AJS Review
Volume 24, Number 1 • 1999

Table of Contents

Articles

Shmuel Shepkaru
From After Life to After Death: Martyrdom and its Recompense

Aryeh Cohen
"Do the dead know. . ." The Representation of Death in the Bavli

Reuven Shoham
Haim Gouri and "The Jewish People who have been Severely Injured"

Review Essays

Pierre Birnbaum. The Jews of the Republic: A Political History of State Jews in France from Gambetta to Vichy
VICKI CARON

Laura Levitt. Jews and Feminism: the Ambivalent Search for Home
Rachel Adler. Engendering Judaism
DAVID R. BLUMENTHAL
 
Book Reviews

David Marcus. From Balaam to Jonah: Anti-prphetic Satire in the Hebrew Bible
MARVIN A. SWEENEY

David Goodblatt. The Monarchic Principle: Studies in Jewish Self-Government in Antiquity
STUART S. MILLER

Leon J. Weinberger. Jewish Hymnography: A Literary History
RUTH LANGER

Hayim Lapin. Early Rabbinic Civil Law and the Social History of Roman Galilee: A Study of Mishnah Tractate Baba’ Mesi’a’
JOHN H. CORBETT

Amnon Linder. The Jews in the Legal Sources of the Early Middle Ages
BERNARD S. BACHRACH

Shmuel Feiner. Haskalah and History: The Emergence of Modern Jewish Awareness of the Past
MICHAEL STANISLAWSKI

Aviezer Ravitzky. History and Faith: Studies in Jewish Philosophy
ROBERT EISEN

Nitsa Ben-Ari. Roman ‘im ha-avar: ha-roman ha-histori ha-Yehudi ha-Germani min ha-me’ah ha-19 vi-yetsirah shel sifrut le’umit
JONATHAN SKOLNIK

Yudit Greenberg. Better than Wine: Love, Poetry, and Prayer in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig
Manfred Vogel. Rosenzweig on Profane/Secular History
MICHAEL L. MORGAN

Berel Lang. Heidegger’s Silence
MICHAEL WYSCHOGROD

Baila Round Shargel. Lost Love: The Untold Story of Henrietta Szold, Unpublished Diary and Letters
PAMELA S. NADEL

Rachel Feldhay Brenner. Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust
Sara Horowitz. Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction
BEREL LANG

Joëlle Bahloul. The Architecture of Memory: A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial Algeria, 1937-1962
LAURENCE D. LOEB

Joseph Heller. The Stern Gang: Ideology, Politics and Terror
WILLIAM M. BATKAY

Bobbie Malone. Rabbi Max Heller: Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1960-1929
GARY P. ZOLA

Steven T. Katz. American Rabbi: The Life and Thought of Jacob B. Agus
Steven T. Katz. The Essential Agus: The Writings of Joseph B. Agus
ANDREW R. HEINZE

Jeffrey Gurock and Jacob Schacter. A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism
EMANUEL S. GOLDSMITH

Mark K. Bauman and Berkley Kalin. The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s
JAY M. EIDELMAN

Stuart A. Cohen. The Scroll or the Sword? Dilemmas of Religion and Military Service in Israel
GARY S. SCHIFF

Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub. Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: a Bio-Critical Sourcebook
STANLEY TRACHTENBERG

Collected Studies

Books Received