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AJS Review • Books Received Abrams, Judith Z. The Babylonian Talmud: A Topical Guide. New York: University Press of America, 2002. ix, 123 pp. Aizenberg, Edna. Books and Bombs in Buenos Aires: Borges, Gerchunoff, and Argentine-Jewish Writing. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2002. x, 195 pp. Attias, Jean-Christophe and Esther Benbassa. Israel, the Impossible Land. California: Stanford University Press, 2003. viii, 294 pp. Banki, Judith H. and Eugene J. Fisher. A Prophet for Our Time: An Anthology of the Writing of Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. ix, 376 pp. Bardach, Janusz and Kathleen Gleeson. Surviving Freedom After the Gulag. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiii, 251pp. Bartov, Omer. Germany’s War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories. Ithaca: Cornell Bazyler, Michael J. Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America’s Courts. Belkin, Ahuva. The Purimshpil – Studies in Jewish Folk Theatre. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2002. 287 pp (Hebrew). Bergen, Doris L. War & Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003. vii, 261 pp. Bloom, Jack H. The Rabbi As Symbolic Exemplar: By the Power Vested in Me. New York: The Haworth Press, 2002. ix, 336 pp. Borowitz, Eugene B. Studies in the Meaning of Judaism. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2002. xi, 473 pp. Brill, Alan. Thinking God: The Mysticism of Rabbi Zadok of Lublin. New York: Yeshiva University Press, 2002. xi, 476 pp. Burnshaw, Stanley, T. Carmi, Ariel Hirschfeld, and Ezra Spicehandler, editors. The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself (Book III). Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. 359 pp. Burstein, Pesach’ke, with Lillian Lux Burstein; edited by Gershon Freidlin. What a Life! Cahn-Tober, Theresa. Hide and Seek: A Wartime Childhood. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. xii, 216 pp. Caplan, Eric. From Ideology to Liturgy: Reconstructionist Worship and American Liberal Cohen, Joseph. R. Abraham Ibn Ezra: Yesod Mora Ve-Sod Tora: The Foundation of Dever, William G. Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. xi, 268 pp. Diner, Hasia R. Hungering For America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001. viii, 292 pp. Diskin, Abraham. The Last Days in Israel. Oregon: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003. ix, 190 pp. Edelman, Marsha Bryan. Discovering Jewish Music. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2003. xii, 396 pp. Feldman, Seymour. Philosophy in a Time of Crisis: Don Isaac Abravanel: Defender of Finestein, Israel. Scenes and Personalities in Anglo-Jewry: 1800-2000. Oregon: Vallentine Mitchell, 2002. ix, 322 pp. Firestone, Tirzah. The Receiving: Reclaiming Jewish Women’s Wisdom. New York: Harper Collins, 2003. 280 pp. Fokkelman, J. P. Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible: At the Interface of Prosody and Structural Analysis. Volume III: The Remaining 65 Psalms. The Netherlands: Royal Van Gorcum, 2003. 446 pp. Fox, Marvin. Collected Essays on Philosophy and On Judaism. Volume One: Greek Philosophy, Maimonides. Volume Two: Some Philosophers. Volume Three: Ethics, Reflections. Edited by Jacob Neusner. Lanham: University Press of America, 2003. lii, 222 pp.; xxxviii, 168 pp.; xxxviii, 228 pp. Friedman, Daniel. To Kill and Take Possession: Law, Morality, and Society in Biblical Friedman, Jonathan C. Speaking the Unspeakable: Essays on Sexuality, Gender and Galchinsky, Michael, editor. Grace Aquilar: Selected Writings. New York: Broadview Literacy Texts, 2003. 415 pp. Garrett, Leah. Journeys beyond the Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World. Geldwert, Jack. From Auschwitz to Ithaca: The Transnational Journey of Jack Geldwert. Gilbert, Martin. The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2003. xiii, 529 pp. Glassman, Bernard. Benjamin Disraeli: The Fabricated Jew in Myth and Memory. New York: University Press of America, 2003. vii, 241 pp. Gluzman, Michael. The Politics of Canonicity: Lines of Resistance in Modernist Hebrew Poetry. California: Stanford University Press, 2003. xiii, 250 pp. Goluboff, Sascha L. Jewish Russians: Upheavals in a Moscow Synagogue. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 208 pp. Goodman, Martin, editor. The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ix, 1037 pp. Green, Alberto R.W. The Storm-God In the Ancient Near East. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2003. xviii, 363 pp. Greene, Joshua M. The Trials of an American Prosecutor: Justice at Dachau. New York: Broadway Books, 2003. 385 pp. Greenspahn, Frederick E. An Introduction to Aramaic. Second Edition. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003. xiv, 281 pp. Greenspoon, Leonard J. and Ronald A. Simkins, editors. Studies in Jewish Civilization, Volume 12: Millennialism from the Hebrew Bible to the Present. Nebraska: Creighton University Press, 2002. ix, 243 pp. Gyemant, Ladislau, editor. Studia Judaica X. Romania: Dr. Moshe Carmilly Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History, 2001. 242 pp. Hacohen, Dvora. Immigrants in Turmoil: Mass Immigration to Israel and its Hallman, Diana R. Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France: Harap, Louis. The Image of the Jew in American Literature. Second Edition. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2003. vii, 589 pp. Hayes, Christine E. Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities: Intermarriage and Conversion from the Bible to the Talmud. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xi, 309 pp. Ibn Gabirol, Solomon. The Kingly Crown: Keter Malkhut. Translated by Bernard Lewis. Introduced by Andrew Lee Gluck. Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. ix, 188 pp. Insdorf, Annette. Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust. Third Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi, 410 pp. Jaher, Frederic Cople. The Jews and the Nation: Revolution, Emancipation, State The JPS Bible Commentary Haftarot: The Traditional Hebrew Text with the New JPS Translation Commentary. Edited by Michael Fishbane. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2002. xv, 593 pp. Jungreis, Rebbetzin Esther. The Committed Marriage: A Guide to Finding a Soul Mate and Building a Relationship Through Timeless Biblical Wisdom. San Francisco: Harper Collins, 2002. xv, 270 pp. Kass, Leon R. The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis. New York: Free Press, 2003. xv, 700 pp. Kerbel, Sorrel, editor. Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. New York: Taylor & Francis Books, 2003. vii, 695 pp. Klinghoffer, David. The Discovery of God: Abraham and the Birth of Monotheism. New York: Doubleday, 2003. xi, 348 pp. Kraft, Robert N. Memory Perceived: Recalling the Holocaust. Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2002. ix, 210 pp. Kronish, Amy and Costel Safirman. Israeli Film: A Reference Guide. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2003. xiii, 261 pp. Lacave, Jose Luis. Medieval Ketubot Form Sefarad. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2002. 268 pp. Laszlo, Andrew. Footnote to History. New York: University Press of America, 2002. vii, 334 pp. Lazar, Moshe, editor. Francisco Lopez de Gomara. History of New India and Mexico [1553]. Hebrew Version [1568] by Yosef Ha-Kohen. The Henry J. Leir Library of Spehardica. Labyrinthos, 2002. vii, 566 pp (Hebrew). Lendvai, Paul. The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2003. xi, 572 pp. Long, Burke O. Imagining the Holy Land: Maps, Models, and Fantasy Travels. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003. ix, 258 pp. Malamed, Sandra Cumins. The Jews in Early America: A Chronicle of Good Taste and Good Deeds. Mckinleyville: Fithian Press, 2003. 196 pp. Melamed, Abraham. The Image of the Black in Jewish Culture: A History of the Other. New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. v, 295 pp. Mendelsohn, Ezra. Painting a People: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 2002. xi, 279 pp. Meri, Josef W. The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xi, 327 pp. Michman, Dan. Holocaust Historiography: A Jewish Perspective – Conceptualizations, Mikra’ot Gedolot ‘Haketer’. Edited by Menachem Cohen. Israel: Bar Ilan University, 2003. 224 pp. Mintz, Alan, editor. Reading Hebrew Literature: Critical Discussion of Six Modern Texts. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 2003. xi, 37 pp. Montagu, Jeremy. Musical Instruments of the Bible. Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2002. ix, 170 pp. Morgan, Michael L., editor. Spinoza: Complete Works. Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company, 2002. vii, 967 pp. Murav, Harriet. Identity Theft: The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Negev, Eilat. Close Encounters with Twenty Israeli Writers. Oregon: Vallentine Mitchell, 2003. ix, 180 pp. Neusner, Jacob. Analysis and Argumentation in Rabbinic Judaism. Lanham: University Neusner, Jacob. Halakhic Hermeneutics. Lanham: University Press of America, 2003. xxix, 293 pp. Neusner, Jacob. Major Trends in Formative Judaism. Fourth Series: Category-Formation, Literature, and Philosophy. Fifth Series: Religion, Comparisons, History Recent Reviews. New York: University Press of America, 2002. vii, 320 pp; vii, 281 pp. Neusner, Jacob. Texts Without Boundaries: Protocols of Non-Documentary Writing in the Rabbinic Canon. Volume Two: Sifra and Sifre to Numbers. Lanham: University Press of America, 2002. xxxiii, 218 pp. Neusner, Jacob. The Torah and the Halakhah. Lanham: University Press of America, 2003. xxxii, 195 pp. Neusner, Jacob. Why This, Not That?: Ways Not Taken in the Halakhic Category-Formations of the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli. Lanham: University Press of America, 2003. xviii, 267 pp. Neusner, Jacob, Alan J. Avery-Peck, and William Scott Green, editors. The Encyclopaedia of Judaism . Volume IV, Supplement One. Boston: Brill, 2003. vii, 1593-2029 pp. Newsom, Carol A. The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xi, 301 pp. Noegel, Scott B. and Brannon M. Wheeler. Historical Dictionary of Prophets in Islam And Judaism: Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements, Palgi, Yoel. Into the Inferno: The Memoir of a Jewish Paratrooper Behind Nazi Lines. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2003. ix, 279 pp. Paulsson, Gunnar S. Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940-1945. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. vii, 298 pp. Perry, Marvin and Frederick M. Schweitzer. Antisemitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. x, 309 pp. Perry, Yaron. British Mission to the Jews in Nineteenth-Century Palestine. Great London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003. xiii, 229 pp. Pulzer, Peter. Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848- Raider, Mark A. and Miriam B. Raider-Roth. The Plough Woman: Records of the Raphael, Melissa. The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Jewish feminist theology of the Holocaust. London: Routledge, 2003. xii, 228 pp. Rosen, Tova. Unveiling Eve: Reading Gender in Medieval Hebrew Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. ix, 261 pp. Rosenthal, Steven T. Irreconcilable Differences? The Waning of the American Jewish Rossino, Alexander B. Hilter Strikes Poland: Blitzkreig, Ideology, and Atrocity. Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2003. ix, 343 pp. Roth, Norman. Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. ix, 483 pp. Roth, Norman, editor. Medieval Jewish Civilization: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, 2003. vii, 701 pp. Sacks, Jonathan. The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations. New York: Continuum, 2002. vii, 216 pp. Schäfer, Peter. The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World. New York: Routledge, 2003. xi, 231 pp. Schechter, Ronald. Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815. Schiff, Daniel. Abortion in Judaism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. vii, 288 pp. Schimmel, Solomon. Wounds Not Healed By Time: The Power of Repentance and Forgiveness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xi, 265 pp. Scholem, Gershom. The Fullness of Tim: Poems. Translated by Richard Sieburth. Introduced by Steven M. Wasserstrom. Jerusalem: Ibis, 2003. 155 pp. Seliktar, Ofira. Divided We Stand: American Jews, Israel, and the Peace Process. Shapiro, Frank. Haven in Africa. New York: Gefen, 2002. v, 156 pp. Smelik, Klaas A. D., editor. Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-1943 - Smith, Jerry C. Elia Levita Bachur’s Bovo-Buch: A Translation of the Old Yiddish Sokoloff, Michael. A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 1582 pp. Sokoloff, Michael. A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period. Second Edition. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 847 pp. Soloveitchik, Rabbi Joseph B. Out of the Whirlwind: Essays on Mourning, Suffering, and Soltes, Ori Z. Fixing the World: Jewish American Painters in the Twentieth Century. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 2003. vii, 163 pp. Stankiewicz, Edward. My War: Memoir of a Young Jewish Poet. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2002. ix, 160 pp. Steigmann-Gall, Richard. The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945. Stein, Leslie. The Hope Fulfilled: The Rise of Modern Israel. Praeger Series on Jewish and Israeli Studies. Westport: Praeger, 2003. xiv, 299 pp. Stevens, Lewis. Composers of Classical Music of Jewish Descent. Oregon: Vallentine Mitchell, 2003. ix, 384 pp. Summerfield, Daniel P. From Falashas to Ethiopian Jews: The External Influences for Change c. 1860 – 1960. New York: RoutledgeCurzon. xi, 226 pp. Sutcliffe, Adam. Judaism and Enlightenment. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ix, 314 pp. Tec, Nechama. Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 438 pp. Tent, James F. In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Nazi Persecution of Jewish-Christian Touitou, Elazar. Exegesis in Perpetual Motion: Studies in the Pentateuchal Commentary Vance, Donald R. A Hebrew Reader for Ruth. Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 2003. v, 85 pp. Walzer, Michael, Menachem Lorberbaum and Noam J. Zohar, editors. Ari Weiner, Anita and Eugene Weiner. The Martyr’s Conviction: A Sociological Analysis. Weinstein, Miriam. Editor. Prophets & Dreamers: A Selection of Great Yiddish Wills, Lawrence M., editor. Ancient Jewish Novels: An Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ix, 298 pp. Wright, J. Edward. Baruch Ben Neriah: From Biblical Scribe to Apocalyptic Seer. Yitzhak, Avraham Ben. Collected Poems. Edited by Hannan Hever. Translated by Peter Cole. Israel: Ibis, 2003. 121 pp. |
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