AJS Review
Volume 25, Number 1 • 2000/2001

Table of Contents

Articles

1 Zachary Braiterman
Joseph Soloveitchik and Immanuel Kant’s Mitzvah-Aesthetic

25 Jon D. Levenson
Religious Affirmation and Historical Criticism
in Heschel’s Biblical Interpretation

45 Jeffrey R. Woolf
Between Law and Society:
Mahariq’s Responsum on “The Ways of the Gentile”

Review Essays

71 Matt Goldish
New Approaches to Jewish Messianism

Moshe Idel. Messianic Mystics
Harris Lenowitz. The Jewish Messiahs

85 Benjamin Schwartz, z”l
On Memory: Personal and Cultural

Vera Schwarcz. Bridges Across Broken Time:
Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory
 
Book Reviews

97 Nehama Aschkenasy. Woman at the Window:
Biblical Tales of Oppression and Escape

Alice Bach. Women, Seduction and Betrayal in Biblical Narrative
Esther Fuchs

101 Meir Bar-Ilan. Some Jewish Women in Antiquity
Charlotte Fonrobert

104 Edward LipiDski. Semitic Languages:
Outline of a Comparative Grammar
Robert D. Hoberman

107 Daniel Sperber. The City in Roman Palestine
Hayim Lapin

109 Dov Gera. Judaea and Mediterranean Politics, 219 to 161 B.C.E.
Adam Porter

111 Miriam Peskowitz. Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender and History
Aryeh Cohen

113 Malachi Beit-Arié, Colette Sirat, and Mordecai Glatzer.
Codices hebraicis litteris exarati
quo tempore scripti fuerint exhibentes. Vol. 1: Jusqu’à 1020
Menahem Schmelzer

118 Joseph Yahalom. Palestinian Vocalised Piyyut Manuscripts
in the Cambridge Genizah Collections
Wout Jac. van Bekkum

120 Naem Ilan. “Metzah Aharon” Commentary on the Pentateuch
by Rabbi Aharon Garish
Benjamin Hary

122 Robin R. Mundill. England’s Jewish Solution:
Experiment and Expulsion, 1262–1290
Paul Brand

124 Steven B. Smith. Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity
Heidi M. Ravven

129 Louis E. Newman. Past Imperatives:
Studies in the History and Theory of Jewish Ethics
Milton R. Konvitz

131 David Assaf. Regal Way: The Life and Times of R. Israel of Ruzhin
Arthur Green

133 Issachar Ben-Ami. Saint Veneration Among the Jews in Morocco
Michael M. Laskier

137 Jonathan Frankel. The Damascus Affair:
“Ritual Murder,” Politics, and the Jews in 1840
Hillel J. Kieval

142 Edna Nachshon. Yiddish Proletarian Theater:
The Art and Politics of the Artef, 1925–1940
Jacob Weitzner

144 Rakhmiel Peltz. From Immigrant to Ethnic Culture:
American Yiddish in South Philadelphia
George Jochnowitz

147 David Aberbach. Revolutionary Hebrew, Empire and Crisis:
Four Peaks in Hebrew Literature and Jewish Survival
James S. Diamond

149 Yaacov Shavit. Athens in Jerusalem
Translated by Chaya Naor and Niki Werner.
Elliot Rabin

152 Glenda Abramson. Drama and Ideology in Modern Israel
Nancy E. Berg

155 David A. Brenner. Marketing Identities:
The Invention of Jewish Ethnicity in “OST und WEST”
Gabriel Finder

159 Kevin MacDonald. Separation and Its Discontents:
Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism
Milton Shain. Antisemitism
Zev Garber

163 Collected Studies

175 Books Received

Hebrew Article

[1] YOSEF SALMON
Pulmus etroge Korfu ve-rik‘o ha-histori