AJS Review • Books Received
July - December 2002

Altmann, Alexander. Saadya Gaon: The Book of Doctrines and Beliefs. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company Inc., 2002. v, 194 pp.

Ansky, S. The Dybbuk and Other Writings. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xxxvi, 220 pp.

Assaf, David. The Regal Way: The Life and Times of Rabbi Israel of Ruzhin. Translated by David Louvish. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. xv, 456 pp.

Baigell, Matthew. Jewish Artists in New York: The Holocaust Years. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002. ix, 186 pp.

Baker, Cynthia M. Rebuilding the House of Israel: Architecture of Gender in Jewish Antiquity. California: Stanford University Press, 2002. viii, 260 pp.

Bargad, Warren and Stanley F. Chyet. No Sign of Ceasefire: An Anthology of Contemporary Israeli Poetry. Los Angeles: Skirball Cultural Center, 2002. ix, 272 pp.

Berkowitz, Joel. Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage. Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2002. ix, 283 pp.

Bolkosky, Sidney M. Searching for Meaning in The Holocaust. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002. xv, 129 pp.

Brams, Steven J. Biblical Games: Game Theory and the Hebrew Bible. Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2003. vii, 220 pp.

Bregman, Ahron. Israel’s Wars: A History Since 1947. New York: Routledge, 2002. xvii, 272 pp.

Bukiet, Melvin Jules. Stories of an Imaginary Childhood. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. 201 pp.

Chilton, Bruce. Redeeming Time: The Wisdom of Ancient Jewish and Christian Festal Calendars. Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 2002. viii, 132 pp.

Dalfin, Chaim. Attack on Lubavitch: A Response. Brooklyn: Jewish Enrichment Press, 2002. 119 pp.

Dershowitz, Alan M. Why TerrorismWorks. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. 271 pp.

Diamond, James Arthur. Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment: Deciphering Scripture and Midrash in the Guide of the Perplexed. New York: State University of New York Press, 2002. x, 235 pp.

Dollinger, Marc. Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000. xi, 287 pp.

El-Or, Tamar. Next Year I Will Know More: Literacy and Identity Among Young Orthodox Women in Israel. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 331 pp.

Etzioni-Halevy, Eva. The Divided People: Can Israel’s Breakup Be Stopped? New York: Lexington Books, 2002. ix, 185 pp.

Frank, Bernhand. The Print of Memory: A Judaic Perspective. New York: Goldengrove Press, 2002. 63 pp.

Freidenreich, Harriet Pass. Female, Jewish, and Educated: the Lives of Central European University Women. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2002. xxii, 296 pp.

Geljon, Albert C. Philonic Exegesis in Gregory of Nyssa’s “De Vita Moysis.” Providence: Brown Judaica Studies, 2002. xii, 220 pp.

Goldstein, Rebecca. Mazel. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. 368 pp.

Grynberg, Michal, ed. Words to Outlive Us: Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto. Translated by Philip Boehm. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002. xi, 493 pp.

Habermas, Jurgen. Religion and Rationality: Essay on Reason, God, and Modernity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2002. vi, 176 pp.

Hart, Mitchell B. Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity. California: Stanford University Press, 2000. viii, 340 pp.

Hazan, Haim. Simulated Dreams: Israeli Youth and Virtual Zionism. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. vii, 116 pp.

Hecht, Thomas T. Life Death Memories. Virginia: Leopolis Press, 2002. iv, 209 pp.

Hernandez, Marie Theresa. Delirio: The Fantastic, the Demonic, and the Reel. Texas: University of Texas Press, 2002. xi, 306 pp.

Hoffman, Betty N. Jewish Hearts: A Study of Dynamic Ethnicity in the United States and the Soviet Union. New York: State University of New York Press, 2001. xxvi, 282 pp.

Hrushevsky, Mykhailo. History of Ukraine-Rus’: Volume 8. The Cossack Age, 1626–1650. Edited by Frank E. Sysyn. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2002. viii, 808pp.

Jacobs, Janet Liebman. Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews. California: University Of California Press, 2002. ix, 197 pp.

Jacobs, Steven Leonard. The Biblical Masorah and the Temple Scroll: An Orthographical Inquiry. New York: University Press of America, Inc., 2002. vii, 136 pp.

Kahn, Ava E, editor. Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History, 1849–1880. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 549 pp.

Kimmerling, Baruch. The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Society, and the Military. California: University Of California Press, 2001. ix, 268 pp.

Kotik, Yehezkel. Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik. Introduced by David Assaf. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 540 pp.

Kracauer, Siegfried. Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of his Time. New York: Urzone, Inc., 2002. 418 pp.

Levi, Joseph Abraham. Survival and Adaptation: The Portuguese Jewish Diaspora in Europe, Africa, and the New World. New York: Sepher-Hermon Press for The American Society of Sephardic Studies, 2002. v, 214 pp.

Leviant, Curt. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet and Weekend in Mustara: Two Novellas. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. vii, 156 pp.

Librett, Jeffrey S. The Rhetoric of Cultural Dialogue: Jews and Germans from Moses Mendelssohn to Richard Wagner and Beyond. California: Stanford University Press, 2000. xxiii, 391 pp.

Lissak, Moshe, editor. The History of the Jewish Community in Eretz-Israel Since 1882: The Ottoman Period, Part Two. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2002. 478 pp.

Long, Gary A. Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Hebrew: Learning Biblical Hebrew Grammatical Concepts through English Grammar. Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 2002. v, 189 pp.

Lorberbaum, Menachem. Politics and the Limits of Law: Secularizing the Political in Medieval Jewish Thought. California: Stanford University Press, 2001. xii, 216 pp.

Magness, Jodi. The Archaeology of Qumran and The Dead Sea Scrolls. Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002. x, 238 pp.

Margalit, Gilad. Germany and Its Gypsies: A Post-Auschwitz Ordeal. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. vii, 285pp.

Manger, Itzik. The World According to Itzik: Selected Poetry and Prose. Translated by Leonard Wolf. Introduced by David Roskies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. viii, 249 pp.

Mayer, Larry N. Who Will Say Kaddish? A Search for Jewish Identity in Contemporary Poland. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2002. vii, 193 pp.

Mazali, Rela. Maps of Women’s: Goings and Stayings. California: Stanford University Press, 2001. 381 pp.

Mendelsohn, Ezra. Painting a People: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 2002. xi, 279 pp.

Morgan, Michael L. Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. ix, 288 pp.

Nadler, Steven. Spinoza’s Heresy: Immortality and Jewish Mind. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. xii, 225 pp.

Nathans, Benjamin. Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia. Los Angeles: University Of California Press, 2002. ix, 424 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Texts Without Boundaries: Protocols of Non-Documentary Writing in the Rabbinic Canon. New York: University Press of America, Inc., 2002. Volumes 1–4

Neusner, Jacob. The Tosefta. Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 2002. Volumes 1–2. 1984 pp.

Nisly, L. Lamar. Impossible to Say: Representing Religious Mystery in Fiction by Malamud, Percy, Ozick, and O’Connor. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002. 148 pp.

Poznanski, Renee. Jews in France During World War II. New England: Brandeis University Press, 2001. xv, 601 pp.

Reisman, Bernard and Joel I. Reisman. The New Jewish Experiential Book. Hoboken: Ktav Publishing House, 2002. xii, 439 p.

Ristaino, Marcia Reynders. Port of Last Resort: The Diaspora Communities of Shanghai. California: Stanford University Press, 2001. xviii, 369 pp.

Rose, Emily C. Portraits of Our Past: Jews of the German Countryside. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2001. xi, 372 pp.

Rossman, Vadim. Russian Intellectual Antisemitism in the Post-Communist Era. Nebraska: The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, 2002. vii, 309 pp.

Sacks, Jonathan. The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations. New York: Continuum, 2002. vii, 216 pp.

Safran, Gabriella. Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire. California: Stanford University Press, 2000. ix, 269 pp.

Salton, George Lucius and Anna Salton Eisen. The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. 232 pp.

Saltzman, Roberta. Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Bibliography of His Works in Yiddish and English, 1960–1991. Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2002. ix, 221 pp.

Samuelson, Norbert M. Revelation and the God of Israel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. x, 258 pp.

Schafer, Peter. Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2002. xi, 300 pp.

Scheinberg, Cynthia. Women’s Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xi, 275 pp.

Schely-Newman, Esther. Our Lives Are But Stories: Narratives of Tunisian-Israeli Women. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 230 pp.

Schroeter, Daniel J. The Sultan’s Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. xxii, 240 pp.

Schwartz, Seth. Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. vii, 320 pp.

Scott, James M. Geography in Early Judaism and Christianity: The Book of Jubilees. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii, 337 pp.

Shain, Milton and Richard Mendelsohn. Memories, Realities and Dreams: Aspects of the South African Jewish Experience. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2000. 234 pp.

Shandler, Jeffrey, ed. Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. viii, 437 pp.

Sholem Aleichem. The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl and Motl, the Cantor’s Son. Translated by Hillel Halkin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. vii, 325pp.

Stackelberg, Roderick and Sally A. Winkle. The Nazi Germany Sourcebook: An Anthology of Texts. New York: Routledge, 2002. xxxi, 453 pp.

Staub, Michael E. Torn At The Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 386 pp.

Timerman, Jacobo. Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number. Translated by Tony Talbot. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. viii, 164 pp.

Viorst, Milton. What Shall I Do With This People?: Jews and the Fractious Politics of Judaism. New York: The Free Press, 2002. 287 pp.

Wahrman, Miryam Z. Brave New Judaism: When Science and Scripture Collide. New England: Brandeis University Press, 2002. xix, 287 pp.

Walker, Fay, Leo Rosen and Caren S. Neile. Hidden: A Sister and Brother in Nazi Poland. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. xi, 225 pp.

Waxman, Chaim I. Jewish Baby Boomers: A Communal Perspective. New York: State University of New York Press, 2001. vii, 221 pp.

Weiss, Meira. The Chosen Body: The Politics of the Body in Israeli Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. v, 175 pp.

Wisse, Ruth R. The I.L. Peretz Reader. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. x, 461 pp.