AJS Review • Books Received
June – July 2009

Anderson, Gary A., Sin: A History, preface by author, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009, xv, 235pp. ISBN 978-0-300-14989-0

Anisfeld, Rachel A., Sustain Me With Raisin-Cakes: Pesikta deRav Kahana and the Popularization of Rabbinic Judaism, Leiden, Koninklijke Brill NV, 2009, xii, 2196pp. ISBN 978-90-04-15322-6

Birnbaum, David, Summa Metaphysica I: God and Evil, New York, J Levine/Millennium Classics Publishers, 2008, xix, 266pp. ISBN 978-0-9801710-0-6

Birnbaum, David, Summa Metaphysica II: God and Good, New York, J Levine/Millennium Classics Publishers, 2008, 367pp. ISBN 978-0-9801710-1-3

Branch, Robin Gallaher, Jeroboam’s Wife: The Enduring Contributions of the Old Testament’s Lesser-Known Women, Peabody, Hendrickson Publishers, 2009, xxiii, 270pp. ISBN 978-1-56563-745-0

Bridge, Steven L., Getting the Old Testament: What It Meant To Them, What It Means For Us, Peabody, Hendrickson Publishers, 2009, xx, 227pp. ISBN 978-1-59856-045-9

Bronznick, Shifra, Didi Goldenhar and Marty Linsky, Leveling the Playing Field: Advancing Women in Jewish Organizational Life, St. Paul, AWP, 2008, 128pp. ISBN 978-0-615-17653-6

Di Franco, Fiorenza, Unscathed by Fire: A Young Girl and the Italian Armistice of September 8, 1943, trans. by Bernice Cocciolillo, forward by Bruno Segre. Rome, The John Cabot University Press, 2009, 110pp. ISBN 978-0-87413-034-8

Diner, Hasia R., We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945-1962. New York, New York University Press, 2009, xiii, 529pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-1993-0

Donahue, Arwen, This is Home Now: Kentucky’s Holocaust Survivors Speak, photographs by Rebecca Gayle Howell, forward by Joan Ringelheim. Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky, 2009, xvi, 215pp. ISBN 978-0-8131-2547-3

Eilati, Shalom, Crossing the River, trans. by Vern Lenz, Tuscaloosa, The University of Alabama Press, 2008, x, 293pp. ISBN 978-0-8173-1631-0

Fishbane, Eitan P., As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2009, xi, 322pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-5913-7

Hellner-Eshed, Melila, A River Flows from Eden: The Language of Mystical Experience in Zohar, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2009, xv, 469pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-5939-7

Horowitz, Brian, Jewish Philanthropy and Enlightenment in Late-Tsarist Russia, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2009, ix, 342pp. ISBN 978-0-295-98898-6

Ibn Ezra, Abraham, The Sabbath Epistle (‘iggeret haShabbot), trans. and annotated by Mordechai S. Goodman. Jersey City, KTAV Publishing House, xiv, 84pp. ISBN 978-1-60280-111-0

Kagen, Jerome, The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009, xii, 311pp. ISBN 978-0-521-73230-7

Litvak, Meir and Esther Webman, From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust. New York, Columbia University Press, 2009, viii, 435pp. ISBN 978-0-231-70074-0

Lebrecht, Norman, The Game of Opposites, New York, Pantheon Books, 2009, 324pp. ISBN 978-0-307-37725-8

Miller, Chaim, Rambam, The Thirteen Principles of Faith, Principles 6 & 7: Prophesy. The Slager Edition. New York, The Gutnick Library of Jewish Classics, 2009, xxvii, 408pp. ISBN 978-1-932152-00-3

Morgenstern, Mira, Conceiving A Nation: The Development of Political Discourse in the Hebrew Bible. University Park, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009, viii, 230pp. ISBN 978-0-271-03473-7

Neusner, Jacob (ed.), The Jerusalem Talmud: A Translation and Commentary on CD-ROM, Peabody, Hendrickson Publishers, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59856-030-5

Robinson Thomas A., Ignatius of Antioch and the Parting of the Ways: Early Jewish-Christian Relations. Peabody, Hendrickson Publishers, 2009, xiv,  285pp. ISBN 978-1-59856-323-8

Rynhold, Daniel, An Introduction to Medieval Jewish Philosophy. London, I.B. Tauris, 2009, xiii, 256pp. ISBN 978-1-84511-748-1

Trivellato, Francesca, The Familiarity of Strangers, The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009, xiii, 470pp. ISBN 978-0-300-13683-8

Weisberg, Dvora E., Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism. Waltham, Brandeis University Press, 2009, xxvi, 246pp. ISBN 978-1-58465-781-1

Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb, The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious. New York, Schocken Books, 2009, xxxi, 441pp. ISBN 978-0-8052-4247-8