AJS Review • Books and Journals Received
February–June 2007

Books Received

Applefeld, Aharon. All Whom I Have Loved: A Novel. Translated by Aloma Halter. New York: Schocken Books, 2007. 246 pp.

Arendt, Hannah. The Promise of Politics. Edited by Jerome Kohn. New York: Schocken Books, 2005. xxxv, 218 pp.

---. The Jewish Writings. Edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman. New York: Schocken Books, 2007. lxxvi, 559 pp.

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

Benvenisti, Meron. Son of the Cypresses: Memories, Reflections, and Regrets from a Political Life. Translated by Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 253 pp.

Berland, Dinah, ed. Hours of Devotion: Fanny Neruda's Book of Prayers for Jewish Women. New York: Shocken Books, 2007. xlix, 290 pp.

Blumberg, Ilana M. Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among Books. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xvii, 177 pp.

Bobker, Joseph. I Didn't Know That: Torah News U can Use. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 2007. vii, 387 pp.

Braiterman, Zachary. The Shape of Revelation: Aesthetics and Modern Jewish Thought. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xxx, 300 pp.

Brauns, Jack. Recollections and Reflections: How I Turned Despair into an Appreciation of Life. The Library of Holocaust Testimonies. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007. xvi, 286 pp.

Brook, Kevin Alan. The Jews of Khazaria, 2 nd edition. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xii, 315 pp.

Cernea, Ruth Fredman. Almost Englishman: Bahdadi Jews in British Burma. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007. xxv, 175 pp.

Conforti, Yitzhak. Past Tense: Zionist Historiography and the Shaping of the National Memory. Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi, 2006. 332 pp. [Hebrew]

Diamant, Anita. Living a Jewish Life: Jewish Traditions, Customs, and Values for Today's Families. Revised ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2007. x, 308 pp.

Elukin, Jonathan. Living Together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. x, 193 pp.

Feingold, Henry L. “Silent No More”: Saving the Jews of Russia, The American Jewish Effort, 1967-1989. Modern Jewish History Series. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007. xv, 400 pp.

Fischer, Lars. The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvii 252 pp.

Freiberg, Dov. To Survive Sobibor. Translated by Barbara Doron. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 2007. 614 pp.

Gold, Ben-Zion. The Life of Jews in Poland Before the Holocaust: A Memoir. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xi, 152 pp.

Goodblatt. David. Elements of Ancient Jewish Nationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi, 260 pp.

Gruber, Ruth. Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story. New York: Schocken Books, 2007. xix, 256 pp.

Harvey, Graham and Robert J. Wallis. Historical Dictionary of Shamanism. Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements, 77. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, 2007. xx, 308 pp.

Hawkins, Peter S. and Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg. Scrolls of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. xxiii, 382 pp.

Hazan, Ephraim and Joseph Yahalom, eds. Studies in Hebrew Poetry and Jewish Heritage: In Memory of Aharon Mirsky. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2006. 480 pp. [Hebrew.]

Jackson-McCabe, Matt, ed. Jewish Christianity Reconsidered: Rethinking Ancient Groups and Texts. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007. x, 389 pp.

Jelen, Sheila E. Intimations of Difference: Dvora Baron in the Modern Hebrew Renaissance. Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007. xliii, 240 pp.

Kadish, Sharman. Jewish Heritage in England: An Architectural Guide. Swindon: English Heritage, 2006. xx, 220 pp.

Kaufman, Debra, Gerald Herman, James Ross, and David Phillips. From the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Holocaust Denial Trials: Challenging the Media, Law, and the Academy. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007. ix, 131 pp.

Klepper, Deeana Copeland. The Insight of Unbelievers: Nicholas of Lyra and Christian Readings of Jewish Text in the Later Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2007. 225 pp.

Knight, Christopher and Alan Butler. Solomon's Power Brokers: The Secrets of Freemasonry, the Church, and the Illuminati. London: Watkins Publishing, 2007. xiv, 306 pp.

Kremer, Roberta S., ed. Broken Threads: The Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry in Germany and Austria. Oxford: Berg, 2007. 128 pp.

Laskier, Michael M. Israel and Jewish Immigration from North America, 1948-1970. Sede Boqer: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2006. xi, 618 pp. [Hebrew]

Levinson, Joshua, Jacob Elbaum, Galit Hazan-Rokem, eds. Higayon L'Yona: New Aspects in the Study of Midrash, Aggadah, and Piyut. Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2006. 582 pp. [Hebrew]

Levitt, Matthew. Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xi, 324 pp.

Lindeman, Yehudi, ed. Shards of Memory: Narratives of Holocaust Survival. Westport, CT: Prager, 2007. xv, 222 pp.

Little, David, ed. Peacemakers in Action: Profiles of Religion in Conflict Resolution. Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvii, 503 pp.

Litvak, Olga. Conscription and the Search for Modern Russian Jewry. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xv, 273 pp.

Mandel, Naomi. Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust, and Slavery in America. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. xi, 278 pp.

Massill, Stephen W., ed. The Jewish Year Book 2007: A Record of the Organizations, People, and Events in the Contemporary Jewish World. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007. xxvi, 248 pp.

Miller, Marc. Representing the Immigrant Experience: Morris Rosenfeld and the Emergence of Yiddish Literature in America. Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007. xviii, 200 pp.

Miller, Stuart. Sages and Commoners in Late Antique ‘Erez Israel. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 111. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006. xii, 554 pp.

Myerhoff, Barbara. Stories as Equipment for Living: Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff. Ed. by Marc Kaminsky and Mark Weiss. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2007. xiv, 209 pp.

Nissimi, Hilda. The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: The Shaping of Religious and Communal Identity in their Journey from Iran to New York. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2007. xv, 180 pp.

Paldiel, Mordecai. The Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust. Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Publishing House and Yad Vashem, 2007. xii, 596 pp.

Pedaya, Haviva and Ephraim Meir, eds. Judaism, Topics, Fragments, Faces, Identities: Jubilee Volume in Honor of Rivka. Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2007. 819 pp. [Hebrew and English]

Piercy, Marge. Pesach for the Rest of us: Making the Passover Seder your own. New York: Schocken Books, 2007. 283 pp.

Polka, Brayton. Between Philosophy and Religion: Spinoza, the Bible, and Modernity-Volume 1: Hermeneutics and Ontology. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. xii, 277 pp.

---. Between Philosophy and Religion: Spinoza, the Bible, and Modernity-Volume 2: Politics and Ethics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. xv, 333 pp.

Pressner, Todd Samuel. Mobile Modernity: Germans, Jews, Trains. Cultures of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xi, 368 pp.

Proctor, Ben. William Randolph Hearst: The Later Years 1911-1951. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. x, 325 pp.

Ratzaby, Yehuda. Borrowed Motifs in Jewish Literature. Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2006. 509 pp. [Hebrew]

Rieger, Berndt. Creator of Nazi Death Camps: The Life of Odilo Globocnik. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007. xi, 244 pp.

Robinson, James T. Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Commentary on Ecclesiastes: The Book of the Soul of Man. Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism, 20. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007. x, 660 pp.

Rosen, Alan, ed. Approaches to Teaching Wiesel's Night. Approaches to Teaching World Literature. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2007. vi, 169 pp.

Rosenberg, Yudl. Golem, and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague. Translated and edited by Curt Leviant. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xxxvi, 219 pp.

Ross, Janice. Anna Halperin: Experience as Dance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xvi, 445 pp.

Samely, Alexander. Forms of Rabbinic Literature and Thought: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. vii, 279 pp.

Sander, Gordon F. The Frank Family that Survived. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. xix, 298 pp.

Sanua, Marianne R. Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee 1945-2006. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2007. xvi, 495 pp.

Schiffman, Lawrence and Joel B. Wolowelsky. War and Peace in the Jewish Tradition. The Orthodox Forum. New York: Yeshiva University Press, 2007. xxxviii, 552 pp.

Schwartz, Matthew B., and Kalman J. Kaplan, eds. The Fruit of Her Hands: A Psychology of Biblical Women. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2007. x, 197 pp.

Semi, Emanuela Trevisan. Jacques Faitlovitch and the Jews of Ethiopia. Translated by Sally Bennet. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007. xvii, 204 pp.

Shargel, Baila Round. Female Leadership in the American Jewish Community: Bessie Gotsfeld and the Mizrachi Women's Organization of America. Studies in Judaism. Lanham: University Press of America, 2007. xii, 177 pp.

Shrayer, Maxim D., ed. An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry. Volume 1, 1801-1953. Armonk, NY: M.E.

Sharpe, 2007. lxiv, 633 pp.

---, ed. An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry. Volume 2, 1953-2001. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. xvii, 641 pp.

Sicker, Martin. An Introduction to Judaic Thought and Rabbinic Literature. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007. xi, 172 pp.

Stein, Sarah Abrevaya. Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. xv, 311 pp.

Ulmer, Rivka, ed. Discussing Cultural Influences: Text, Context, and Non-Text in Rabbinic Judaism. Studies in Judaism. Lanham: University Press of America, 2007. viii, 248 pp.

Veidlinger, Jeffrey. The Moscow State Yiddish Theatre: Jewish Culture of the Soviet Stage. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. ix, 356 pp.

Waddell, Colette. Through the Eyes of a Survivor: A Living History of Nina Morecki from pre-WW II Poland to Modern America. Carpinteria, CA: Top Cat Press, 2007. xxiv, 503 pp.

Wiesel, Elie. The Time of the Uprooted: A Novel. Translated by David Hapgood. New York: Schocken Books, 2005. 300 pp.

Winter, Molly Crumpton. American Narratives: Multiethnic Writing in the Age of Realism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. ix, 204 pp.

Wistrich, Robert S. Laboratory for World Destruction: Germans and Jews in Central Europe. Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xiv, 404 pp.

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

Young, Brad H. Meet the Rabbis: Rabbinic Thought and the Teachings of Jesus. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2007. xxv, 270 pp.