Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 The Transformation of Violent Experiences: A Psychological Perspective Chapter 3 Jewish Religious Communities and Wife Abuse Chapter 4 The Treatment of Violence and Extra-Judicial Exercise of Law and Justice in Jewish Law Chapter 5 Jewish Violence in Antiquity: Three Dimensions Chapter 6 "Mercy is Vouchsafed From Heaven:" Halakhah's Response to Violence As Expressed In the Arukh Hashulkhan Orach Haim- Sections 560 and 576-8 Chapter 6 Legitimate Violence in Formative Judaism Chapter 7 Violence as a Factor in the Communal Life of the Montreal Jewish Community in the Early Twentieth Century Chapter 8 Anglo-Jewry and Military Conscription During the Great War Chapter 9 Novel Anti-Semitisms: Vampiric Reflections of the jew Britain, 1875-1914 Chapter 10 The Personification of Excess: Antisemitism and the Wages of Alienation Chapter 11 Ploughshares into Swords: Contemporary Religious Zionists and moral Constraints Chapter 12 "From The Depths I Have Called To You": Jewish Reflections on September 11th and Contemporary Terrorism Chapter 13 Is There a "halakhic" Response to the Problem of Evil? Chapter 14 Contributors