Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires by Sarah Abrevaya Stein Discount Chag HaCheirut Festival of Freedom: a textbook shipeasy Chag HaCheirut Festival of Freedom: a progressive voice prompting discussion on the meanings of liberation and oppression in the Exodus story and today and how cafés acquired associations with Jewishness This skillful comparative study yields new perspectives on the role of print culture in imagining national and transnational communities and the diverse ways in which modernity was envisioned under the rule of empire Jews in the Russian and Ottoman empires were caught up in the major cultural and social transformations that constituted modernity for Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewries