AJS Review • Collected Studies
July - December 2003

Judith T. Baumel and Tova Cohen, eds. Gender, Place and Memory in the Modern Jewish Experience: Re-placing Ourselves. Portland, Ore.: Vallentine Mitchell, 2003. xxii, 296 pp.

CONTENTS: Paula E. Hyman, “Foreword.” Judith T. Baumel and Tova Cohen, “Prewar Europe, The Holocaust and The Second World War.” Gershon Bacon, “Woman? Youth? Jew? – The Search for Identity of Jewish Young Women in Interwar Poland.” Dalia Ofer, “Her View Through My Lens: Cecelia Slepak Studies Women in the Warsaw Ghetto.” Eli Tzur, “The Forgotten Leadership: Women Leaders of the Hashomer Hatzair Youth Movement at Times of Crisis.” Ingrid Strobl, “Family Origins and Political Motivations of Jewish Resistance Fighters in German-Occupied Europe.” Atina Grossmann, “Gendered Perceptions and Self-Perceptions of Memory and Revenge: Jewish DPs in Occupied Postwar Germany as Victims, Villains and Survivors.” Petri J. Raivo, “Oblivion Without Guilt: The Holocaust and Memories of the Second World War in Finland.” Insa Eschebach, “Engendered Oblivion: Commemorating Jewish Inmates at the Ravensbrueck Memorial 1945-95.” Sylvia Barack Fishman, “’The Girl I Was’: The Construction of Memory in Fiction by American Jewish Women.” Mira Katzburg-Yungman, “The Impact of Gender on the Leading American Zionist Organizations.” Debra Kaufman, “Post-Holocaust Memory: Some Gendered Reflections.” Rachel Simon, “Girls in the Zionist Youth Movements in Libya.” Esther Meir-Glitzenstein, “The West in the East: Patterns of Cultural Change as a Personal Kibbutz Experience.” Shulamit Reinharz, “Women’s Names and Place(s): Exploring the Map of Israel.” Maoz Azaryahu, “A Tale of Two Monuments.” Amia Lieblich, “Time, Place, Gender and Memory: From the Perspective of an Israeli Psychologist.”

Adele Berlin and Marc Z. Brettler, eds. The Jewish Study Bible. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. xxiii, 2181 pp.

CONTENTS: Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, “Introduction: What Is The Jewish Study Bible?” Preface to the 1985 JPS Edition. Torah: Introduction by March Zvi Brettler. Genesis: Introduction and Annotations by Jon D. Levenson. Exodus: Introduction and Annotations by Jeffrey H. Tigay. Leviticus: Introduction and Annotations by Baruch J. Schwartz. Numbers: Introduction and Annotations by Nili S. Fox. Deuteronomy: Introduction and Annotations by Bernard M. Levinson. Nevi'im: Introduction by Marc Zvi Brettler. Joshua: Introduction and Annotations by Carol Meyers. Judges: Introduction and Annotations by Yairah Amit. First Samuel: Introduction and Annotations by Shimon Bar-Efrat. Second Samuel: Introduction and Annotations by Shimon Bar-Efrat. First Kings: Introduction and Annotations by Ziony Zevit. Second Kings: Introduction and Annotations by Ziony Zevit. Isaiah: Introduction and Annotations by Benjamin D. Sommer. Jeremiah: Introduction and Annotations by Marvin A. Sweeney. Ezekiel: Introduction and Annotations by Marvin A. Sweeney. The Twelve Minor Prophets: Introduction and Annotations by Ehud Ben Zvi. Kethuvim: Introduction by Marc Zvi Brettler. Psalms: Introduction and Annotations by Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler. Proverbs: Introduction and Annotations by Michael V. Fox. Job: Introduction and Annotations by Mayer Gruber. The Scrolls: Introduction by Marc Zvi Brettler; The Songs of Songs: Introduction and Annotations by Elsie Stern. Ruth: Introduction and Annotations by Adele Reinhartz. Lamentations: Introduction and Annotations by Daniel Grossberg. Ecclesiastes: Introduction and Annotations by Peter Machinist. Esther: Introduction and Annotations by Adele Berlin. Daniel: Introduction and Annotations by Lawrence M. Wills. Ezra: Introduction and Annotations by Hindy Najman. Nehemiah: Introduction and Annotations by Hindy Najman. First Chronicles: Introduction and Annotations by David Rothstein. Essays: Introduction by Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler. Jewish Interpretation of the Bible. Benjamin D. Sommer, “Inner-biblical Interpretation.” Hindy Najman, “Early Nonrabbinic Interpretation.” Yaakov Elman, “Classical Rabbinic Interpretation.” David Stern, “Midrash and Midrashic Interpretation.” Barry D. Walfish, “Medieval Jewish Interpretation.” Edward Breuer, “Post-medieval Jewish Interpretation.” S. David Sperling, “Modern Jewish Interpretation.” The Bible in Jewish Life and Thought. Esther Eshel, “The Bible in the Dead Sea Scrolls.” Avigdor Shinan, “The Bible in the Synagogue.” Stefan C. Reif, “The Bible in Liturgy.” Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, “The Bible in the Jewish Philosophical Tradition.” The Bible in the Jewish Mystical Tradition. Elliot R. Wolfson, "The Glorious Name and the Incarnate Torah." The Bible in Israeli Life. Adele Reinhartz, “Jewish Women’s Scholarly Writings on the Bible.” Leonard J. Greenspoon, “Jewish Translations of the Bible.” Background for Reading the Bible. Stephen A. Geller, “The Religion of the Bible.” Jonathan Klawans, “Concepts of Purity in the Bible.” Adapted by Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, “Historical and Geographical Background to the Bible.” Steven E. Fassberg, “Languages of the Bible.” Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, “Textual Criticism of the Bible.” Marc Zvi Brettler, “The Canonization of the Bible.” Jordan S. Penkower, “The Development of the Masoretic Bible.” Adapted by Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, “The Modern Study of the Bible.” Adele Berlin, “Reading Biblical Poetry.”

Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson, eds. Jews and Christians: People of God. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William E. Eerdmans, 2003. ix, 198 pp.

CONTENTS: Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jensen, “Introduction.” Robert W. Jenson, “Toward a Christian Theology of Judaism.” R. Kendall Soulen, “Hallowed Be Thy Name! The Tetragrammaton and the Name of the Trinity.” Marvin R. Wilson, “Our Father Abraham: A Point of Theological Convergence and Divergence for Christians and Jews.” Richard John Neuhaus, “Salvation Is from the Jews.” George Lindbeck, “The Church as Israel: Ecclesiogy and Ecumenism.” David Novak, “From Supersessionism to Parallelism in Jewish-Christian Dialogue.” Peter Ochs, “Recovering the God of History: Scriptural Life after Death in Judaism and Christianity.” Jon D. Levenson, “Did God Forgive Adam? An Exercise in Comparative Midrash.” Reidar Dittman, “Birds Never Sing in This Forest.” Dabru Emet, “A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity.” Wolfhart Pannenberg, David Bentley Hart, David B. Burrell, and Barry Cytron, “A Symposium on Dabru Emet.”

Seymour Fox, Israel Scheffler, Daniel Marom, eds. Visions of Jewish Education. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii, 352 pp.

CONTENTS: Isadore Twersky, “Visions in Detail. Introduction. What Must a Jew Study — and Why?” Menachem Brinker, “Jewish Studies in Israel from a Liberal-Secular Perspective.” Moshe Greenberg, “We Were as Those Who Dream: An Agenda for an Ideal Jewish Education.” Michael A. Meyer, “Reflections on the Educated Jew from the Perspective of Reform Judaism.” Michael Rosenak, “Educated Jews: Common Elements.” Israel Scheffler, “The Concept of the Educated Person: With Some Application to Jewish Education.” Seymour Fox, “The Art of Translation.” Daniel Marom, “Before the Gates of the School: An Experiment in Developing Educational Vision from Practice.”

David H. Frank and Oliver Leaman, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxiv, 483 pp.

CONTENTS: Oliver Leaman, “Introduction to the study of medieval Jewish philosophy.” David Shatz, “The biblical and rabbinic background to medieval Jewish philosophy.” Joel L. Kraemer, “The Islamic context of medieval Jewish philosophy.” Sarah Stroumsa, “Saadya and Jewish kalam.” Sarah Pessin, “Jewish Neoplatonism: Being above Being and divine emanation in Solomon ibn Gabirol and Isaac Israeli.” Barry S. Kogan, “Judah Halevi and his use of philosophy in the Kuzari.” Daniel H. Frank, "Maimondes and medieval Jewish Aristotelianism.” Tzvi Langermann, “Maimonides and the sciences.” Menachem Lorberbaum, “Medieval Jewish political thought.” Paul B. Fenton, “Judaism and Sufism.” Havia Tirosh-Samuelson, “Philosophy and kabbalah: 1200-1600.” Steven Harvey, “Arabic into Hebrew: The Hebrew translation movement and the influence of Averroes upon medieval Jewish thought.” Gregg Stern, “Philosophy in southern France: Controversy over philosophic study and the influence of Averroes upon Jewish thought.” Charles H. Manekin, “Conservative tendencies in Gersonides’ religious philosophy.” T.M. Rudavsky, “The impact of Scholasticism upon Jewish philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.” Ari Ackerman, “Jewish philosophy and the Jewish-Christian philosophical dialogue in fifteenth-century Spain.” James T. Robinson, “Hasdai Crescas and anti-Aristotelianism.” Seymour Feldman, “The end and aftereffects of medieval Jewish philosophy.”

Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan, eds. The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. x, 396 pp.

CONTENTS: Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan, “Introduction: The Study of Mass Murder and Genocide.” Ben Kiernan, “Twentieth-Century Genocides: Underlying Ideological Themes from Armenia to East Timor.” Eric. D. Weitz, “The Modernity of Genocides: War, Race, and Revolution in the Twentieth Century.” Omer Bartov, “Seeking the Roots of Modern Genocide: On the Macro- and Microhistory of Mass Murder.” Marie Fleming, “Genocide and the Body Politic in the Time of Modernity.” Elazar Barkan, “Genocides of Indigenous Peoples: Rhetoric of Human Rights.” Isabel V. Hull, “Military Culture and the Production of 'Final Solutions' in the Colonies: The Example of Wilhelminian Germany.” John G. Taylor, “‘Encirclement and Annihilation’: The Indonesian Occupation of East Timor.” Jay Winter, “Under Cover of War: The Armenian Genocide in the Context of Total War.” Nicolas Werth, “The Mechanism of a Mass Crime: The Great Terror in the Soviet Union, 1937-1938.” Robert Gellately, “The Third Reich, the Holocaust, and Visions of Serial Genocide.” Gavan McCormack, “Reflections on Modern Japanese History in the Context of the Concept of Genocide.” Leslie Dwyer and Degung Santikarma, “‘When the World Turned to Chaos’: 1965 and Its Aftermath in Bali, Indonesia.” Edward Kissi, “Genocide in Cambodia and Ethiopia.” Robert Melson, “Modern Genocide in Rwanda: Ideology, Revolution, War, and Mass Murder in an African State.” Greg Grandin, “History, Motive, Law, Intent: Combining Historical and Legal Methods in Understanding Guatemala’s 1981-1983 Genocide.” Jacques Semelin, “Analysis of a Mass Crime: Ethnic Cleansing in the Former Yugoslavia, 1991-1999.” Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan, “Conclusions: Investigating Genocide.”

Zvi Gitelman, Barry Kosmin, Andra Kovacs. eds. New Jewish Identities: Contemporary Europe and Beyond. New York, NY: Central European University Press, 2003. xv, 365 pp.

CONTENTS: Zvi Gitelman, “Introduction.” Jacqueline Goldberg, “Social Identity in British and South African Jewry.” Barry Kosmin, “Religious Identity in the Social and Political Arena: An Examination of the Attitudes of Orthodox and Progressive Jews in the UK.” Stephen Miller, “Changing Patterns of Jewish Identity among British Jews.” Regine Azria, “A Typological Approach to French Jewry.” Lars Dencik, “Jewishness’ in Postmodernity: The Case of Sweden.” Zvi Gitelman, “Becoming Jewish in Russia and Ukraine.” John D. Klier, “The Jewish Press and Jewish Identity: Leningrad/St. Petersburg, 1989-1992.” Malka Korazim and Esther Katz, “The Behavioral Dimension.” Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, “Jewish Identity and the Orthodox Church in Late Soviet Russia.” Alanna E. Cooper, “Looking Out for One’s Own Identity: Central Asian Jews in the Wake of Communism.” Andras Kovacs, “Jewish Groups and Identity Strategies in Post-Communist Hungary.” Marius Gudonis, “Particularizing the Universal: New Polish Jewish Identities and a New Framework of Analysis.” Claire A. Rosenson, “Polish Jewish Institutions in Transition: Personalities over Process.” Charles S. Liebman, “Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel.” Jonathan Webber, “Notes Towards the Definition of ‘Jewish Culture’ in Contemporary Europe.” Charles S. Liebman, “Jewish Identity in Transition: Transformation or Attenuation?”

Benjamin H. Hary, ed. Corpus Linguistics and Modern Hebrew: Towards the Compilations of The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH). Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2003. xi, 241 pp.

CONTENTS: John Sinclair, “Current Issues in Corpus Linguistics.” John Sinclair, “Lexical Grammar.” Eliezer Ben-Rafael, “Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Israel.” Elana Shohamy and Bernard Spolsky, “From Monolingual to Multilingual? Educational Language Policy in Israel.” Otto Jastrow, “The Corpus of Spoken Palestinian Arabic (CoSPA).” Shlomo Izre’el, “The Emergence of Spoken Israeli Hebrew.” Yaakov Bentolila, “Linguistics Variation Across Generations in Israel.” Shmuel Bolozky, “Phonological and Morphological Variation in Spoken Hebrew.” Geoffrey Khan, “The Study of Modern Hebrew Syntax.” Giora Rahav, “Sampling of Population and the Formation of a Representative Corpus.” Benjamin Hary and Shlomo Izre’el, “The Preparatory Model of The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH).” Regina Werum, “Methodological Remarks on Creating The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH).”

Shelley Hornstein, Laura Levitt, and Laurence J. Silberstein, eds. Impossible Images: Contemporary Art after the Holocaust. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2003. x, 285 pp.

CONTENTS: Shelley Hornstein, Laura Levitt, and Laurence J. Silberstein, “Introduction: Framing the Holocaust: Contemporary Visions.” Shelley Hornstein, “Archiving an Architecture of the Heart.” Michelle A. Friedman, “Haunted By Memory: American Jewish Transformations.” Julian Bonder, “A House for an Uninhabitable Memory (The Center for Holocaust Studies at Clark University).” Ariella Azoulay, “The Return of the Repressed.” Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, “Racism and Ethics: Constructing Alternative History.” Tami Katz-Freiman, “‘Don’t Touch My Holocaust’—Analyzing the Barometer of Responses: Israeli Artists Challenge the Holocaust Taboo.” Ernst van Alphen, “Holocaust Toys: Pedagogy of Remembrance through Play.” Norman L. Kleeblatt, “The Nazi Occupation of the ‘White Cube’: Piotr Uklanski’s The Nazis and Rudolf Herz’s Zugzwang.” Adi Ophir, “On Sanctifying the Holocaust: An Anti-Theological Treatise.” Oren Baruch Stier, “Holocaust Icons: The Media of Memory.” Susan Derwin, “Sense and/or Sensation: The Role of the Body in Holocaust Pedagogy.”

Ava F. Kahn and Marc Dollinger, eds. California Jews. Hanover, New Hampshire: Brandeis University Press, 2003. xviii, 196 pp.

CONTENTS: Moses Rischin, “Foreword.” Bruce Phillips, “The Challenge of Family, Identity, and Affiliations.” Ava F. Kahn, “Joining the Rush.” David Kaufman, “Early Synagogue Architecture.” Steven Windmueller, “Through the Lens of Latino-Jewish Relations.” Amy Hill Shevitz, “Jewish Space and Place in Venice.” Na’ama Sabar, “Kibbutz San Fernando.” Robert Saslow, “Ketubot of the Golden State.” Felicia Herman, “Jewish Leaders and the Motion Picture Industry.” Ellen Eisenberg, “Civil Rights and Japanese American Incarceration.” William Issel, “Jews and Catholics Against Prejudice.” Lawrence Baron, “From Minyan to Matriculation.” Ava F. Kahn and Glenna Matthews, “120 Years of Women’s Activism.” Marc Dollinger, “The Counterculture.” David Plachte-Zuieback and Michelle Plachte-Zuieback, “Contemporary Art Glass.” Bruce J. Powell, “Shlomo Bardin’s ‘Eretz’ Brandeis.”

Kalpana Misra and Melanie S. Rich, eds. Jewish Feminism in Israel: Some Contemporary Perspectives. Hanover, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2003. xix, 18 pp.

CONTENTS: Kalpana Misra “Introduction.” Marcia Freedman, “Theorizing Israeli Feminism, 1970-2000.” Naomi Graetz, “Women and Religion in Israel.” Marsha Freeman, “Women, Law, Religion, and Politics in Israel: A Human Rights Perspective.” Michal Palgi, “Gender Equality in the Kibbutz-From Ideology to Reality.” Henriette Dahan-Kalev, “Mizrahi Feminism: The Unheard Voice.” Gila Svirsky, “The Women’s Peace Movement in Israel.” Irit Umanit, “Violence Against Women.” Tami Katz-Freiman, “‘Bad Girls’ – The Israeli Version: Contemporary Women Artists in Israel.” Melanie S. Rich, “Epilogue.”

Marvin A. Sweeney and Ehud Ben Zvi, eds. The Changing Face of Form Criticism for the Twenty-First Century. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. vii, 350 pp.

CONTENTS: Marvin A. Sweeney and Ehud Ben Zvi, “Introduction.” Antony F. Campbell, “Form Criticism’s Future.” Erhard Blum, “Formgeschichte — A Misleading Category? Some Critical Remarks.” Roy F. Melugin, “Recent Form Criticism Revisited in an Age of Reader Response.” Raymond C. Van Leeuwen, “Form Criticism, Wisdom, and Psalms 111-112.” Hyun Chul Paul Kim, “Form Criticism in Dialogue with Other Criticisms: Building the Multidimensional Structures of Texts and Concepts.” Martin Rösel, “Inscriptional Evidence and the Question of Genre.” Martti Nissinen, “Fear Not: A Study on an Ancient Near Eastern Phrase.” Margaret S. Odell, “Ezekiel Saw What He Said He Saw: Genres, Forms, and the Vision of Ezekiel 1.” Tremper Longman III, “Israelite Genres in Their Ancient Near Eastern Context.” Sue Boorer, “Kaleidoscopic Patterns and the Shaping of Experience.” Won Lee, “The Exclusion of Moses from the Promised Land: A Conceptual Approach.” Thomas Römer, “The Form-Critical Problem of the So-Called Deuteronomistic History.” Bob Beckring, “Nehemiah 9 and the Problematic Concept of Context (Sitz in Leben).” David L. Petersen, “The Basic Forms of Prophetic Literature.” Ehud Ben Zvi, “The Prophetic Book: A Key Form of Prophetic Literature.” Michael H. Floye, “Basic Trends in the Form-Critical Study of Prophetic Texts.” Martin J. Buss, “Toward Form Criticism as an Explication of Human Life: Divine Speech as a Form of Self-Transcendence.” Patricia K. Tull, “Rhetorical Criticism and Beyond in Second Isaiah.” Marvin A. Sweeney, “Zechariah’s Debate with Isaiah.”

Hana Wirth-Nesher and Michael P. Kramer, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi, 296 pp.

CONTENTS: Hana Wirth-Nesher and Michael P. Kramer, “Introduction: Jewish American literatures in the making.” Michael P. Kramer, “Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history.” Susannah Heschel, “Imagining Judaism in America.” Priscilla Ward, “Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants.” David G. Roskies, “Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination.” Alan Mintz, “Hebrew literature in American.” Hana Wirth-Nesher, “Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing.” Donald Weber, “Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture.” Maeera Y. Shreiber, “Jewish American poetry.” Alan Wald, “Jewish American writers on the Left.” Ruth R. Wisse, “Jewish American renaissance.” Emily Miller Budick, “The Holocaust in the Jewish American literary imagination.” Susan Gubar, “Jewish American women writers and the race question.” Shira Wolosky, “On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics.” Tresa Grauer, “Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing.”