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Volume 31,
Number 2 • November 2007
Table of Contents
Articles
Marcin Wodziński.
How Modern is an Anti-Modernist Movement? The Emergence of Hasidic Politics in Congress Poland
Jess Olson.
The Late Zionism of Nathan Birnbaum: The Herzl Controversy Reconsidered
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert.
Plato in Rabbi Shimeon bar Yohai’s Cave (B. Shabbat 33b-34a): The Talmudic Inversion of Plato’s Politics of Philosophy
Sarra Lev.
How the ’Aylonit Got Her Sex
Notes from the Field
Mustafa Dehqan.
Tehran’s Unmined Archive of Kurdish Jewry: A Field Report
Review Essay
Stuart S. Miller.
Roman Imperialism, Jewish Self-Definition, and Rabbinic Society: Belayche’s Iudaea Palaestina, Schwartz’s Imperialism and Jewish Society, and Boyarin’s Border Lines Reconsidered
Book Reviews
General Studies
Michael Fishbane. Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking
Pamela Barmash
Elliott Horowitz. Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence
Irven M. Resnick
Howard Schwartz. Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism
Martin S. Jaffee
Harvey E. Goldberg. Jewish Passages: Cycles of Jewish Life
Oren Kosansky
Biblical Studies
Ruth Fidler. “Halomot ha-shav’ yedaberu”? Halomot hitgalut ba-mikra’ u-mekomam be-toldot ha-’emunah veha-masoret be-yisra’el ha-kedumah
Alan T. Levenson
Judaism In Late Antiquity
Shaye J.D. Cohen. Why Aren’t Jewish Women Circumcised? Gender and Covenant in Judaism
Sarra Lev
Dan Levene. A Corpus of Magic Bowls: Incantation Texts in Jewish Aramaic from Late Antiquity
Michael D. Swartz
Yehoshua Levinson. Ha-sipur she-lo’ supar: ’omaunt ha-sipur ha-makra’i ma-murhav be-midreshei hazal
Azzan Yadin
Medieval
Ann Brener. Judah Halevi and His Circle of Hebrew Poets in Granada
Chanita Goodblatt
Robert Eisen. The Book of Job in Medieval Jewish Philosophy
Raphael Jospe
Joel Hecker. Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah
Eitan P. Fishbane
Elliot R. Wolfson. Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination
Kalman P. Bland
Modern Jewish Culture
Zvia Balshan. Ihud mefulag: ha-berit ha-‘olamit shel miflegot po’ale-Tsiyon, 1907-1920
Rachel Rojanski
Israel Bartal. The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881
Adam Rubin
Deborah Dash Moore. GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation
Gary R. Mormino
David E. Fishman. The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture
Kalman Weiser
Murray Friedman. The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy
Michael Alexander
Barbara Hahn. The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity
Jonathan M. Hess
Thomas C. Hubka. Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth-Century Polish Community
Adam Teller
Laurel Leff. Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper
Lawrence Douglas
Matthias B. Lehmann. Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture
Jonathan Ray
Ted Merwin. In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture
Stephen J. Whitfield
Samuel Moyn. A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France
Michael R. Marrus
Yaron Peleg. Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination
Ranen Omer-Sherman
Alyson Pendlebury. Portraying ‘the Jew’ in First World War Britain
Judith W. Page
Nils Roemer. Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Between History and Faith
Adam S. Ferziger |
