AJS Review • Books Received
July 2004- March 2005

Aly, Götz and Karl Heinz Roth. The Nazi Census: Identification and Control in the Third Reich. Trans. Edwin Black and Assenka Oksiloff. Politics, History and Social Change. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. xii, 178 pp.

Ansell, Joseph P. Arthur Szyk: Artist, Jew, Pole. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2004. xvi, 332 pp.

Aranda, Mariano Gómez. El Comentario de Abraham Ibn Ezra al Libro de Job. Serie A: Literatura Hispano-Hebrea Número 6. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Instituto de Filología, 2004. cxli, 337 pp. (Spanish).

Aviam, Mordechai. Jews, Pagans and Christians in the Galilee: 25 Years of Archaeological Excavations and Surveys: Hellenistic to Byzantine Periods. Land of Galilee 1. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2004. 344 pp.

Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation, Spring 5764 / 2004, no. 17. Edited by Daniel Polisar. Jerusalem: The Azure Center, 2004. 136 pp.

Bacharach, Zwi, ed. Last Letters from the Shoah. Trans. Batsheva Pomerantz. Jerusalem: Devora Publishing, 2004. 400 pp.

Balshan, Zvia. The Jewish Socialist Labour Confederation Poale-Zion, 1907 – 1920. Jerusalem: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2004. 416 pp.

Barmash, Pamela. Homicide in the Biblical World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii, 253 pp.

Becker, Dan. Arabic Sources of Isaac Ben Barun’s ‘Book of Comparison Between the Hebrew and the Arabic Languages’. Jerusalem: Tel Aviv University, 2005. viii, 227 pp.

Bedoire, Frederic. The Jewish Contribution to Modern Architecture 1830 – 1930. Trans. Roger Tanner. Jersey City: Ktav, 2004. 518 pp.

Belfer, Ella. A Split Identity: The Conflict between the Sacred and the Secular in the Jewish World. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University, 2004. 302 pp. (Hebrew).

Ben-Israel, Hedva. In The Name of the Nation. Studies in Nationalism and Zionism. Beer Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2004. 504 pp.

Benbassa, Esther and Jean-Christophe Attias. The Jew and the Other. G. M. Goshgarian, trans. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xiv, 157 pp.

Berdichevsky, M.Y. Miriam & Other Stories. Richard Flint, William Cutter, Tizra Zandbank and A.S. Super, trans. New Milford, Conn.: The Toby Press, 2004. 393 pp.

Bobker, Joe. Torah with a Twist of Humor. Jerusalem: Devora Publishing, 2004. 422 pp.

Bockmuehl, Markus. Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic – Baker Book House Co., 2003. xvii, 314 pp.

Bodemann, Michal Y. A Jewish Family in Germany Today: An Intimate Portrait. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. 280 pp.

Bregsteinn, Philo and Salvador Bloemgarten. Remembering Jewish Amsterdam. Wanda Boeke, trans. New York: Holmes & Meyer, 2004. xxii, 245 pp.

Brenner, Yosef Haim. Breakdown and Bereavement. Hillel Halkin, trans. New Milford, Conn.: The Toby Press, 2004. 266 pp.

Chanes, Jerome A. Antisemitism: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2004. xviii, 347 pp.

Chilton, Bruce D. and Jacob Neusner. Classical Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism: Comparing Theologies. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic – Baker Publishing Group, 2004. 284 pp.

Cline, Eric H. Jerusalem Besieged: From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2004. xxi, 395 pp.

Davidson, Herbert A. Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. x, 565 pp.

de León-Jones, Karen Silvia. Giordano Bruno and the Kabbalah: Prophets, Magicians, and Rabbis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. ix, 273 pp.

Dean, Carolyn J. The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. ix, 203 pp.

Ehrlich, M. Avrum. The Messiah of Brooklyn: Understanding Lubavitch Hasidism Past and Present. Jersey City: Ktav, 2004. xxvi, 332 pp.

Ellenson, David. After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2004. 547 pp.

Eppel, Michael. Iraq from Monarchy to Tyranny: From the Hashemites to the Rise of Saddam. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. x, 310 pp.

Etkes, Immanuel. The Besht: Magician, Mystic and Leader. Saadya Sternberg, trans. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 2005. xiii, 342 pp.

Ettinger, Steven. Connecting the Dates: Exploring the Meaning of Jewish Time. Jerusalem: Devora Publishing, 2004. 229 pp.

Falk, Marcia. The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 2004. xxiv, 31 pp.

Feierberg, M.Z. Whither? & Other Stories. Hillel Halkin, trans. New Milford, Conn.: The Toby Press, 2004. 155 pp.

Fokkelman, J.P. Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible at the Interface of Prosody and Structural Analysis: Volume IV: Job 15 – 42. Trans. Charles E. Smit. Ansen, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Van Gorcum, 2004. 466 pp.

Friedländer, David, Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Abraham Teller. A Debate on Jewish Emancipation and Christian Theology in Old Berlin. Eds and trans. Richard Crouter and Julie Klassen. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 2004. xiii, 173 pp.

Friedlander, Yehuda. Bein Halakhah Le-Haskalah: Hebrew Satire and Polemics in Europe during the 18th – 20th Centuries. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University, 2004. 403 pp. (Hebrew).

Friedman, Shamma. Tosefta Atiqta: Pesah Rishon: Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2002. 484 pp.

Frommer, Benjamin. National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xv, 387 pp.

Garber, Zev and Bruce Zuckerman. Double Takes: Thinking and Rethinking Issues of Modern Judaism in Ancient Contexts. Studies in the Shoah 26. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2004. xiii, 220 pp.

Geller, Jay Howard. Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ix, 321 pp.

Gilders, William K. Blood Ritual in the Hebrew Bible: Meaning and Power. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. x, 260 pp.

Gombrowicz, Witold. A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes. Benjamin Ivry, trans. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 109 pp.

Gombrowicz, Wirold. Polish Memories. Bill Johnston, trans. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 191 pp.

Gouri, Haim. Facing the Glass Booth: The Jerusalem Trial of Adolf Eichmann. Michael Swirsky, trans. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. xviii, 337 pp.

Grant, Lisa D., Diane Tickton Schuster, Meredith Woocher, and Steven M. Cohen. A Journey of Heart and Mind: Transformative Jewish Learning in Adulthood. The Jewish Education Series. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2004. 263 pp.

Green, Jennifer S., G. Brooke Lester, and Joseph F. Scrivner. Handbook to a Grammar for Biblical Hebrew. Nashville: Abindgon Press, 2005. x, 134 pp.

Greniman, Deborah, ed. Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies & Gender Issues, Number 7. Hanover, NH: The Sheridan Press, 2004. 289 pp.

Grossman, Avraham. Pious and Rebellious: Jewish Women in Medieval Europe. Jonathan Chipman, trans. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 2004. xv, 329 pp.

Hahn, Barbara. The Jewess Pallas Athena: this too a theory of modernity. Trans. James McFarland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 233 pp.

Hayes, Peter. From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xx, 373 pp.

Healy, Maureen. Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xv, 333 pp.

Hendel, Ronald. Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory, and History in the Hebrew Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xi, 200 pp.

Hockenos, Matthew D. A Church Divided: German Protestants Confront the Nazi Past. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. xii, 260 pp.

Hoffman, Joel M. In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language. New York: New York University Press, 2004. xvi, 262 pp.

Hurst, Fannie. Imitation of Life. Ed. Daniel Itzkovitz. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. xlv, 298 pp.

Instone-Brewer, David. Prayer and Agriculture. Traditions of the Rabbis From the Era of the New Testament. Vol 1. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2004. xxv, 456 pp.

Ioanid, Radu. The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2005. viii, 217 pp.

Isaacs, Ronald H. Amazing Jewish Facts and Curiosities: Can You Believe It?. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. 164 pp.

James, Harold. The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. x, 286 pp.

Jason, Philip K. and Iris Posner, eds. Don’t Wave Goodbye: The Children’s Flight from Nazi Persecution to American Freedom. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. xvii, 271 pp.

Kagan, Richard L. and Abigail Dyer, eds and trans. Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 199 pp.

Kahn, Charlotte. Resurgence of Jewish Life in Germany. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. xvii, 194 pp.

Kaplan, Eran. The Radical Jewish Right: Radical Zionism and its Ideological Legacy. Madison: Univeristy of Wisconsin Press, 2004. ix, 234 pp.

Kavanagh, Preston. Secrets of the Jewish Exile: The Bible’s Codes, Messiah, and Suffering Servant. Tarentum, Penn.: Word Association Publishers, 2004. 454 pp.

Kawashima, Robert. Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode. Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. xi, 293 pp.

King, Alan and Friends. Matzo Balls for Breakfast and Other Memories of Growing Up Jewish. New York: Free Press, 2004. xii, 251 pp.

King. Richard H. Race, Culture, and the Intellectuals, 1940 – 1970. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2004. xiii, 398 pp.

Klapper, Milissa R. Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920. New York: New York University Press, 2004. x, 309 pp.

Klutz, Todd. The Exorcism Stories in Luke-Acts: A Sociostylistic Reading. Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 129. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii, 299 pp.

Koén-Sarano, Matilda, ed. King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Tales from the Sephardic Tradition. Reginetta Haboucha, trans. Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropolgy. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. xxxii, 396 pp.

Kohn, Daniel B. Sex, Drugs, and Violence in the Jewish Tradition: Moral Perspectives. Lanham, Md.: Jason Aronson – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004. xii, 245 pp.

Koren, Yehuda and Eilat Negev. In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe – A Dwarf Family’s Survival of the Holocaust. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004.

Kuenzle, Anton and Gad Shimron. The Execution of the Hangman of Riga: The Only Execution of a Nazi War Criminal by the Mossad. Shlomo J. Shpiro, ed. Uriel Masad, trans. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2004. xxiv, 144 pp.

Landa, Judah. In the Beginning of: A New Look at Old Words. New Jersey: Jay-El Publications, 2004. 178 pp.

Lessing, R. Reed. Interpreting Discontinuity: Isaiah’s Tyre Oracle. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2004. ix, 313 pp.

Levine, Stephanie Wellen. Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey among Hasidic Girls. New York: New York Unviersity Press, 2003. xiv, 254 pp.

Linn, Ruth. Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. viii, 154 pp.

Mack, Hananel. Job and the Book of Job in Rabbinic Literature. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University, 2004. 293 pp. (Hebrew).

Mann, Michael. The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. x, 580 pp.

Massil, Stephen W., ed. The Jewish Year Book 2004. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2004. xxxii, 381 pp.

Martin, Sean. Jewish Life in Cracow, 1918-1939. Foreword by Antony Polonsky. Portland, Or.: Valentine Mitchell, 2004. xviii, 218 pp.

Mayer, Paul Yogi. Jews and the Olympic Games – Sport: A Springboard for Minorities. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2004. xv, 255 pp.

Melammed, Renée Levine. A Question of Identity: Iberian Conversos in Historical Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. ix, 240 pp.

Michlin, Gilbert. Of No Interest to the Nation: A Jewish Family in France, 1925 – 1945: A Memoir. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. 145 pp.

Miller, Anita, Jordan Miller and Sigalit Zetouni. Sharon: Israel's Warrior-Politician. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2002. xiii, 613 pp.

Miron, Guy. German Jews in Israel: Memories and Past Images. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2004. 351 pp. (Hebrew)

Moore, Deborah Dash. GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation. Cambridge, Mass.: The Bellnap Press – Harvard University Press, 2004. xiv, 342 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. How Not to Study Judaism: Examples and Counter-Examples: Volume One: Parables, Rabbinic Narratives, Rabbis’ Biographies and Rabbis’ Disputes. Studies in Judaism. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2004. 299 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Judaism and the Interpretation of Scripture: Introduction to Rabbinic Midrash. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004. x, 230 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Transformations in Ancient Judaism: Textual Evidence for Creative Responses to Crisis. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004. xi, 180 pp.

Nigosian, S. A. From Ancient Writings to Sacred Texts: The Old Testament and Apocrypha. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xvi, 270 pp.

O’Brien, Julia M. Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. Abindgon Old Testament Commentaries. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004. 326 pp.

O’Callaghan, Joseph F. Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvannia Press, 2004. xiv, 322 pp.

Palmer, Greg and Mark. S. Zaid, eds. The GI’s Rabbi: World War II Letters of David Max Eichhorn. Modern War Studies. Lawrence, Ks.: University Press of Kansas, 2004. ix, 260 pp.

Parush, Iris. Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society. Saadya Stenberg, trans. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 2004. xix, 340 pp.

Peli, Pinchas H. Torah Today: A Renewed Encounter with Scripture. Jewish History, Life, and Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xxii, 253 pp.

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry. Vol, 17 “The Shtetl: Myth and Reality.” Edited by Antony Polonsky. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2004. xiv, 482 pp.

Regev, Shaul, ed. “Mikve Israel” of R. Israel Najara. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University, 2004. 675 pp. (Hebrew).

Reisner, Rosalind. Jewish American Literature: A Guide to Reading Interests. Genreflecting Advisory Series. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2004. xviii, 339 pp.

Rejwan, Nissim. The Last Jews in Baghdad: Remembering a Lost Homeland. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. xxii, 242 pp.

Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Judaic Studies 2003 – 2004. Bristol, UK: J W. Arrowsmith, 2004. vi, 208 pp.

Rigg, Bryan Mark. Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler’s Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xvii, 284 pp.

Rosen, Milton J. An American Rabbi in Korea: A Chaplain’s Journey in the Forgotten War. Edited by Stanley R. Rosen, trans. Judaic Studies Series. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2004. xvi, 127 pp.

Rosmus, Anna Elisabeth. Wintergreen: Suppressed Murders. Imogen von Tannenberg, trans. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. xiv, 163 pp.

Ross, Tamar. Expanding the Palace of Torah: Prthodoxy and Feminism. Brandeis Series on Jewish Women. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 2004. xxiv, 324 pp.

Sabato, Haim. Adjusting Sights. Hillel Halkin, trans. New Milford, Conn.: The Toby Press, 2003. 154 pp.

Sabato, Haim. Aleppo Tales. Philip Simpson, trans. New Milford, Conn.: The Toby Press, 2004. 267 pp.

Sanuelson, Nortbert M. Jewish Philosophy: An Historical Introduction. London: Continuum, 2003. vii, 344 pp.

Saperstein, Marc. Exile in Ansterdam: Saul Levi Morteira’s Sermons to a Congregation of “New Jews.” Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2005. xxii, 585 pp.

Schafft, Gretchen E. From Racism to Genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. xiv, 297 pp.

Schwartz, Dov. Studies on Astral Magic in Medieval Jewish Thought. Trans. David Louvish and Batya Stein. The Brill Reference Library of Judaism. Vol. 20. Leiden: Brill, 2005. xiv, 249 pp.

Segal, Alan F. . Life after Death. A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion. New York: Doubleday, 2004. xii, 866 pp.

Sheleff. Leon. In the Shadows of the Cross: Jewish - Christian Relations Through the Ages. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2004. x, 252 pp.

Shostak, Debra. Philip Roth – Countertexts, Counterlives. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. xiii, 332 pp.

Smith II, Carl B. No Longer Jews: The Search for Gnostic Origins. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004. xvii, 317 pp.

Soloveitchik, Haym. Principles and Pressures: Jewish Trade in Gentile Wine in the Middle Ages. Tel Aviv: Am Oved Puiblishers, 2004. 184 pp. (Hebrew).

Soloveitchik, Rabbi Joseph B. Community, Covenant and Commitment: Selected Letters and Communications. Edited by Nathaniel Helfgot. The MeOtzar HoRav Series. Jersey City: Ktav, 2005. xli, 352 pp.

Somers, Erik and René Kok, eds. Jewish Displaced Persons in Camp Bergen-Besen 1945 – 1950: The Unique Photo Album of Zippy Orlin. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. 232 pp.

Spinoza, Benedict. Theologico-Political Treatise. Ed. Martin D. Yaffe. Newburyport, Mass.: Focus Publishing – R. Pullins & Co., 2004. xxiii, 433 pp.

Staub, Michael E., ed. The Jewish 1960s: An American Sourcebook. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 2004. xxiii, 371 pp.

Swett, Pamela E. Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin, 1929 – 1933. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvii, 337 pp.

Tal, Shefa. Studies in Jewish Thought and Culture. Goldstein Goren Library of Jewish Thought 3. Beer Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2004. 413 pp. (Hebrew).

Taubes, Jacob. The Political Theology of Paul. Edited by Aleida Assmann, et al. Trans. Dana Hollander. Stanford: Stanford Univeristy Press, 2004. xiv, 160 pp.

Umansky, Ellen M. From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii, 245 pp.

Weber, Elisabeth. Questioning Judaism. Trans. Rachel Bowlby. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xi, 167 pp.

Weiss, John. The Politics of Hate: Anti-Semitism, History, and the Holocaust in Modern Europe. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003. ix, 245 pp.

Wyschogrod, Michael. Abraham’s Promise: Judaism and Jewish-Christian Relations. Edited by R. Kendall Soulen. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2004. xii, 253 pp.

Zelda. The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems. Marcia Falk, trans. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2004. xv, 270 pp.