Volume 28, Number 2 • November 2004
Table of Contents
Hillel J. Kieval and Martin S. Jaffee. A Word from the Editors
Articles
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern. The Master of an Evil Name: Hillel Ba'al Shem and his Sefer ha-ḥeshek
Rachel Feldhay Brenner. The Artist as a Mother and the Birth of Terrible Beauty in the Post-Holocaust World: Ruth Almog's The Inner Lake
William Kolbrener. “Chiseled from all Sides”: Hermeneutics and Dispute in the Rabbinic Tradition
Natan Margalit. Priestly Men and Invisible Women: Male Appropriation of the Feminine and the Exemption of Women from Positive Time-Bound Commandments
Sharon Faye Koren. Kabbalistic Physiology: Isaac the Blind, Nahmanides, and Moses de Leon on Menstruation
Review Essay
James Robinson. Three Recent Books on Isaac Abarbanel/Abravanel (1437-1508/9)
Book Reviews
Biblical Studies
Robert T. Anderson and Terry Giles. The Keepers: An Introduction to the History and Culture of the Samaritans.
Reinhard Plummer
Rabbinic Period
Judith R. Baskin. Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature.
Gary G. Porton
Michael L. Satlow. Jewish Marriage in Antiquity.
Tal Ilan
Alexander Samely. The Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture in Mishnah.
Michael Chernick
Medieval
Josef W. Meri. The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria.
Harvey E. Goldberg
James Arthur Diamond. Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment: Deciphering Scripture and Midrash in The Guide of the Perplexed.
Menachem Lorberbaum. Politics and the Limits of Law: Secularizing the Political in Medieval Jewish Thought.
Alfred Ivry
Jose Luis Lacave. Medieval Ketubot from Sefarad.
Yosef Rivlin
Lawrence Fine. Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos: Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship.
Shaul Magid
Susan L. Einbinder. Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France.
Shmuel Shepkaru
Modern
David Rechter. The Jews of Vienna and the First World War.
Marsha L. Rozenblit. Reconstructing National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I.
Harriet Pass Friedenreich
Yosef Salmon. Religion and Zionism: First Encounters.
Jody Myers
Ruth Gay. Safe Among The Germans: Liberated Jews After World War Two.
Zeev Mankowitz. Life Between Memory and Hope: The Survivors of the Holocaust in Occupied Germany.
G. Daniel Cohen
Alexander B. Rossino. Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity.
David Engel
Haim Hazan. Simulated Dreams: Israeli Youth and Virtual Zionism.
Tamar Rapoport
Esther Schely-Newman. Our Lives are but Stories: Narratives of Tunisian-Israeli Women.
Susan Sered
Lois C. Dubin. The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste: Absolutist Politics and Enlightenment Culture.
Jay R. Berkovitz
Michael L. Morgan. Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America.
Martin Kavka
Aaron L. Mackler. Introduction to Jewish and Catholic Bioethics: A Comparative Analysis.
Louis E. Newman
Burke O. Long. Imagining the Holy Land: Maps, Models, and Fantasy Travels.
Rehav Rubin
Ruth Katz.“The Lachmann Problem”: An Unsung Chapter in Comparative Musicology.
David M. Schiller. Bloch, Schoenberg & Bernstein: Assimilating Jewish Music.
Marsha Bryan Edelman. Discovering Jewish Music.
Judah M. Cohen
Itzik N. Gottesman. Defining the Yiddish Nation: The Jewish Folklorists of Poland.
Ken Frieden
Leslie Stein. The Hope Fulfilled: The Rise of Modern Israel.
Eran Kaplan
Shimon Redlich. Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919–1945.
Rosa Lehman. Symbiosis and Ambivalence: Poles and Jews in a Small Galician Town.
Rachel Manekin
Zafrira Lidovsky Cohen. Loosen the Fetters of thy Tongue, Woman: The Poetry and Poetics of Yona Wallach.
Alicia Ostriker
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