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Books reviewed are listed
here in alphabetic order by title.
An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry, edited by Maxim D. Shrayer. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2007. 2 vols., 1278 pps. $225.00.
Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust, edited by Kevin P. Spicer. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007. 329 pp. $29. 95.
Approaches to Teaching Wiesel’s Night, edited by Alan Rosen. New York: MLA, 2007. 169 pp. $37.50 (c); $19.75 (p).
Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948, by Hillel Cohen, translated by Haim Watzman. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2008. 352 pp. $29.95.
At the Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York’s Lower East Side, 1880–1920, by Lawrence J. Epstein. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007. 299 pp. $40.00.
Back to School: Jewish Day School in the Lives of Adult Jews, by Alex Pomson & Randal F. Schnoor. Wayne State University Press, 2008. 184 pp. $26.95.
Between Two Worlds. The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933, by S. S. Prawer. New York: Berghahn Books, 2005/2007. 228 pp. $25.00.
Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children and Postwar Families in Holland, by Diane Wolf. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 391 pp. $21.95.
Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad, by Steven E. Aschheim. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2007. 208 pp. $27.95.
The Bible: A Biography, by Karen Armstrong. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007. 302 pp. $21.95.
The Book of Psalms, by Robert Alter. New York, London: W. W. Norton, 2007. 518 pp. $35.00.
The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature, edited by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert and Martin S. Jaffee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 412 pp. $24.99.
Caught by Politics: Hitler Exiles and American Visual Culture, edited by Sabine Eckmann and Lutz Koepnick. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 269 pp. $69.95.
Churches and the Holocaust: Unholy Teaching, Good Samaritans and Reconciliation, by Mordecai Paldiel. Jersey City, NJ: KTAV, 2006. 443 pp. $39.50.
Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship, by Martin Gilbert. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007. 359 pp. $30.00.
Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History, by Deborah R. Weiner. Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 2006. 234 pp. $25.00.
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe: A Guide, edited by Vivian Liska and Thomas Nolden. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. 224 pp. $29.95.
Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843–1933, by Robin Judd. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2007. 283 pp. $45.00.
Converging Alternatives: The Bund and the Zionist Labor Movement, 1897–1985, by Yosef Gorny. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. 309 pp. $27.95.
Conversion, Halakhah, and Practice, by Menachem Finkelstein. Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2006. 782 pp. $99.95.
Converts, Heretics, and Lepers: Maimonides and the Outsider, by James A. Diamond. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. 360 pp. $35.00.
Creator, Are You Listening? Israeli Poets on God and Prayer, by C. David Jacobson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. 243 pp. $34.00.
Crime, Jews and News: Vienna 1895–1914, by Daniel Mark Vyleta. Austrian and Habsburg Studies, Vol. 8. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. 254 pp. $80.00.
A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman, by Sharon Rudahl. New York: The New Press, 2007. 128 pp. $17.95.
Dark Images, Secret Hints: Benjamin, Scholem, Molitor and the Jewish Tradition, by Bram Mertens. Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. 278 pp. $67.95.
The Day I Wasn’t There, by Hélène Cixous, tr. Beverley Bie Brahic. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2006. 103 pp. $17.95.
The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism, by Mark Edmundson. London: Bloomsbury, 2007. 276 pp. £18.99.
Emil L. Fackenheim: A Jewish Philosopher’s Response to the Holocaust, by David Patterson. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. 240 pp. $19.95. The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right, by George Michael. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. 397 pp. $34.95.
An Epitaph for German Judaism: From Halle to Jerusalem, by Emil Fackenheim. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. 327 pp. $39.95.
Es begann damals in Afrika [It began then in Africa], by Stefanie Zweig. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2006. 336 pp. €8.95.
Exit Ghost, by Philip Roth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. 292 pp. $26.00.
Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation, by Naomi Seidman. Afterlives of the Bible Series. University of Chicago Press, 2006. 333 pp. $22.00.
For the Love of God and People: A Philosophy of Jewish Law, by Elliot N. Dorff. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2007. 326 pp. $35.00.
Formulating Responses in an Egalitarian Age, edited by Marc D. Stern. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 228 pp. $34.95.
Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviet Nuclear Gamble in the Six Day War, by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. 287 pp. $26.00.
French Writers and the Politics of Complicity: Crisis of Democracy in the 1940s and 1990s, by Richard J. Golsan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 198 pp. $55.00.
Friends on the Way: Jesuits Encounter Contemporary Judaism, edited by Thomas Michel, S.J. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007. 230 pp. $45.00.
From Abraham to America: A History of Jewish Circumcision, by Eric Kline Silverman. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006. 302 pp. $88.00 (c); $37.95 (p).
From Priestly Torah to Pentateuch: A Study in the Composition of the Book of Leviticus, by Christophe Nihan. Forschungen zum Alten Testament, Second Series, #25. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007. 697 pp. $95.00.
Fruchtbarkeit und Geburt in den Psalmen, by Marianne Grohmann. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007. 370 pp. €109.
The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB’s: A Secret History of Jewish Punk, by Steven Lee Beeber. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2006. 272 pp. $24.95.
The History of Terrorism: From Antiquity to Al Qaeda, edited by Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 474 pp. $24.95.
Hitler’s Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940–1944, by Dennis Deletant. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 379 pp. $74.95.
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.
Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation, by Eyal Weizman. London: Verso, 2007. 318 pp. $34.95.
Holocaust Odysseys: The Jews of Saint-Martin-Vésubie and Their Flight through France and Italy, by Susan Zuccotti. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. 288 pp. $28.00.
How to Read the Bible, by Marc Zvi Brettler. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2005. 384 pp. $35.00.
How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now, by James L. Kugel. New York: Free Press, 2007. 819 pp. $35.00.
Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain: Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday, by Katrin Kogman-Appel. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 295 pp. + 133 pp of plates. $99.00.
Illuminating Leviticus: A Study of Its Laws and Institutions in the Light of Biblical Narratives, by Calum Carmichael. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 212 pp. $55.00.
Imaginary Neighbors: Mediating Polish-Jewish Relations after the Holocaust, edited by Dorota Glowacka and Joanna Zylinska. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. 337 pp. $45.00.
In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination, by Gil Z. Hochberg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 192 pp. $35.00.
Inventing Great Neck: Jewish Identity and the American Dream, by Judith S. Goldstein. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 205 pp. $24.95.
Irène Némirovsky: Her Life and Works, by Jonathan Weiss. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. 200 pp. $24.95.
An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, by Ruth Behar. Photographs by Humberto Mayol. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. 297 pp. $29.95.
Israel in Exile: Jewish Writing and the Desert, by Ranen Omer-Sherman. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 210 pp. $35.00.
Israelite Religions: An Archaeological and Biblical Survey, by Richard S. Hess. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2007. 432 pp. $34.99.
Jewish Frontiers: Essays on Bodies, Histories, and Identities, by Sander L. Gilman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003; paper 2004. 243 pp. $24.95.
Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany: Memory, Power and Community, by Dean Phillip Bell. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2007. 188 pp. $100.00
Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History, edited by Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England/Brandeis University Press, 2006. 368 pp. $29.95.
Jews and Sex, edited by Nathan Abrams. Nottingham, England: Five Leaves Publications, 2008. 234 pp. $25.53.
Jews and Judaism in the 21st Century: Human Responsibility, the Presence of God and the Future of the Covenant, edited by Edward Feinstein. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2007. 166 pp. $24.99.
Jews and Power, by Ruth Wisse. New York: Schocken Books, 2007. 231 pp. $19.95.
Jews in the Early Modern World, by Dean Phillip Bell. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008. 301 pp. $79.00 (c); $29.95 (p).
Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany, by Atina Grossmann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 393 pp. $35.00.
The Jews of Khazaria, by Kevin Alan Brook. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 317 pp. $44.00.
Jews or Christians? The Followers of Jesus in Search of Their Own Identity, by Giorgio Jossa, translated from the Italian by Molly Rogers. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 202. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006. 175 pp. €69.00.
Judaism & Christianity in the Age of Constantine: History, Messiah, Israel, and the Initial Confrontation, by Jacob Neusner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 262 pp. $25.00. Judaism and the Gentiles: Jewish Patterns of Universalism (to 135 CE), by Terence L. Donaldson. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2007. 563 pp. $59.95.
Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity, by Jonathan Freedman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 408 pp. $34.50.
The Land of the Body: Studies in Philo’s Representation of Egypt, by Sarah J. K. Pearce. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 208. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007. 365 pp. $100.00.
Letters from Nuremberg: My Father’s Narrative of a Quest for Justice, by Christopher J. Dodd. New York: Crown Publishers, 2007. 374 pp. $25.00.
Letters of Love: Franz Rosenzweig’s Spiritual Biography and Oeuvre in Light of the Gritli Letters, by Ephraim Meir. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. Studies in Judaism Vol. 2. 200 pp. $69.95.
The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions, by Christian Wiese, translated by Jeffrey Grossman and Christian Wiese. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2007. 260 pp. $50.00.
Living Together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages, by Jonathan Elukin. Princeton University Press, 2007. 193 pp. $24.95.
Lords of the Land: The War over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967–2007, by Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar. New York: Nation Books, 2007. 531pp. $29.95.
The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community, by Stefanie B. Siegmund. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. 624 pp. $70.00.
The Misunderstood Jew: the Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, by Amy-Jill Levine. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2006. 250 pp. $24.95.
Modern Jews Engage the New Testament: Enhancing Jewish Well-Being in a Christian Environment, by Michael J. Cook. Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights, 2008. 416 pp. $29.99.
Moses and the Journey to Leadership: Timeless Lessons of Effective Management from the Bible and Today’s Leaders, by Norman J. Cohen. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2007. 212 pp. $21.99.
My Jewish Name, by Nancy Shiffrin. greatunpublished.com
2002, Title No. 251. 127 pp. $11.99 (p); $7.99 (e-book).
The Nature of Biblical Criticism, by John Barton. Louisville; London: Westminster/John Knox, 2007. 206 pp. $24.95.
1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, by Benny Morris. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2008. 524 pp. $32.50.
1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East, by Tom Segev, translated by Jessica Cohen. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007. 673 pp. $35.00.
Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism, by Jan Assmann. George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 196 pp. $26.95.
On Jewish Music: Past and Present, by Joachim Braun. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006. 433 pp., illustrations, maps, tables. $76.95.
Opening the Sealed Book: Interpretations of the Book of Isaiah in Late Antiquity, by Joseph Blenkinsopp. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2006. 315 pp. $25.00.
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.
A Plausible God: Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology, by Mitchell Silver. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. 200 pp. $22.00.
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry XVIII : Jewish Women in Eastern Europe, edited by Chaeran Freeze, Paula Hyman and Antony Polonsky. Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2005. 470 pp. $29.95.
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry XIX, edited by Mieczyslaw B. Biskupski and Antony Polonsky. Portland: Littman Library for Jewish Civilization, 2007, published for the Institute for Polish Jewish Studies and the American Association for Polish Jewish Studies. 653 pp. $29.95.
Projecting the Holocaust into the Present: The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema, by Lawrence Baron. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 320 pp. $29.95.
Punishment and Freedom: The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law, by Devora Steinmetz. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 224 pp. $55.00. Fully indexed and one appendix.
The Rabbi’s Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life, by Shuly Rubin Schwartz. New York and London: New York University Press, 2006. 311 pp. $18.95.
Redemption and the Merchant God: Dostoevsky’s Economy of Salvation and Antisemitism, by Susan McReynolds. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2008. 241 pp. $69.95.
ReThinking Synagogues: A New Vocabulary for Congregational Life, by Lawrence A. Hoffman. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2006. 225 pp. $19.99.
Reveries of the Wild Woman: Primal Scenes, by Hélène Cixous, tr. Beverley Bie Brahic. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2006. 96 pp. $17.95.
The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790–1876, by Brian Yothers. Aldershot Hampshire GB/Burlington VT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2007. 147 pp. $89.95.
Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible, by Karel van der Toorn. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. 401 pp. $35.00.
Shards of Memory: Narratives of Holocaust Survival, edited by Yehudi Lindeman. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2007. 256 pp. $49.95.
The Shtetl: New Evaluations, edited by Stephen T. Katz. New York: New York University Press, 2007. 328 pp. $40.00.
Snapshots, by Michal Govrin. New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. 322 pp. $26.95.
Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas, edited by Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 407 pp. $24.95.
“Something on My Own”: Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929-1956, by Glenn D. Smith, Jr. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2007. 293 pp. $24.95.
Song of Songs: A Commentary, by J. Cheryl Exum. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2005. 263 pp. $39.95.
Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940–1972, by Edward K. Kaplan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 530 pp. $40.00.
Stefan Zweig Reconsidered: New Perspectives on his Literary and Biographical Writings, edited by Mark H. Gelber. Tübingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 2007. 225pp. €62.00.
Stories of Joseph. Narrative Migrations Between Judaism and Islam, by Marc S. Bernstein. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006. 315 pp. $69.95.
Studying the Ancient Israelites: A Guide to Sources and Methods, by Victor H. Matthews. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic; Nottingham, UK.: Apollos, 2007. 232 pp. $21.99.
This Crazy Thing a Life, by Richard Freadman. Crawley, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 2007. 301 pp. $31.00.
A Tranquil Star (Unpublished Stories), by Primo Levi, translated by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. 167 pp. $21.95.
The Unfolding Tradition: Jewish Law After Sinai, by Elliot N. Dorff. New York: Aviv Press, 2005. 566 pp. $19.95.
The Watchman Fell Asleep: The Surprise of the Yom Kippur War and Its Sources, by Uri Bar-Joseph. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. 306 pp. $27.95.
When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David, by Susan Ackerman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 353 pp. $47.50.
Words to God's Music: A New Book of Psalms, by Laurance Wieder. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003. 186 pp. $25.00.
Yiddish Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin Archive, by Ruth Rubin, edited by Chana Mlotek and Mark Slobin. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, in cooperation with YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2007. CD included. 288 pp. $34.95.
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.
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