AJS Review • Books Received
Books Received October 2009 – January 2010

Amend, Allison. Stations West. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010, xv, 264 pp.

Assmann, Jan. Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2008, x, 196 pp.

Baer, Marc David. The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010, xxiii, 332 pp.

Bamberger, Joseph. The Jewish Pope: History of a Medieval Ashkenazic Legend. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009, 156 pp. (In Hebrew)

Bar-Tikva, Binyamin. Genres and Topics in Provencal and Catalonian Piyyut. Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University Press, 2009, 519 pp. (In Hebrew)

Bauer, Yehuda: The Death of the Shtetl. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, viii, 208 pp.

Bergelson, David. The End of Everything, translated by Joseph Sherman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, xliii, 264 pp.

Blau, Yitzhak. Fresh Fruit & Vintage Wine: The Ethics and Wisdom of the Aggadah. Jersey City: Ktav Publishing House, 2009, xxiv, 270 pp.

Boyarin, Daniel. Socrates and the Fat Rabbis. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009, xiv, 388 pp.

Boyarin, Jonathan. The Uncovered Self: Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009, ix, 192 pp.

Braverman, Irus. Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel/Palestine. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009, xiv, 254 pp.

Cohen, Judah. The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009, xii, 299 pp.

Cohn, Yehudah B. Tangled Up in Text: Tefillin and the Ancient World. Providence, RI: Brown Judaic Studies, 2008, xi, 202 pp.

Cox, John. Circles of Resistance: Jewish, Leftist, and Youth Dissidence in Nazi Germany. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2009, viii, 200 pp.

Dan, Joseph. History of Jewish Mysticism and Esotericism: The Middle Ages: Volume IV, The Gaonic Period and the 11th – 12th Centuries. Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2009, 440 pp. (In Hebrew)

Dinur, Ben Zion. Posthumous and Other Writings, edited by Arielle Rein. Jerusalem: The Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History and The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2009, 395 pp.

Divine, Donna Robinson. Exiled in the Homeland: Zionism and the Return to Mandate Palestine. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009, viii, 255 pp.

Dodds, Jerrilynn D., María 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, xiii, 395 pp.

Dwyer-Ryan, Meaghan, Susan L. Porter, and Lisa Fagin Davis. Becoming American Jews: Temple Israel of Boston. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2009, xvii, 259 pp.

Engel, David. Facing the Volcano: Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust. Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2009, 296 pp. (In Hebrew)

Engelstein, Laura. Slavophile Empire: Imperial Russia’s Illiberal Path. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009, xii, 239 pp.

Gavish, Haya. Unwitting Zionists: The Jewish Community of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010, xi, 439 pp.

Gelernter, David. Judaism: A Way of Being. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, xiv, 225 pp.

Gillerman, Sharon. Germans into Jews: Remaking the Jewish Social Body in the Weimar Republic. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009, x, 238 pp.

Golani, Motti. The British Mandate for Palestine, 1948: War and Evacuation. Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2009, 280 pp.

Goldman, Shalom. Zeal for Zion: Christians, Jews, & the Idea of the Promised Land. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009, 367 pp.

Halbertal, Moshe. Maimonides. Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2009, 319 pp. (In Hebrew)

Harrán, Don. Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Works of Sarra Copia Sulam in Verse and Prose, Along with Writings of Her Contemporaries in Her Praise, Condemnation, or Defense. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009, xxxi, 598 pp.

Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Daniel. Christian Memories of the Maccabean Martyrs. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, xii, 249 pp.

Kalimi, Isaac. The Retelling of Chronicles in Jewish Traditional Literature: A Historical Journey. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2009, xx, 395 pp.

Kaplan, Zvi Jonathan. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea?: French Jewry and the Problem of Church and State. Providence, RI: Brown Judaic Studies, 2009, viii, 140 pp.

Kelman, Ari, ed. Is Diss a System: A Milt Gross Comic Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2010, ix, 293 pp.

Labovitz, Gail. Marriage and Metaphor: Constructions of Gender in Rabbinic Literature. Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009, x, 289 pp.

Laor, Dan. S. Y. Agnon. Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2008, 205 pp. (In Hebrew)

Laqueur, Walter. Best of Times, Worst of Times: Memoirs of a Political Education. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2009, x, 238 pp.

Lefkovitz, Lori Hope. In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities. Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2010, xii, 191 pp.

Lewis, Donald M. The Origins of Christian Zionism: Lord Shaftesbury and Evangelical Support for a Jewish Homeland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, xiii, 361 pp.

Lohr, Joel. Chosen and Unchosen: Conceptions of Election in the Pentateuch and Jewish-Christian Interpretation. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2009, xviii, 254 pp.

Matt, Daniel. The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Five. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009, xiii, 633 pp.

Moss, Kenneth. Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009, x, 384 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Form-Historical Studies and the Documentary Hypothesis. New York: University Press of American, Inc., 2010, viii, 155 pp.

Neusner, Jacob. The Program of the Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan A. New York: University Press of America, Inc, 2009, lxxvii, 329 pp.

Pelli, Moshe. Kerem Hemed: ‘Hochmat Israel’ as the ‘New Yavneh:’ An Annotated Index to Kerem Hemed, the Hebrew Journal of the Haskalah in Galicia and Italy (1833-1856). Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2009, xxi, 374 pp. (In Hebrew)

Pinsky, Dina. Jewish Feminists: Complex Identities and Activist Lives. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2010, 137 pp.

Porat, Dina. The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner, translated and edited by Elizabeth Yuval. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010, xxiv, 411 pp.

Price, Monroe. Objects of Remembrance: A Memoir of American Opportunities and Viennese Dreams. New York: Central European University Press, 2009, 199 pp.

Reiter, Yitzhak. National Minority, Regional Majority: Palestinian Arabs versus Jews in Israel. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009, xxx, 403pp.

Rosen, Aaron. Imagining Jewish Art: Encounters with the Masters in Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj. London: Legenda, 2009, x, 121 pp.

Rosenbaum, Fred. Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, xviii, 439 pp.

Rutgers, Leonard V. Making Myths: Jews in Early Christian Identity Formation. Leuven: Peeters, 2009, 151 pp.

Sabato, Haim. From the Four Winds, translated by Yaacob Dweck. New Milford, CT: The Toby Press, 2010, 151.

Sanders, Seth. The Invention of Hebrew. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009, xvi, 258 pp.

Shemesh, Aharon. Halakhah in the Making: The Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, xiii, 216 pp.

Slavet, Eliza. Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009, xiii, 300 pp.

Spero, Shubert. Aspects of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Philosophy of Judaism: An Analytic Approach. Jersey City: Ktav Publishing House, 2009, x, 235 pp.

Stein, Leslie. The Making of Modern Israel 1948-1967. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2009, xii, 412 pp.

Taubes, Jacob. From Cult to Culture: Fragments Toward a Critique of Historical Reason, edited by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert and Amir Engel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, l, 397 pp.

Taubes, Jacob. Occidental Eschatology, translated by David Ratmoko. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009, xxiii, 215 pp.

Webber, Jonathan. Rediscovering Traces of Memory: The Jewish Heritage of Polish Galicia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009, vi, 186 pp.

Wizisla, Erdmut. Walter Benjamin and Berthold Brecht: The Story of a Friendship, translated by Christine Shuttleworth. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, xxvii, 242 pp.

Wolfson, Elliot. Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009, xv, 452 pp.

Worch, J. Hershy. Sefer Yetzira: Chronicles of Desire: A New Hebrew/English Translation & Commentary. New York: University Press of America, 2010, xv, 512 pp.

Yakira, Elhanan. Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust: Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the Delegitimation of Israel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, xiv, 342 pp.