AJS Review • Books and Journals Received
July–September 2007

Books Received

Baker, Colin F. Qur’an Manuscripts: Calligraphy, Illumination, Design. London: The
British Library, 2007. 112 pp.

Bergo, Bettina, Joseph Cohen, and Raphael Zagury-Orly, eds. Judeities: Questions for Jacques Derrida. Translated by Bettina Bergo and Michael B. Smith. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007. 279 pp.

Berkowitz, Michael. The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish
Criminality.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 312 pp.

Bodian, Miriam. Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian
World.
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007. 278 pp.

Clayton, John J. Wrestling with Angels: New and Collected Stories. London: The Toby Press, 2007. 616 pp.

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

Elior, Rachel. Jewish Mysticism: The Infinite Expression of Freedom. Portland: The
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007. 207 pp.

Fineberg, Michael, Shimon Samuels, and Mark Weitzman, eds. Antisemitism The
Generic Hatred: Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal.
Portland: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007. 329 pp.

Fram, Edward. My Dear Daughter: Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the Education of Jewish Women in Sixteenth-Century Poland. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press,
2007. 337 pp.

Gerson, Judith M. and Diane L. Wolf, eds. Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas. Durham: Duke University Press. 2007. 407 pp.

Glowacka, Dorota and Joanna Zylinska. Imaginary Neighbors: Mediating Polish-Jewish
Relations after the Holocaust.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. 337 pp.

Goldenberg, Myrna and Rochelle L. Millen. Testimony, Tensions, and Tikkun: Teaching the Holocaust in Colleges and Universities. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. 328 pp.

Gotzmann, Andreas and Christian Wiese, eds. Modern Judaism and Historical
Consciousness: Identities, Encounters, Perspectives
. Boston: Brill, 2007. 658 pp.

Greenberg, Gary. The Judas Brief: Who Really Killed Jesus? New York: Continuum,
2007. 282 pp.

Greenspoon, Leonard J. and Ronald A. Simkins. Studies in Jewish Civilization: American Judaism in Popular Culture. Omaha: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 270 pp.

Haar Ingo, and Michael Fahlbusch, eds. German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing, 1919-1945. New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. 298 pp.

Halperin, David J. Sabbatai Zevi: Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah. Portland: The
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007. 235 pp.

Hart, Mitchell B. The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 264 pp.

Hughes, Jon. Facing Modernity: Fragmentation, Culture, and Identity in Joseph Roth’s Writing in the 1920s. London: Maney Publishing, 2006. 195 pp.

Kalmin, Richard. Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2006. 285 pp.

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

Kaye, Melanie and Kantrowitz. The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical
Diasporism
. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007. 296 pp.

Klingbeil, Gerald A. Bridging the Gap: Ritual and Ritual Texts in the Bible. Winona
Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2007. 304 pp.

Lasker, Daniel J. Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages. Portland: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007. 283 pp.

Levin, Gail. Becoming Judy Chicago: A Biography of the Artist. New York: Harmony
Books, 2007. 485 pp.

Makovsky, Michael. Churchill’s Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2007. 342 pp.

Malena, Sarah and David Miano. Milk and Honey: Essays on Ancient Israel and the Bible in Appreciation of the Judaic Studies Program at the University of California,
San Diego
. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2007. 289 pp.

Mann, Vivian B. Art & Ceremony in Jewish Life: Essays in the History of Jewish Art.
London: The Pindar Press, 2005. 339 pp.

McKendrick, Scot and Kathleen Doyle. Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and
Scripture.
London: The British Library, 2007. 160 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Judaism in Contemporary Context: Enduring Issues and Chronic Crises. Portland: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007. 202 pp.

Paldiel, Mordecai. The Righteous Among the Nations. New York: Collins, 2007. 596 pp.

Raz-Krakotzkin, Amnon. The Censor, the Editor, and the Text: The Catholic Church and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon in the Sixteenth Century. Translated by Jackie Feldman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 314 pp.

Roth, Sol. The Jewish Idea of Ethics and Morality: A Covenantal Perspective. New York: Yeshiva University Press, 2007. 207 pp.

Ruderman, David B. Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth-Century England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 141 pp.

Schniedewind, William M. and Joel H. Hunt. A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture,
and Literature
. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 226 pp.

Sherwin, Byron L. Studies in Jewish Theology. Portland: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007. 354 pp.

Shmidman, Michael A., ed. Turim: Studies in Jewish History and Literature Presented to Dr. Bernard Lander, Volume One. New York: Touro College Press, 2007. 359 pp.

Spicer, Kevin P. C.S.C., ed. Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust.
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007. 329 pp.

Stauber, Roni. The Holocaust in Israeli Public Debate in the 1950’s. Portland: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007. 232 pp.

Taitz, Emily. Holocaust Survivors: A Biographical Dictionary (Vol. 1-2). Westport:
Greenwood Press, 2007. 675 pp.

Wacks, David A. Framing Iberia: Maqamat and Frametale Narratives in Medieval
Spain.
Boston: Brill, 2007. 279 pp.

Watts, James W. Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus: From Sacrifice to Scripture. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 257 pp.

Wiese, Christian. The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2007. 260 pp.

Wiese, Christian, ed. Redefining Judaism in an Age of Emancipation: Comparative
Perspectives on Samuel Holdheim (1806-1860)
. Boston: Brill, 2007. 423 pp.

Williams, Roland J. William’s Hebrew Syntax: Third Edition. Revised by John C.
Bechman. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 248 pp.

Winter, Leon de. Hoffman’s Hunger. London: The Toby Press, 2007. 303 pp.

Yuval, Israel Jacob. Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Berkeley: University of California Press,
2006. 313 pp.