AJS Review • Books Received
January–October 2006

Aaron, David H. Etched in Stone: the Emergence of the Dialogue. New York: T&T Clark, 2006. xv, 352pp.

Abraham, Daniel S., with a forward by President Bill Clinton. Peace is Possible: Conversations with Arab and Israeli Leaders from 1988 to the Present. New York: Newmarket Press, 2006. xviii, 216pp.

Abrams, Jeanne E. Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: a History in the American West. New York and London: New York University Press, 2006. viii, 279pp.

Albert, Elisa. How This Night is Different: Stories. New York, London: Free Press, 2006. 198pp.

Alexenberg, Mel. The Future of Art in a Digital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2006. 187pp.

Baader, Benjamin Maria. Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. viii, 292 pp.

Bahgat, Gawdat. Israel and the Persian Gulf: Retrospect and Prospect. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2006. ix, 187pp.

Baigell, Matthew. American Artists, Jewish Images. Syracuse: University Press, 2006. xiv, 272pp.

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

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

Batnitzky, Leora. Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. xxii, 280 pp.

Baumel, Judith Tydor. The 'Bergson Boys' and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy. Trans. Dena Ordan.  Forward by Moshe Arens. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005.  xxx + 330 pp.

Ben-Atar, Roma Nutkiewicz and Doron R. Ben-Atar. What Time and Sadness Spared: Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. x, 196pp.

Ben-Menahem, Hanina, Neil S. Hecht, and Shai Wosner, eds., with an interpretive essay by Hanina Ben-Menahem. Controversy and Dialogue in the Jewish Tradition: A Reader. London: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2005. vii, 456pp.

Benz, Wolfgang. A Concise History of the Third Reich. translated by Thomas Dunlap. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xvii, 309pp.

Bergman, Nava. The Cambridge Biblical Hebrew Workbook: Introductory Level. Cambridge: University Press, 2005. xiii, 375 pp.

Berkowitz, Joel and Jeremy Dauber, eds. Landmark Yiddish Plays: A Critical Anthology. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. vii, 356pp.

Bialer, Uri. The Christian World in Israel's Foreign Policy, 1948-1967.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xiv, 244 pp.

Brettschneider, Marla. The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. xii, 232pp.

Breysach, Barbara. Schauplatz und Gedächtnisraum Polen: Die Vernichtung der Juden in der deutschen und polnischen Literatur. Wallstein Verlag, 2005. 432 pp.

Bulion, Leslie. Uncharted Waters. Atlanta: Peachtree, 2006. 185pp.

Casey, Kathleen. Sabbath Presence: Appreciating the Gifts of Each Day. Notre Dame, Indiana: Ave Maria Press, 2006. 122pp.

Charvit, Yossef. La France, L’Élite Rabbinique D’Algérie et la Terre Sainte au XIXe Siècle: Tradition et modernité. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2005. viii, 461pp.

Cohen, Jocelyn and Soyer, Daniel. My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants. Published in conjunction with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. New York: New York University Press, 2006. xi, 328pp.

Cohen, Mark R. Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xi, 279 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. xii, 223 pp.

Cohen, Shaye J. D. From the Maccabees to the Mishnah: Second Edition. Louisville: Westminister John Knox Press, 2006. xiv, 250pp.

Cohen, Shaye J.D.. Why Aren’t Women Circumcised? Gender and Covenant in Judaism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xvii, 315 pp.

Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. The Paradox of Anti-Semitism. London: Continuum, 2006. xiv, 242pp.

Dan, Uri. Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. x, 292pp.

Darr, Asaf. Selling Technology: The Changing Shape of Sales in an Information Economy. Ithaca, NY: IRL Press, 2006. xiv, 143pp.

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

deSilva, Cara, ed. In Memory’s Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin. Translated by Bianca Steiner Brown. Foreward by Michael Berenbaum. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006. xliii, 110pp.

Drazin, Israel and Stanley M. Wagner. Onkelos on the Torah: Understanding the Bible Text. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 2006. xxviii, 380pp.

Dryer, Ellen. The Glow Stone. Atlanta: Peachtree, 2006. 186pp.

Epstein, Leslie. The Eighth Wonder of the World. New York: Other Press, 2006. x, 461pp.

Estrin, Mark. Golem Song. Denver, CO: Unbridled Books, 2006. 353pp.

Eliav, Yaron Z. God's Mountain. The Temple Mount in Time, Place, and
Memory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xxxv, 351 pp.

Fermaglich, Kirsten. American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2006. xii, 252pp.

Fishbane, Michael. Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv, 458pp.

Freese, Mathias B. The I Tetralogy. Tuscon, AZ: Hats Off Books, 2005. xi, 365pp.

Freeze, Chaeran, Paula Hyman, and Antony Polonsky, eds. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume Eighteen: Jewish Women in Eastern Europe. Portland, OR: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2005. xiv, 470pp.

Galili, Ziva and Boris Morozov. Exiled to Palestine: The Emigration of Zionist Convicts from the Soviet Union, 1924-1934. London: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2006. xiii, 143pp.

Garrett, Ginger. Dark Hour. Navpress, 2006. 304pp.

Geller, Jay Howard. Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii, 330pp.

Girón-Negrón, Luis M. and Laura Minervini. Las Coplas de Yosef: Entre la Biblia y el Midrash en Poesía Judeoespañola. Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 2006. 390pp.

Gitlitz, David M. and Linda Kay Davidson. Pilgrimage and the Jews. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2006. xvi, 312pp.

Goldschmidt, Henry. Race and Religion Among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xi, 281pp.

Goldstein, Eric L. The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. viii, 307 pp.

Gonzalez, Federico and Mireia Valls. Presencia Viva de la Cabala. España: Unión Europea, 2006. 398pp.

Green, Thomas. Opening to God: A Guide to Prayer. Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 2006. 126pp.

Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn. Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xiii, 351pp.

Gross, Jan. Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz. New York: Random House, 2006. 320 pp.

Gur, Batya. Murder in Jerusalem: a Michael Ohayon Mystery. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2006. 388pp.

Gutcheon, Beth. Leeway Cottage. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005. 416pp.

Haft, Alan Scott. Harry Haft: Auschwitz Survivor, Challenger of Rocky Marciano. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006. xxxiii, 172pp.

Haynes, Stephen R. The Bonhoeffer Legacy: Post-Holocaust Perspectives. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006. xvii, 224pp.

Heilman, Samuel C. Sliding to the Right: The Contest for the Future of American Jewish Orthodoxy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. ix, 363pp.

Heinemann, Joseph and Jakob J. Petuchowski, eds. Literature of the Synagogue. Introduction by Richard Sarason. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2006. x, 292pp.

Herf, Jeffrey. The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. ix, 390pp.

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

Herz, Gabriele. The Women’s Camp in Moringen: A Memoir of Imprisonment in Germany, 1936-1937. Hildegarde Herz and Howard Hartig, trans. Jane Caplan, ed. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. vii, 183pp.

Hoffman, Joel M. In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language. New York: New York University Press, 2004. xvi, 263pp.

Homza, Lu Ann, ed. The Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614: An Anthology of Sources. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2006. xlv, 272pp.

Horowitz, Elliott. Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xiv, 340 pp.

Illy, József. Albert Meets America: How Journalists Treated Genius During Einstein’s 1921 Travels. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xvii, 345pp.

Japhet, Sara. From the Rivers of Babylon to the Highlands of Judah: Collected Studies on the Restoration Period. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2006. ix, 469pp.

Jastrow, Marcus, ed. A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 2005. xviii, 736pp.

Kadish, Rachel. Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. viii, 325pp.

Kaplan, Brett Ashley. Unwanted Beauty: Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation. University of Illinois, 2006. xii, 205pp.

Karwoski, Gail Langer. Quake!: Disaster in San Francisco, 1906. Atlanta: Peachtree, 2004. 153pp.

Katz, Josef. One Who Came Back: The Diary of a Jewish Survivor. Takoma Park, MD: Dryad Press, 2006. xvi, 231pp.

Keren, Asher. A Time for Change. Jerusalem: Gefen, 2005. xxiii, 294pp.

Kessler, Edward and Neil Wenborn, eds. A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxix, 505pp.

Klawans, Jonathan. Purity, Sacrifice and the Temple: Symbols and Supersessionsim in the Study of Ancient Judaism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. x, 372 pp.

Kogman-Appel, Katrin. Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain: Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xxii, 295pp.

Kolatch, Yonatan. Masters of the World: Traditional Jewish Bible Commentary from the First Through Tenth Centuries. Volume One. Jersey City, NJ: KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2006. xviii, 454pp.

Kugel, James L. The Ladder of Jacob: Ancient Interpretations of the Biblical Story of Jacob and his Children. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 277 pp.

Kurtz, Michael J. America and the Return of Nazi Contraband: The Recovery of Europe’s Cultural Treasures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. x, 278pp.

Lehmann, David and Batia Siebzehner. Remaking Israeli Judaism: The Challenge of Shas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xvii, 295pp.

Lehmann, Matthias B. Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xii + 264 pp.

Lerner, Michael. The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2006. viii, 408pp.

Lev, Yaacov. Charity, Endowments, and Charitable Institutions in Medieval Islam. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005. x, 214pp.

Levenson, Alan T. An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers: From Spinoza to Soloveitchik. Second Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. ix, 235pp.

Levenson, Jon D. Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xii, 274pp.

Levinson, Bernard M. L’Herméneutique de l’innovation: Canon et exègése dans l’Israël biblique. Bruxelles: Éditions Lessius, 2005. 101pp.

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

Lewy, Hans, Alexander Altman, and Isaak Heinman, eds. Three Jewish Philosophers. New Milford, CN: The Toby Press, 2006. 480pp.

Maccoby, Hyam. Antisemitism and Modernity: Innovation and Continuity. Routledge Jewish Studies Series. New York: Routledge, 2006. xiv, 189 pp.

Malessa, Michael. Untersuchungen zur Verbalen Valenz im Biblischen Herbräisch. The Netherlands: Van Gorcum, 2006. xiii, 348pp.

Malka, Salomon. Emmanuel Levinas: His Life and Legacy. Foreword by Philippe Nemo. Translated by Michael Kigel and Sonja M. Embree. Pittsburg, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2006. xxxvii, 330pp.

Malkin, Lawrence. Kueger’s Men: The Secret Nazi Counterfeit Plot and the Prisoners of Block 19. New York: Little Brown and Company, 2006. xiii, 287pp.

Mann, Barbara E. A Place in History: Modernism, Tel Aviv, and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xix, 310pp.

Marton, Kati. The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006. 271pp.

Mapu, Avraham. The Love of Zion and Other Writings. Joseph Marymount, trans. New Milford, CT: The Toby Press, 2006. lxxiv, 321pp.

Massil, Stephen W., ed. The Jewish Year Book. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006. xvi, 348pp.

Matthews, Victor H. and Don C. Benjamin. Old Testament Parallels: Laws and Stories from the Ancient Near East. Third Edition. New York: Paulist Press, 2006. xv, 430pp.

McGinley, John W. “The Written” as the Vocation of Conceiving Jewishly. New York: iUniverse, 2006. xi, 469pp.

Meyers, Carol. Exodus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxiii, 311pp.

Michlic, Joanna Beata. Poland’s Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xii, 386pp.

Miller, Jonathan. The Compassionate Community: Ten Values to Unite America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xi, 243pp.

Molodowsky, Kadya. A House with Seven Windows: Short Stories. Translated by Leah Schoolnik. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006. xiv, 315pp.

Morgan, Michael L., ed. The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2006. xix, 336pp.

Moseley, Marc. Being for Myself Alone: Origins of Jewish Autobiography. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xii, 650 pp.

Mostowicz, Arnold. With a Yellow Star and a Red Cross: A Doctor in the Lódz Ghetto. Translated by Henia and Nochem Reinhartz. Foreward by Antony Polonsky. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2005. xxx, 245pp.

Moyn, Samuel. a holocaust controversy: the treblinka affair in postwar
france. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2005. xii, 212 pp.

Moyn, Samuel. Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics. Ithica, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. xi, 268pp.

Munn, Mark. The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: a Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006. xi, 452pp.

Nadler, Steven. Spinoza’s Ethics: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvii, 281pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Analytical Templates of the Bavli. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 2006. xviii, 297pp.

Neusner, Jacob. The Babylonian Talmud: A Translation and Commentary. Volume 21: Tractate Bekhorot, Tractate ‘Arakhin, Tractate Temurah. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2005. viii, 862pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Current Questions and Enduring Answers. Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 2006. viii, 396pp.

Neusner, Jacob. How the Halakhah Unfolds: Moed Qatan in the Mishnah, Tosefta Yerushalmi and Bavli. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 2006. viii, 396pp.

Neusner, Jacob. The Implicit Norms of Rabbinic Judaism: The Bedrock of a Classical Religion. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 2006. xii, 119pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Intellectual Templates of the Law of Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 2006. lxv, 521pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Jeremiah in Talmud and Midrash: A Source Book. Lanham, MD: University of America, Inc., 2006. xx, 406pp.

Neusner, Jacob. The Theological Foundations of Rabbinic Midrash. Lanham, MD: University of America, Inc., 2006. lii, 278pp.

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

Novak, William and Moshe Waldoks, eds. The Big Book of Jewish Humor – 25th Anniversary Edition. New York: Collins, 2006. li, 308pp.

Omer-Sherman, Ranen. Israel in Exile: Jewish Writing and the Desert. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xvii, 210pp.

Orner, Peter. The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2006. 307pp.

O’Shea, Stephen. Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World. New York: Walker and Company, 2006. xii, 411pp.

Patterson, David. Wrestling with the Devil: Toward a Jewish Understanding of the Nazi Assault on the Name. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2006. xxv, 251pp.

Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, 2004-2005. Oxford: Yarnton, 2005. 198pp.

Pelli, Moshe. The Age of Haskalah: Studies in Hebrew Literature of the Enlightenment in Germany. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 2006. xii, 280pp.

Pelli, Moshe. Bikurei Ha’itim: The ‘First Fruits’ of Haskalah. An Annotated Index to Bikurei Ha’itim, the Hebrew Journal of the Haskalah in Galicia. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2005. xxiv, 379pp.

Pelli, Moshe. In Search of Genre: Hebrew Enlightenment and Modernity. Lanham, MD: The University Press of America, Inc., 2006. 361pp.

Pendelbury, Alyson. Portraying 'the Jew' in First World War Britain. Forward by Mark Levene. Portland, Oregon: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006. xii + 256 pp.

Pentiuc, Eugen J. Jesus the Messiah in the Hebrew Bible. New York: Paulist Press, 2006. xviii, 188pp.

Perry, T. A. The Honeymoon is Over: Jonah’s Argument with God. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2006. xxxvii, 250pp.

Piller-Greenspan, Ida, with Susan M. Branting. When the World Closed its Doors: Struggling to Escape Nazi-Occupied Europe. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2006. xxv, 174pp.

Platt, Anthony M. with Cecilia E. O’Leary. Bloodlines: Recovering Hitler’s Nuremberg Laws, From Patton’s Trophy to Public Memorial. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2006. xi, 268pp.

Purcell, Michael. Levinas and Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ix, 198pp.

Rabin, Elliot. Understanding the Hebrew Bible: A Reader’s Guide. Jersey City, NJ: KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2006. xv, 250pp.

Raphael, Marc Lee. Judaism in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. viii, 234pp.

Ray, Jonathan. The Sephardic Frontier: The Reconquista and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. x, 199pp.

Reed, Annette Yoshiko. Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: the Reception of Enochic Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii, 309 pp.

Reisman, Arnold. Turkey’s Modernization: Refugees from Nazism and Atatürk Vision. Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, LLC, 2006. xxvii, 571pp.

Reichman, Ronen. Trumah: Zur rabbinischen Literatur. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2006. vi, 202pp.

Rhine, Adam with Louise Temple. Hebrew Illuminations. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2006. xi, 99pp.

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

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

Roiphe, Anne. Water from the Well: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2006. 274pp.

Romain, Gemma. Connecting Histories: A Comparative Exploration of African-Caribbean and Jewish History and Memory in Modern Britian. London: Kegan Paul, 2006. viii, 273pp.

Rosenbloom, Joseph R. The Secret Bible: A Secular Approach to the Bible. St. Louis, MO: Sts. Jude, 2006. viii, 192pp.

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

Rothkirchen, Livia. The Jews of Bohemia & Moravia Facing the Holocaust. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, and Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2005. xvi, 442 pp.

Sacks, Jonathan. Rabbi Jonathan Sack’s Haggadah: Hebrew and English Text with New Essays and Commentary. New York: Continuum, 2006. 245pp.

Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman. Jewish With Feeling: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Practice. New York: Riverhead Books, 2005. xvi, 267pp.

Schwartz, Dov. Central Problems of Medieval Jewish Philosophy. Leiden: Brill, 2005.

Schwartz, Gary E. with William L. Simon. The G.O.D. Experiments: How Science is Discovering God in Everything, Including Us. New York: Atria Books, 2006. xi, 205pp.

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

Schwartz, Shuly Rubin. The Rabbi’s Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life. New York: The New York University Press, 2006. xiii, 311pp.

Serotte, Brenda. The Fortune Teller’s Kiss. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xii, 218pp.

Shaked, Gershon. The New Tradition: Essays on Modern Hebrew Literature. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2006. vii, 328pp.

Shapiro, Edward S. Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press. 2006. xvii, 352pp.

Sharon, Amnon. Sane in Damascus. Translated by Jessica Setbon. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 2006. x, 147pp.

Sharvit, Shimon. Language and Style of Tractate Avoth Through the Ages. Beer-Sheva, Israel: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2006. 279pp.

Shenhav, Yehouda. The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xiv, 263pp.

Shepkaru, Shmuel. Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds. New York: Oxford University Press. xii, 413 pp.

Shield, Renée Rose. Diamond Stories: Enduring Change on 47th Street. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiii, 233pp.

Shields, Martin A. The End of Wisdom: A Reappraisal of the Historical and Canonical Function of Ecclesiastes. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006. xiii, 250pp.

Shohat, Ella. Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xxi, 406pp.

Shternshis, Anna. Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. xxiii, 252pp.

Sigmund, Stefanie B. The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford, California. Stanford University Press, 2006. xix, 624 pp.

Sivertsev, Alexei.  Households, Sects, And the Origins of Rabbinic Judaism (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism) Leiden: Brill, 2005. 304 pp.

Silverman, Eric Kline. From Abraham to America: A History of Jewish Circumcision. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006. xxxii, 303pp.

Simmons, Erica B. Hadassah and the Zionist Project. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006. x, 241pp.

Skorr, Henry with Ivan Sokolov. Through Blood and Tears: Surviving Hitler and Stalin. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006. xxvi, 384pp.

Slezkine, Yuri. The Jewish Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. x, 438pp.

Smith, Steven B. Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xi, 256 pp.

Soloveitchik, Joseph B. Festival of Freedom: Essays on Pesah and the Haggadah. Edited by Joel B. Wolowelsky and Reuven Ziegler. New York: Ktav Publishing House, 2006. xv, 206pp.

Soloveitchik, Joseph B. Kol Dodi Dofek: Listen-My Beloved Knocks. Translated by David Z. Gordon. Yeshiva University, 2006. 114pp.

Solomon, Norman. Historical Dictionary of Judaism. Second Edition. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2006. xxxii, 535pp.

Sonnino, Piera. This Has Happened: An Italian Family in Auschwitz. Ann Goldstein, trans. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004. 218pp.

Soussloff, Catherine M. The Subject in Art: Portraiture and the Birth of the Modern. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xiii, 175pp.

Sperber, Daniel. Material Culture in Eretz-Israel during the Talmudic Period. Volume II. Israel: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Press, 2006. 185pp.

Steinweis, Alan E. Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. 203 pp.

Sten, Ephraim F. 1111 Days In My Life Plus Four. Moshe Dor, trans.Takoma Park, MD: Dryad Press, 2006. xix, 151pp.

Stern, Frank. A Rabbi Looks at Jesus’ Parables. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006. viii, 293pp.

Stow, Kenneth. Jewish Dogs: An Image and Its Interpreters. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xx, 321 pp

Suleiman, Susan Rubin. Crises of Memory and the Second World War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. x, 286pp.

Tabor, James D. The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006. 363pp.

Telushkin, Joseph. A Code of Jewish Ethics: Volume One: You Shall Be Holy. New York: Bell Tower, 2006. xiv, 559pp.

Teter, Magda. Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Belaeaguered Church in the Post-Reformation Era. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xix, 271 pp.

Tsoffar, Ruth. The Stains of Culture: An Ethno-Reading of Karaite Jewish Women. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006. xi, 245 pp.

Trunk, Isaiah. Lodz Ghetto: A History. Translated and edited by Robert Moses Shapiro. Introduction by Israel Gutman. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. lvii, 493pp.

Tucker, Ernest S. Nadir Shah’s Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006. xiv, 150pp.

Veracini, Lorenzo. Israel and Settler Society. London: Pluto Press, 2006. 154pp.

Volkov, Shulamit. Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii, 310 pp.

Walsch, Neale Donald. Home With God In a Life that Never Ends: A Wondrous Message of Love in a Final Conversation with God. New York: Atria Books, 2006. x, 326pp.

Weiner, Deborah R. Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. viii, 234pp.

Weiss, Jonathan. Irène Némirovsky: Her Life and Works. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. xiii, 200pp.

Wharton, Annabel Jane. Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Theme Parks. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xi, 272pp.

Whitney, K. William. Two Strange Beasts: Leviathan and Behemoth in Second Temple and Early Rabbinic Judaism. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006. xx, 213pp.

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