AJS Review
Volume 26, Number 2 • 2002

Table of Contents

Articles

Haggai Dagan
The Motif of Blood and Procreation in Franz Rosenzweig

Joseph Davis
The Reception of the Shulhan Arukh and the Formation of Ashkenazic Jewish Identity

Edward Fram
Two Cases of Adultery and the Halakhic Decision-Making Process

Marc Saperstein and Nancy Berg
Arab Chains and the Good Things of Sefarad: Aspects of Jewish Exile
 
Review Essays

Re-Presentations of the Jewish Image: Three New Contributions
Miri Rubin. Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews
Sara Lipton. Images of Intolerance: The Representation of Jews and Judaism in the Bible moralisée
Ruth Mellinkoff. Antisemitic Hate Signs in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts
Marc Michael Epstein

Ralph Melnick. The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn, 2 vols.
Mark A. Raider
 
Book Reviews

Herbert Chanan Brichto. The Names of God: Poetic Readings in Biblical Beginnings
David Marcus

Benjamin D. Sommer. A Prophet Reads Scripture: Allusion in Isaiah 40–66. Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences
Pamela Barmash

Gabriele Boccaccini. Beyond the Essene Hypothesis: The Parting of the Ways Between Qumran and Enochic Judaism
Hindy Najman

Erich Gruen. Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition
Lawrence Wills

Michael Berger. Rabbinic Authority
Jeffrey Rubenstein

Aryeh Cohen. Rereading Talmud: Gender, Law and the Poetics of Sugyot
Elizabeth Shanks Alexander

Josef Stern. Problems and Parables of the Law: Maimonides and Nahmanides on Reasons for the Commandments (Ta‘amei Ha-Mitzvot)
Lawrence Kaplan

Ruth Glasner. A Fourteenth-Century Scientific Philosophical Controversy: Jedaiah Ha-Penini’s “Treatise on Opposite Motions” and “Book of Confutation”
Charles H. Manekin

W. J. Van Bekkum, ed. Hebrew Poetry from Late Antiquity: Liturgical Poems of Yehudah. Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary
Debra Blank

Ruth Langer. To Worship God Properly: Tensions Between Liturgical Custom and Halakhah in Judaism
Rochelle Millen

Chava Weissler. Voices of the Matriarchs: Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women
Carole Balin

Ora Wiskind-Elper. Tradition and Fantasy in the Tales of Reb Nahman of Bratslav
Arnold J. Band

Heidi Thomann Tewarson. Rahel Levin Varnhagen: The Life and Work of a German Jewish Intellectual. Texts and Contexts
Judith M. Lewin

Zachary Braiterman. (God) After Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought
Robert Eisen

Richard I. Cohen. Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe
Diane Wolfthal

Judith Laikin Elkin. The Jews of Latin America
Günter Böhm

Seth Forman. Blacks in the Jewish Mind: A Crisis of Liberalism
Stephen H. Norwood

Joel Beinin. The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora
Michael M. Laskier

Paula Hyman. The Jews of Modern France
Frances Malino

Steven Cassedy. To the Other Shore: The Russian Jewish Intellectuals Who Came to America
Henry Abramson

Abraham J. Karp. Jewish Continuity in America: Creative Survival in a Free Society
Dana Evan Kaplan

Harvey Warren Meirovich. A Vindication of Judaism: The Polemics of the Hertz Pentateuch
Nahum M. Sarna

Pamela Nadell. Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women’s Ordination, 1889–1985
Deborah Dash Moore

Bonnie J. Morris. Lubavitcher Women in America: Identity and Activism in the Postwar Era
Jeanne Henry

Edith Wyschogrod. An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology, and the Nameless Others
Miriam Fleer

David Novak. Natural Law in Judaism
Mark Washofsky

Collected Studies

Books Received

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A Note from the Editor

Dear AJS Member,

AJS Review 26:1 represents our first issue with our new publisher, Cambridge University Press.

The articles and reviews that we expected to appear as AJS Review 25:2 have now appeared as AJS Review 26:2, so as to maintain a logical numbering scheme. I apologize to all of you for the unfortunate delays in publication, especially to the authors who have waited patiently far longer than they should have for the appearance of their work.

Sincerely,

Jay M. Harris