AJS Review • Books Received
November–December 2006

Alfonsi, Petrus. Dialogue Against the Jew. Translated by Irven M. Resnick. Fathers of the Church Mediaeval Continuation 8.Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2006. xxv, 290 pp.

Baigell, Matthew. Jewish Art in America: An Introduction. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2007. xxiv, 251 pp.

Baron, Lawrence. Projecting the Holocaust into the Present: The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005. x, 306 pp.

Baskin, Samantha. Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists. Artists of the American Mosaic. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2007. xvii, 323 pp.

Blenkinsopp, Joseph. Opening the Sealed Book: Interpretations on the Book of Isaiah in Late Antiquity. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006. xi, 315 pp.

Cantor, Geoffrey and Marc Swetlitz, eds. Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xii, 260 pp.

Efron, Noah J. Judaism and Science: A Historical Introduction. Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2007. xx, 348 pp.

Eidelberg, Shlomo. Medieval Ashkenazic History: Windows Into Medieval Jewish Life in Germany. Vol. 3, English Essays. New York: Jay Street Publishers, 2006. 148 pp.

Falbaum, Berl, ed. Shanghai Remembered: Stories of Jews Who Escaped to Shanghai from Nazi Europe. Royal Oak, MI: Momentum Books, 2005. x, 229 pp.

Fishman, Sylvia Barack. The Way Into the Varieties of Jewishness. Woodstock: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2007. xiv, 262 pp.

Garbarini, Alexandra. Numbered Days: Diaries and the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xvi, 262 pp.

Goldberg, Esther, ed. Primo Levi, Leon Weliczker Wells, Mel Mermelstein, Hana Greenfield, Eva Grossman. Holocaust Memoir Digest: A Digest of Published Survivor Memoirs with Study Guide and Maps 3. London: Valentine Mitchell, 2006. xix, 120 pp.

Harrison, Bernard. The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism: Jews, Israel, and Liberal Opinion. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006. xv, 219 pp.

Hayes, Christine E. Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities: Intermarriage and Conversion from the Bible to the Talmud. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 328 pp.

Hens-Piazza, Gina. Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries: 1-2 Kings. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006. xx, 407 pp.

Himmelfarb, Martha. A Kingdom of Priests: Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism. Jewish Culture and Contexts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 270 pp.

Igra, Anna R. Wives Without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, & Welfare in New York, 1900-1935. Gender and American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. viii, 175 pp.

Kellner, Menachem. Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2006. xix, 343 pp.

Kendall, R.T., and David Rosen The Christian and the Pharisee : Two Outspoken Religious Leaders Debate the Road to Heaven. New York: Warner Faith, 2007. xxii, 199 pp.

Kolatch, Rabbi Yonatan. Traditional Jewish Bible Commentary From the First Through Tenth Centuries. Masters of the Word 1. Jersey City: Ktav Publishing House, 2006. xvii, 454 pp.

Kuriansky, Judy, ed. Terror in the Holy Land: Inside the Anguish of the Israeli: Palestinian Conflict. Contemporary Psychology. Westport: Praeger, 2006. xv, 280 pp.

Leff, Lisa Moses. Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xiii, 327 pp.

Malul, Meir. Society, Law, and Custom in the Land of Israel in Biblical Times and in the Ancient Near Eastern Cultures. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2006. 349 pp.

McDonald, Lee Martin. The Biblical Canon: Its Origin, Transmission, and Authority. Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 2007. xxxviii, 546 pp.

Moyn, Samuel. Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelations and Ethics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. xi, 268 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Amos in the Talmud and Midrash: A Source Book. Studies in Judaism. Lanham: University Press of America, 2007. xxi, 122 pp.

---. Hosea in Talmud and Midrash. Studies in Judaism. Lanham: University Press of America: 2007. xx, 174 pp.

---. Micah and Joel in Talmud and Midrash: A Source Book. Studies in Judaism. Lanham: University Press of America: 2007. xxi, 141 pp.

---. Reading Scripture with the Rabbis: The Five Books of Moses. Studies in Judaism. Lanham: University Press of America, 2007. vii, 200 pp.

---. Theology in Action: How the Rabbis of the Talmud Present Theology (Aggadah) in the Medium of the Law (Halakhah): An Anthology. Studies in Judaism. Lanham: University Press of America: 2006. viii, 152 pp.

Neumark, Zenon. Hiding in the Open: A Young Fugitive in Nazi-Occupied Poland. The Library of Holocaust Testimonies. London: Valentine Mitchell, 2006. xxi, 216 pp.

Nolden, Thomas. In Lieu of Memory: Contemporary Jewish Writing in France. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006. xvi, 254 pp.

Roth, Jeffrey I. Inheriting the Crown in Jewish Law: The Struggle for Rabbinic Compensation, Tenure, and Inheritance Rights. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. ix, 171 pp.

Shaked, Gershon. The New Tradition: Essays on Modern Hebrew Literature. I. Edward Kiev Library Foundation. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2006. 328 pp.

Socher, Abraham P. The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon: Judaism, Heresy, and Philosophy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xiii, 247 pp.

Solovetchik, Rabbi Joseph B. Days of Deliverence: Essays on Purim and Hanukkah. Jersey: Ktav Publishing House, 2007. xvi, 224 pp.

Van Landingham, Chris. Judgment and Justification in Early Judaism and the Apostle Paul. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2006. xvi, 384 pp.

Yashinsky, Dan. Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-first Century. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. xviii, 317 pp.