AJS Review • Books Received
September 2008

Abramson, Glenda, Hebrew Writing of the First World War, Portland, Vallentine Mitchell, 2008, xxxviii, 405pp. ISBN 978-0-85303-771-2

Agushewitz, Reuven, Principles of Philosophy, Translated by Mark Steiner, Jersey City, Ktav Publishing House, 2008, xxxv, 196pp. ISBN 978-1-602-80024-3

Altshuler, Mordechai, Yahadut ba-machbesh ha-sovyeti (Judaism in the Soviet Vise: Between Religion and Jewish Identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964), Jerusalem, Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2007, 554pp, ISBN 978-965-227-225-6

Avineri, Shlomo, Herzl (Gedole ha-ruach ve-ha-Yetzira ba-am ha-yehudi series), Jerusalem, Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2007, 221pp. ISBN 978-965-227-230-0

Bartal, Israel & Feiner, Shmuel, Historiographia be-mivhan ha-zman: iyun mehudash be-mishnato shel Ya’akov Katz (Historiography Reappraised: New Views of Jacob Katz’s Oeuvre), Jerusalem, Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2008, 205pp. ISBN 978-965-227-2317

Ben Moshe, David, The Secret of the Jews: Letters to Nietzsche, Jerusalem, Geffen Publishing House, 2008, xvii, 269pp. ISBN 978-965-229-432-6

Besser, Yisroel, The Life and Legacy of Rabbi Shlomo Freifeld, forward by Benjie Brecher, Brooklyn, The Judaica Press, 2008, 344pp. ISBN 978-1-932443-3

Bloechl, Jeffrey (ed.), Levinas Studies: An Annual Review, vol.3, Pittsburgh, Duquesne University Press, 2008, xv, 240pp. ISBN 978-0-8207-0406-7

Bohak, Gideon, Ancient Jewish Magic: A History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008, ix, 483pp. ISBN 978-0-521-87457-1

Bostom, Andrew G. (ed.), The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: from Sacred Texts to Solemn History, New York, Prometheus Books, 2008, 766pp. ISBN 978-1-59102-554-2

Brandon, Ray & Lower, Wendy (eds.), The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorization, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2008, ix, 378pp. ISBN 978-0-253-35084-8

Dinnerstein, Leonard, The Leo Frank Case (revised edition), Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2008, xxi, 254pp. ISBN 978-0-8203-3179-9

Draitser, Emil, Shush! A Memoir: Growing up Jewish under Stalin, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2008, xiii, 301pp. ISBN 978-0-520-25446-6

Eldad, Israel, The First Tithe, Translated with Foreword and Notes by Zev Golan, Tel Aviv, Jabotinsky Institute in Israel, 2008, 420pp. ISBN 978-965-416-015-5

Feldman, Ilana, Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967, Durham, Duke University Press, 2008, xii, 324pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4240-3

Feuerman, Ruchama K. (ed.), Everyone’s got a Story: 41 Short Stories from a New Generation of Jewish Writers, Brooklyn, The Judaica Press, 2008, 411pp. ISBN 978-1-932443-93-6

Frank, Daniel & Goldfish, Matt, Rabbinic Culture and its Critics: Jewish Authority, Dissent and Heresy in the Medieval and Early Modern Times, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, xv, 2008, 480pp. ISBN 978-0-8143-3237-5

Ganz, Chaim, A Just Zionism: on the Morality of the Jewish State, New York, Oxford University Press, 2008, viii, 166pp. ISBN 978-0-19-534068-6

Goldstein, Baruch G., For Decades I was Silent: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey Back to Faith, Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, 2008, xii, 192pp. ISBN 978-0-8173-1619-8

Gutfreund, Amir, The World a Moment Later, Translated by Jessica Cohen, New Milford, Toby Press, 2008, ix, 497pp. ISBN 978-1-59264-251-9

Henkin, Joshua, Matrimony: a Novel, New York, Vintage books, 2007, 290pp. ISBN 978-0-307-27716-9

Kark, Ruth, Shilo Margalit & Hasan-Rokem, Galit (eds.), Jewish Women in pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics and Culture, Waltham, Brandies University Press, 2008, xi, 432pp. ISBN 978-1-58465-703-3

Kaufman, William D., The Day my Mother Changed her Name and Other Stories, Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 2008, xviii, 190pp. ISBN 978-0-815-609-32-2

Kraemer, Joel L., Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds, New York, Doubleday, 2008, 406pp. ISBN 978-0-385-51199-5

Jonas, Hans, Memoirs, edited and annotated by Christian Wiese, translated by Krishna Winston, Waltham, Brandeis University Press, 2008, xvii, 314pp. ISBN 978-1584-65-639-5

Jospe, Raphael, Jewish Philosophy: Foundations and Extensions, Vol.1: General Questions and Considerations, Lanham, University Press of America, 2008, xxiv, 236pp. ISBN 978-0-7618-4062-6

Jospe, Raphael, Jewish Philosophy: Foundations and Extensions, Vol.2: on Philosophers and their Thought, Lanham, University Press of America, 2008, xviii, 251pp. ISBN 978-0-7618-4063-6

Lavie, Aliza (ed.), A Jewish Woman’s Prayer Book, New York, Spiegel and Grau, 2008, xii, 425pp. ISBN 978-0-385

Laor, Dan, S.Y. Agnon (Gedole ha-ruach ve-ha-Yetzira ba-am ha-yehudi series), Jerusalem, Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2008, 205pp. ISBN 978-965-227-238-6

Levinson, Julian, Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literacy Culture, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2008, x, 239pp. ISBN 978-0-253-35081-7

McClymond, Kathryn, Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, x, 216pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8776-5

Medved, David, Hidden Light: Science Secrets of the Bible, New Milford, Maggid Books, 2008, xiii, 170pp. ISBN 978-1-592649185-7

Neusner, Jacob, The Treasury of Judaism: vol.1: The Calendar, Lanham, University Press of America, 2008, xxviii, 228pp. ISBN 978-0-7618-4047-3

Neusner, Jacob, The Treasury of Judaism: vol.2: The Life Cycle, Lanham, University Press of America, 2008, xxviii, 272pp. ISBN 978-0-7618-4048-0

Neusner, Jacob, The Treasury of Judaism: vol.3: Theology, Lanham, University Press of America, 2008, xxx, 404pp. ISBN 978-0-7618-4049-7

Nuland, Sherwin B., Maimonides, New York, Schocken Books, 2005, xv, 236pp. ISBN 978-0-8052-1150-4

O’Mahony, Mike, Sergei Eisenstein (Critical Lives series), London, Reaktion Books, 2008, 219pp. ISBN 978-1-86189-367-3

Oppenheimer, Aharon, Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi (Gedole ha-ruach ve-ha-Yetzira ba-am ha-yehudi series), Jerusalem, Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2007, 205pp. ISBN 978-965-227-228-0

Pinsky, Robert, The Life of David, New York, Schocken Books, 2005, xx, 217pp. ISBN 978-0-8052-1153-5

Po-Chia Hsia, R. (ed.), Christianity: Reform and Expansion, 1500-1660, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007, xxi, 749pp. ISBN 978-0-521-81162-0

Putnam, Hilary, Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2008, x, 121pp. ISBN 978-0-253-35133-3

Rothenberg, Celia A. & Vallely, Anne (eds.), New Age Judaism, Portland, Vallentine Mitchell, 2008, xii, 96pp. ISBN 978-0-85303-860-3

Rosenfeld, Alvin H., The Writer Uprooted: Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2008, xvi, 254pp. ISBN 978-0-253-21981-7

Roskies, David G., Yiddish Lands: a Memoir, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2008, 225pp. ISBN 978-0-8143-3397-6

Saxe, Leonard & Chazan, Barry, Ten days of Birthright Israel: A Journey in Young Adulthood, Waltham, Brandeis University Press, 2008, 223pp. ISBN 978-1-58465-541-1

Schimmel, Solomon, The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs: Fundamentalism and the Fear of Truth, New York, Oxford University Press, 2008, viii, 282pp. ISBN 978-0-19-518826-4

Segev, Zohar, Mi-politikaim etni’im le-manhigim le’umi’im (From Ethnic Politicians to National Leaders: American Zionist Leadership, the Holocaust and the Establishment of Israel), Be’er Sheva, Ben Gurion University Press, 2007, 349pp. ISBN 978-965-510-055-6

Shapiro, Edward S (ed.), Yiddish in America: Essays on Yiddish Culture in the Golden Land, Scranton, University of Scranton Press, 2008, xix, 206pp. ISBN 978-1589-661-370

Shapiro, Marc B., Studies in Maimonides and his Interpreters, Scranton, University of Scranton Press, 2008, xv, 172. ISBN 978-1589-661-653

Soloveitchik, Haym, Ha-yayin biyemei ha-benaim: Yeyn nesekh – perek betoldot ha-halcha be-Ashkenaz (Wine in Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages: A Study in the History of Halakha), Jerusalem, Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2008, viii, 469pp. ISBN 978-965-227-232-4

Strauss, Lauren B. & Brenner, Michael (eds.), Mediating Modernity: Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2008, xi, 380pp. ISBN 978-0-8143-3395-2

Van Rahden, Till, Jews and Other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860-1925, Traslated by Marcus Brainard, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2008, viii, 477pp. ISBN 978-0-29922694-7

Westphal, Merold, Levinas and Kierkegaard in Dialogue, Bloomington, University of Indiana Press, 2008, xiii, 185pp. ISBN 978-0-253-21966-4

Yellin, Tamar, Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes, New Milford, Toby Press, 2008, 156pp. ISBN 978-1-59264-213-7