AJS Review
Volume 30, Number 1 • March 2006

Table of Contents

Articles
 
Adam Teller
. Hasidism and the Challenge of Geography: The Polish Background to the Spread of the Hasidic movement

Magda Teter and Edward Fram. Apostasy, Fraud, and the Beginnings of Hebrew Printing in Cracow

Meira Polliack. Rethinking Karaism: Between Judaism and Islam

Alanna E. Cooper. Conceptualizing Diaspora: Tales of Jewish Travelers in Search of the Lost Tribes

Bernard D. Cooperman. Ethnicity and Institution Building among Jews in Early Modern Rome

Reuven Shoham. Intertextuality and Its Meaning in Natan Zach's “'Enosh kehazir yamav” (As for man, his days are as grass)

Gilead Morahg. Borderline Cases: National Identity and Territorial Affinity in A. B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani


Review Essay

Gennady Estraikh. At the Edge of Soviet State Control


Book Reviews

 
General Studies

Ivan G. Marcus. The Jewish Life Cycle: Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times.
Shlomo Deshen

Lisa Lampert. Gender and Jewish Difference: From Paul to Shakespeare.
Sheila E. Jelen

Michael Stanislawski. Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning.
Alan T. Levenson

Ancient Israel and the Near East

Ronald Hendel. Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory and History in the Hebrew Bible.
Steven Weitzman

Daniel Friedmann. To Kill and Take Possession: Law, Morality, and Society in Biblical Stories.
Victor H. Matthews

Judaism in Late Antiquity

Azzan Yadin. Scripture as Logos: Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash.
Eliezer Diamond

Medieval History, Literature, and Thought

Mark D. Meyerson. A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain.
Eric Lawee

Modern History, Literature, and Thought

Joseph Davis. Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller: Portrait of a Seventeenth-Century Rabbi.
Edward Fram

Alan T. Levenson. Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism: Defenses of Jews and Judaism in Germany, 1871-1932.
Keith Pickus

Yaacov Shavit and Shoshana Sitton. Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine—The Creation of a Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948.
Arieh Saposnik

Jay Howard Geller. Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953.
Y. Michal Bodemann

Tamar El-Or. Next Year I will Know More: Literacy and Identity among Young Orthodox Women in Israel.
Harriet Hartman

David Ellenson. After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity.
Ken Koltun-Fromm

Ellen M. Umansky. From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews.
Stephen J. Whitfield

Rachel Heuberger. Aron Freimann und die Wissenschaft des Judentums.
Michael A. Meyer

Chaim I. Waxman. Jewish Baby Boomers: A Communal Perspective.
Riv-Ellen Prell

Gennady Estraikh. In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with Communism.
David Shneer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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