AJS Review • Books and Journals Received
January–February 2007

Books Received

Acocella, Joan. Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays. New York: Pantheon Books, 2007. xvii, 524 pp.

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

Biskupski, Mieczyslaw B., and Antony Polonsky, eds. Polish-Jewish Relations in North America. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 19. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007. xvi, 653 pp.

Bloom, Lisa E. Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art: Ghosts of Ethnicity. New York: Routledge, 2006. xiv, 188 pp.

Blumenthal, David R. Philosophic Mysticism: Studies in Rational Religion. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2006. xvi, 260 pp.

Buhle, Paul, ed. Jews and American Popular Culture Volume One: Movies, Radio, and Television. Praeger Perspectives. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007. xviii, 279 pp.

---, ed. Jews and American Popular Culture Volume Two: Music, Theatre, Popular Art and Literature. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007. xiv, 368 pp.

---, ed. Jews and American Popular Culture Volume Three: Sports, Leisure, and Lifestyle. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007. xiv, 283 pp.

Carmichael, Calum. Illuminating Leviticus: A Study of Its Laws and Institutions in the Light of Biblical Narratives. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. x, 212 pp.

Chazan, Robert. The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom: 1000-1500. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv, 342 pp.

Cole, Peter trans. and ed. The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain 950-1492. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xxiv, 548 pp.

Elon, Emuna. If You Awaken Love: A Novel. Translated by David Hazony. London: The Toby Press, 2007. 229 pp.

Fraade, Steven D., Aharon Shemesh, and Ruth A. Clements, eds. Rabbinic Perspectives: Rabbinic Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, volume LXII. Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 7-9 January, 2003. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xi, 211 pp.

Friend, Robert, trans. Found in Translation: Modern Hebrew Poets, a Bilingual Edition. Selected by Gabriel Levin. London: The Toby Press, 2006. 211 pp.

Feldestein, Ariel L. Ben-Gurion, Zionism and American Jewry: 1948-1963. Israeli History, Politics, and Society 45. London: Routledge, 2006. xvi, 215 pp.

Geaves, Ron. Key Words in Judaism. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2006. viii, 98 pp.

Good, Michael. The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi who Saved Jews. expanded ed. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. xii, 271 pp.

Greenfield, Hana. Fragments of Memory: From Kolin to Jerusalem. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 1998. 167 pp.

Hasian, Marouf A. Jr. Rhetorical Vectors of Memory in National and International Holocaust Trials. East Lansing: Michigan University Press, 2006. x, 236 pp.

Himmelfarb, Milton. Jews and Gentiles. Edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb. New York: Encounter Books, 2007. xiv, 273 pp.

Kaplan, Danny. The Men We Loved: Male Friendship and Nationalism in Israeli Culture. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. xiv, 175 pp.

Katz, Steven T., Shlomo Biderman, and Gershon Greenberg, eds. Wrestling with God: Jewish Theological Responses During and After the Holocaust. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii, 689 pp.

Koltun-Fromm, Ken. Abraham Geiger's Liberal Judaism: Personal Meaning and Religious Authority. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. x, 180 pp.

Kugelmass, Jack, ed. Jews, Sports, and the Rights of Citizenship. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. viii, 232 pp.

Lesser, Wendy. Room for Doubt. New York: Pantheon Books, 2007. x, 205 pp.

Levine, Amy-Jill. The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2006. 250 pp.

McGlothlin, Erin. Second Generation Holocaust Literature: Legacies of Survival and Perpetration. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006. viii, 254 pp.

Miller, Stuart S. Sages and Commoners in Late Antique ‘Erez Israel: A Philological Inquiry into Local Traditions in Talmud Yerushalmi. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 111. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2006. 566 pp.

Morris, Daniel. The Poetry of Louise Gluck: A Thematic Introduction. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. xi, 274 pp.

Nemirovsky, Dalit, ed. City Guide: Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv: Crossfields Publishing, 2006. 152 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Rabbi Jeremiah. Studies in Judaism. Lanham: University Press of America, 2007. xi, 141 pp.

---. How the Halakhah Unfolds, Volume II, Part A: Nazir in the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi and Bavli. Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007. viii, 249 pp

---. How the Halakhah Unfolds, Volume II, Part B: Nazir in the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi and Bavli. Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007. 592 pp.

---. How the Halakhah Unfolds, Volume III, Part A: Abodah Zarah in the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi and Bavli. Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007. 289 pp.

---. How the Halakhah Unfolds, Volume III, Part B: Abodah Zarah in the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi and Bavli. Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007. viii, 450 pp.

Nickelsburg, George W. Resurrection, Immortality, and Eternal Life in Intertestamental Judaism and Early Christianity. Harvard Theological Studies, 56. expanded ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Nissel, Rebecca Liebermann. We Are Still Here: Memoirs of a Child of Survivors. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 2006. 183 pp.

Noy, Chaim. A Narrative Community: Voices of Israeli Backpackers. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007. xii, 238 pp.

Oppenheim, Michael. Jewish Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Narrating the Interhuman. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2006. xi, 261 pp.

Patterson, David. Open Wounds: The Crisis of Jewish Thought in the Aftermath of the Holocaust. The Pastora Goldner Series in Post-Holocaust Studies. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. xii, 338 pp.

Pryce-Jones, David. Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews. New York: Encounter Books, 2006. xi, 171 pp.

Sacks, Jonathan. To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility. New York: Schocken, 2005. viii, 280 pp.

Shaked, Gershon. Modern Hebrew Literature: Culture and Conflict. Number 3, New Series, Autumn/Winter. London: The Toby Press, 2006/2007. xii, 221 pp.

Shapiro, Lamed. The Cross and Other Jewish Stories. Edited by Leah Garrett. New Yiddish Library Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 272 pp.

Silver, Mitchell. A Plausible God: Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. xviii, 184 pp.

Ska, Jean-Louis. Intro to Reading the Pentateuch. Translated by Sr. Pascale Dominique. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006. xvi, 285 pp.

Williams, Megan Hale. The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. x, 315 pp.

Wolf, Diane L. Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children and Postwar Families in Holland. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xii, 391 pp.

Yizhar, S. Preliminaries. Translated by Nicholas de Lange. London: The Toby Press, 2007. 289 pp.

Journals Received:

Studia Judaica XIV. “Dr. Moshe Carmilly” Institute For Hebrew and Jewish History. Cluj-Napoca, Romania: “Babes-Bolyai” University, 2006. 436 pp.

Pathways Through Aggadah: A Journal of the Center for Teaching Aggadah. [Hebrew.] Volume 6. Jeruslaem: Efrata Teachers College, 2003. 166 pp.

Pathways Through Aggadah: A Journal of the Center for Teaching Aggadah. [Hebrew.] Volume 7-8. Jeruslaem: Efrata Teachers College, 2004-5. 233 pp.

Pathways Through Aggadah: A Journal of the Center for Teaching Aggadah. [Hebrew.] Volume 9. Jeruslaem: Efrata Teachers College, 2006. 263 pp.