AJS Review • Books Received
March–December 2005

Almosnino, Mose ben Baruk. Regimiento de la Vida Tratado de los Suenos (Salonika, 1564) . Edited by John M. Zemke. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004. xix, 545 pp.

Anderson, Robert T. and Terry Giles. Tradition Kept: The Literature of the Samaritans . Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson Publishers, 2005. xv, 432 pp.

Arav, Rami and Richard A. Freund, eds. Bethsaida: A City by the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee: Volume Three – Bethsaida Excavations Project Reports and Contextual Studies . Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press, 2004. xxv, 310 pp.

Bar-Itzhak, Haya. Israeli Folk Narratives: Settlement, Immigration, Ethnicity . Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. xii, 189 pp.

Bartal, Israel. The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772 – 1881 . Chaya Naor, trans. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 203 pp.

Bashan, Eliezer. Jewish Women in Morocco: Seen through Letters from 1733 – 1905 . Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2005. 266 pp. (Hebrew)

Bauer, Ela. Between Poles and Jews: The Development of Nahum Sokolow's Political Thought . Studies of the Center for Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jews. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2005. 180 pp.

Baumel, Judith Tydor. The “Bergson Boys” and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy . Dena Ordan, trans. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005. xxx, 331 pp.

Bazyler, Michael J. Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts . New York: New York University Press, 2003. xix, 410 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 Press, 2003. 804 pp. (Hebrew)

Bergner, Hinde. On Long Winter Nights…Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township (1870 – 1900) . Justin Daniel Cammy, trans. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. 122 pp.

Berlinerblau, Jacques. The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii, 217 pp.

Bialer, Uri. Cross on the Star of David: The Christian World in Israel's Foreign Policy, 1948 – 1967. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xiv, 240 pp.

Bodoff, Lippman. The Binding of Isaac, Religious Murders and Kabbalah: Seeds of Jewish Extremism and Alienation? Jerusalem: Devora Publishing, 2005. 463 pp.

Breitman, Richard, Norman J.W. Goda, Timothy Naftali and Robert Wolfe. U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 495 pp.

Brenner, Athalya. I am… Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories . Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2005. xviii, 228 pp.

Brettler, Marc Zvi. How to Read the Bible . Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2005. xiv, 382 pp.

Brueggemann, Walter. Worship in Ancient Israel: An Essential Guide . Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005. 104 pp.

Buber, Martin. A Land of Two Peoples: Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs . Edited by Paul Mendes-Flohr. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. xx, 322 pp.

Carasik, Michael, ed. The Commentators' Bible: The JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot – Exodus . Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2005. xix, 349 pp.

Chatterjee, Ranjit. Wittgenstein and Judaism: A Triumph of Concealment . Studies in Judaism, vol. 1. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, x, 207 pp.

Chester, Michael A. Divine Pathos and Human Being: The Theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel . London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2005. xi, 228 pp.

Chevlowe, Susan. The Jewish Identity Project New American Photography . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xi, 215 pp.

Coffin, Edna Amir and Shmuel Bolozky. A Reference Grammar of Modern Hebrew . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv, 447 pp.

Cohen, Mark R. Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient World to the Modern World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xi, 288 pp.

Cohen, Mark R. The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages: An Anthology of Documents from the Cairo Geniza . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiv, 226 pp.

Cohen, Sharon Kangisser. Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Israel: “Finding Their Voice”- Social Dynamics and Post-War Experiences . Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. x, 293 pp.

Cohen, Shaye J.D. Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised? Gender and Covenant in Judaism . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xvii, 317 pp.

Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. The Dictionary of Jewish Biography . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. lxvi, 308 pp.

Crenshaw, James L: Defending God: Biblical Responses to the Problem of Evil . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. x, 272 pp.

Davidson, Herbert A. Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii, 567 pp.

Day, Linda. Esther . Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005. xi, 177 pp.

Decherney, Peter. Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American . New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. x, 269 pp.

Dever, William G. Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel . Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005. xvi, 344 pp.

Dotan, Aron. The Awakening of Word Lore: From the Masora to the Beginnings of Hebrew Lexicography . Tel Aviv: The Academy of Hebrew Language, 2005. viii, 223 pp. (Hebrew)

Ecclesiastes: the Traditional Hebrew Text with the New JPA Translation . Michael V. Fox, commentary. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2004. xxxviii, 87 pp.

Eliav, Yaron Z. God's Mountain: The Temple Mount in Time, Place and Memory . Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xxxv, 353 pp.

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

Esser, Barbara. Salo's Song: A Jewish Wartime Romance . Colin Berry, trans. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2005. xii, 233 pp.

Falbaum, Berl, ed. Shanghai Remembered…Stories of Jews Who Escaped to Shanghai from Nazi Europe . Royal Oak, Mich.: Momentum Books, 2005. 228 pp.

Feinstein, Sara. Sunshine, Blossoms and Blood: H. N. Bialik in His Time – A Literary Biography . Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2005. xxii, 408 pp.

Feliks, Yehuda. The Jerusalem Talmud – Tractate Ma'asrot: Annotated Critical Edition . Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2005. 337 pp. (Hebrew)

Ferziger, Adam S.. Exclusion and Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance, and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. x, 303 pp.

Fidler, Ruth. ‘Dream's Speak Falsely'? Dream Theophanies in the Bible: Their Place in Ancient Israelite Faith and Traditions . Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2005. 456 pp. (Hebrew)

Finkelstein, Norman G. Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xi, 232 pp.

Fishman, David, Mark Kupovetsky and Vladimir Luzelekov, eds. Jewish Documentary Sources Among the Trophy Collections of the Russian State Military Archives: A Guide . Moscow: Project Judaica, 2005. 211 pp.

Fishman, David E. The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture . Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. x, 190 pp.

Fraisse, Otfried. Moses Ibn Tibbons Kommentar Zum Hohelied Und Sein Poetologisch-Philosophisches Program . Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2004. ix, 636 pp.

Frankel, Jonathan, ed. Dark Times, Dire Decisions: Jews and Communism . Studies in Contemporary Jewry, XX. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xv, 393 pp.

Friedman, Max Paul. Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii, 359 pp.

Gaimani, Aharon. Changes in the Heritage of Yemenite Jewry: Under the Influence of Shulhan ‘Arukh and the Kabbalah of R. Yitshaq Luria . Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2005. 370 pp. (Hebrew)

Garloff, Katja. Words from Abroad: Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers . Detriot: Wayne State University Press, 2005. xii, 252 pp.

Gera, Dov and Miriam Ben-Zeev, eds. The Path of Peace: Studies in Honor of Israel Friedman Ben-Salom . Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2005. 537 pp. (Hebrew), 37 pp. (English)

Gilbert, Shirli. Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. x, 243 pp .

Glick, Leonard B. Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii, 370 pp.

Gilman, Sander L. Franz Kafka . London: Reaktion Books, 2005. 160 pp.

Goldberg, Esther, ed. Holocaust Memoir Digest . Vol. 2. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2005. xix, 140 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.

Goldberg, Lea. Selected Poetry and Drama . Rachel Tzvia Back and T. Carmi, trans. New Milford, Conn.: The Toby Press, 2005. 318 pp.

Gonen, Jan Y. Yahweh versus Yahweh: The Enigma of Jewish History . Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. xii, 183 pp.

Gottwald, Norman K. The Hebrew Bible – A Socio-Literary Introduction . Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985. xxv, 204 pp. Reprint.

Gross, Abraham. Spirituality and Law: Courting Martyrdom in Christianity and Judaism . Studies in Judaism. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2005. xiv, 148 pp.

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

Gurock, Jeffrey S. Judaism's Encounter with American Sports . The Modern Jewish Experience. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. x, 234 pp.

Gyémánt, Ladislau. The Jews of Transylvania: A Historical Destiny . Simona Farcasan, trans. Cluj-Napoca: Institutul Cultural Roman, 2004. 312 pp. (Polish)

Gyémánt, Ladislau, ed. Studia Judaica XIII . Cluj-Napoca: Dr. Moshe Carmilly Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History, 2005. 245 pp.

Hakham, Amos. The Bible Psalms with the Jerusalem Commentary: Volume One – Psalms 1 – 57. Jerusalem: Mosad Harav Kook, 2003. 466 pp.

Hakham, Amos. The Bible Psalms with the Jerusalem Commentary: Volume Two – Psalms 58 – 100. Jerusalem: Mosad Harav Kook, 2003. 447v pp.

Hakham, Amos. The Bible Psalms with the Jerusalem Commentary: Volume Three – Psalms 101 – 150. Jerusalem: Mosad Harav Kook, 2003. 516 pp.

Hampshire, Stuart. Spinoza and Spinozism . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. lviii, 206 pp.

Harrington, Daniel J. What Are They Saying About the Letter to the Hebrews? New York: Paulist Press, 2005. 96 pp.

Hedaya, Yael. Accidents: A Novel . Jessica Cohen, trans. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2005. 453 pp.

Heller, Fanya Gottesfeld. Love in a World of Sorrow: A Teenage Girl's Holocaust Memoirs . Jerusalem: Devora Publishing, 2005. 280 pp.

Hertz, Deborah. Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin . Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005. xxiii, 299 pp.

Hess, Moses. The Holy History of Mankind and Other Writings . Shlomo Avineri, trans. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xxxv, 148 pp.

Hoffman, Daniel. Bruchstücke einer grossen Tradition: Gattungspoetische Studien zur deutsch-jüdischen Literatur . Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2005. 172 pp.

Howe, Irving. World Of Our Fathers . New York: New York University Press, 2006. xxvi, 714 pp. (Reprint).

Idel, Moshe. Kabbalah and Eros . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. x, 371 pp.

Itzkoff, Seymour W. Who Are The Jews? A Nation of Philosophers . Ashfield, Mass.: Paideia Publishers, 2004. xiv, 222 pp.

Itzkoff, Seymour W. Who Are The Jews? Soul of the Israelites . Ashfield, Mass.: Paideia Publishers, 2004. xiv, 208 pp.

Jabotinsky, Vladimir. The Five: A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa. Michael R. Katz, trans. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. xv, 203 pp.

Jacobs, Louis. Judaism and Theology: Essays on the Jewish Religion . London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2005. ix, 262 pp.

Jacobs, Louis. Rabbinic Thought in the Talmud. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2005. viii, 216 pp.

Jamal, Amal. The Palestinian National Movement: Politics of Contention, 1967 – 2005. Indiana Series in Middle East Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xviii, 229 pp.

Jewish Studies Quarterly . Vol. 12. Edited by Leora Batnitzky and Peter Schäfer. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2005. 128 pp.

Kalimi, Isaac. An Ancient Israelite Historian: Studies in the Chronicler, His Time, Place and Writing . Studia Semitica Neerlandica. Assen: Royal Van Gorcum, 2005. x, 212 pp.

Kaplan, Marion A., ed. Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618 – 1945 . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii, 529 pp.

Karlinsky, Nahum. California Dreaming: Ideology, Society and Technology in the Citrus Industry of Palestine, 1890 – 1939. Naftali Greenwood, trans. SUNY Series in Israeli Studies. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xiv, 270 pp.

Katz, Kimberly. Jordanian Jerusalem: Holy Places and National Space . Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xvi, 214 pp. (Hebrew)

Katz, Menachem and Yisrael Rosenson, eds. Pathways Through Aggadah: A Journal of the Center for Teaching Aggadah – Efrata Teachers College . Jerusalem: Efrata Teachers College, 2003. 166 pp.

Kaufman, Alan. Matches: A Novel . New York: Back Bay Books, 2005. 264 pp.

Kellogg, Michael. The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Emigrés and the Making of National Socialism, 1917 – 1945. New Studies in European History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii, 327 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 Anthropology. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. xxxii, 396 pp.

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

Lazin, Fred A. The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics: Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment . Studies in Public Policy. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2005. xii, 356 pp.

Levine, Lee I. Jerusalem: Portrait of the City in the Second Temple Period (538 b.c.e. – 70 c.e.) . Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2002. xviii, 486 pp.

Levinson, Bernard M., Eckart Otto and Walter Dietrich. Recht und Ethik im Alten Testament . Altes Testament und Moderne. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2004. 191 pp.

Levinson, Joshua. The Twice Told Tale: A Poetics of the Exegetical Narrative in Rabbinic Midrash . Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2005. 360 pp. (Hebrew)

MacDonald, Sara. Sea Music . New York: Atria Books, 2005. 406 pp.

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

Matar, Nabil. Britain and Barbary, 1589 – 1689 . Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xiii, 192 pp.

McCune, Mary. “The Whole Wide World Without Limits: International Relief, Gender Politics, and American Jewish Women, 1893-1930 . Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. xv, 280 pp.

Meilicke, Christine A. Jerome Rothenberg's Experimental Poetry and Jewish Tradition . Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2005. 328 pp.

Mendelsohn, Ezra. Jews and the State: Dangerous Alliances and the Perils of Privilege . Studies in Contemporary Jewry: An Annual. XIX. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii, 322 pp.

Metzker, Isaac. Grandfather's Acres . Margaret and Yossel Birstein, trans. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 2005. 427 pp.

Michael, Robert. A Concise History of American Antisemitism . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. xxi, 233 pp.

Michels, Tony. A Fire in their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. viii, 335 pp.

Miller II, Robert D. Chieftans of the Highland Clans: A History of Israel in the Twelffth and Eleventh Centuries, B.C. The Bible in Its World. Grand Rapids: William Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005. xix, 186 pp.

Milton, Edith. The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing Up English . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi, 242 pp.

Morris, Douglas G. Justice Imperiled: The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimer Germany . Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. xii, 443 pp.

Mostowicz, Arnold. With a Yellow Star and a Red Cross: A Doctor in the Lodz Ghetto . Henia and Nochem Reinhartz, trans. The Library of Holocaust Testimonies. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2005. xxx, 245 pp.

Mowinckel, Sigmund. He That Cometh: The Messiah Concept in the Old Testament and Later Judaism . G. W. Anderson, trans. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005. xxxii, 528 pp.

Moyn, Samuel. A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France . Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 2005. xxii, 220 pp.

Mulder, Martin Jan, ed.. Mikra: Text, Translation, Reading & Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity . Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004. xxvi, 929 pp. Reprint.

Mulisch, Harry. Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness Account . Robert Naborn, trans. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xxiv, 178 pp.

Nachman of Breslov. Shir Na'im: Song of Delight . David Sears, trans. Spring Valley, NY: Orot, Inc, 2005. 154 pp.

Neurath, Paul Martin. The Society of Terror: Inside the Dachau and Buchenwald Concentration Camps . Christian Fleck and Nico Stehr, eds. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2005. xii, 320 pp.

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

Neusner, Jacob. Halakhic Theology: A Sourcebook. Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. xxvii, 296 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. How Important was the Destruction of the Second Temple in the Formation of Rabbinic Judaism? Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. xxvii, 310 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Is Scripture the Origin of the Halakhah? Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. xvi, 217 pp.

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

Neusner, Jacob. Judaism in Monologue and Dialogue. Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. viii, 124 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Parsing the Torah: Surveying the History, Literature, Religion, and Theology of Formative Judaism. Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. lxxiv, 281 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Praxis and Parable: The Divergent Discourses of Rabbinic Judaism: How Halakhic and Aggadic Documents Treat the Bestiary Common to Them Both. Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. xxiii, 262 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Questions and Answers: Intellectual Foundations of Judaism . Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004. xxvi, 254 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Theology of Normative Judaism: A Sourcebook . Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. 156 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Theological Dictionary of Rabbinic Judaism. Part One: Principal Theological Categories . Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. xxxiv, 273 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Theological Dictionary of Rabbinic Judaism. Part Two: Making Connections and Building Constructions . Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. xxxiv, 390 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Theological Dictionary of Rabbinic Judaism. Part Three: Models of Analysis, Explanation, and Anticipation . Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. xxxiv, 449 pp.

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

Neusner, Jacob. The Vitality of Rabbinic Imagination: The Mishnah against the Bible and Qumran . Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. xvii, 226 pp.

Neusner, Jacob, ed. The Talmud Law, Theology, Narrative: A Sourcebook. Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. xxxiv, 251 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.

Novak, David. Talking with Christians: Musings of a Jewish Theologian . Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005. xiv, 269 pp.

Oppenheimer, Aharon. Between Rome and Babylon: Studies in Jewish Leadership and Society . Nili Oppenheimer, ed. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2005. xv, 499 pp.

Orenstein, Walter. Teach Me about God: The Meaning and Significance of the Name of God . Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson, 2005. xxvii, 263 pp.

The Parallel Bible: Hebrew – English Old Testament. Edited by Aron Dotan. Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson Publishers, 2003. 1883 pp.

Pencak, William. Jews & Gentiles in Early America: 1654 – 1800 . Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xiv, 321 pp.

Pendlebury, Alyson. Portraying ‘the Jew' in First World War Britain . London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006. xii, 256 pp.

Plaskow, Judith. The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1973 – 2003 . Boston: Beacon Press, 2005. 244 pp.

Preuß, Monika. … aber die Krone des guten Namens überragt sie. Baden-Württemberg: W. Kohlhammer Verlag Stuttgart, 2005. xviii, 149 pp.

Quigley, John. The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. xii, 344 pp.

Rabinowitz, Dan and Khawla Abu-Baker. Coffins on Our Shoulders: The Experience of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xi, 221 pp.

Rand, Erica. The Ellis Island Snow Globe . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. xvii, 339 pp.

Rayski, Adam. The Choice of the Jews Under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance . Will Sayers, trans. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. xvi, 388 pp.

Roemer, Nils H. Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Between History and Faith . Studies in German Jewish Cultural History and Literature. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. x, 251 pp.

Rosen, Alan. Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilinguism, and the Problem of English. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xi, 241 pp.

Rosenfeld, Gavriel D. The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xii, 524 pp.

Rosenthal, Donna. The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land . New York: Free Press, 2003. xi, 466 pp.

Rosenzweig, Franz. The Star of Redemption . Barbara E. Galli, trans. Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. xx, 459 pp.

Rothkirchen, Livia . The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: Facing the Holocaust . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xxi, 447 pp.

Rothschild, Joan. The Dream of the Perfect Child . Bioethics and the Humanities. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. 343 pp.

Rothstein, Gidon. Murder in the Mikdash . Booksurge Publishing, 2005. 260 pp.

Rudalevige, Andrew. The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate . Contemporary Political and Social Issues. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. xii, 358 pp.

Sáenz-Badillos, Angel. Abraham Ibn ‘Ezra': Safah Berurah: La Lengua Escogida . Córdoba: Ediciones El Almendro, 2004. 208 pp. (Spanish)

Sáenz-Badillos, Angel. Abraham Ibn ‘Ezra': Sefer Moznayim . Córdoba: Ediciones El Almendro, 2004. 223 pp.

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

Schwartz, Dov. Studies on Astral Magic in Medieval Jewish Thought . David Louvish and Batya Stein, trans. The Brill Reference Library of Judaism. Leiden: Brill, 2005. xiv, 251 pp.

Schwartz, Howard. Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism . Illustrated by Caren Loebel-Fried. Forward by Elliot K. Ginsberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. lxxxvi, 618 pp .

Segal, Eliezer. From Sermon to Commentary: Expounding the Bible in Talmudic Babylonia . Studies in Christianity and Judaism. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005. vii, 164 pp.

Sepinwall, Alyssa Goldstein. The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 341 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 Publishers, 2003. 184 pp. (Hebrew).

Souther, Mark R. V. Contagious Couplings: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases . Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2005. xx, 351 pp.

Sparks, Kenton L. Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible: A Guide to the Background Literature . Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2005. xxxvii, 514 pp.

Spiegl, Yaakov S. Chapters in the History of the Jewish Book: Writing and Transmission . Ramat-Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2005. 653 pp. ) Hebrew (

Spinoza, Benedict. Theologico-Political Treatise . Martin D. Yaffe, trans. Newburyport, Mass.: Focus Publishing, 2004. xxiii, 433 pp.

Sposato, Jeffrey S. The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 228 pp.

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

Stourton, Edward. Paul of Tarsus: A Visionary Life . Mahwah, NJ: Hidden Spring, 2004. vii, 215 pp.

Swartz, Michael D. and Joseph Yahalom. Avodah Poems for Yom Kippur . University Park, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 390 pp.

Sweeney, Marvin A. The Prophetic Literature. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005. 240 pp.

van Lempt, Ad. Hitler's Bounty Hunters: The Betrayal of the Jews . S.J. Leinbach, trans. Oxford: Berg, 2005. x, 277 pp.

Walker, Janet. Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxii, 251 pp.

Weber, Donald. Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to ‘The Goldbergs'. Jewish Literature and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xiii, 250 pp.

Weinberg, Gerhard L. Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxiv, 292 pp.

Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II . 2 nd Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxiv, 1178 pp.

Weininger, Otto. Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles . Ladislaus Löb, trans. Daniel Steuer, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. liv, 437 pp.

Weiss, Moshe. A Brief History of the Jewish People . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004. xii, 280 pp.

Weiss, Saul, ed. Insights of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: Discourses on Fundamental Theological Issues in Judaism . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005. xvii, 177 pp.

Wex, Michael. Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in all Its Moods . New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005. xiii, 303 pp.

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