AJS Review • Books Received
February 2008

Alexander-Frizer, Tamar, The Heart is a Mirror: The Sephardic Folktale, Detroit, Wayne University Press 2008, xii, 690pp. ISBN 978-0-8143-2971-9

Alfonso, Esperanza, Islamic Culture through Jewish Eyes: Al-Andalus from the tenth to the twelfth Century, New York, Routledge 2008, ix, 201pp. ISBN 978-0-415-43732-5

Aranoff Tuchman, Shera & Rapoport, Sandra E., Moses’ Women, Jersey City, Ktav Publishing house, xix, 329pp. ISBN 978-1-60280-017-5

Barkan, Elliot R. et al (eds.), From Arrival to Incorporation: Migrants to the U.S in the Global Era, New York, New York University Press 2008, ix, 310pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-9961-1

Berger, Yitzhak, The Commentary of R. David Kimhi to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, Providence, Brown Judaic Studies 2007, ix, 318pp. ISBN 978-1-930675-47-6

Blau, Rivkah (ed.), Gender Relationships in Marriage and Out, New York, Yeshiva University Press 2007, xxi, 298pp. ISBN 978-0-88125-971-1

Block, Irving, God, Rationality and Mysticism, Milwakee, Marquette University Press 2007, 214pp. ISBN 978-0-87462-751-0

Broyes, Michael & Von Glahn, Denise, Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices, Bloomington, Indiana University Press 2007, xvi, 392pp. ISBN 978-0-252-34894-4

Caputo, Nina, Nachmanides in Medieval Catalonia: History, Community and Messianism, Notre Dame, Notre Dame University Press 2007, vii, 317.pp. ISBN 978-0-268-02293-8

Carmilly-Weinbeger, Moshe, On three Continents: an Autobiography, EFES publishing house 2007, 267pp. ISBN 978-973-7677-79-2

Cochran, Robert F. Jr (ed.), Faith and Law: How Religious Traditions from Calvinism to Islam view American Law, New York, New York University Press 2008, ix, 299pp. ISBN 978-10-8147-1673-1

Cohen, Jonathan, Philosophers and Scholars: Wolfson, Guttman and Strauss on the History of Jewish Philosophy, London, Lexington books 2007, x, 323pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-1999-0

Cohen, Yosef & Simon, Uriel (eds.), Avraham Ibn Ezra: Yesod mora ve-Sod ha-Torah (The foundation of Awe and the Secret of the Torah), Bar Ilan University Press, Ramat Gan 2007, 272pp. ISBN 978-965-226-348-1

Cohen Skalli, Cedric (translator and editor), Isaac Abravanel: Letters, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter 2007, xiv, 191pp. ISBN 978-3-11-019-492-0

Cohen, Hillel, An Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism 1917-1948 (Translated by Haim Watzman), Berkeley, University of California Press 2008, viii, 344pp. ISBN 978-0-520-25221-9

Cuffel, Alexandra, Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic, Notre Dame, Notre Dame University Press 2007, xviii, 430pp. ISBN 978-0-268-02367-6

Ehrenreich, Eric, The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science and the Final Solution, Bloomington, Indiana University Press 2007, xx, 234pp. ISBN 978-0-253-34945-3

Farbstein, Esther, Hidden in Thunder: Perspectives on Faith, Halacha and Leadership during the Holocaust, Jerusalem, Mossad haRav Kook 2007, 398pp. ISBN 978-965-7265-05-5

K.E. Fleming, Greece: A Jewish History, Princeton, Princeton University Press 2008, xii, 271pp. ISBN 978-0-691-10272-6

Flusser, David, Judaism of the Second Temple Period, Vol.1: Qumran and Apocalypticism (Translated by Azzan Yadin, Foreword by David Bivin), Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans and Hebrew University, Magness Press 2007, xiii, 356pp. ISBN 978-0-8028-2469-1

Galchinsky, Michael, Jews and Human Rights: Dancing at three Weddings, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield 2008, x, 255pp. ISBN 978-0-7425-5267-8

Geller, Jay, Freud’s Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumstances, New York, Fordham University Press 2007, xii, 355pp. ISBN 978-0-8232-2782-2

Joseph B. Glass & Ruth Kark, Sephardi Entrepreneurs in Jerusalem: the Valero Family 1800-1948, Jerusalem, Geffen Publishing house 2007, 434pp. ISBN 978-965-22939-61

Goitein, S.D. & Friedman, Mordechai A., India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza (“India Book”), Leiden, Brill 2008, xxix, 918pp. ISBN 978-90-04-15472-8

Goldenberg, Robert, The Origins of Judaism: from Canaan to the Rise of Islam, New York, Cambridge University Press 2007, xi, 299pp. ISBN 978-0-521-60628-8

Goldschmidt, Hermann Levin, The Legacy of the German Jewry (Translation and introduction by Willi Goetschal & David Suchoff), New York, Fordham University Press 2007, 265pp. ISBN 978-0-8232-2826-3

Goodman, Lenn E., Love thy Neighbor as Yourself, New York, Oxford University Press 2008, xii, 235pp. ISBN 978-0-19-532882-0

Gordon, Robert p. (ed.), The God of Israel, New York, Cambridge University Press 2007, xvi, 304pp. ISBN 978-0-521-87365-9

Harshav, Benjamin, The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution, New Haven, Yale University Press 2008, xiii, 199pp. ISBN 978-0-300-11513-0

Alex P. Jassen, Mediating the Divine: Philosophy and Revelation in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism, Leiden, Brill 2007, xv, 443pp. ISBN 978-90-04-15842-9

Kaplan, Marion A., Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua, 1940-1945, New York, Museum of Jewish Heritage 2008, xiii, 255pp. ISBN 978-0-9716859-3-2

Katz, Shmuel, The Aaronson Saga, Jerusalem, Geffen Publishing house 2007, 362pp. ISBN 978-965-2294166

Knoppers, Gary N., & Levinson, Bernard M. (eds.), The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding its Promulgation and Acceptance, Winona Lake, Eisenbranus 2007, xvi, 352pp. ISBN 978-1-57506-140-5

Kolatch, Yonatan, Masters of the Word: Traditional Jewish Bible Commentary from the eleventh through the thirteenth Centuries (volume II), Jersey City, Ktav Publishing house 2007, xiv, 426pp. ISBN 978-0-88125-939-1

Krämer, Gudrun, A History of Palestine: from the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel, Princeton, Princeton University Press 2008, xii, 357pp. ISBN 978-0-691-11897-0

Levine, Michael J, The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony and the Question of Holocaust Survival, Stanford, Stanford University Press 2006, xii, 236pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-5555-9

Levitt Kohn, Risa & Moore, Rebecca, A Portable God: the Origin of Judaism and Christianity, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield 2007, xvii, 202pp. ISBN 978-0-7425-4465-9

Linett, Maren Tova, Modernism, Feminism and Jewishness, New York, Cambridge University Press 2007, xi, 229pp. ISBN 978-00-521-88097-8

Loentz, Elizabeth, Let me Continue to Speak the Truth: Bertha Pappenheim as Author and Activist, Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College Press 2007, x, 313pp. ISBN 978-0-87820-460

Lundquist, John M., The Temple in Jerusalem: Past, Present and Future, Westport, Praeger Publishers 2008, xviii, 298pp. ISBN 978-0-275-98339-0

Lupovitch, Howard N., Jews at the Crossroads: Tradition and Accommodation during the Golden Age of the Hungarian Nobility, 1729-1878, Budapest, Central European University Press 2007, xxviii, 277pp. ISBN 978-963-7326-66-0

Madigan, Kevin J. & Levenson Jon P., Resurrection: the Power of God of Christians and Jews, New Haven, Yale University Press 2008, xviii, 268pp. ISBN 978-0-300-12277-0

F. Rachel Magdalene, On the Scales of Righteousness: Neo-Babylonian Trial Law and the Book of Job, Providence, Brown Judaic Studies 2007, xiv, 365pp. ISBN 978-1-930675-44-5

Manekin, Charles (ed.), Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2007, xli, 256pp. ISBN 978-0-521-54951-6

Markish, Peretz, Inheritance (Yerushe), (Translated by Mary Schulman, edited by Mary Schulman, Joan Braman and David Weintraub, Foreword by Elie Wiesel) Toronto, TSAR publications 2007, xiv, 158pp. ISBN 978-1-894-77042-2

McReynolds, Susan, Redemption and the Merchant God: Dostoyevsky’s Economy of Salvation and Anti-Semitism, Evanston, Northwestern University Press 2008, 241pp. ISBN 978-0-8101-2439-4

Mettinger, Tryggre N.D., The Eden Narrative: A Literary and Religious Historical Study of Genesis 2-3, Winona Lake, Eisenbraus 2007, xvii, 165pp. ISBN 978-1-57506-141-2

Meyer, Michael A. (ed.), Joachim Prinz, Rebellious Rabbi: An Autobiography – the German and Early American Years, Bloomington, Indiana University Press 2008, xliii, 270pp. ISBN 978-0-253-34939-2

Monda, Antonio, Do you Believe? Conversations on God and Religion (Trans. Ann Goldstein), New York, Vintage Books 2006, xii, 178pp. ISBN 978-0-307-28058-9

Móricz, Klára, Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism and Utopianism in twentieth Century Music, Berkeley, University of California Press 2008, xvii, 436pp. ISBN 978-0-520-25088-8

Norich, Anita, Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish American Culture during the Holocaust, Stanford, Stanford University Press 2007, xiii, 215pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-5690-7

Pardes, Ilana, Melville’s Bibles, Berkeley, University of California Press 2008, xiii, 192pp. 978-0-520-25455-8

Pelli, Moshe, The Shadows of Death: Letters in Flames, Lanham, University Press of America 2008, 140pp. ISBN 978-0-7618-3915-6

Phayer, Michael, Pius XII, the Holocaust and the Cold War, Bloomington, Indiana University Press 2008, vi, 333pp. ISBN 978-0-253-34930-9

Rabinovich, Itamar & Reinhartz, Jehuda (eds.), Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics and Foreign Relations, pre-1948 to the Present (2nd edition), Waltham, Brandies University Press 2008, xv, 626pp. ISBN 978-0-87451-902-4

Rebenstein, Joshua & Altman, Ilya (eds.), The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German Occupied Soviet Territories, Bloomington, Indiana University Press 2008, xl, 446pp. ISBN 978-0-253-34961-3

Reeve, John (ed.), Sacred: Books of the three Faiths, London, The British Library 2007, 224pp. ISBN 978-0-7123-4955

Reitter, Paul, The Anti Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish self Fashioning in fin-de-siecle Europe, Chicago, University of Chicago Press 2008, xii, 254pp. ISBN 978-0-226-70970-3

Renton, James, The Zionist Masquerade: The Birth of the Anglo-Zionist Alliance 1914-1918, New York, Palgrave Mcmillan 2007, xi, 231pp. ISBN 978-0-230-54718-6

Rosentkranz, Moses, Childhood: an Autobiographical Fragment (Translated by David Dollenmager, introduction by Matthias Huff), Syracuse, Syracuse University Press 2007, xxx, 227pp. ISBN 978-0-81563178-1

Segal, Eliezer, In those Days at this Time: Holiness and History in the Jewish Calendar, Calgary, Calgary University Press 2007, xv, 324pp. ISBN 978-1-55238-185

Soloveitchik, Joseph, Abraham’s Journey: Reflections on the Life of the Founding Patriarch, Jersey City, Ktav Publishing house 2008, xv, 224pp. ISBN 978-1602-8000-45

Steinberg, Michael P., Judaism Musical and Unmusical, Chicago, University of Chicago Press 2007, x, 270pp. ISBN 978-0-226-77195-3

Sufian, Sandra M., Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist Project in Palestine, 1920-1947, Chicago, University of Chicago Press 2007, xviii, 385pp. ISBN 978-0-276-77935-5

Tahan, Ilana, Hebrew Manuscripts: the Power of Script and Image, London, The British Library 2007, 160pp. ISBN 978-0-7123-4921-5

Trunk, Isaiah, Lodz Ghetto: a History, (Translated and edited by Robert Moses Shapiro, Introduction by Israel Gutman), Bloomington, Indiana University press 2006, lvii, 493pp. ISBN 978-0-253-21993-0

Tsadik, Daniel, Between Foreigners and Shi’is: Nineteenth Century Iran and its Jewish Minority, Stanford, Stanford University Press 2007, xxi, 295pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-5458-3

Walls, Jerry L. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology, New York, Oxford University Press 2008, xviii, 724pp. ISBN 978-0-19-517049-8

Werrett, Ian C., Ritual Purity and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Leinden, Brill 2007, ix, 349pp. ISBN 978-90-04-15623-4

Wertheimer, Jack (ed.), The American Jewish Community, Waltham, Brandies University Press 2007, xiii, 346pp. ISBN 978-1-58465-670-8

Williamson, H.G.M, Understanding the History of Ancient Israel, New York, Oxford University Press 2007, xx, 432pp. ISBN 978-0-19-726401-0