Tabla de Contenidos: “…Jews in ancient civic life / Gary Gilbert -- Urbanizing Jews : agriculture, slave codes, and the Byzantine empire / Anthony Meyer -- Vienna's Jewish community, 1819-1826 : glimpses from Beethoven's conversation books at the dawn of a new era / Theodore Albrecht -- A tale of two cities : Jewish creativity in Venice and Prague / Ori Z. Soltes -- The cosmopolitan Jewish city : a typology / Alan Levensen -- The social role of small Jewish cultural centers : the case of Cluj-Napoca, Romania / Menachem Keren-Kratz -- Jewish urbanization and the midsize city : the case of Kaunas, Lithuania / Motti Zalkin -- Kyiv as a center of Soviet Jewish culture in the 1920s-1930s / Victoria Khiterer -- The Yiddish press in Cleveland / Sean Martin -- Jews create towns : an examination of the impact of Joseph Sondheimer on the creation of Muskogee, Oklahoma / Mara W. …”