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AJS Review • Books Received Abramovitch, Stanley. From Survival to Revival: A Memoir of Six Decades in a Changing Jewish World. Jerusalem, Gefen Publishing House, 2008. xxiv, 285pp. ISBN 978-965-229-361-9 Appel, Allan. The Hebrew Tutor of Bel Air. Minneapolis, Coffee House Press, 2009, 259pp. ISBN forthcoming Bender, Sara, The Jews of Bialystok: During World War II and the Holocaust, trans. Yaffa Murciano, Waltham, Brandeis University Press, 2008, xii, 384pp. ISBN 978-1-58465-729-3 Ben-Dror, Graciela. The Catholic Church and the Jews: Argentina, 1933-1945, Forward by Hain Avni. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xii, 266pp. ISBN 978-0-8032-1889-5 Ben-Ur, Aviva. Sephardic Jews in America, A Diasporic History. New York, New York University Press, 2009, x, 319pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-9982-6 Berman, Joshua A., Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008. xiv, 249pp. ISBN 978-0-19-537470-4 Berman, Lila Corwin. Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2009. xii, 266pp. ISBN 978-0-520-25681-1 Bernstein, Matthew H.. Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television. Athens, The University of Georgia Press, 2009. xv, 332pp. ISBN 978-0-8203-3239-9 Blech, Benjamin and Doliner, Roy. The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo’s Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 2008, xvi, 320pp. ISBN 978-0-06-146905-3 Buxbaum, Yitzhak. The Life and Teachings of Hillel. Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1994, ix, 376pp. ISBN 978-1-56821-049-0 Chalcraft, John. The Invisible Cage: Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2009. xv, 310pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-5825-3 Dashefsky, Arnold and Lazerwitz Bernard. Charitable Choices: Philanthropic Decisions of Donors in the American Jewish Community. Lanham, Lexington Books, 2009. xi, 155pp. ISB 978-0-7391-0987-8 Dodds, Jerrilynn D. et al., The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2008, xiii, 395p. ISBN 978-0-300-10609-1 Davis, Ellen F.. Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible. Forward by Wendell Berry. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi, 234pp. ISBN 978-0-521-73223-9 Dorleac, Laurence Bertrand. Art of the Defeat: France 1940-1944, trans. Jane Marie Todd. forward by Serge Guilbaut. Los Angeles, The Getty Research Institute, 2008, xiii, 431pp. ISBN 978-0-89236-891-4 Eber, Irene, ed., trans. and intr. Voices from Shanghai: Jewish Exiles in Wartime China. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008, 142pp. ISBN 978-0-226-18166-0 Efron, John et al.. The Jews: A History. Upper Sadler River, NJ, Pearson Education, Inc., 2009. xxi, 442pp. ISBN 978-0-13-178687-5 Einbinder, Susan L.. No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 267pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4115-0 Eisenberg, Ellen M.. The First to Cry Down Injustice?: Western Jews and Japanese Removal During WWII. Lanham, Lexington Books, 2008. xxi, 179pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-1381-3 Enquist, Anna, A Leap, trans. Jeannette K. Ringold. New Milford, The Toby Press, 2009. 84pp. ISBN 978-1-59264-258-8 Epstein, Barbara. The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2008. xiv, 351pp. ISBN 978-0-520-24242-5 Estraikh, Gennady. Yiddish in the Cold War, edited by author. London, Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2008. xii, 178pp. ISBN 9-781-906540-05-0 Feige, Michael. Settling in the Hearts: Jewish Fundamentalism in the Occupied Territories. edited by Dan Ben-Amos. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2009. x, 328pp. ISBN 978-0-8143-2750-0 Fishbane, Michael. Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008, xiv, 238pp. ISBN 978-0-226-25171-4 Fitzmyer, Joseph A.. A Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2008, xvii, 302pp. ISBN 978-0-8028-6241-9 Frankel, Jonathan. Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews, with acknowledgments by Edith Rogovin Frankel. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009. ix, 324pp, ISBN 978-0-521-51364-7 Fredriksen, Paula. Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism. New York, DoubleDay, 2008. xxiii, 488pp. ISBN 978-0-385-50270-2 Freund, Richard A.. Digging Through the Bible: Understanding Biblical People, Places, and Controversies through Archaeology. Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009, xii, 381pp. ISBN 978-0-7425-4644-8 Frühauf, Tina. The Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, x, 284pp. ISBN 978-0-19-533706-8 Gartner, Lloyd P.. American and British Jews in the Age of the Great Migration, with forward by Aubrey Newman. London, Vallentine Mitchell, 2009. Xiii, 290pp. ISBN 978-0-85303-782-8 Genack, Menachem, ed.. The Seder Night: An Exalted Evening, The Passover Haggadah with a Commentary Based on the Teachings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. New York, Ou Press, 2009, xi, 203pp. ISBN 978-1-60280-118-9 Gershman, Norman H.. BESA: Muslims Who Saved Jews in World War II, forward by Mordecai Paldiel, Introduction by Akbar Ahmed. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 2008, xxi, 121pp. ISBN 978-0-8156-0934-6 Gibson, Shimon. The Final Days of Jesus: The Archaeological Evidence. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 2009. xvi, 239pp. ISBN 978-0-06-145848-4 Gillman, Abigail. Viennese Jewish Modernism: Freud, Hofmannsthal, Beer-Hofmann, and Schnitzler. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. x, 225pp. ISBN 978-0-271-03409-6 Gold, Nili Scharf. Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel’s National Poet. Waltham, Brandeis University Press, 2008. xiii, 445pp. ISBN 978-1-58465-733-0 Golden, Shmuel. Unlocking the Torah Text: An In-Depth Journey into the Weekly Parsha. Jerusalem, Gefen Publishing House, 2008. xix, 363pp. ISBN 978-965-229-449-4 Goldish, Josette Capriles. Once Jews: Stories of Caribbean Sephardim. Princeton, Markus Wiener Publishers, 2009. xv, 332pp. ISBN 978-1-55876-493-4 Goodwin, Martin. Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations. New York, Vintage Books, Inc. 2007. xiv, 598pp. ISBN 978-0-375-72613-2 Gurock, Jeffrey S., Orthodox Jews in America. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2009. x, 381pp. ISBN 978-0-253-22060-8 Hasak-Lowy, Todd. Here and Now: History, Nationalism, and Realism in Modern Hebrew Fiction. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press. 2008, xlv, 176pp. ISBN 978-0-8156-3157-6 Haus, Jeffrey. Challenges of Equality: Judaism, State, and Education in Nineteenth-Century France. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2009. ix, 230pp. ISBN 978-0-8143-3380-8 Hughes, Aaron W.. The Art of Dialogue in Jewish Philosophy. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2008, 234pp. ISBN 978-0-253-34982-8 Hunwick, John. Jews of Saharan Oasis: Elimination of the Tamantit Community. Princeton, Markus Wiener Publishers, 2006. vii, 91pp. ISBN 978-1-55876-345-6 Hyman, Arthur and Ivry, Alfred (eds.). Maimonidean Studies, preface by Alfred Ivry, introduction by Arthur Hyman. New York, Yeshiva University Press. 2008, xvii, 442pp. ISBN978-0-88125-941-4 Inbari, Motti. Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount: Who Will Build the Third Temple?. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2009. viii, 211pp. ISBN 978-1-4384-2624-2 Kanaaneh, Rhoda Ann. Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2009, 213pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-5858-1 Katz, Nathan. Spiritual Journey Home: Eastern Mysticism to the Western Wall. Jersey City, KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2009, xvii, 168pp. ISBN978-1-60280-116-5 Kelan, Ari Y.. Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2009. xvii, 279pp. ISBN 978-0-520-25573-9 Kessler, Edward and Wenbor, Neil (eds.). A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxix, 507pp. ISBN 978-0-521-73078-5 Kessner, Carole S.. Marie Syrkin: Values Beyond the Self. Waltham, Brandeis University Press, 2008. xii, 479pp. ISBN 978-1-58465-451-3 Kligman, Mark L.. Maqam and Liturgy: Ritual, Music, and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn.Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2009, xiv, 267pp. ISBN 978-0-8143-3216-0 Kramer, Clara and Glantz, Stephen. Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival. New York, HarperCollins Publishers. 2009, xii, 339pp. ISBN 978-0-06-172860-0 Labiner, Norah. German for Travelers: A Novel in 95 Lessons. Minneapolis, Coffee House Press, 2009. 252pp. ISBN 978-1-56689-223-0 Lang, Berel. Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence, edited by Jehuda Reinharz and Sylvia Fuks Fried. Waltham, MA, Brandeis University Press, 2009. xv, 234pp. ISBN 978-1-58465-741-5 Lapid, Shulamit. Valley of Strength, trans. Philip Simpson, New Milford, CT, The Toby Press, 2009. 349pp. ISBN978-1-59264-230-4 Levine, Michael G.. The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival. edited by Mieke Bal and Hant de Vries, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2006. xii, 236pp. ISBN 0-8047-5555-8 Levinson, Bernard M.. Legal Revisions and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel, forward by Jean Louis Ska. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008, xxvi, 206pp. ISBN 978-0-521-51344-9 Magid, Shaul. From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2008. xii, 349pp. ISBN 978-0-253-35088-6 Mahlendorf, Ursula. The Shame of Surviving: Working Through a Nazi Childhood. University Park, Penn State University Press, 2009. 346 pp. ISBN 978-0-271-03447-8 Mandell, Sherri. The Blessing of a Broken Heart. New Milford, The Toby Press, 2009. 235pp. ISBN978-1-59264-151-2 Mason, Steve. Josephus, Judea, and Christian Origins: Methods and Categories, preface and with editorial assistance by Michael W. Helfield, Peabody, Hendrickson Publishers, 2009. xx, 443pp. ISBN 975-1-59856-254-5 McGinity, Keren R.. Still Jewish: A History of Women and Intermarriage in America. New York, New York University Press, 2009. xviii, 305pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-5730-7 Mendelson, Alan. Exiles From Nowhere: The Jews and the Canadian Elite. Montreal, Robin Brass Studio, 2008. xviii, 411pp. ISBN 978-1-896941-55-4 Myers, David N.. Between Jew & Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz. Waltham, Brandeis University Press, 2008. x, 308pp. ISBN 978-1-58465-736-1 Nadler, Steven and Rudavsky, T. M. (eds.). The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century, Introduction by editors. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 2009, xi, 904pp. ISBN 978-0-521-84323-2 Neusner, Jacob. Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism (Second Series): More Questions and Answers. Lanham, University Press of America, 2009. viii, 272pp. ISBN 978-0-7618-4401-3 Neusner, Jacob (trans.). Sifre Zutta to Numbers: Studies in Judaism. Lanham, University Press of America, 2009, viii, 268pp. ISBN 978-0-7618-4403-7 Parfitt, Tudor. The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500-Year-Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. 380pp. ISBN 978-0-06-137104-2 Panken, Aaron D.. The Rhetoric of Innovation: Self-Conscious Legal Change in Rabbinic Literature. Lanham, University Press of America, 2005. xxxi, 373pp. ISBN 0-7618-3166-5 Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan. The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukranian Jew. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009. xv, 344p. ISBN 978-0-300-13731-6 Pfeffer, Jeremy I., ‘From One End of the Earth to the Other’: The London BET DIN, 1805-1855, And the Jewish Convicts Transported to Australia, Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 2008, vii, 355pp. ISBN 978-1-84519-293-8 Polland, Annie. Landmark of the Spirit: The Eldridge Street Synagogue, forward by Bill Moyers. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009. xvii, 164pp. ISBN978-0-300-12470-5 Pollock, Benjamin. Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiii, 338pp. ISBN 978-0-521-51709-6 Radosh, Allis and Radosh, Ronald. A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel. New York, Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. xiii, 428pp. ISBN 978-0-06-059463-3 Ravikovitch, Dahlia. Hovering at a Low Altitude, trans. Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. 271pp. ISBN 978-0-393-06524 Rochelson, Meri-Jane. A Jew in the Public Arena: The Career of Israel Zangwill. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2008, xxvi, 317pp. ISBN 978-0-8143-3344-0 Rose, Alison. Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna. Austin, University of Texas Press, 2008, xi, 314pp. ISBN 978-0-292-71861-6 Rustow, Marina. Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2008, xxxv, 435pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4582-8 Saposnik, Arieh Bruce. Becoming Hebrew: The Creation of a Jewish National Culture in Ottoman Palestine. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, ix, 314pp. ISBN 978-0-19-533121-9 Sapper, Manfred et al. (eds.). Osteuropa: Impulses for Europe: Tradition and Modernity in East European Jewry, editorial by Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel and Anna Lipphardt, foreward by Gabriele Freitag. Berlin, German Association for Eastern European Studies in Berlin, 2008. 326pp. ISBN 978-3-8305-1556-2 Schiff, William and Rosalie and Hanley, Craig. William and Rosalie: A Holocaust Testimony, with preface by Craig Hanley. Denton, University of North Texas Press, 2007. vii, 165pp. ISBN 978-1-57441-261-1 Schroeder, Gerald L.. God According to God: A Physicist Proves We’ve Been Wrong About God All Along. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 2009. vi, 249pp. ISBN 978-0-06-171015-5 Segre, Augusto, Memories of Jewish Life: From Italy to Jerusalem, 1918-1960, trans and introduction by Steve Siporin, forward by Tamar Segre and Daniel Segre, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2008, xxviii, 507pp. ISBN 978-0-8032-1378-4 Shandler, Jeffrey, Jews God and Videotape: Religion and Media in America, New York, New York University Press, 2009, ix, 340pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-4068-5 Sharp, Carolyn J., Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible, Bloomington, Indiana State Press, 2009, xii, 356pp. ISBN 978-0-253-35244-6 Shear, Adam, The Kuzari and the Shaping of Jewish Identity, 1167-1900, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008, xvi, 384pp. ISBN 978-0-521-88533-1 Sperber, Daniel, The Jewish Life Cycle: Custom, Lore and Iconography: Jewish Customs from Cradle to the Grave, trans. Ed Levin, New York, Oxford University Press, 2008, 676pp. ISBN 978-0-1-9530759-7 Soloveitchik, Joseph B., And From There You Shall Seek, trans. Naomi Goldblum, introduction by David Shatz and Reuven Ziegler, Jersey City, Ktav Publishing House, 2008, xxxix, 230pp. ISBN 0-88125-934-9 Stansky, Peter, The First Day of the Blitz: Sept. 7, 1940, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2007, xii, 212pp. ISBN 978-0-300-12556-6 Stavans, Ilan, Resurrecting Hebrew, New York, Schocken Books, 2008, 219pp. ISBN 978-0-8052-4231-7 Stein, Sarah Abrevaya. Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2008. xii, 244pp. ISBN 978-0-300-12736-2 Stemberger, Günter. Das klassische Judentum: Kultur und Geschichte der rabbinischen Zeit. Munchen, Verlag C. H. Beck, 1979. 272pp. ISBN978-3-406-58403-9 Stern, Gregg. Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Interpretation and Controversy in Medieval Languedoc. series edited by Oliver Leaman. London, Routledge, 2009. xii, 273pp. ISBN 978-0-415-77442-0 Stoetzler, Marcel. The State of the Nation & the Jews: Liberalism and the Antisemitism Dispute in Bismarck’s Germany. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 530pp. ISBN 978-0-8032-1625-9 Stradler, Nurit. Yeshiva Fundamentalism: Piety, Gender and, Resistance in the Ultra-Orthodox World. New York, New York University, 2009. xviii, 196pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-4049-1 Stroumsa, Guy G.. The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity. trans. Susan Emanuel, with forward by John Sheid. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2009. xviii, 136pp. ISBN 978-0-226-77738-2 Sundquist, Eric J.. Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America. Cambridge, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005, ix, 662pp. IBSN 0-674-01942-3 Sutton, Karen. The Massacre of the Jews of Lithuania. Jerusalem, Gefen Publishing House, 2008. 239pp. ISBN 978-965-229-400-5 Sweeney, Marvin A.. Reading the Hebrew Bible After the Shoah: Engaging Holocaust Theology. Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2008. xiii, 287pp. ISBN 978-0-8006-3849-8 Tessler, Mark. A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Second Edition, edited by author, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2009, xx, 1018pp. ISBN 0-253-20873-4 Topel, Marta F.. Jerusalem and Sao Paulo: The New Jewish Orthodox in Focus, trans. James A. R. Allen, Lanham, University Press of America, 2008, xv, 193pp. ISBN 978-0-7618-4155-5 Ulmer, Rivka (ed.). Pesiqta Rabbati: A Synoptic Edition of Pesiqta Rabbati Based Upon All Extant Manuscripts and the Editio Princeps (Volume 1), Lanham, University Press of America, 2009, liv, 617pp. ISBN 978-0-7618-4332-0 Ulmer, Rivka (ed.). Pesiqta Rabbati: A Synoptic Edition of Pesiqta Rabbati Based Upon All Extant Manuscripts and the Editio Princeps (Volume 2), Lanham, University Press of America, 2009, xiii, 495 pp. ISBN 978-0-7618-4324-5 Ulmer, Rivka (ed.). Pesiqta Rabbati: A Synoptic Edition of Pesiqta Rabbati Based Upon All Extant Manuscripts and the Editio Princeps (Volume 3), Lanham, University Press of America, 2009, xix, 171 pp. ISBN 978-0-7618-4334-4 Umansky, Ellen M. and Ashton, Diane (eds.). Four Centuries of Jewish Women’s Spirituality: A Sourcebook, introduction by the editors, Waltham, Brandeis University Press, 2009, xx, 381pp. ISBN 978-1-58465-730-9 Urban, Martina. Aesthetics of Renewal: Martin Buber’s Early Representation of Hasidism as Kulturkritik. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008, xiii, 238pp. ISBN 978-0-226-84270-7 Veltri, Giuseppe. Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb: Foundations and Challenges in Judaism on the Eve of Modernity. edited by Leora Batnitzky, Christian Wiese and Elliot Wolfson. Leiden, Koninklijke Brill NV, 2009, x, 275pp. ISBN 978-90-04-17196-1 Venezia, Shlomo and Prasquier, Beatrice. Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz. trans. Andrew Brown, edited by Jean Mouttapa, forward by Simone Veil, historical notes and additional material by Marcello Pezzetti and Umberto Gentiloni. Cambridge, Polity Press, 2009, xv, 202pp. ISBN 978-0-7456-4383-0 Weinreich, Max. History of the Yiddish Language (Volume 1), trans. Shlomo Noble with the assistance of Joshua A. Fishman, edited by Paul Glasser, preface by editor, forward by translator, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2008, xiv, 353pp. ISBN 978-0-300-10887-3 Weinreich, Max. History of the Yiddish Language (Volume 2), trans. Shlomo Noble with the assistance of Joshua A. Fishman, edited by Paul Glasser, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2008, 635pp. ISBN 978-0-300-10887-3 Wells, Allen. Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua, Durham, Duke University Press, 2009, xxxi, 447pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4407-0 Zipperstein, Steven J.. Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009, xiv, 274pp. ISBN 978-0-300-12649-5 Zivin, Erin Graffe. The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary. Durham, Duke University Press, 2008, xi, 222pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4332-5 Journals Received Eyffinger, Arthur and Jones, Meirav (eds.). Hebraic Political Studies (Spring 2008, Volume 3, Number 2, Jerusalem, Shalem Press, 2008, 221pp. ISBN
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