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AJS Review • Books Received Abrams, Jeanne E, Dr. Charles David Spivak: A Jewish Immigrant and the American Tuberculosis Movement, Boulder, The University Press of Colorado, 2009, xi, 226 pp. ISBN: 978-0-87081-941-4 Alroey, Gur, Ha-mapekhah ha-sheketah: ha-hagirah ha-yehudit me’ha-Imperyah ha-Rusit 1875-1924 (The Quiet Revolution: Jewish Emigration from the Russian Empire 1875-1924), Jerusaelm, The Zalman Shazer Center for Jewish History, 2008, 281 pp. ISBN: 978-965-227-240-9 Angel, Hayyim J., Revealed Texts, Hidden Meanings: Finding the Religious Significance in Tanakh, Jersey City, Ktav, 2009, ix, 261 pp. ISBN: 978-1-60280-128-8 Bacon, Gershon, Daniel Sperber and Aharon Gaimani (eds.), Mechkarim be-toldot yehudi ashkenaz: sefer yovel likvod Yitzhak (Eric) Zimmer (Studies On The History of The Jews of Ashkenaz: Presented to Eric Zimmer), Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 2008, 290 pp. ISBN: 978-965-226-307-0 Bamberger, Joseph, Ha-afifiur ha-yehudi: l’toldotiyah shel aggadah m’yamey ha-beynaim b’ashkenaz (The Jewish Pope: History of a Medieval Ashkenazic Legend), Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009, 156 pp. ISBN: 978-965-226-365-0 Bar-Asher. Moshe Checharim bilshon chachamim: mavo’ot v’iyuney lashon (Studies in Mishnaic Hebrew: Introductions and Linguistic Investigations), Jerusalem, The Bialik Institute, 2009, 394 pp. ISBN: 978-965-342-991-8 Bar-Asher. Moshe Checharim bilshon chachamim: kerech bet: pirkey dikdut (Studies in Mishnaic Hebrew: Volume II: Grammatical Topics), Jerusalem, The Bialik Institute, 2009, 379 pp. ISBN: 978-965-342-992-5 Be’eri, Nurit, Seder “ta’aniyot” ketzad: masekhet Ta’aniyot b’Yerushalmi: darkhe itsuv ha-masorot ya’arikhatan (Exploring Ta’aniot: Yerushalmi, Tractate Ta’aniot- Forming and Redacting the Traditions), Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009, 439 pp. ISBN: 978-965-226-357-5 Benite, Zvi Ben-Dor, The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, ix, 302 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-530733-7 Boccaccini, Gabriele and Giovanni Ibba, (eds.), Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees, Grand Rapids MI, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2009, xxi, 474 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8028-6409-3 Bohlman, Philip V. (ed.), Jewish Musical Modernism: Old and New, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008, xix, 281 pp. ISBN: 978-0-226-06326-3 Brandon, Ray and Wendy Lower (eds.), The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization, Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 2008, ix, 378 pp. ISBN: 978-0-253-35084-8 Braverman, Irus, Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel/Palestine, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, xiv, 254 pp. ISBN: 978-0-521-76002-7 Brenner, Hannelore, The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt, translated by John E. Woods and Shelley Frisch. New York, Schocken Books, 2009, 322 pp. ISBN: 978-0-805-24244-7 Carasik, Michael (ed.), The Commentators’ Bible: The JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot: Leviticus, Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society, 2009, xix, 250 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8276-0897-9 Dan, Joseph, Toldot torat ha-sod ha-ivrit: ha-eit ha-atikah: shloshah cerechim (The History of Jewish Mysticism and Esotericism: Ancient Times: Volumes 1-III), Jerusalem, The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2008, 1219 pp. ISBN: 978-965-227-246-1 Davis, Michael Thomas and Brent A. Strawn (eds.), Qumran Studies: New Approaches, New Questions, Grand Rapids MI, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007, xxvii, 296 pp. ISBN: 978-0—80280-6080-4 Delany, Sheila (ed.), Turn It Again: Jewish Medieval Studies and Literary Theory, Eugene OR, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2004, 234 pp. 978-1-55635-442-7 Dodds, Jerrilynn D., Maria Rosa Menocal and Abigail Krasner Balbale, The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009, xiii, 395 pp. ISBN: 978-0-300-14214-3 Dorland, Michael. Cadaverland: Inventing a Pathology of Catastrophe for Holocaust Dwyer-Ryan, Meghan, Susan L. Porter, and Lisa Fagin Davis, Becoming American Jews: Temple Israel of Boston, Waltham MA/Hanover NH, Brandeis University Elpeleg, Zvi, Through the Eyes of the Mufti: The Essays of Haj Amin Translated and Elstein, Yoav, Avidov Lipsker, and Rella Kushelevsky (eds.), Encyclopedia shel ha Frank, Davniel and Matt Golidish (eds.), Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics: Jewish Authority, Dissent, and Heresy in Medieval and Modern Times, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2008, xv, 480 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8143-3237-4 Gotlieb, Jacob, Shechaltanut bilvush chasidi: damuto shel Rambam b’chasidut chabad (Rationalism in Hasidic Attire: Habad’s Harmonistic Approach to Maimonides), Ramat-Gan, Bar Ilan University Press, 2009, 243 pp. ISBN: 978-965-226-344-5 Goultschin, Moshe, Barukh Kurtsvail ke-farshan shel tarbut (Baruch Kurzweil As A Commentator of Culture), Ramat-Gan, Bar Ilan University Press, 2009, 223 pp. ISBN: 978-965-226-338-4 Gutman, Israel, Sugyot be-heker ba-Shoah: bikoret u’terumah (Issues in Holocaust Scholarship: Research and Reassessment), Jerusalem, The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History and Yad Vashem, 2008, 347 pp. ISBN: 978-965-227-244-7 Hagbi, Yaniv, Language, Absence, Play: Judaism and Superstructuralism in the Poetics of S.Y. Agnon, Syracuse, Syracuse Unversity Press, 2009, x, 234 pp. ISBN: 0-8156-3227-4 Inbari, Motti, Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount: Who Will Build the Third Temple?, Albany: SUNY Press, 2009, viii, 211 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4384-2624-2 Kamesar, Adam (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Philo, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, xv, 301 pp. ISBN: 987-0-521-67802-5 Kauffman, Tsippi, Be-khol derakhekha da’ehu: tefisat ha-Elohut veha-avodah be-gashmiyut be-reshit ha-Chasidut (In All Your Ways Know Him: The Concept of God and Avodah Be-Gashmiyut in the Early Stages of Hasidism), Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009, 614 pp. ISBN: 978-965-226-336-0 Kessler, Gwynn, Conceiving Israel: The Fetus in Rabbinic Narrative, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 248 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4175-4 Knoppers, Gary N. and Bernard M. Levinson (eds.), The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models For Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance, Winona Lake, IN, Eisenbrauns, 2007, xvi, 352 pp. ISBN: 978-1-57506-140-5 Kunin, Seth, Juggling Identities: Identity and Authenticity Among the Crypto-Jews, New York, Columbia University Press, viii, 278 pp. ISBN: 978-0-231-14218-2 Lederhendler, Eli, Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From Caste to Class, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, xxiii, 224 pp. ISBN: 978-0-521-73023-5 Lehman, David, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, New York, Schocken, Books, 2009, ix, 249 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8052-4250-8 Lewis, Justin Jaron, Imagining Holiness: Classic Hasidic Tales in Modern Times, Montreal, McGill University Press, 2009, xi, 351pp. ISBN 978-0-7735-3519-0 Lipsker, Avidov and Rella Kushelevsky (eds.), Ma’aseh sippur: machkorim b’siporet ha’yehudit: kerech bet (Studies in Jewish Narrative Volume II), Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009, 461 pp. ISBN: 978-965-226-339-1 Liska, Vivian, When Kafka Says We: Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish Literature, Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 2009, vi, 239 pp. ISBN: 978-0-253-35308-5 McDonald, James G., Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald 1935-1945, Richard Breitman et. al., eds. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2009, x, 359 pp. ISBN: 978-0-253-35307-8 Mamet, David, The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the Jews, New York, Schocken Books, 2006, xii, 189 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8052-1157-3 Megargee, Geoffrey P. (ed.), The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 Volume I: Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office [WVHA] Part A, Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 2009, xxxix, 859 pp. ISBN: 978-0-253-35428-0 Megargee, Geoffrey P. (ed.), The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 Volume I: Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office [WVHA] Part B, Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 2009, xx, 800 pp. ISBN: 978-0-253-35429-7 Menirav, Joseph, Prakmatia- ma’arekhet ha-shivuk ba-chevrah ha-Yehudit be-Eretz Yisrael bi-tekufat ha-Mishnah veha-Talmud (Prakmatia- The Marketing System in the Jewish Community in Palestine During the Mishnah and Talmud Era), Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009, 318 pp. ISBN: 978-965-226-333-9 Meyers, Eric M. and Carol L. Meyers, Excavations at Ancient Nabratein: Synagogue and Environs Volume VI, Winona Lake, IN, Eisenbrauns, 2009, xx, 470 pp. ISBN: 978-1-57506-162-7 Miron, Guy and Anna Szalai (eds.), Yehudim al parashat derakhim: siah ha-zehut ha-Yehudit be-Hungaryah ben mashber le-hithadshut 1908-1926 (Jews at the Crossroads: The Jewish Identity Discourse In Hungary Between Crisis and Renewal 1908-1926), Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009, 234 pp. ISBN 978-965-226-337-7 Moser, Benjamin, Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, xi, 479 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-538556-4 Moss, Kenneth B, Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution, Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2009, x, 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-03510-2 Neusner, Jacob. Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Historical Theology, The Canon, Constructive Theology and Other Problems, Lanham MD, University Press of America, 2009, viii, 166 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7618-4638-3 Neusner, Jacob, Comparative Midrash: Sifre to Numbers and Sifre Zutta to Numbers: Two Rabbinic Readings of the Book of Numbers: Volume One: Forms, Lanham MD, University Press of America, 2009, xvi, 188 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7618-4521-8 Neusner, Jacob, Comparative Midrash: Sifre to Numbers and Sifre Zutta to Numbers: Two Rabbinic Readings of the Book of Numbers: Volume Two: Exegesis, Lanham MD, University Press of America, 2009, ix, 255 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7618-4523-2 Neusner, Jacob, How The Bavli Is Constructed: Identifying the Forests Comprised By the Talmud’s Tress: The Cases of Bavli Moed Katan and of Bavli Makkot, Lanham MD, University Press of America, 2009, xi, 423 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7618-4708-3 Neusner, Jacob, How The Halakhah Unfolds, Volume IV: Hagigah in the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli, Lanham MD, University Press of America, 2009, xi, 433 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7618-4710-6 Polliack, Meira and Eliezer Scholssberg, Pirush Yefet ben Eli l’sefer hosea: mahadurah mueret (Yefet ben Eli’s Commentary on Hosea: Annotated Edition, Hebrew Translation and Introduction), Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009, 508 pp. ISBN: 978-965-226-343-8 Prose, Francine, Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, New York, Harper Collins, 2009, x, 322 pp. ISBN: 978-0-06-143079-4 Ravitzky, Aviezer (ed.), Ha Rambam: shamranut, mekoriut, mahafchanut: aleph: historia v’halakhah (Maimonides: Conservatism, Originality, Revolution: Volume One: History and Halakhah), Jerusaelm, the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2008, 294 pp. ISBN: 978-965-227-245-4 Ravitzky, Aviezer (ed.), Ha Rambam: shamranut, mekoriut, mahafchanut: beit: hagut v’chadashnut (Maimonides: Conservatism, Originality, Revolution: Volume Two: Thought and Innovation), Jerusaelm, the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2008, 331 pp. ISBN: 978-965-227-245-4 Reiter, Yitzhak, National Minority, Regional Majority: Palestinian Arabs Versus Jews in Israel, Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 2009, xxx, 403 pp. ISBN: 0-8156-3230-4 Rozin, Orit. Hovat ha-ahavah ha-kasheh: yahid u-kolektiv b’yisrael b’shanot ha-hamishim (Duty and Love: Individualism and Collectivism In 1950s Israel), Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 2008, 257 pp. ISBN 978-965-13-1998-3 Sacks, Jonathan, Covenant and Conversation: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible: Genesis: The Book of Beginnings, Jerusalem, Maggid Books and The Orthodox Union, 2009, xii, 356 pp. ISBN 978-1-59264-20-1 Shuchat, Raphael B, Olam nistar b’mamaday ha-zman: torat ha-geulah shel ha-Gaon mi-Vilna: mikorotiyah v’hashpa’atah l’dorot (A World Hidden in the Dimensions of Time: The Theory of Redemption in the Writings of the Vilna Gaon: Its Sources and Influence on Later Generations), Ramat-Gan, Bar Ilan University Press, 370 pp. ISBN: 978-965-226-351-3 Schwartz, Dov and Ariel Gross (eds.), Al ha-teshuvah v’al ha-geulah: minchat shay Binyamin Gross (On Repentence and Redemption: Presented to Binyamin Gross), Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 2008, 462 pp. ISBN: 978-965-226-335-3 Slavet, Eliza, Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question, New York, Fordham University Press, 2009, xiii, 300 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8232-3142-3 Soloveitchik, Joseph B., Droshes un ksovim (Yiddish Drashos and Writings), edited by David E. Fishman. Jersey City, Katv, 2009, 355 pp. ISBN: 978-1-60280-124-0 Spicer, Kevin P. (ed.), Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 2007, xxi, 329 pp. ISBN: 978-0-253-34873-9 Stein, Leslie, The Making of Modern Israel 1948-1967, Cambridge, Polity, 2009, xii, 412 pp. ISBN 978-0-7456-4466-0 Veidlinger, Jeffrey, Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire, Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 2009, xviii, 382 pp. ISBN: 978-0-253-22058-5 Weiss, Tzahi, ‘Mot ha-shekhina’ b’ytzirat S.Y. Agnon: kriah b’arba’ah sipurim v’bimkorotihem (Death of the Shekhina: Readings in Four Agnon Stories and Their Sources), Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009, 149 pp. ISBN: 978-965-226-303-2 Wimpfheimer, Barry S. (ed.), Wisdom of Bat Sheva: The Dr. Beth Samuels Memorial Volume, Jersey City, Ktav, x, 334 pp. ISBN: 978-1-60280-127-1 Wizisla, Erdmut, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht: The Story of a Friendship, translated by Christine Shuttleworth. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009, xxvii, 242 pp. ISBN: 978-0-300-13695-1 |
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