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Books reviewed are listed
here in alphabetic order by title.
Abraham’s Journey: Reflections on the Life of the Founding Patriarch, by Joseph B. Soloveitchik, edited by David Shatz, Joel B. Wolowelsky, and Reuven Ziegler. Jersey City: KTAV Publishing House, 2008. 224 pp. $25.00.
Acculturation & Its Discontents: The Italian Jewish Experience Between Exclusion and Inclusion, edited by David N. Myers, Massimo Ciavolella, Peter H. Reill, and Geoffrey Symcox. University of Toronto Press, 2008. 228 pp. $65.00.
Aesthetics of Renewal: Martin Buber’s Early Representation of Hasidism as Kulturkritik, by Martina Urban. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 238 pp. $32.00.
American Naturalism and the Jews: Garland, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather, by Donald Pizer. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 112 pp. $30.00.
Ancient Jewish Magic, by Gideon Bohak. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 483 pp. £70.00 / $135.00.
Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust: Displaced Witnesses, by Phyllis Lassner. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 225 pp. $75.00.
The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Europe, by Paul Reitter. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 254 pp. $35.00.
Antisemitic Elements in the Critique of Capitalism in German Culture, 1850–1933, by Matthew Lange. German Life and Civilization Vol. 46. Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. 348 pp. $83.95.
The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany, by Susannah Heschel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. 339 pp. $29.95.
As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist, by Eitan P. Fishbane. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. 336 pp. $45.00.
Asterai, by Omri Tegamlak Avera. Tel-Aviv: Yediot Akhronot/Sifrei Khemed Books, 2008. 284 pp. 88 NIS.
Being for the Other: Emmanuel Levinas, Ethical Living and Psychoanalysis, by Paul Marcus. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2008. 278 pp. $30.00.
Benjamin Disraeli, by Adam Kirsch. New York: Nextbook and Schocken, 2008. 258 pp. $21.00.
Biblical Interpretation in Judaism and Christianity, edited by Isaac Kalimi and Peter J. Haas. New York and London: T&T Clark, 2006. 265 pp. $156.00.
Black Swastika, Red Swastika, by Alexander Askanas. Xlibris Corporation, 2009. 199 pp. $29.99 (c); $19.99 (p). Orders@Xlibris.com.
Blowing the Whistle on Genocide: Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. and the Struggle for a U.S. Response to the Holocaust, by Rafael Medoff. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2009. 148 pp. $17.95.
Clash of Identities: Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies, by Baruch Kimmerling. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 431 pp. $55.00.
Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and Its Philosophical Implications, by Moshe Halbertal, trans. Jackie Feldman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 200 pp. $32.95.
Conceiving a Nation: The Development of Political Discourse in the Hebrew Bible, by Mira Morgenstern. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. 230 pp. $65.00.
Conceptions of God, Freedom, and Ethics in African American and Jewish Theology, by Kurt Buhring. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 262 pp. $79.95 (c); $40.00 (p).
Contemporary Israel: Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy, and Security Challenges, edited by Robert O. Freedman. Boulder: Westview Press, 2009. 382 pp. $40.00.
Covenantal Conversations: Christians in Dialogue with Jews & Judaism, edited by Darrell Jodock. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008. 218 pp. $22.00.
Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews, by Jonathan Frankel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 324 pp. $85.00.
Emmanuel Levinas: His Life and Legacy, by Salomon Malka, translated by Michael Kigel and Sonja M. Embree. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2006. 330 pp. $21.50.
Esther Dischereit, edited by Katharina Hall. Contemporary German Writers Series. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007. 181 pp. $55.00.
The First Tithe: Memoirs and Edifying Discourses of the Hebrew War for Freedom, by Israel Eldad, translated by Zev Golan. Tel Aviv: The Jabotinsky Institute in Israel, 2008. 420 pp. 60 shekels.
Formulating Responses in an Egalitarian Age, edited by Marc D. Stern. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 228 pp. $34.95.
French and Jewish: Culture and the Politics of Identity in Early Twentieth Century France, by Nadia Malinovich. Portland: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. 2008. 280 pp.
From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust, by Meir Litvak and Esther Webman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. 435 pp. $30.00.
From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbalah, by Shaul Magid. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008. 345 pp. $39.94.
And From There you Shall Seek, by Joseph B. Soloveitchik, translated by Naomi Goldblum. Jersey City: Ktav Publishing House, 2008. 230 pp. $29.50.
Fruchtbarkeit und Geburt in den Psalmen, by Marianne Grohmann. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007. 370 pp. €109.
The Future for Palestinian Refugees, by Michael Dumper. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 2007. 233 pp. $55.00.
Geography of Hope: Exile, The Enlightenment, Disassimilation, by Pierre Birnbaum, trans. Charlotte Mandell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. 479 pp. $65.00.
Grenzverwischer: “Jud Süss” und “Das Dritte Geschlecht.” Verschränkte Diskurse von Ausgrenzung, by Francesca Falk. Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2008. 165 pp. € 22.90.
The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine, by Mitchell B. Hart. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 264 pp. $29.00.
Heidegger’s Jewish Followers: Essays on Arendt, Strauss, Jonas, and Levinas, edited by Samuel Fleischacker. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2008. 302 pp. $22.95.
Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and Their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis, by Suzanne Vromen. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2008. 178 pp. $24.95.
The Historical Jesus in Context, edited by Amy-Jill Levine, Dale C. Allison, Jr., and John Dominic Crossan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. 440 pp. $22.95.
A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel, by Gudrun Kramer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. 357 pp. $38.50.
The Holocaust: Roots, History and the Aftermath, by David M. Crowe. Boulder, CO: Westview Press: 2008. 524 pp., index and maps. $49.00.
How Jewish is Jewish History?, by Moshe Rosman. Oxford and Portland, Oregon: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007. 220 pp. $24.95. The Impact of the Holocaust in America: The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review, Volume 6, edited by Zev Garber. W. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press for the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, University of Southern California, 2008. 230 pp. $25.00.
Innocent Abroad, by Martin Indyk. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009. 494 pp. #30.00.
Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism, by Rebecca L. Stein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. 232 pp. $22.95.
Jacob’s Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History, by David B. Goldstein. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 147 pp. $26.00.
Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Drawing Honey from the Rock, by Alan L. Berger and David Patterson. St. Paul: Paragon House, 2008. 317 pp. $19.95.
Jewish Law in Transition: How Economic Forces Overcame the Prohibition against Lending on Interest, by Hillel Gamoran. Cincinnati: Alumni Series of the Hebrew Union College Press. 2008. 196 pp. $35.00.
Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880–1920: From Caste to Class, by Eli Lederhendler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 224 pp. $24.95.
Jewish Philosophy and Western Culture: A Modern Introduction, by Victor J. Seidler. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007. 237 pp. $26.95
The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review, Vol. 5, edited by Bruce Zuckerman and Jeremy Schoenberg. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press 2007. 142 pp. $25.00.
Jewish Topographies: Visions of Space, Traditions of Place, edited by Julia Brauch, Anna Lipphardt, and Alexandra Nocke. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VR: Ashgate, 2008. 365 pp. $99.95.
Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna, by Alison Rose. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. 314 pp. $60.00.
The Last Jews of Kerala: The 2,000 Year History of India’s Forgotten Jewish Community, by Edna Fernandes. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2008. 228 pp. $24.95.
Judaism without Jews: Philosemitism and Christian Polemic in Early Modern England, by Eliane Glaser. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007. 220 pp. $69.95.
Judas: A Biography, by Susan Gubar. New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2009. 453 pp., 8 color plates and 39 b&w illustrations. $27.95.
A Life (Un)Worthy of Living: Reproductive Genetics in Israel and Germany, by Yael Hashiloni-Dolev. Series: International Library of Ethics, Law and the New Medicine, Vol. 34. Dordrecht, the Netherlands, Springer, 2007. 195 pp. € 94.95.
Light Falls, by Evan Fallenberg. New York: Soho Press. 2008. 229 pp. $12.00.
Marital Relations in Ancient Judaism, by Etan Levine. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009. 349 pp. $115.00.
Memories of Jewish Life: From Italy to Jerusalem, 1918–1960, by Augusto Segre, translated by Steve Siporin. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 507 pp. $40.00.
Meneket Rivkah: A Manual of Wisdom and Piety for Jewish Women by Rivkah bat Meir, by Frauke von Rohden. Translation of Meneket Rivkah by Samuel Spinner. Translation of Introduction and Commentary by Maurice Tszorf. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2009. 360 pp. $45.00.
Menorah, Jüdisches Familienblatt für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur (1923–1932): Materialien zur Geschichte einer Wiener zionistischen Zeitschrift, by Isabella Gartner. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2009. 356 pp. €48.00.
The Minsk Ghetto 1941–1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism, by Barbara Epstein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 351pp. $39.95.
The Misunderstood Jew: the Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, by Amy-Jill Levine. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2006. 250 pp. $24.95.
The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace, by Aaron David Miller. New York: Bantam, 2008. 398 pp. $26.00.
My Jewish Name, by Nancy Shiffrin. greatunpublished.com
2002, Title No. 251. 127 pp. $11.99 (p); $7.99 (e-book).
Opera, Liberalism, and
Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France: The Politics
of Halévy's La Juive, by Diana R. Hallman.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press: 2002.
390 pp. $70.00.
The Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture, by Tina Frühauf. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 284 pp. $74.00
Out of the Whirlwind: Creation Theology in the Book of Job, by Kathryn Schifferdecker. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (Harvard Theological Studies 61), 2008. 217 pp. $25.00.
The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism, edited by Danya Ruttenberg. New York and London: New York University Press, 2009. 294 pp. $19.95.
Performing Americanness: Race, Class, and Gender in Modern African-American and Jewish-American Literature, by Catherine Rottenberg. Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2008. 180 pp. $50.00.
Philo’s Portrayal of Moses in the Context of Ancient Judaism, by Louis H. Feldman. Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity Series, Vol. 15 . Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. 542 pp. $80.00. The Place of the Mediterranean in Modern Jewish Identity, by Alexandra Nocke. Boston: Brill, 2009. 298 pp. $140.00.
Plowshares into Swords: From Zionism to Israel, by Arno J. Mayer. London and New York: Verso, 2008. 432 pp. $34.95.
Poland’s Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present, by Joanna Beata Michlic. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 386 pp. $75.00.
Preaching in Judaism and Christianity: Encounters and Developments from Biblical Times to Modernity, by Alexander Deeg, Walter Homolka, and Heinz-Günther Schöttler. Studia Judaica XLI. Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2008. 247 pp. $110.00.
The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science, by Amos Morris-Reich. Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, Vol. 54. London: Routledge, 2008. 193 pp. $95.00.
Reading the Hebrew Bible After the Shoah: Engaging Holocaust Theology, by Marvin A. Sweeney. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008. 287 pp. $29.00.
Reading the Jewish Woman on the Elizabethan Stage, by Michelle Ephraim. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World Series. Burlington, VT and Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2008. 180 pp. $99.95.
Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology, by Michael Fishbane. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 238 pp. $30.00.
Shalom Shar’abi and the Kabbalists of Beit El, by Pinchas Giller. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 199 pp. $75.00.
The Sicarii in Josephus’s Judean War: Rhetorical Analysis and Historical Observations, by Mark Andrew Brighton. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009. 184 pages. $132.00.
This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies, edited by Hector Avalos, Sara J. Melcher, and Jeremy Schipper. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007. 244 pp. $29.95.
Thomas Aquinas on the Jews: Insights into His Commentary on Romans 9–11, by Steven C. Boguslawski, O.P. New York: Paulist Press, 2008. 145 pp. $18.95.
Time and Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives, by Nissan Rubin. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2008. 228 pp. $70.00.
Der Topos der Juden: Studien zur Geschichte des Antisemitismus im deutschsprachigen Musikschrifttum, by Annkatrin Dahm. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2007. 388 pp. €69.00.
Der Verein zur Abwehr des Antisemitismus. Zum Verhältnis von Protestantismus und Judentum im Kaiserreich und in der Weimarer Republik, by Auguste Zeiß-Horbach. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2008. 462 pp. €44.
Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory, edited by David Bathrick, Brad Prager, and Michael D. Richardson. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2008. 336 pp. $75.00.
The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary, by Erin Graff Zivin. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. 222 pp. $21.95.
We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945–1962, by Hasia Diner. New York: New York University Press, 2009. 527 pp. $29.95.
Whose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism, by Rebecca T. Alpert. New York, NY: The New Press, 2008. 164 pp. $23.95.
Words to God's Music: A New Book of Psalms, by Laurance Wieder. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003. 186 pp. $25.00.
The Writer Uprooted: Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature, edited by Alvin H. Rosenfeld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. 254 pp. $19.95.
Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel's National Poet, by Nili Scharf Gold. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England / Brandeis University Press, 2008. 445 pp. $35.00.
Yiddish in the Cold War, by Gennady Estraikh. London: Legenda, 2008. 178 pp. $89.50.
Yiddishlands: A Memoir, by David G. Roskies. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008. 225 pp. $27.95.
Yirat Shamayim: The Awe, Reverence, and Fear of God, edited by Marc D. Stern. New York: Yeshiva University Press, 2008. 402 pp. $30.00.
You Never Call! You Never Write!: A History of the Jewish Mother, by Joyce Antler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 321 pp. $24.95. |
