AJS Review
Volume 29, Number 1 • April 2005

Table of Contents

Articles
 
W. David Nelson. Oral Orthography: Early Rabbinic Oral and Written Transmission of Parallel Midrashic Tradition in the Mekhilta of Rabbi Shimon b. Yo?ai and the Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael
 
Martin Jacobs. Exposed to All the Currents of the Mediterranean—A Sixteenth-Century Venetian Rabbi on Muslim History
 
Alyssa Quint. “Yiddish Literature for the Masses”? A Reconstruction of Who Read What in Jewish Eastern Europe
 
Arnold Franklin. Cultivating Roots: The Promotion of Exilarchal Ties to David in the Middle Ages
 
Jane Hathaway. The Mawza‘ Exile at the Juncture of Zaydi and Ottoman Messianism
 
Ariel Furstenberg. Restitution of Lost Property in the Tannaitic and Amoraic Halakhah: A Preliminary Philosophical Study of the Forming of a Conception (Abstract of Hebrew Article)
 
 
Review Essays
 
Baruch A. Levine. Scholarly Dictionaries of Two Dialects of Jewish Aramaic
 
Joel Rubin. “Music is the Pen of the Soul”: Recent Works on Hasidic and Jewish Instrumental Klezmer Music
 
 
Book Reviews
 
Biblical Studies
Ziony Zevit. The Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches.
Benjamin D. Sommer
 
Israel Knohl. The Divine Symphony: The Bible’s Many Voices.
Marvin A. Sweeney
 
Ithamar Gruenwald. Rituals and Ritual Theory in Ancient Israel.
Jonathan Klawans
 
Rabbinic Studies
Yair Lorberbaum. Image of God, Halakhah and Aggadah.
Joshua Kulp
 
Medieval
Aaron W. Hughes. The Texture of the Divine: Imagination in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Thought.
Kalman P. Bland
 
Marc B. Shapiro. The Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides’ Thirteen Principles Reappraised.
Gidon Rothstein
 
Pinchas Giller. Reading the Zohar: The Sacred Text of the Kabbalah.
Mark Verman
 
Dean Phillip Bell. Sacred Communities: Jewish and Christian Identities in Fifteenth Century Germany.
Elisheva Carlebach

Modern
Marc Shapiro. Between the Yeshivah World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884-1966.
Gershon Greenberg
 
Ronald Schechter. Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815.
Allan Arkush
 
Michael Gluzman. The Politics of Canonicity: Lines of Resistance in Modernist Hebrew Poetry.
Chanita Goodblatt
 
Elliot Dorff. Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics.
Peter J. Haas
 
Steven Nadler. Spinoza’s Heresy. Immortality and the Jewish Mind.
Julie R. Klein
 
Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer. Antisemitism. Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present.
Richard S. Levy
 
Jody Myers. Seeking Zion: Modernity and Messianic Activism in the Writings of Tsevi Hirsch Kalischer.
Arieh Saposnik
 
Marcia Reynders Ristaino. Port of Last Resort: The Diaspora Communities of Shanghai.
Bernard Wasserstein
 
Joshua D. Zimmerman. Poles, Jews, and the Politics of Nationality: The Bund and the Polish Socialist Party in Late Tsarist Russia, 1892-1914.
Theodore R. Weeks
 
Ehud Luz. Wrestling with an Angel: Power, Morality and Jewish Identity.
David Biale
 
Seth Farber. An Orthodox Dreamer: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Boston’s Maimonides School.
Moshe Sokol
 
Karsten Krieger, ed. Der ‘Berliner Antisemitismusstreit’ 1879-1881. Eine Kontroverse um die Zugehörigkeit der deutschen Juden zur Nation.
Hartwig Wiedebach
 
Hasia R. Diner and Beryl Leiff Benderly. Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present.
Dianne Ashton

Lloyd P. Gartner
. History of the Jews in Modern Times.
Robert M. Seltzer

Azariah De’ Rossi
. The Light of the Eyes.
Lester A. Segal

Michael E. Staub. Torn at the Roots. The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America.
Eli Lederhendler
 
Hebrew Article
 
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