AJS Review • Books and Journals Received
September–October 2007

Books Received

Ascher, Abrham, A Community under Siege: The Jews of Breslau under Nazism, Stanford, Stanford University press, 2007. x, 324pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-5518-4

Appelbaum, Marian, Two Flags: Return to the Warsaw Ghetto, Jerusalem, Geffen Publishing house, 2007. vii, 360pp. ISBN 978-965229-356-5

Apple, Max, The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University press, 2007. 170pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8738-3

Astor, Yaakov, The Hidden Hand: Uncovering Divine Providence in Major events of the 2oth Century, New York, Judaica press, 2007. 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-932443-79-0

Bartov, Omer, Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present Day Ukraine, Princeton, Princeton University press, 2007. xvii, 232pp. ISBN 978-0-691-13121-4

Benvenisti, Meron, Son of the Cypresses: Memories, Reflection and Regrets from a Political Life, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California press, 2007. 253pp. ISBN 978-0-520-238251

Biale, David, Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol between Jews and Christians, Berkeley and Los Angels, University of California press, 2007. xiii, 299pp. ISBN 978-0-520-25304-9

Bloechl, Jeffrey (ed.), Levinas Studies: An Anuual Review, vol. 2, Pittsburgh, Duquesne University press, 2007. xiv, 250pp. ISBN 978-0-8207-0385-5

Boccaccini, Gabriele (ed.), Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables, Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans publishing, 2007. xv, 539pp. ISBN 978-0-8028-0377-1

Cappel, Ezra, American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction, New York, State university of New York Press, 2007. x, 233pp.ISBN 978-0-7914-7123-4

Cherry, Robert & Orla-Bukowska Annamaria, Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled past, Brighter Future, Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield publishers, 2007. xvii, 230pp.ISBN 978-0-7425-4666-0

Chiswick, Carmel U. et al (eds). Jewish Society and Culture: An Economic Perspective, Ramat Gan, Bar Ilan University press, 2007. 206.pp. ISBN 978-965-226-317-6

Conforti, Yitzhak, Zman Avar: Ha-historiographia ha-zionit ve-itzuv ha-zikaron ha-leumi [Past Tense: Zionist Historiography and the Shaping of National Memory], Jerusalem, Yad Ben Zvi, 2006. 332pp. ISBN 978-965-217-259-6

Crow, David M., The Holocaust: Roots, History and Aftermath, Boulder, Westview press, 2008. xii, 435pp. ISBN 978-0-8133-4325-9

Davis, Michael M. & Strawn, Brent A. (eds.), Qumran Studies: New Approaches, New Questions, Cambridge, Wm B. Eerdmans publishing, 2007. xxvii, 295pp. ISBN 978-0-8028-6080-4

Dector, Jonathan P., Iberian Jewish Literature: between al-Andalus and Christian Europe, Bloomington, Indiana University press, 2007. xiv, 303pp. ISBN 978-0-253-34913-2

Delany, Sheila (ed.), Turn it Again: Jewish Medieval Studies and Literary Theory, Eugene, Wipf and Stock publishers, 2004. 234pp. ISBN 978-1-55635-442-7

Faygenberg, Rokhl, Strange Ways (of fremde Vegn), Trans. Robert and Golda Werman, Jerusalem, Geffen publishing house, 2007. 191pp. ISBN 978-965-229-387-9

Fialkova, Larisa & Yelenevskaya, Maria, Ex-Soviets in Israel: From Personal Narratives to a Group Portrait, Detroit, Wayne University press, 2007. 373pp. ISBN 978-0-8143-3169-9

Finkelstain, Israel & Silverman, Neil A., David and Solomon: in Search of the Bible’s Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition, New York, Free press, 2006. 342pp. ISBN 978-0-7432-4363-6

Foxman, Abraham H., The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 256pp. ISBN 978-1-4039-8492-0

Goldberger, Moshe, Priorities in Tzedaka: Higher Forms of Giving, Brooklyn, The Judaica press, 2007, 160pp. ISBN 978-1-932-443-77-6

Goldin, Shmuel, Unlocking the Torah Text, An in-depth Journey into the Weekly Parasha: Bereishit, Jerusalem, Geffen publishing house, 2007. xxi, 312pp. ISBN 978-965-229-412-8

Good, Michael, The search for Major Plagge: The Nazi who Saved Jews, New York, Fordham University press, 2006. xii, 271pp. ISBN 978-0-8232-2441-8

Gubar, Susan, Poetry after Auschwitz: Remembering what one never Knew, Bloomington, Indiana University press, 2003. xxi, 313pp. ISBN 978-0-253-21887-2

Guyer, Sara, Romanticism after Auschwitz, Stanford, Stanford University press, 2007. xiii, 364pp. ISBN 978-8047-5524-5

Hagger, Nicholas, The Secret Founding of America: the Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, and the Battle for the New World, London, Watkins publishing, 2007. xviii, 334pp. ISBN 978-1-84293-140-0

Harshav, Benjamin, The Poliphony of Jewish Culture, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2007. vii, 285pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-5512

Hartman, Geoffrey, A scholar’s Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe, New York, Fordham University press, 2007. x, 195pp. ISBN 978-0-8232-2832-4

Hertz, Deborah, How Jews Became Germans: A History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin, New Haven, Yale University press, 2007. xii, 265pp. ISBN 978-0-300-11094-4

Kaminsky, Joel S., Yet I loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election, Nashville, Abingdon press, 2007. xii, 242pp. ISBN 978-0-687-02534-3

Kaplan, Edward K., Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, New Haven, Yale University press, 2007. xvi, 530pp. ISBN 978-0-300-11540-6

Katz, Nathan et al (eds.), Indo-Judaic Studies in the twenty-first Century: A View from the Margin, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. vi, 257pp. ISBN 978-1-4039-7629-1

Kravitz, Kathryn F. & Sharon, Diane M., Bringing Hidden to Light: Studies in honor of Stephan A. Geller, Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns, 2007. xvi, 304pp. ISBN 978-1-57506124-5

Kreisel. Chaim (Howard), Livyat-Hen le-Rabbi Levi ben Avraham: eichut ha-nevua’a ve-sodot ha-Torah [The Quality of Prophecy and the Secrets of the Torah], Be’er Sheva, Ben Gurion University press, 2007. lxxx, 1021pp. ISBN 978-965-342-936-1

Lapidus Lerner, Anne, Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash and Modern Jewish Poetry, Watham, Brandeis University press, 2007. xi, 238pp. ISBN 978-158465-533-4

Lassner, Jacob & Troen, S.Ilan, Jews and Muslims in the Arab World: Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined, Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield publishers, 2007. xvi, 392pp. ISBN 978-0-7425-5842-7

Lenhoff, Howard M., Black Jews, Jews and other Heroes, Jerusalem, Geffen Publishing house, 2007. xvi, 324pp. ISBN 978-965-229-365-7

Lev, Michael, Sobibor: A Documentary Novel of the Sobibor Uprising, Trans. Barnett Zumoff, Jerusalem, Geffen Publishing house, 2007. xviii, 278pp. ISBN 978-965229-408-1

Leveen, Adrian, Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers, New York, Cambridge University press, 2007. x, 244pp. ISBN 978-0-521-878-69-2

Loader, William, Enoch, Levi and Jubilees on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in the Early Enoch Literature, the Aramaic Levi Document and the Book of Jubilees, Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdamans publishing, viii, 350pp. ISBN 978-0-8028-2583-4

Marcus, Millicent, Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz, Toronto, University of Toronto press, 2007. xii, 187pp. ISBN 978-0-8020-9189-5

Morgan , Michael L. & Gordon, Peter E. (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy, New York, Cambridge University press, 2007. xx, 382pp. ISBN 978-0-521-01255-3

Morgan, Michael L., Discovering Levinas, New York, Cambridge University press, 2007. xxi, 504pp. ISBN 978-0-521-87259-1

Neusner, Jacob, Bologna Addresses and Other Recent Papers, Lanham, University press of America, 2007. viii, 291pp. ISBN 978-0-7618-3869-2

Neusner, Jacob, The Rabbinic Utopia: Studies in Judaism, Lanham, University press of America, 2007. xvi, 129pp. ISBN 978-0-7628-3883-8

Nicholson, Christopher, Richard and Adolf: Did Richard Wagner Incite Adolf Hitler to Commit the Holocaust?, Jerusalem, Geffen Publishing house, 2007. 474pp. ISBN 978-965-229-360-2

Novak, David, The Sanctity of Human Life, Washington D.C, Georgetown University press, 2007. xvi, 186pp. ISBN 978-158901-176-2

Ochs, Vanessa L., Inventing Jewish Ritual, Philadelphia, the Jewish publication society, 2007. xii, 276pp. ISBN 978-0-8256-0834-4

Prell, Riv-Ellen (ed.) Women Remaking American Judaism, Detroit, Wayne University Press, 2007. xii, 331pp. ISBN 978-0-8143-3280-1

Preuss, Monika, Gelehrte Juden: Lernen als Frömmigkeitsideal in der frühen Neuzeit, Göttingen, Wallenstein Verlag, 2007. 155pp. ISBN 978-3-8353-0183-2

Quint, Emanuel, A Restatement of Rabbinic Civil Law, Vol. XI, Jerusalem, Geffen publishing house, 2007. x, 246pp. ISBN 978-9-65229-375-6

Reich, Tova, My Holocaust: A Novel, New York, Harper Collins publishers, 2007. 325pp. ISBN 978-0-06-117345-5

Robinson, Ira, Rabbis in their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930, Alberta, University of Calgary press, 2007. xi, 166pp. ISBN 978-1-55238-186-1

Schad, Margit, Rabbiner Michael Sachs: Judentum als höhere Lebensanschauung, Hildesheim-Zürich, Georg Olms Verlag, 2007. 462pp. ISBN 978-3487-13415-4

Schwartz, Dov, Perush kadmon al-sefer ha-Kuzari: Heshek Shlomo le-Rabbi Shlomo ben Yehuda mi-Lonel [Commentary on the Kuzari: Heshek Shlomo by R. Shlomo b. Yehuda of Lunel – Annotated Critical edition with introduction], Ramat Gan, Bar Ilan University Press, 2007, 550pp. ISBN 978-965-226-304-4

Schwartz, Miriam, Yemenite Filigree, Trans. Marianne Madelung, Jerusalem, Geffen publishing house, 2007. 87pp. ISBN 978-965-229-376-3

Shay, Scott A., Getting our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry, New York, Deborah publishing, 2007. 304pp. ISBN 978-1-932687-85-9

Shimron, Gad, Mossad Exodus: The Daring Undercover Rescue of the Lost Jewish Tribe, Jerusalem, Geffen publishing house, 2007. 231pp. ISBN 978-965-229-403-6

Shreiber, Maeera Y., Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics, Stanford, Stanford University press, 2007. xi, 287pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-3429-5

Stansky, Peter, The First Day of the Blitz: September 7, 1940, New Haven, Yale University press, 2007. xii, 212pp. ISBN 978-0-300-12556-6

Steinberg, David, The Book of David, New York, Simon and Schuster, 2007. xii, 191pp. ISBN 978-0-7432-7232-2

Supple, Carrie, From Prejudice to Genocide: Learning about the Holocaust (3rd edition), Oakhill, Trentham books, 2006. xiv, 316pp. ISBN 978-1-85856-378-7

Ta-Shma, Israel M., Creativity and Tradition: Studies in Medieval Rabbinic Scholarship, Literature and Thought, Cambridge, Harvard University press, 2006. xvii, 238pp. ISBN 978-0-674-02393-2

The Zohar, Pritzker edition vol.IV, Translation and Commentary by Daniel C.Matt, Stanford, Stanford University press, 2007. xii, 576pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-5712-6

Tsuk-Mitchell Dalia, Architect of Justice: Felix S. Cohen and the Founding of American Legal Pluralism, Ithaca, Cornell University press, 2007. xi, 368pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-3956-8

Visotzky, Burton L., A Delightful Compendium of Consolation: A Fabulous Tale of Romance, Adventure and Faith in the Medieval Mediterranean, Teaneck, Ben Yehuda Press, 2007. 327pp. ISBN 978-1-934730-20-1

Watts, James W., Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus: From Sacrifice to Scripture, New York, Cambridge University press, 2007. xviii, 257pp. ISBN 978-1-8014-3956-8

Wertheimer, Jack (ed.), Family Matters: Jewish Education in the Age of Choice, Watham, Brandeis University press, 2007. xiv, 272pp. ISBN 978-15846-5636-4

Wiese, Christian, The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions, Watham, Brandeis University press, 2007. xiii, 260pp. ISBN 978-1584-656-38-8

Weiss Halivni, David, Breaking the Tablets: Jewish Theology after the Shoah, Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield publishers, 2007. xxix, 137pp. ISBN 978-0-7425-5220-3

Weitz, Eric D., Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, Princeton, Princeton University press, 2007. xi, 425pp. ISBN 978-0-691-01695-5

Wolfson, Elliot R., Footdreams and Treetales: Ninety-two Poems, New York, Fordham University press, 2007. xxiv, 110pp. ISBN 978-0-8232-2820-1