AJS Review
Volume 24, Number 2 • 1999

Table of Contents

Articles

JONATHAN BRUMBERG-KRAUS
Meat-Eating and Jewish Identity: Ritualization of the Priestly "Torah of Beast and Fowl" [Lev. 11:46] in Judaism and Medieval Kabbalah

ROBERT EISEN
Samuel Ibn Tibbon on the Book of Job

AHARON GAIMANI
Succession to the Rabbinate in Yemen

Review Essays

Through the Prism of Race and Slavery
Michael Rogin. Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot
Karen Brodkin. How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says about Race in America
Matthew Frye Jacobson. Whitness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
Eli Faber. Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight
HAROLD BRACKMAN

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Rafael Medoff. Zionism and the Arabs: An American Jewish Dilemma, 1898-1948
Mark A. Raider. The Emergence of American Zionism
STUART KNEE

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Peter J. Haas. Responsa: The Literary History of a Rabbinic Genre
HAYM SOLOVEITCHIK
 
Book Reviews

S. David Sperling. The Original Torah: The Political Intent of the Bible's Writers
GARY A. RENDSBURG

Nahman Avigad. Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals
NILI S. FOX

Steven Weitzman. Song and Story in Biblical Narrative: The History of a Literary Convention in Ancient Israel
DANIEL GROSSBERG

Marsha C. White. The Elijah Legends and Jehu's Coup
CHRISTIAN E. HAUER, JR.

Galia Hatav. The Semantics of Aspect and Modality: Evidence from English and Biblical Hebrew
SCOTT B. NOEGEL

Albert L. Baumgarten. The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era: An Interpretation
SETH SCHWARTZ

Catherine Hezser. The Social Structure of the Rabbinic Movement in Roman Palestine
HAYIM LAPIN

Arnold Goldberg. Mystik und Theologie des rabbinisches Judentums. Gesammelte Studien I
RIVKA B. KERN ULMER

Dov Schwartz. Messianism in Medieval Jewish Thought
DAVID BERGER

Leon J. Weinberger. Twilight of a Golden Age: Selected Poems of Abraham Ibn Ezra
SUSAN EINBINDER

Yom Tov Assis. The Golden Age of Aragonese Jewry: Community and Society in the Crown of Aragon, 1213-1327
DAVID NIRENBERG

Mirian Bodian. Hebrew of the Portugese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam
MARC SAPERSTEIN

Talya Fishman. Shaking the Pillars of Exile: ly Modern Critique of Rabbinic Culture
HOWARD TZVI ADELMAN

Frances Malino. A Jew in the French Revolution: The Life of Talkind Hourwitz
EMMET KENNEDY

Allan Nadler. The Faith of the Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses to Hasidic Rapture
ALAN BRILL

Susannah Heschel. Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus
ROBERT SOUTHARD

Raphael Patai. Jadid al-Islam: the Jewish
VERA B. MOREEN

Joshua Eli Plaut. Greek Jewry in the Twentieth Century, 1913-1983: Patterns of Jewish Survival in
the Greek Provinces before and after the Holocaust
MARK MAZOWER

Dianne Ashton. Rebecca Gratz: Women and Judaism in Antebellum America
MYRNA GOLDENBERG

Jeffrey Herf. Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanies
ELLIOT NEAMAN

Emanuel Melzer. No Way Out: The Politics of Polish Jewry 1935-1939
PIOTR WRBEL

Alan Berger. Children of Job: American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust
MICHAEL TAUB

George Lavy. Germany and Israel: Moral Debt and National Interest
DONNA ROBINSON DIVINE

Sharona Wachs. American Jewish Liturgies
DEBRA REED BLANK

Eric Friedland. Jewish Liturgy
HERBERT BRONSTEIN

Hamutai Bar-Yoseph. Decadent Trends in Hebrew Literature: Bialik, Berdichevski, Brener
ZVIA GINOR

Neil R. Davison. James Joyce,Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity: Culture, Biography and "Jew" in Modernist Europe
DANIEL R. SCHWARTZ

Emanuel Feldman and Joel B. Wolowesky, eds. Jewish Law and the New Reproductive Technologies
AARON L. MACKLER

Menachem Fisch. Rational Rabbis: Science and Talmudic Culture
ROBERT GOLDENBERG

Andrea Poma. The Critical Philosophy of Hermann Cohen
MICHAEL ZANK

Ralph Melnick. The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank: Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, and the Staging of the Diary
ALVIN H. ROSENFELD

Collected Studies

Books Received

Hebrew Book Review

Moshe Pelli. Ha-Tarbut ha-`Ivrit be-Amerika: 80 Shenot ha-Tenuah ha-`Ivrit be-Artsot-ha-Berit
NURIT GOVRIN