 19th century Jewish legal works. In K. IU. Burmistrov, R. M. Kaplanov, & V. V. Mochalova (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies (pp. 75-102). Moscow: Sefer.

  • Fishbane, S. (2001). The homilies of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein, the first sermon. Proceedings of the Tenth World Jewish Congress, Jerusalem.

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