AJS Review • Books Received
January - June 2004

Arnold, Bill T. and John H. Choi, eds. A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii, 228 pp.

Balaban, Avraham. Mourning a Father Lost: A Kibbutz Childhood Remembered. Yael Lotan, trans. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004. 199 pp.

Baranowski, Shelley. Strength Through Joy: Consumerism and Mass Tourism in the Third Reich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvii, 254 pp.

Benbassa, Esther and Jean-Christophe Attias. The Jews and Their Future: A Conversation on Judaism and Jewish Identities. Trans. Patrick Camiller. London: Zed Books, 2004. viii, 210 pp.

Ben-Yashar, Menahem, Isaac B. Gottlieb and Jordan S. Penkower. The Bible in Rabbinic Interpretation: Rabbinic Derashot on Prophets and Writings in Talmudic and Midrashic Literature, Volume One: Hosea. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University, 2003. 804 pp (Hebrew).

Bisk, Tsvi and Moshe Dror. Futurizing the Jews: Alternative Futures for Meaningful Jewish Existence in the 21st Century. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2003. xxvi, 258 pp.

Bleier, Inge Joseph and David E. Gumpert. Inge: A Girl’s Journey Through Nazi Europe. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2004. 277 pp.

Bourel, Dominique. Moses Mendelssohn: La naissance du judaïsme moderne. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2004. 640 pp.

Brenner, Rachel Feldhay. Inextricably Bonded: Israeli Arab and Jewish Writers Re-Visioning Culture. Studies on Israel. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. ix, 349 pp.

Cohen, Hermann. Ethics of Maimonides. Trans. Almut Sh. Bruckstein. Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion: Translations and Critical Studies. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. xliii, 259 pp.

Cohen, Jeremy. Sanctifying the Name of God: Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade. Jewish Culture and Contexts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xv, 208 pp.

Cohen, Yehuda. Why Religion? About one of the strongest and most productive motifs in human life. Jerusalem: Priests Publishing, 2003. xx, 568 pp.

Cohen, Yoel. The Whistleblower of Dimona: Israel, Vanunu, and the Bomb. New York: Holmes & Meier, 2003. x, 381 pp.

Connerty, Mary C. Judeo-Greek: The Language. The Culture. New York: Jay Street Publishers, 2003. 107 pp.

Cook, Catherine, Adam Haniel and Adah Kay. Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Children. London: Pluto Press, 2004. 197 pp.

De Micheli, Cesare G. The Non-Existent Manuscript: A Study of the Protocols of the Sages of Zion. Trans. Richard Newhouse. Studies in Antisemitism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 419 pp.

Dotan, Aron, ed. The Parallel Bible, Hebrew-English Old Testament, With the Biblia Hebraica Leningradensia and the King James Version. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2003. 1883 pp.

Elior, Rachel. The Three Temples: On the Emergence of Jewish Mysticism. Trans. David Louvish. Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2004. x, 301 pp.

Feldman, Louis H. ‘Remember Amalek!” Vengeance, Zealotry, and Group Destruction in the Bible According to Philo, Psuedo-Philo, and Josephus. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2004. x, 272 pp.

Fishman, Sylvia Barack. Double or Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England / Brandeis University Press, 2004. 196 pp.

Fox, Michael V. Ecclesiastes: The Traditional Hebrew Text with the New JPS Translation. The JPS Bible Commentary. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2004. 87 pp.

Freundel, Barry. Contemporary Orthodox Judaism’s Response to Modernity. Jersey City, NJ: KTAV, 2004. xiii, 343 pp.

Frieden, Ken, ed. Classic Yiddish Stories of S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I.L. Peretz. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2004. xviii, 286 pp.

Gavron, Daniel. The Other Side of Despair: Jews and Arabs in the Promised Land. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. xv, 252 pp.

Ginor, Zvia Ben-Yosef , ed. Essays on Hebrew Literature in Honor of Avraham Holtz. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2003. 92*, 297 pp.

Ginsburg, Michal Peled and Moshe Ron, Shattered Vessels: Memory, Identity, and Creation in the Work of David Shahar. SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. xiv, 189 pp.

Gold, Penny Schine. Making the Bible Modern: Children’s Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xv, 269 pp.

Goldberg, Gioria. Ben-Gurion against the Knesset. Trans. Chaya Naor. Cass Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society. Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 2003. 338 pp.

Goldish, Matt. The Sabbatean Prophets. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. xii, 221 pp.

Goldman, Shalom. God’s Sacred Tongue: Hebrew & the American Imagination. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xv, 349 pp.

Green, Arthur. A Guide to the Zohar. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xiv, 191 pp.

Groopman, Jerome. The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness. New York: Random House, 2004. xvii, 233 pp.

Haacker, Klaus. The Theology of Paul’s Letter to the Romans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ix, 183 pp.

Hakham, Amos. The Bible Psalms with the Jerusalem Commentary. 3 vols. Jerusalem: Mosad Harav Kook, 2003. v. 1: 466 pp., v. 2: 337 pp., v.3: 516 pp.

Hammermesh, Mira. The River of Angry Dogs. London: Pluto Press, 2004. 308 pp.

Hirsch, Joshua. Afterimage: Film, Trauma, and the Holocaust. Emerging Media: History, Theory, Narrative. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. xiii, 213 pp.

Jacobs, Rabbi Louis. We Have Reason to Believe: Some Aspects of Jewish Theology Examined in the Light of Modern Thoughts. Fifth expanded edition. Portland, Ore.: Vallentine Mitchell, 2004. xxvii, 157 pp.

Kauders, Anthony D. Democratization and the Jews: Munich, 1945–1965. Studies in Antisemitism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. ix, 326 pp.

Kaufman, Asher Selig. The Temple Mount: Where Is The Holy of Holies? Jerusalem: Har Yéra’eh Press, 2004. 184 pp.

Kavka, Martin. Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiii, 241 p.

Kornblatt, Judith Deutsch. Doubly Chosen: Jewish Identity, the Soviet Intelligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox Church. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 203 pp.

Lamm, Michael. Consolation: The Spiritual Journey Beyond Grief. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2004. xvi, 342 pp.

Lenard-Cook, Lisa. Dissonance: A Novel. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. 186 pp.

Lerner, Bernice. The Triumph of Wounded Souls: Seven Holocaust Survivors’ Lives. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. xiii, 292 pp.

Levenson, Alan T. Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism: Defense of Jews and Judaism in Germany, 1871-1932. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xvi, 194 pp.

Levin, David Michael. The Philosopher’s Gaze: Modernity in the Shadows of Enlightenment. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2003. ix, 493 pp.

Majer, Diemut. “Non-Germans” under the Third Reich: The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany and Occupied Eastern Europe, with Special Regard to Occupied Poland, 1939-1945. Peter Thomas Hill, Edward Vance Humphrey, and Brian Levin, trans. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. 1033 pp.

Malkin, Yaakov. Secular Judaism: Faith, Values, and Spirituality. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2004. x, 150 pp.

Mann, Michael. Fascists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 429 pp.

Margalit, Avishai. The Ethics of Memory. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. xi, 227 pp.

Massil, Stephen W., ed. The Jewish Year Book. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2004. 383 pp.

Matt, Daniel C., trans. The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Two. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 460 pp.

Meyerson, Mark D. A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth Century Spain. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 272 pp.

Millen, Rochelle L. Women, Birth, and Death in Jewish Law and Practice. Brandeis Series on Jewish Women. Brandeis: Brandeis University Press, 2004. xiv, 246 pp.

Morell, Samuel. Studies in the Judicial Methodology of Rabbi David Ibn Abi Zimra. Studies in Judaism. Dallas, Tex.: University Press of America, 2004. 341 pp.

Neusner, Jacob, ed. Dictionary of Ancient Rabbis: Selections from The Jewish Encyclopedia. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2003. 473 pp.

________. Making God’s Word Work: A Guide to the Mishnah. New York: Continuum, 2004. 375 pp.

________. Understanding the Talmud: A Dialogic Approach. Jersey City, NJ: KTAV Publishing House. 2004. vii, 223 pp.

Noy, David and Hanswulf Bloedhorn, eds. Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis: Volume III – Syria und Cyprus. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2004. xiv, 284 pp.

O’Callaghan, Joseph F. Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. xiv, 322 pp.

Ofir, Efraim. With No Way Out: The Story of the Struma. Documents and Testimonies: A.C.M.E.O.R Series. Cluj-Napoca: European Studies Foundation Publishing House, 2003. 433 pp.

Pangle, Thomas L. Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. 285 pp.

Peri, Yoram. Telepopulism: Media and Politics in Israel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 376 pp.

Rapoport, Hayim. Judaism and Homosexuality: An Authentic Orthodox View. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2004. xxiv, 231 pp.

Ravid, Benjamin. Studies on the Jews of Venice, 1382–1797. Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003. xiii, 192 pp.

Reifowitz, Ian. Imagining an Austrian Nation: Joseph Samuel Bloch and the Search for a Multiethnic Austrian Identity, 1846–1919. Boulder, Col.: East European Monographs, 2003. vi, 251 pp.

Rosen, Ilana, ed. Hungarian Jewish Women Survivors Remember the Holocaust: An Anthology of Life Histories. Dallas, Tex.: University Press of America, 2004. 119 pp.

Roth, Milena. Lifesaving Letters: A Child’s Flight from the Holocaust. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. xxi, 192 pp.

Saidel, Rochelle G. The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. Madison, Wisc.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 279 pp.

Sales, Amy L. and Leonard Saxe. How Goodly Are Thy Tents: Summer Camp as Jewish Socializing Experiences. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2004. xxi, 177 pp.

Samuelson, Norbert M. Jewish Philosophy: An Historical Introduction. London: Continuum, 2003. vi, 344 pp.

Schoenfeld, Gabriel. The Return of Anti-Semitism. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2004. 193 pp.

Schorsch, Jonathan. Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi, 546 pp.

Seligman, Adam B. Modest Claims: Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition. Erasmus Institute Books. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. xvi, 216 pp.

Shepherd, David. Targum and Translation: A Reconsideration of the Qumran Aramaic Version of Job. Studia Semitica Neerlandica. Assen, The Netherlands: Royal Van Gorcum, 2004. 313 pp.

Sicker, Martin. The Rise and Fall of the Ancient Israelite States. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. 264 pp.

Sommer, Jason. The Man Who Sleeps in my Office. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. ix, 71 pp.

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

Stern, Sacha. Time and Process in Ancient Judaism. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003. viii, 144 pp.

Taubes, Jacob. The Political Theology of Paul. Trans. Dana Hollander. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xiv, 160 pp.

Toumayan, Alain P. Encountering the Other: The Artwork and the Problem of Difference in Blanchot and Levinas. Pittsburgh, Penn.: Duquesne University Press, 2004. 231 pp.

Vendrof, Zalman. When It Comes to Living. Trans. Irene Jerison. McKinleyville, Calif.: Fithian Press, 2004. 239 pp.

Walzer, Michael, Menachem Lorberbaum and Noam J. Zohar, eds. The Jewish Political Tradition, Volume I: Authority. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. lv, 578 pp.

Walters, James W. Martin Buber & Feminist Ethics: The Priority of the Personal. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003. xi, 140 pp.

Waters, Claire M. Angels and Earthly Creatures: Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 282 pp.

Yarchin, William. History of Biblical Interpretation: A Reader. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2004. xxx, 444 pp.

Zola, Gary Phillip, ed. The Dynamics of American Jewish History: Jacob Rader Marcus’s Essays on American Jewry. Brandeis: Brandeis University Press, 2004. xxxi, 192 pp.