AJS Review • Collected Studies
July - December 2002

Michael Berenbaum and Abraham J. Peck, eds. The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998. xi, 836pp.

CONTENTS: Part 1:Probing the Holocaust: Where We Are, Where We Need to Go. Raul Hilberg, “Sources and Their Uses.” Yehuda Bauer, “A Past That Will Not Go Away.” Eberhard Jackel, “The Holocaust: Where We Are, Where We Need to Go.” Michael R. Marrus, “The Holocaust: Where We Are, Where We Need to Go–A Comment.” Part 2: Antisemitism and Racism in Nazi Ideology. David Banker, “The Use of Antisemitism in Nazi Wartime Propaganda.” Steven T. Katz, “The Holocaust: A Very Particular Racism.” Walter Zwi Bacharach, “Antisemitism and Racism in Nazi Ideology.” Omer Bartov, “Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Reinterpretations of National Socialism.” Part 3: The Politics of Racial Health and Science. Benno Muller-Hill, “Human Genetics and the Mass Murder of Jews, Gypsies, and Others.” Annegret Ehman, “From Colonial Racism to Nazi Population Policy: The Role of the So-called Mischlinge.” Stefan Kuhl, “The Cooperation of German Racial Hygienists and American Eugenicists before and after 1933.” Part 4: The Nazi State: Leadership and Bureaucracy. Charles W. Sydnor, Jr., “Executive Instinct: Reinhard Heydrich and the Planning for the Final Solution.” Richard Breitman, “Plans for the Final Solution in Early 1941.” Peter Hayes, “State Policy and Cooperate Involvement in the Holocaust.” Hans Mommsen, “The Civil Service and the Implementation of the Holocaust: From Passive to Active Complicity.” Franklin H. Littell, “The Other Crimes of Adolf Hitler.” Part 5: “Ordinary Men”: The Sociopolitical Background. Henry Friedlander, “The T4 Killers: Berlin, Lublin, San Sabba.” Christopher R. Browning, “Ordinary Germans or Ordinary Men? A Reply to the Critics.” Jurgen Forster, “Complicity or Entanglement? Wehrmacht, War, and Holocaust.” Guus Meershoek, “The Amsterdam Police and the Persecution of the Jews.” Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, ”Ordinary Men or Ordinary Germans?” Part 6: Multiple Voices: Ideology, Exclusion, and Coercion. John A. S. Grenville, “Neglected Holocaust Victims: The Mischlinge, the Judischversippte, and the Gypsies.” Hugh Gregory Gallagher, “Slapping Up Spastics.” Gunter Grau, “Final Solution of the Homosexual Question? The Antihomosexual Policies of the Nazis and the Social Consequences for Homosexual Men.” Rudiger Lautmann, “The Pink Triangle: Homosexuals as ‘Enemies of the State.’” Robert Kesting, “The Black Experience during the Holocaust.” Part 7: Concentration Camps: Their Task and Environment.” Franciszek Piper, “Auschwitz Concentration Camp: How It Was Used in the Nazi System of Terror and Genocide and in the Economy of the Third Reich.” Sybil Milton, “Antechamber to Birkenau: The Zigeunerlager after 1933.” Edith Raim, “Concentration Camps and the Non-Jewish Environment.” Gordon J. Horwitz, “Places Far Away, Places Very Near: Mauthausen, the Camps of the Shoah, and the Bystanders.” Part 8: The Axis, the Allies, and the Neutrals. Randolph L. Braham, “The Holocaust in Hungary: A Retrospective Analysis.” Meir Michaelis, “The Holocaust in Italy: Areas of Inquiry.” Jean Ancel, “Antonescu and the Jews.” Gerhard L. Weinberg, “The Allies and the Holocaust.” Susan S. Zuccotti, “Surviving the Holocaust: The Situation in France.” Louise London, “British Responses to the Plight of Jews in Europe, 1933–1945.” Paul A. Levine, “Bureaucracy, Resistance, and the Holocaust: Understanding the Success of Swedish Diplomacy in Budapest, 1944–1945.” Mark A. Epstein, “A Lucky Few: Refugees in Turkey.” John T. Pawlikowski, “The Catholic Response to the Holocaust: Institutional Perspectives.” Doris L. Bergen, “The Ecclesiastical Final Solution: The German Christian Movement and the Anti-Jewish Church.” Part 9: Jewish Leadership, Jewish Resistance. Yitzhak Arad, “The Armed Jewish Resistance in Eastern Europe: Its Unique Conditions and Its Relations with the Jewish Councils (Judenrate) in the Ghettos.” Richard I. Cohen, “Remembering and Invoking 1789 during the Holocaust: The Trials and Tribulations of French Jews.” Adam Rayski, “The Jewish Underground Press in France and the Struggle to Expose the Nazi Secret of the Final Solution.” Livia Rothkirchen, “Czech and Slovak Wartime Jewish Leadership: Variants in Strategy and Tactics.” Part 10: The Rescuers. Nechama Tec, “Reflections on Rescuers.” Eva Fogelman, “The Rescuer Self.” Samuel P. Oliner, “Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust: A Portrait of Moral Courage.” Part 11: The Survivor Experience. Jacqueline Giere, “‘We’re on our Way, but We’re Not in the Wilderness.’” Thomas Albrich, “Way Station of Exodus: Jewish Displaced Persons and Refugees in Postwar Austria.” Dalia Ofer, “From Illegal to New Immigrants: The Cyprus Detainees, 1946–1949.” William B. Helmreich, “Against All Odds: Survivors of the Holocaust and the American Experience.” Leo Eitinger, “Holocaust Survivors in Past and Present.” Dina Porat, “Israeli Society and Recent Attitudes toward the Jews of Europe and Holocaust Survivors.” Dori Laub with Marjorie Allard, “History, Memory, and Truth: Defining the Place of the Survivor.”

Aryeh Cohen and Shaul Magid, eds. Beginning/Again: Toward a Hermeneutics of Jewish Texts. New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2002. ix, 215 pp.

CONTENTS: Michael Carasik, “Three Biblical Beginnings.” Benjamin D. Sommer, “Expulsion as Initiation: Displacement, Divine Presence, and Divine Exile in the Torah.” Charlotte Fonrobert, “The Beginnings of Rabbinic Textuality: Women’s Bodies and Paternal Knowledge.” Aryeh Cohen, ” Beginning Gittin/ Mapping Exile.” Miriam Peskowitz, “Burying the Dead.” Elliot Wolfson, “Before Alef/Where Beginnings End.” Shaul Magid, “Origin and Overcoming the Beginning: Zimzum as a Trope of Reading in Post-Lurianic Kabbala.” Zachary Braiterman, “Cyclical Motions and the Force of Repetition in the Thought of Fran Rosenzweig.”

David Cesarani, ed. Port Jews: Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550–1950. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2002. vii, 208 pp.

CONTENTS: David Cesarani, “Port Jews: Concepts, Cases and Questions.” Brian Hoyle, “Fields of Tension: Development Dynamics at the Port-City Interface.” David Sorkin, “Port Jews and the Three Regions of Emancipation.” Lois Dubin, “Researching Port Jews and Port Jewries: Trieste and Beyond.” Jonathan Schorsch, “Portmanteau Jews: Sephardim and Race in the Early Modern Atlantic World.” Rainer Liedtke, “Germany’s Door to the World: A Haven for the Jews? Hamburg, 1590–1933.” Tony Kushner, “A Tale of Two Port Jewish Communities: Southampton and Portsmouth Compared.” David Cesarani, “The Forgotten Port Jews of London: Court Jews Who Were Also Port Jews.” Mark Levene, “Port Jewry of Salonika: Between Neo-colonialism and Nation-state.” Maria Vassilikou, “Greeks and Jews in Salonika and Odessa: Inter-ethnic Relations in Cosmopolitan Port Cities.” John D. Klier, “A Port, Not a Shtetl: Reflections on the Distinctiveness of Odessa.” Jonathan Goldstein, “The Sorkin and Golab Theses and Their Applicability to South, Southeast, and East Asian Port Jewry.” David Cesarani, “Conclusion: Future Research on Port Jews.”

Sheila Delany, ed. Chaucer and the Jews: Sources, Contexts, Meanings. New York: Routledge, 2002. vii, 258pp.

CONTENTS: Part I: ChaucerTexts. Christine M. Rose, “The Jewish Mother-in-Law: Synagoga and the Man of Law’s Tale.” William Chester Jordan, “The Pardoner’s “Holy Jew.” Sheila Delany, “Chaucer’s Prioress, the Jews, and the Muslims.” Jerome Mandel, “‘Jewes Werk’ in Sir Thopas.” Sylvia Tomasch, “Postcolonial Chaucer and the Virtual Jew.” Part II: Chaucerian Contexts. Mary Dove, “Chaucer and the Translation of the Jewish Scriptures.” Timothy S. Jones, “Reading Biblical Outlaws: The ‘Rise of David’ Story in the Fourteenth Century.” Nancy L. Turner, “Robert Holcot on the Jews.” Denise L. Despres, “The Protean Jew in the Vernon Manuscript.” Elisa Narin Van Court, “The Siege of Jerusalem and Augustinian Historians: Writing About Jews in Fourteenth-Century England.” Anthony P. Bale, “‘House Devil, Town Saint’: Anti-Semitism and Hagiography in Medieval Suffolk.” Part III: Chaucer, Jews, and Us. Colin Richmond, “Englishness and Medieval Anglo-Jewry.” Gillian Steinberg, “Teaching Chaucer to the ‘Cursed Folk of Herod.’” Judith S. Neaman, “Positively Medieval: Teaching as a Missionary Activity.”

Moshe Hallamish, Hannah Kasher and Yohanan Silman, eds. The Faith of Abraham: In the Light of Interpretation throughout the Ages (Hebrew). Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2002. 353pp.

CONTENTS: Aviezer Ravitzky, “Introduction—The Binding of Isaac and the Convenant: Abraham and his Sons in Jewish Thought.” Antiquity. Uriel Simon, “Biblical Abraham—The Blessing of Contrasts.” Adolfo D. Roitman, “Judith 5:6–9—A Forgotten Source Regarding Abraham’s Early Life.” Michael Mach, “Faith, Practice and Learning—Abraham according to Philo.” Noam Zohar, “The Figure of Abraham and the Voice of Sarah in Genesis Rabbah.” Marcel Dubois, “The Figure of Abraham in Christianity.” Reuven Firestone, “Merit, Mimesis and Martyrdom: Aspects of Shi‘ite Meta-historical Exegesis on Abraham’s Sacrifice in the Light of Jewish, Christian and Sunnite Traditions.” The Middle Ages. Eliezer Schlossberg, “The Binding of Isaac in R. Sa‘adia Gaon’s Polemic against Islam.” Yohanan Silman, “Abraham in the Kuzari in its Systematic Contexts.” Masha Turner, “The Patriarch Abraham in Maimonidean Thought.” Ruth Ben-Meir, “Abraham in Nahmanides’ Thought.” Michael Z. Nehorai, “The Binding of Isaac as a Leitmotif in the Religious Consciousness of R. Hasdai Crescas.” Shaul Regev, “The Level of Abraham’s Prophecy according to Maimonides, Abravanel and R. Eliezer Ashkenazi.” The Modern Period. Raphael B. Shuchat, “Abraham’s Faith according to the School of R. Elijah of Vilna: Intellectual Versus Revelationist Faith.” Yehoyada Amir, “The Father of the Nation and of the Faith versus the Master of the Prophets in the Teachings of R. Nahman Krochmal.” Jerome Gellman, “The Figure of Abraham in Hasidic Literature.” Aharon Shear-Yashuv, “Abraham’s Religiosity in Samuel Hirsch’s Philosophy of Religion.” Rivka Horwitz, “The Models of the Religion of Abraham in the Thought of Mendelssohn and Samuel David Luzzato.” Ephraim Meir, “Buber’s Dialogical Interpretation of the Binding of Isaac–between Kierkegaard and Hasidism.” Ron Margolin, “Abraham the Seer: Martin Buber’s Interpretation of Abraham’s Tests and its Hasidic Sources.” Avinoam Rosenak, “R. Kook as a Halakhic Fundamentalist in the light of his Attitude towards Abraham and the Patriarchs.” Hannah Kasher, “‘Look toward Heaven’–on Jewish Thought in the Footsteps of the Midrashim.” Warren Z. Harvey, “Leibowitz on the Abrahamic Person, Faith and Nihilism.” Leon Ashkenazi, “A New Kabbalistic Midrash on the Binding of Isaac.”

Dana Evan Kaplan, ed. Platforms and Prayer Books: Theological and Liturgical Perspectives on Reform Judaism. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002. ix, 317pp.

CONTENTS: Ellen M. Umansky, “Foreword.” Dana Evan Kaplan, “The Reform Theological Enterprise at Work: Debating Theory and Practice in the American Religious ‘Marketplace.’” Part I: The Historical Context. Herbert Bronstein, “Platforms and Prayer Books: From Exclusivity to Inclusivity in Reform Judaism.” Jerome A. Chanes, “‘America is Different!’: Reform Judaism and American Pluralism.” Yaakov Ariel, “Miss Daisy’s Planet: The Strange Word of Reform Judaism in the United States, 1870–1930.” Robert F. Southard, “The Theologian of the 1885 Pittsburgh Platform: Kaufmann Kohler’s Vision of Progressive Judaism.” Walter Jacob, “Renewing Reform Judaism: From Pittsburgh to Pittsburgh.” Michael A. Meyer, “Our Collective Identity as Reform Jews.” Part II: Liturgical Studies. Gary P. Zola, “The First Reform Prayer Book in America: The Liturgy of the Reformed Society of Israelites.” Judith Z. Abrams, “The Continuity of Change in Jewish Liturgy.” Eric L. Friedland, “Meditation in Progressive Judaism.” Peter S. Knobel, “The Challenge of a Single Prayer Book for the Reform Movement.” Part III: Comparative Studies. Cory Michael Lebson, “Challenges to Using the Same Measures of Religiosity for Both Christians and Jews.” Richard Hirsh, “Two Trains Passing: Reconstructionism and Reform in Twentieth-Century American Judaism.” Seth Kunin, “The Return of the Liminal to Reform Judaism.” Debra Renee Kaufman, “Better the Devil You Know…and Other Contemporary Identity Narratives: Comparing Orthodox to Reform Judaism.” Part IV: Autonomy and Authority in Texts. Peter J. Haas, “Reform Judaism and Halacha: A Rapprochement?” S. Daniel Breslauer, “Building a Postmodern Reform Judaism: The Example of Eugene B. Borowitz.” Michael L. Satlow, “Oral Torah: Reading Jewish Texts Jewishly in Reform Judaism.” Leon A. Morris, “Beyond Autonomy: The Texts and Our Lives.” Dov Marmur, “American Reform: Observations from the Margin.”

Shaul Magid, ed. God’s Voice from the Void: Old and New Studies in Bratslav Hasidism. New York: State University of New York Press, 2002. ix, 298 pp.

CONTENTS: Part I: New Studies. Anonymous, translated and annotated by Aubrey L. Glazer, “Shir Yedidut: A Pleasant Song of Companionship.” Shaul Magid, “Associative Midrash: Reflections on a Hermenuetical Theory in Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav’s Likkutei MoHaRan.” David G. Roskies, “The Master of Prayer: Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav.” Elliot R. Wolfson, “The Cut That Binds: Time, Memory, and the Ascetic Impulse (Reflections on Bratslav Hasidism).” Yakov Travis, “Adorning the Souls of the Dead: Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav and Tikkun HaNeshamot.” Nathaniel Deutsch, “Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav: The Zaddik as Androgyne.” Martin Kavka, “Saying Nihilism: A Review of Marc-Alain Ouaknin’s The Burnt Book.” Part II: Old Studies. Hillel Zeitlin, translated by Alyssa Quint, “Messiah and the Light of the Messiah in Rabbi Nahman’s Thought.” Samuel Abba Horodetzsky, translated by Martin Kavka, “Rabbi Nahman, Romanticism, and Rationalism.” Joseph Weiss, translated by Jeremy Kalmanofsky, “Mystical Hasidism and the Hasidism of Faith: A Typogogical Analysis.”

Alan Mittleman, Jonathan D. Sarna, and Robert Licht, eds. Jewish Polity and American Civil Society: Communal Agencies and Religious Movements in the American Public Sphere. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002. ix, 420pp.

CONTENTS: Alan Mittleman, “Preface.” Daniel J. Elazar, “Introduction–The Jewish Political Tradition and the English-Spreaking World.” I. Communal Agencies. Steven Windmueller, “‘Defenders’: National Jewish Community Relations Agencies.” Michael C. Kotzin, “Local Community Relations Councils and Their National Body.” Martin J. Raffel, “History of Israel Advocacy.” Joel M. Carp, “The Jewish Social Welfare Lobby in the United States.” II. Religious Movements. Gordon M. Freeman, “The Conservative Movements and the Public Square.” Lance J. Sussman, “Reform Judaism, Minority Rights, and the Separation of Church and State.” Lawrence Grossman, “Mainstream Orthodoxy and the American Public Square.” Samuel C. Heilman, “Haredim and the Public Square: The Nature of the Social Contract.” David A. Teutsch, “Reconstructionism and the Public Square: A Multicultural Approach to Judaism in America.” Allan Arkush, “Jewish Renewal.” Alan Mittleman, “Afterword.”

Alan Mittleman, Robert Licht, and Jonathan D. Sarna, eds. Jews and the American Public Square: Debating Religion and Republic. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002. 375pp.

CONTENTS: Alan Mittleman, “Introduction.” I. Historical Dimensions. Naomi W. Cohen, “An Overview of American Jewish Defense.” Jonathan D. Sarna, “Church State Dilemmas of American Jews.” II. Constitutional Dimensions. Ralph Lerner, “Believers and the Founders’ Constitution.” Martin J. Plax, ” The Rule of Law and the Establishment Clause.” Marc D. Stern, “Religion and Liberal Democracy.” III. Political Dimensions. Marshall J. Breger, “Jewish Activism in the Washington ‘Square’: An Analysis and Prognosis.” Harvey Sicherman, “Uncertain Steps: American Jews in the New Public Square.” Jack Wertheimer, “The Jewish Debate over State Aid to Religious Schools.” IV. Sociological Dimensions. Sherry Israel, “Jewish Involvements in the America Public Square: The Organizational Disconnect.” Sylvia Barack Fishman, “Public Jews and Private Acts: Family and Personal Choices in the Public Square and in the Private Realm.” V. Philosophical Dimensions. David G. Dalin, “Jewish Critics of Strict Separationism.” Hillel Fradkin, “Under His Own Vine and Fig Tree: The Contemporary Jewish Approach to Religion in American Public Life and Its Problems.” David Novak, “Toward a Jewish Public Philosophy in America.”

Marla Morris and John A. Weaver, eds. Difficult Memories: Talk in a (Post) Holocaust Era. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2002. xi, 278 pp.

CONTENTS: William F. Pinar, “Foreword.” Introduction. Marla Morris, “A Difficult Road: Talk in (Post) Holocaust Voices.” Grace Feuerverger, “My Yiddish Voice.” Alan A. Block, “‘If I Forget Thee…Thou Shall Forget’: The Difficulty of Difficult Memories.” Claudia Eppert, “Throwing Testimony Against the Wall: Reading Relations, Loss and Responsible/Responsive Learning.” Jutta Schamp, “Shadows from the Inside Out: The Constitution of Memory as a Space-in-Between.” James R. Watson, “Philosophy and Reified Consciousness in the Age of Genocide.” Judy Goldsmith, “Three Germanies.” William Campbell Doll, “The Boiling Pot.” David Blades, “The Gentile Touch of Kedoshim.” Dennis Sumara, “Inventing Subjectivity in Post-Holocaust Times: A Narrative of Catastrophe and Slow Accumulation.” John A. Weaver, “Silence of Method.” Belinda Davis and Peter Appelbaum, “Post-Holocaust and Science Education.” Mary Aswell Doll, “Portraits of Anti-Semites.” David W. Jardine, “The Way to God and a True Life: A Spiel on Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl and the Necessity of Interpretation to a Livable Pedagogy.” Marla Morris, “Curriculum Theory as Academic Responsibility: The Call for Reading Heidegger Contextually.” Karen Anijar and Barbara Mascali, “How Can We Speak at All?”

Yoram Peri, ed. The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. California: Stanford University Press, 2000. vii, 386 pp.

CONTENTS: Yoram Peri, “Introduction: The Writing Was on the Wall.” Part I: The Road to Rabin Square. Yoram Peri, “The Assassinations: Causes, Meaning, Outcomes.” Nachman Ben-Yehuda, “One More Political Murder by Jews.” Ehud Sprinzak, “Israel’s Radical Right and the Countdown to the Rabin Assassination.” Israel Orbach, “Self-Destructive Processes in Israeli Politics.” Part II: The Public Reaction. Aviezer Ravitzky, “‘Let Us Search Our Path’: Religious Zionism After the Assassination.” Majid Al-Haj, “An Illusion of Belonging: Reactions of the Arab Population to Rabin’s Assassination.” Yoram Peri, “The Media and the Rabin Myth: Reconstruction of the Israeli Collective Identity.” Part III: The Grief and the Mourning. Tamar Rapoport, “The Many Voices of Israeli Youth: Multiple Interpretations of Rabin’s Assassination.” Haim Hazan, “Rabin’s Burial Ground: Revisiting the Zionist Myth.” Eliezer Witztum and Ruth Malkinson, “The Cultural and Social Construction of Mourning Patterns.” Linda-Renee Bloch, “Rhetoric on the Roads of Israel: The Assassination and Political Bumper Stickers.” Barbie Zelizer, “The Past in Our Present: The Assassinations of Yitzhak Rabin and John F. Kennedy.” Part IV: The Ongoing Crisis of Legitimacy. Tamar Hermann and Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar, “The Latitude of Acceptance: Israelis’ Attitudes toward Political Protest before and after the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.” Gadi Yatziv, “At the Last Moment.” Yoram Peri, “Rabin: Between Commemoration and Denial.”

Carol Rittner, John K. Roth and James M. Smith, editors. Will Genocide Ever End? Minnesota: Paragon House, 2002. vii, 201pp.

CONTENTS: Stephen D. Smith, “Introduction.” Carol Rittner, John K. Roth, and James Smith, “Chronology.” Part I: What Is Genocide? John K. Roth, “The Politics of Definition.” Roger W. Smith, “As Old As History.” Steven L. Jacobs, “The UN Convention.” Stephen C. Feinstein, “Understanding the ‘G’ Word.” Helen Fein, “States of Genocide and Other States.” Paul Mojzes, “Ethnic Cleansing.” Richard L. Rubenstein, “Population Elimination.” Part II: What Are The Causes and Mechanisms of Genocide? Mark Levene, “A Twentieth-Century Phenomenon?” Robert Melson, “Circumstances of Modern Genocide.” Clark McCauley, “Psychological Foundations.” Eric Markusen, “Mechanisms of Genocide.” Carol Rittner, “Using Rape as a Weapon of Genocide.” Linda Melvern, “Identifying Genocide.” Ervin Staub, “Understanding Genocide.” Part III: What Can Be Done About Genocide? David Nyheim, “What Can Be Done?” Jennifer Leaning, “Identifying Precursors.” Henry R. Huttenbach, “Anticipating Genocide.” Barbara Harff, “Early Warning and Genocide Prevention.” Herbert Hirsch, “Controlling Genocide in the Twenty-First Century.” Ben Kiernan, “Studying the Roots of Genocide.” Kurt Jonassohn, “Prosecuting the Perpetrators.” Michael J. Bazyler, “Using Civil Litigation to Achieve Some Justice.” Part IV: Will Genocide Ever End? John Heidenrich, “Genocide: Everyone’s Problem.” Samuel Totten, “A Task Whose Time Has Come.” Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, “Genocide is History.” Richard Goldstone and Nicole Fritz, “War Crimes Trials.” Hubert Locke, “Will Genocide Ever End?” James M. Smith, “Cautious Optimism.” Epilogue. Carol Rittner, John K. Roth, and James M. Smith, “Beyond the Darkness?”

Marc Lee Raphael, ed. Gendering the Jewish Past. Virginia: The College of William and Mary—Department of Religion, 2002. 155pp.

CONTENTS: Pamela S. Nadell, “Introduction.” David Biale, “Does Blood Have Gender in Jewish Culture?” Todd M. Endelman, “Gender and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History.” Yael S. Feldman, “The Jacob Complex and Zionist Masculinism in the Work of A.B. Yehoshua.” ChaeRan Y. Freeze, “Gendering Martial Conflict and Divorce Among Jews in Tsarist Russia.” Alan T. Levenson, “Jewish & Jewish-Feminist Tendencies in Modern Bible Scholarship.” Laura Levitt, “The Labor of Remembrance: A Feminist Perspective.” Naomi Seidman, “Immaculate Translation: Sexual Fidelity, Textual Transmission, and Jewish-Christian Difference in the Virgin Birth.” Stefanie B. Siegmund, “Gendered Self-Government in Early Modern Jewish History: The Florentine Ghetto and Beyond.”

Howard Wettstein, ed. Diasporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. vii, 292 pp.

CONTENTS: Erich S. Gruen, “Diaspora and Homeland.” Howard Wettstein, “Coming to Terms with Exile.” Bluma Goldstein, “A Politics and Poetics of Diaspora: Heine’s ‘Hebraische Melodien.’” Murray Baumgarten, “Dancing at Two Weddings: Mazel between Exile and Diaspora.” Catherine M. Soussloff, “Portraiture and Assimilation in Vienna: The Case of Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrat.” Daniel J. Schroeter, “A Different Road to Modernity: Jewish Identity in the Arab World.” Irwin Wall, “Remaking Jewish Identity in France.” Diane L. Wolf, “‘This Is Not What I Want’: Holocaust Testimony, Postmemory, and Jewish Identity.” Bernard Susser, “The Ideology of Affliction: Reconsidering the Adversity Thesis.” Louise E. Tallen, “Jewish Identity Writ Small: The Everyday Experience of Baalot Teshuvah.” Kerri P. Steinberg, “Contesting Identities in Jewish Philanthropy.”

Seth L. Wolitz, ed. The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. ix, 240pp.

CONTENTS: I. The Yiddish Language and the Yiddish Cultural Experience in Bashevis’s Writings. Irving Saposnik, “A Canticle for Isaac: A Kaddish for Bashevis.” Joseph Sherman, “Bashevis/Singer and the Jewish Pope.” Avrom Noversztern, “History, Messianism, and Apocalypse in Bashevis’s Work.” Mark L. Louden, “Sociolinguistic Views of Isaac Bashevis Singer.” II. Thematic Approaches to the Study of Bashevis’s Fiction. Leonard Prager, “Bilom in Bashevis’s Der knekht (The Slave): A khaye hot oykh a neshome (An animal also has a soul).” Alan Astro, “Art and Religion in Der bal-tshuve (The Penitent).” Jan Schwarz, “‘Death Is the Only Messiah’: Three Supernatural Stories by Yitskhok Bashevis.” III. Bashevis’s Interface With Other Times and Cultures. Astrid Starck-Adler, “Bashevis’s Interactions with the Mayse-bukh (Book of Tales).” Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska, “The Role of Polish Language and Literature in Bashevis’s Fiction.” IV. Interpretations of Bashevis’s Autobiographical Writings. Nathan Cohen, “Revealing Bashevis’s Earliest Autobiographical Novel, Varshe 1914–1918 (Warsaw 1914–1918).” Itzik Gottesman, “Folk and Folklore in the Work of Bashevis.” Janet Hadda, “Bashevis at Forverts.” V. Bashevis’s Untranslated “Gangster”Novel: Yarme Un Keyle. Joseph Sherman, “A Background Note on the Translation of Yarme un keyle.” Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Yarme and Keyle: Chapter 2,” translated by Joseph Sherman. Appendix. Seth L. Wolitz and Joseph Sherman, “Bashevis Singer as a Regionalist of Lublin Province: A Note…”

BOOKS RECEIVED (July–December 2002)

Altmann, Alexander. Saadya Gaon: The Book of Doctrines and Beliefs. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company Inc., 2002. v, 194 pp.

Ansky, S. The Dybbuk and Other Writings. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xxxvi, 220 pp.

Assaf, David. The Regal Way: The Life and Times of Rabbi Israel of Ruzhin. Translated by David Louvish. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. xv, 456 pp.

Baigell, Matthew. Jewish Artists in New York: The Holocaust Years. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002. ix, 186 pp.

Baker, Cynthia M. Rebuilding the House of Israel: Architecture of Gender in Jewish Antiquity. California: Stanford University Press, 2002. viii, 260 pp.

Bargad, Warren and Stanley F. Chyet. No Sign of Ceasefire: An Anthology of Contemporary Israeli Poetry. Los Angeles: Skirball Cultural Center, 2002. ix, 272 pp.

Berkowitz, Joel. Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage. Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2002. ix, 283 pp.

Bolkosky, Sidney M. Searching for Meaning in The Holocaust. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002. xv, 129 pp.

Brams, Steven J. Biblical Games: Game Theory and the Hebrew Bible. Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2003. vii, 220 pp.

Bregman, Ahron. Israel’s Wars: A History Since 1947. New York: Routledge, 2002. xvii, 272 pp.

Bukiet, Melvin Jules. Stories of an Imaginary Childhood. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. 201 pp.

Chilton, Bruce. Redeeming Time: The Wisdom of Ancient Jewish and Christian Festal Calendars. Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 2002. viii, 132 pp.

Dalfin, Chaim. Attack on Lubavitch: A Response. Brooklyn: Jewish Enrichment Press, 2002. 119 pp.

Dershowitz, Alan M. Why TerrorismWorks. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. 271 pp.

Diamond, James Arthur. Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment: Deciphering Scripture and Midrash in the Guide of the Perplexed. New York: State University of New York Press, 2002. x, 235 pp.

Dollinger, Marc. Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000. xi, 287 pp.

El-Or, Tamar. Next Year I Will Know More: Literacy and Identity Among Young Orthodox Women in Israel. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 331 pp.

Etzioni-Halevy, Eva. The Divided People: Can Israel’s Breakup Be Stopped? New York: Lexington Books, 2002. ix, 185 pp.

Frank, Bernhand. The Print of Memory: A Judaic Perspective. New York: Goldengrove Press, 2002. 63 pp.

Freidenreich, Harriet Pass. Female, Jewish, and Educated: the Lives of Central European University Women. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2002. xxii, 296 pp.

Geljon, Albert C. Philonic Exegesis in Gregory of Nyssa’s “De Vita Moysis.” Providence: Brown Judaica Studies, 2002. xii, 220 pp.

Goldstein, Rebecca. Mazel. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. 368 pp.

Grynberg, Michal, ed. Words to Outlive Us: Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto. Translated by Philip Boehm. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002. xi, 493 pp.

Habermas, Jurgen. Religion and Rationality: Essay on Reason, God, and Modernity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2002. vi, 176 pp.

Hart, Mitchell B. Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity. California: Stanford University Press, 2000. viii, 340 pp.

Hazan, Haim. Simulated Dreams: Israeli Youth and Virtual Zionism. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. vii, 116 pp.

Hecht, Thomas T. Life Death Memories. Virginia: Leopolis Press, 2002. iv, 209 pp.

Hernandez, Marie Theresa. Delirio: The Fantastic, the Demonic, and the Reel. Texas: University of Texas Press, 2002. xi, 306 pp.

Hoffman, Betty N. Jewish Hearts: A Study of Dynamic Ethnicity in the United States and the Soviet Union. New York: State University of New York Press, 2001. xxvi, 282 pp.

Hrushevsky, Mykhailo. History of Ukraine-Rus’: Volume 8. The Cossack Age, 1626–1650. Edited by Frank E. Sysyn. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2002. viii, 808pp.

Jacobs, Janet Liebman. Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews. California: University Of California Press, 2002. ix, 197 pp.

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