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AJS Review • Books Received Abramovitsh, S.Y. (Mendel Moykher Sforim). The Wishing-Ring: A Novel. Trans. Michael Wex. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003. Anidjar, Gil. The Jew, The Arab: A History of the Enemy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xxv, 261 pp. Berkowitz, Joel, ed. Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches. Portland: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003. 269 pp. Bingham, Emily. Mordecai: An Early American Family. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. xiii, 346 pp. Bolchover, Richard. British Jewry and the Holocaust. Portland: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003. xliv, 210 pp. Chajes, J.H. Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism. Cohen, Zafrira Lidovsky. ‘Loosen the Fetters of Thy Tongue, Woman:’ The Poetry and Poetics of Yona Wallach. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2003. x, 264 pp. Cook, Stephen L. The Apocalyptic Literature. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003. 233 pp. Cooper, John. Pride Versus Prejudice: Jewish Doctors and Lawyers in England, 1890-1990. Portland: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003. x, 451 pp. De Lange, Nicholas. Judaism: Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv, 163 pp. Diggele, Els Van. A People Who Live Apart: Jewish Identity and the Future of Israel. Trans. Jeannette K. Ringold. New York: Prometheus Books, 2003. 313 pp. Dorff, Elliot N. Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2003. xviii, 366 pp. Eisenstein, Paul. Traumatic Encounters: Holocaust Representation and the Hegelian Subject. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. x, 236 pp. Ellis, Marc H. Israel and Palestine Out of the Ashes: The Search for Jewish Identity in the Twenty-first Century. Virginia: Pluto Press, 2002. ix, 198 pp. Ephraim, Frank. Escape to Manila: From Nazi Tyranny to Japanese Terror. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. xii, 220 pp. Fenyvesi, Charles. When Angels Fooled the World: Rescuers of Jews in Wartime Hungary. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. xli, 302 pp. Fewell, Danna Nolan. The Children of Israel: Reading the Bible for the Sake of Our Children. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003. 243 pp. Fishbane, Michael. Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv, 458 pp. Friedman, Max Paul. Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii, 359 pp. Futato, Mark D. Beginning Biblical Hebrew. Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2003. x, 351 pp. Goldberg, Harvey E. Jewish Passages: Cycles of Jewish Life. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. xiii, 379 pp. Goldenberg, David M. The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xv, 448 pp. Gonen, Rivka. Contested Holiness: Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Perspectives on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Jersey City: Ktav, 2003. xiv, 206 pp. Groth, Alexander J. Holocaust Voices, An Attitudinal Survey of Survivors. New York: Humanity Books, 2003. 278 pp. Harshav, Benjamin, ed. Marc Chagall on Art and Culture. Trans. Barbara Harshav and Benjamin Harshav. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xiv, 225 pp. Hertzberg, Arthur. The Fate of Zionism: A Secular Future for Israel & Palestine. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003. xii, 194 pp. Hertzberg, Arthur. A Jew in America: My Life and a People’s Struggle for Identity. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003. x, 468 pp. Holtz, Barry W. Textual Knowledge: Teaching the Bible in Theory and in Practice. New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America. v, 181 pp. Izakson, Miron C. Nathan and His Wives: A Novel. Ed. Ken Frieden. Trans. Betsy Rosenberg. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003. 219 pp. Jacobson, Eric. Metaphysics of the Profane: The Political Theology of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xii, 337 pp. Katz Claire E. Levinas, Judaism and the Feminine: The Silent Footsteps of Rebecca. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. xvi, 299 pp. Katz, Ruth. “The Lachmann Problem.”: An Unsung Chapter in Comparative Musicology. Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2003. 415 pp. Kimelman, Reuven. The Mystical Meaning of Lekhah Dodi and Kabbalat Shabbat. Los Angeles: Cherub Press and Jerusalem: Magnes, 2003. xiii, 250 pp. (Hebrew) Klein, Lillian R. From Deborah to Esther: Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003. xi, 154 pp. Knohl, Israel. The Divine Symphony: The Bible’s Many Voices. Philadelphia: Kolin, Andrew. One Family: Before and During the Holocaust. Second Edition. Koonz, Claudia. The Nazi Conscience. Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. 362 pp. Kupovetsky, M., Eduard Savitsky, and Marek Web, eds. Jewish Documentary Sources in Belarus Archives: A Guide. Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities: 2003. 606 pp. (Russian.) Lapidus, Rina. Between Snow and Desert Heat: Russian Influences on Hebrew Literature, 1870-1970. Trans. Jonathan Chipman. Monographs of Hebrew Union College. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2003. xi, 225 pp Lenard-Cook, Lisa. Dissonance: a novel. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. 186 pp. Levin, Hanoch. The Labor of Life: Selected Plays. Trans. Barbara Harshav. Levinas, Emmanuel. Humanism of the Other. Trans. Nidra Poller. Chicago: Luz, Ehud. Wrestling with an Angel: Power, Morality and Jewish Identity. Mackler, Aaron L. Introduction to Jewish and Catholic Bioethics: A Comparative Analysis. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003. x, 265 pp. Mandel, Maud S. In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians and Jews in Twentieth-Century France. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. xiii, 317 pp. Mayer, Egon, Barry A. Kosmin, and Ariela Keysar, eds. American Jewish Identity Survey 2001: An Exploration in the Demography and Outlook of a People. New York: The Center for Cultural Judaism, 2003. 56 pp. Mort, Jo-Ann and Gary Brenner. Our Hearts Invented a Place: Can Kibbutzim Survive in Today’s Israel? Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii, 209 pp. Myers, Jody. Seeking Zion: Modernity and Messianic Activism in the Writings of Tsevi Hirsch Kalischer. Portland: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003. xiv, 256 pp. Nadell, Pamela S. American Jewish Women’s History: A Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2003. ix, 326 pp. Newsom, Carol A. The Book of Job: A Contrast of Moral Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. vii, 301 pp. Ortner, Sherry B. New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of ’58. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. xiii, 340 pp. Piekarz, Mendel. The Literature of Testimony as a Historical Source of the Holocaust and Three Hasidic Reflections to the Holocaust. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2003. 240 pp. Raphael, Marc Lee. Judaism in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. viii, 234 pp. Raphael, Marc Lee, trans. Gifts for the Poor: Moses Maimonides’ Treatise on Tzedakah. Williamsburg: Department of Religion, The College of William and Mary, 2003. xxxi, 96 pp. Reis, Pamela Tamarkin. Reading the Lines: A Fresh Look at the Hebrew Bible. Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 2002. x, 227 pp. Rogland, Max. Alleged Non-Past Uses of QATAL in Classical Hebrew. The Netherlands: Royal Van Gorcum, 2003. 164 pp. Sanua, Marianne R. Going Greek: Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. 446 pp. Schiller, David M. Bloch, Schoenberg, and Bernstein: Assimilating Jewish Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. vli, 199 pp. Shachter, Jay F., trans. The Commentary of Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch, Volume 5: Deuteronomy. New Jersey: Ktav Publishing House, 2003. iii, 204. Sherbok, Dan Cohn. Judaism: History, Belief and Practice. New York: Routledge, 2003. xviii, 590 pp. Shimoni, Gideon. Community and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South Africa. New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2003. xv, 337 pp. Smith, Steven B. Spinoza’s Book of Life: Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. xxvii, 215 pp. Sweeney, Marvin A. Zephaniah: A Commentary. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003. xviii, 227 pp. Townsend, John T., trans. Midrash Tanhuma: Translated into English with Introduction, Indices, and Brief Notes. (S. Buber Recension). Vol. III: Numbers and Deuteronomy. New Jersey: Ktav, 2003. 394 pp. Wallace, Max. The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich. New York: St Martin’s Press, 2003. ix, 465 pp. Wergeland, Henrik. The Army of Truth: Selected Poems by Henrik Wergeland. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. xxii, 61 pp. Westheimer, Dr. Ruth K. Musically Speaking: A Life Through Song. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 143 pp. Wieck, Michael. A Childhood Under Hitler and Stalin: Memoirs of a “Certified Jew.” Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. xi, 192 pp. Wieseltier, Meir. The Flower of Anarchy: selected poems. Shirley Kaufman and Meir Wieseltier, trans. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. xvii, 150 pp. Yoder, John Howard. The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. viii, 290 pp. Zasloff, Tela. A Rescuer’s Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. xi, 272 pp. |
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