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Volume 30,
Number 2 • November 2006
Table of Contents
Symposium: American Jewish Writing Today
Naomi Sokoloff. Introduction: American Jewish Writing Today
Sara R. Horowitz. Mediating Judaism: Mind, Body, Spirit and Contemporary North American Jewish Fiction
Wendy Zierler. A Dignitary in the Land? Literary Representation of the American Rabbi
Jeremy Dauber. Comic Books, Tragic Stories: Will Eisner's American Jewish History
Naomi Sokoloff. Reading for the Plot? Philip Roth's The Plot Against America
Adam Rovner. So Easily Assimilated: The New Immigrant Chic
Articles
Devora Steinmetz. Beyond the Verse: Midrash Aggadah as Interpretation of Biblical Narrative
Jenny R. Labendz. The Book of Ben Sira in Rabbinic Literature
Eric Lawee. From Sepharad to Ashkenaz: A Case Study in the Rashi Supercommentary Tradition
Review Essay
Michah Gottlieb. Defending Spinoza?
Book Reviews
Biblical Studies
Pamela Barmash. Homicide in the Biblical World
Bernard S. Jackson
Steven Weitzman. Surviving Sacrilege: Cultural Persistence in Jewish Antiquity
Alexei Sivertsev
Saul M. Olyan. Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions
David A. Lambert
Judaism In Late Antiquity
Menahem I. Kahana. The Geniza Fragments of the Halakhic Midrashim, Part One Joshua Kulp Eyal Regev. The Sadducees and Their Halakhah: Religion and Society in the Second Temple Period
Adiel Schremer
Jed Wyrick. The Ascension of Authorship: Attribution and Canon Formation in Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian Traditions
Hindy Najman
Shamma Friedman. Tosefta Atiqta: Pesah Rishon
Dvora Weisberg
Medieval
Robert Chazan. Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom Jonathan Elukin
Steven B. Smith. Spinoza's Book of Life: Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics Aaron V. Garrett. Meaning in Spinoza's Method
Nancy Levene
R. Abraham Ibn Ezra. Yesod Mora ve-Sod Torah: The Foundation of Piety and the Secret of the Torah
Y. Tzvi Langermann
Tamar M. Rudavsky. Time Matters: Time, Creation and Cosmology in Medieval Jewish Philosophy
Jonathan W. Malino
Modern
Adam S. Ferziger. Exclusion and Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance, and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity
Marc B. Shapiro
Margalit Shilo. Princess or Prisoner: Jewish Women in Jerusalem, 1840-1914
Judith Baumel
Melissa R. Klapper. Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860–1920
Aleisa Fishman Neil G. Jacobs. Yiddish: A Linguistic Introduction
Dovid Katz
Shirli Gilbert. Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps
Gila Flam
Saul. S. Friedman. A History of the Holocaust
Dan Michman Jacob Golomb. Nietzsche and Zion
Berel Lang
Guy Miron. Mi-“sham” le-“khan” be-guf r'ishon: Zikhronoteihem shel yoz'ei Germania be-Yisrael
Hagit Lavsky
Emmanuel Levinas. Humanism of the Other
Emmanuel Levinas. Unforeseen History
Claire Elise Katz. Levinas, Judaism, and the Feminine: The Silent Footsteps of Rebecca
Jacob Meskin
David N. Myers. Resisting History: Historicism and its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought
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