AJS Review
Volume 23, Number 2 • 1998

Table of Contents

Articles

DEVORA STEINMETZ
Must the Patriarch Know `Uqtzin?—The Nasi as Scholar in Babylonian Aggada

YARON HAREL
The Early Organization of Aleppan Jews in Manchester: New Documentary Evidence

ZACHARY BRAITERMAN
"Into Life"??!—Franz Rosenzweig and the Figure of Death

Review Essays

Yishaq (Eric) Zimmer. `Olam Ke-Minhago Noheg
HAYM SOLOVEITCHIK

James Shapiro. Shakespeare and the Jews
MARTIN D. YAFFE
 
Book Reviews

Anson F. Rainey. Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets:
A Linguistic Analysis of the Mixed Dialect used by Scribes from Canaan
GARY A. RENDSBURG

John M. B. Barclay. Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora:
From Alexander to Trajan (312 BCE-117 CE)
MARTHA HIMMELFARB

Ellen Birnbaum. The Place of Judaism in Philo's Thought: Israel, Jews and Proselytes
ABRAHAM TERIAN

Florentino García Martínez and Julio Trebolle Barrera. The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls:
Their Writings, Beliefs and Practices
MOSHE J. BERNSTEIN

Lawrence A. Hoffman. Covenant of Blood: Circumcision and Gender in Rabbinic Judaism
REENA ZEIDMAN

Robert Eisen. Gersonides on Providence, Covenant, and the Chosen People:
A Study in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Biblical Commentary
LAWRENCE KAPLAN

Marc Saperstein. "Your Voice Like a Ram's Horn":
Themes and Texts in Traditional Jewish Preaching
JUDITH R. BASKIN

Roberto Bonfil. Tra due mondi. Cultura ebraica e cultura cristiano nel Medioevo
ANNA FOA

David M. Gitlitz. Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews
RENÉE LEVINE MELAMMED

Avrom Saltman. The Jewish Question in 1655: Studies in Prynnes Demurrer
STEPHEN D. BENIN

Michael A. Meyer, editor, and William Templer, translator.
German-Jewish History in Modern Times,
Volume 1, Tradition and Enlightenment: 1600-1780
ALLAN ARKUSH

Michael Galchinsky. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer:
Romance and Reform in Victorian England
DOROTHY MERMIN

Efraim Sicher. Jews in Russian Literature after the October Revolution:
Writers and Artists between Hope and Apostasy
JUDITH DEUTSCH KORNBLATT

Norman A. Stillman. Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity
JOÉLLE BAHLOUL

Michael Brenner. The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany
LARRY EUGENE JONES

John H. Dippel. Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire:
Why So Many German Jews Made the Tragic Decision to Remain in Nazi Germany
MICHAEL BERENBAUM

Raul Hilberg. The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian
STEVEN T. KATZ

Donna F. Ryan. The Holocaust & the Jews of Marseille:
The Enforcement of Anti-Semitic Policies in Vichy France
VICKI CARON

David Sorkin. Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment
LAWRENCE KAPLAN

Zahava Szász Stessel. Wine and Thorns in the Tokay Valley:
Jewish Life in Hungary: The History of Abaújszántó
HOWARD LUPOVITCH

Raphael Patai. The Jews of Hungary: History, Culture, Psychology
HOWARD LUPOVITCH

Alan L. Mittleman. The Politics of Torah:
The Jewish Political Tradition and the Founding if Agudat Israel
SHAUL MAGID

Ken Frieden. Classic Yiddish Fiction
MICHAEL TAUB

Avraham Balaban. A Different Wave in Israeli Fiction: Postmodernist Israeli Fiction
ESTHER FUCHS

Yael Zerubavel. Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition
IRENE TUCKER

Nancy E. Berg. Exile from Exile: Israeli Writers from Iraq
ESTHER FUCHS

Alan Cooper. Philp Roth and the Jews
SARA R. HOROWITZ

Reinier Munk. The Rationale of Halakhic Man:
Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Conception of Jewish Thought
S. DANIEL BRESLAUER

Lenn E. Goodman. God of Abraham
KALMAN P. BLAND

Beth S. Wenger. New York Jews and the Great Depression: Uncertain Promise
Ruth Gay. Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America
DANIEL SOYER

Sidney Goldstein and Alice Goldstein. Jews on the Move: Implications for Jewish Identity
HASIA R. DINER

Collected Studies

Books Received

Hebrew Article