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Volume 29,
Number 2 • November 2005
Table of Contents
Articles
Pamela Barmash.
At the Nexus of History and Memory: The Ten Lost Tribes
Magda Teter.
The Legend of Ger Ẓedek of
Wilno as Polemic and Reassurance
Ken Frieden.
Joseph Perl's Escape from Biblical Epigonism Through Hasidic Parody
Geoffrey Herman.
Ahasuerus, the Former Stable Master of Belshazzar and the Wicked Alexander
of Macedon: Two Parallels Between the Babylonian Talmud and Persian Sources
Gad
Freudenthal.
Aaron
Salomon Gumpertz, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and the First Call for an
Improvement of the Civil Rights of Jews in Germany (1753)
Review Essay
Elliott Horowitz. Tosephists and Taboo: A review of Haym Soloveitchik's “Yeinam”
Book Reviews
Biblical Studies
J. Edward Wright. Baruch Ben Neriah: From Biblical Scribe to Apocalyptic Seer.
Benjamin G. Wright III
Louis H. Feldman. “Remember Amalek!” Vengeance, Zealotry, and GroupDestruction in the Bible According to Philo, Pseudo-Philo and Josephus.
Steven Bowman
Judaism in Late Antiquity
David Noy and Hanswulf Bloedhorn. Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis. III Syria and Cyprus.
Steven Bowman
Hindy Najman. Seconding Sinai: The Development of Mosaic Discourse in Second Temple Judaism.
Alex Jassen
Andrew S. Jacobs. Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity.
Marina Greatrex
Edward Kessler. Bound by the Bible: Jews, Christians and the Sacrifice of Isaac.
Joel Kaminsky
Cynthia M. Baker. Rebuilding the House of Israel: Architectures of Gender in Jewish Antiquity.
Steven Fine
Yizhar Hirschfeld. Qumran in Context , Reassessing the Archaeological Evidence.
Rami Arav
Rachel Elior. The Three Temples: On the Emergence of Jewish Mysticism.
Jonathan Klawans
Medieval
J. H. Chajes. Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism.
Anne Oravetz
Modern
Christopher R. Browning. The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942, with contributions by Jürgen Matthäus.
David Engel
Judah M. Cohen. Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
Alan F. Benjamin
Derek J. Penslar. Shylock's Children: E co nomics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe.
Todd M. Endelman
Moshe Halamish. The Kabbalah in North Africa: A Historical and Cultural Survey.
Pinchas Giller
Elisheva Carlebach. Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany, 1500-1750.
R. Po-chia Hsia
John M. Efron. Medicine and the German Jews: A History.
Steven M. Lowenstein
Haya Bar-Itzhak. Jewish Poland —Legends of Origin: Ethnopolitics and Legendary Chronicles.
Ezra Mendelsohn
Eli Lederhendler. New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950–1970.
Deborah Dash Moore
Menachem Klein. Jerusalem: The Contested City.
Bernard Reich
Luis M. Girón-Negrón. Alfonso de la Torre's Visión Deleytable : Philosophical Rationalism and the Religious Imagination in Fifteenth-Century Spain.
Norman Roth
Gary Weissman. Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust.
Berel Lang
Iris Parush. Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society.
Eliyana R. Adler
Ahuva Belkin. The Purimshpil, Studies in Jewish Folk Theater.
Jean Baumgarten
Peter Eli Gordon. Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy.
Zachary Braiterman
Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam J. Zohar and Ari Ackerman, eds. The Jewish Political Tradition. Volume Two: Membership.
Julie E. Cooper
Marianne R. Sanua. Going Greek: Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945.
Diana Turk
Ofira Seliktar. Divided We Stand: American Jews, Israel, and the Peace Process.
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