AJS Review • Collected Studies
January - June 2003

Rainer Albertz and Bob Becking, editors. Yahwism After the Exile: Perspectives on Israelite Religion in the Persian Era. The Netherlands: Koninklijke Van Gorcum BV, 2003. vii, 300 pp.

CONTENTS: Rainer Albertz and Bob Becking, “Problems and Possiblities: Perspectives on Postexilic Yahwism.” Rainer Albertz, “The Thwarted Restoration.” Bob Becking, “Law as Expression of Religion (Ezra 7-10).” Ehud Ben Zvi, “What is New in Yehud? Some Considerations.” Mark J. Boda, “Zechariah: Master Mason or Penitential Prophet?” Meindert Dijkstra, “The Law of Moses: the Memory of Mosaic Religion in and after the Exile.” William Johnstone, “The Revision of Festivals in Exodus 1-24 in the Persian Period and the Preservation of Jewish Identity in the Diaspora.” Antje Labahn, “Antitheocratic Tendencies in Chronicles.” Herbert Niehr, “The Changed Status of the Dead in Yehud.” Thomas Pola, “Form and Meaning in Zechariah 3.” Wolter Rose, “Messianic Expectations in the Early Postexilic Period.” Rüdiger Schmitt, “Gab es einen Bildersturm nach dem Exil? – Einige Bemerkungen zur Verwendung von Terrakottafigurinen im nachexilischen Israel.” Zipora Talshir, “Synchronic Approaches with Diachronic Consequences in the Study of Parallel Redactions: First Esdras and 2 Chr 35-36; Ezra 1-10; Neh 8.” David S. Vanderhooft, “New Evidence Pertaining to the Transition from Neo-Babylonian to Achaemenid Administration in Palestine.”

Elizabeth R. Baer and Myrna Goldenberg, editors. Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. xi, 321 pp.

CONTENTS: Elizabeth R. Baer and Myrna Goldenberg, “Introduction.” Carol Rittner and John K. Roth, “Chronology.” Part I. Proposing a Theoretical Framework. John K. Roth, “Equality, Neutrality, Particularity: Perspectives on Women and the Holocaust.” Pascale Rachel Bos, “Women and the Holocaust: Analyzing Gender Difference.” Part II. Women’s Experiences: Gender, the Nazis, and the Holocaust. Sybil Milton, “Hidden Lives: Sinti and Roma Women.” Anna Rosmus, “Involuntary Abortions for Polish Forced Laborers.” Susan Benedict, “Caring While Killing: Nursing in the ‘Euthanasia’ Centers.” Mary D. Lagerwey, “The Nurses’ Trial at Hadamar and the Ethical Implications of Health Care Values.” Part III. Gender and Memory: The Uses of Memoirs. Judith Greenberg, “Paths of Resistance: French Women Working from the Inside.” Myrna Goldenberg, “Food Talk: Gendered Responses to Hunger in the Concentration Camps.” Susan Nowak, “Ruptured Lives and Shattered Beliefs: A Feminist Analysis of Tikkun Atzmi in Holocaust Literature.” Catherine A. Bernard, “Anne Frank: The Cultivation of the Inspirational Victim.” Part IV. Women’s Expressions: Postwar Reflections in Art, Fiction, and Film. Stephen C. Feinstein, “Jewish Women in Time: The Challenge of Feminist Artistic Installations about the Holocaust.” S. Lillian Kremer, “Women in the Holocaust: Representation of Gendered Suffering and Coping Strategies in American Fiction.” Rebecca Scherr, “The Uses of Memory and Abuses of Fiction: Sexuality in Holocaust Film, Fiction, and Memoir.”

John R. Bartlett, editor. Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities. New York: Routledge, 2002. vii, 249 pp.

CONTENTS: Sean Freyne, “Introduction: Studying the Jewish Diaspora in Antiquity.” Lester L. Grabbe, “The Hellenistic City of Jerusalem.” Tessa Rajak, “Synagogue and Community in the Graeco-Roman Diaspora.” Fearghus Ó Fearghail, “The Jews in the Hellenistic cities of Acts.” Anne Fitzpatrick- Mckinley, “Synagogue Communities in the Graeco-Roman cities.” Brian McGing, “Population and Proselytism: How Many Jews were there in the Ancient World?” Sacha Stern, “Jewish Calendar Reckoning in the Graeco-Roman cities.” John Dillon, “The Essenes in Greek Sources: Some Reflections.” John Barclay, “Apologetics in the Jewish Diaspora.” Jonathan Dyck, “Philo, Alexandria and Empire: the Politics of Allegorical Interpretation.” Gideon Bohak, “Ethnic Continuity in the Jewish Diaspora in Antiquity.” Eric M. Meyers, “Aspects of Everyday Life in Roman Palestine with Special Reference to Private Domiciles and Ritual Baths.”

Michael Berkowitz, Sam W. Bloom and Susan L. Tananbaum, eds. Forging Modern Jewish Identities: Public Faces and Private Struggles. Oregon: Vallentine Mitchell, 2003. x, 293 pp.

CONTENTS: Michael Berkowitz, Susan L. Tananbaum and Sam W. Bloom, “Introduction: Anthologizing Jews.” Daniel Soyer, “Revisiting the Old World: American-Jewish Tourists in Inter-war Eastern Europe.” Lawrence Charap, “‘Our Esteemed Christian Contemporaries’: Inter-Faith Dialogue in the American Hebrew, 1885-1908.” Michelle Mart, “Acceptance and Assimilation: Jews in 1950s American Popular Culture.” Mark Levene, “Going against the Grain: Two Jewish Memoirs of War and Anti-War, 1914-18.” Susan L. Tananbaum, “‘Morally Depraved and Abnormally Criminal’: Jews and Crime in London and New York, 1880-1940.” Sam W. Bloom, “Marcel Proust and the Comedy of Assimilation.” Alice Nakhimovsky, “Mikhail Zhvanetskii: The Last Russian-Jewish Joker.” Musya Glants, “Between Two Worlds: The Dual Identity of Russian-Jewish Artists in the Late Nineteenth Century.” Glenn R. Sharfman, “Between Identities: The German-Jewish Youth Movement Blau-Weiss, 1912-26.” Miriam Dean-Otting, “Assimilation and Return in Two Generations of Czech-Jewish Women: Berta Fanta and Else Fanta Bergmann.” Péter Várdy, “Epiphanies: Hungarian-Jewish Experiences and the Shoah.” Stanislao G. Pugliese, “Resisting Fascism: The Politics and Literature of Italian Jews, 1922-45.”

Dominique Bourel and Gabriel Motzkin, editors. Les Voyages de l’intelligence: Passages des idées et des hommes Europe, Palestine, Israël. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2002. 335 pp.

CONTENTS: Gabriel Motzkin and Dominique Bourel, “Introduction.” Michel Espagne, “Le passage en France des juifs de Bohême au milieu du XIX siècle.” Katharina Middell, “Brody, Leipzig, Lyon: les relations commerciales européennes et leurs acteurs (1780-1820).” Norbert Waszek, “Eduard Gans: Berlin-Paris-Berlin.” Olivier Agard, “De Breslau à Francfort: l’itinéraire de l’historien Isidor Kracauer.” Florence Heymann, “La Bucovine de Rose Ausländer entre Vaterland et Muttersprache.” Delphine Bechtel, “Itinéraires d’intellectuels juifs russes: exils d’est en ouest.” Marc Crépon, “De Vienne à Bruxelles, de Hanovre à New York Jean Améry, Hannah Arendt et la langue allemande.” Anthony David Skinner, “Livres, exil et retour.” Ewa Bérard, “Quitter la Russie, quitter le judaïsme. Deux itineraries: Ilya Ehrenbourg et Ossip Mandelstam.” Jaques Ehrenfreund, “Les usages juifs de l’historicisme allemand. Naissance et professionnalisation d’une discipline judéo-allemande, 1817-1914.” Jonathan Judaken, “Entre Jérusalem et la France: Sartre et l’ambivalence de l’engagement.” Dominique Trimbur, “Les raciness allemandes de l’Université hébraïque.” Claude Klein, “À propos des influences allemandes sur le droit israélien.” Samuel S. Kottek and Gerhard Baader, “Les médecins de formation allemande et leur influence sur le développement de la profession et de son enseignement en Palestine-Israël.” Guido Lieberman, “Demeures freudiennes en Palestine-Eretz-Israël.” Stéphanie Mosès, “La résistance aux transferts: le rejet des auteurs « diasporiques » dans la culture israélienne.”

Roger Chickering and Stig Förster, editors. The Shadows of Total War: Europe,
East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ix, 364 pp.

CONTENTS: Roger Chickering and Stig Förster, “Introduction.” Part I. Reflections on the Interwar Period. Gerhard L. Weinberg, “The Politics of War and Peace in the 1920s and 1930s.” Hew Strachan, “War and Society in the 1920s and 1930s.” Dennis E. Showalter, “Plans, Weapons, Doctrines: The Strategic Cultures of Interwar Europe.” Part II. Legacies of the Great War. Hartmut Lehman, “Religious Socialism, Peace, and Pacifism: The Case of Paul Tillich.” James M. Diehl, “No More Peace: The Militarization of Politics.” Deborah Cohen, “The War’s Returns: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939.” Edgar Jones and Simon Wessely, “The Impact of Total War on the Practice of British Psychiatry.” Part III. Visions of the Next War. Roger Chickering, “Sore Loser: Ludendorff’s Total War.” Thomas Rohkrämer, “Strangelove, or How Ernst Junger Learned to Love Total War.” Timo Baumann and Daniel Marc Segesser, “Shadows of Total War in French and British Military Journals, 1918-1939.” Markus Pöhlmann, “Yesterday’s Battles and Future War: The German Official Military History, 1918-1939.” Bernd Greiner, “ ‘The Study of the Distant Past Is Futile’: American Reflections on New Military Frontiers.” Part IV. Projections and Practice. Benedikt Stuchtey, “ ‘Not by Law but by Sentiment’: Great Britain and Imperial Defense, 1918-1939.” Wilhelm Deist, “ ‘Blitzkrieg’ or Total War? War Preparations in Nazi Germany.” Klaus A. Maier, “The Condor Legion: An Instrument of Total War?” Hans-Heinrich Nolte, “Stalinism as Total Social War.” Giulia Brogini Künzi, “Total Colonial Warfare: Ethiopia.” Louise Young, “Japan’s Wartime Empire in China.”

William Cutter and David C. Jacobson, editors. History and Literature: New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band. Providence: Brown Judaic Studies, 2002. ix, 506 pp.

CONTENTS: David C. Jacobson, “Preface.” Ross Shideler and Kathleen Komar, “Two Views of Arnold Band.” William Cutter, “Reflections on Arnold Band, Scholar, Teacher, Mentor.” Michael A. Signer, “Dor Dor Vedorshav: Of Fathers and Sons.” Part I: Classical Jewish Texts and Modern Interpreters. David M. Gordis, “Two Literary Talmudic Readings.” Alan Mintz, “Sefer Ha´aggadah: Triumph or Tragedy?” Ezra Spicehandler, “‘The Scroll of Fire’: An Interpretation.” Joseph Dan, “Rabbi Nahman’s Third Beggar.” David Ellenson, “Parallel Worlds: Wissenschaft and Pesaq in the Seridei Esh.” David N. Myers, “A Third Guide for the Perplexed? Simon Rawidowicz ‘On Interpretation.’” Part II: S. Y. Agnon. Dan Almagor, “S. Y. Agnon’s ‘From Foe to Friend’: Agnon between Berit Shalom and Berit Yosef Trumpeldor.” Risa Domb, “Is Tehillah Worthy of Her Praise?” Dalia Dromi, “Religious Ectasy, Erotic Turmoil, and Christian Innuendoes in S. Y. Agnon’s ‘Haneshiqah Harishonah’ (‘First Kiss’).” Nancy Ezer, “Flirtation in S.Y. Agnon’s Shira.” Avraham Holtz, “Reb Nahman Krochmal in Jaffa: A Hallucinatory Vision in S. Y. Agnon’s Temol Shilshom.” David C. Jacobson, “Childish Distortions of Rabbinic Texts in S. Y. Agnon’s ‘Hamitpahat.’” Malka Shaked, “What ‘Dances’ in Agnon’s ‘Dance of Death.’” David Stern, “Agnon from a Medieval Perspective.” Part III: Diaspora. Tamar Alexander, “‘The Wealthy Señor Miguel’: A Study of a Sephardic Novella.” Michael A. Meyer, “The Imagined Jew: Heinrich Heine’s ‘Prinzessin Sabbath.’” Yair Mazor, “The Way of the ‘Wail of the Wind’: Peretz Smolenskin’s Latent, Worthy Ars Poetica.” David Patterson, “Assonance and Its Share in Irony: Comments on Sefer Haqabtsanim.” Gershon Shaked, “Three Kalikes: A Comparative Study of Mendele, Agnon, and Bashevis.” William Cutter, “Some Crosscurrents of Linguistic Nationalism: M.Y. Berdyczewski on the Centrality of Hebrew.” Glenda Abramson, “Bialik’s ‘Tsafririm’: Innocence and Experience.” Steven J. Zipperstein, “Death in a Furnished Room: Rereading Isaac Rosenfeld’s Obituaries.” Murray Baumgarten, “Philip Roth, Jewish Identity, and the Satire of Modern Success.” Part IV: Zionism, Holocaust, and Israel. Yael Zerubavel, “Rachel and the Female Voice: Labor, Gender, and the Zionist Pioneer Vision.” Gabriella Moscati Steindler, “Revising the Past: The Image of the Idyllic ‘Village.’” Avner Holtzman, “Why Did the River Turn Red? On the Story ‘Orsha’ by Gershon Schofmann.” Ruth R. Wisse, “A Prayer of Homecoming by Abraham Sutzkever.” Aharon Appelfeld, “The Kernel.” Nurith Gertz, “Who Is a Jew? Dan Ben Amotz’s Novel To Remember, To Forget.” Robert K. Baruch, “Rereading Dan Pagis’s ‘Abba.’” Walter Ackerman, “What Learning Is Most Worth?” Stanley Nash, “Aharon Megged’s ‘Burden’ in His Portrayals of the Effects of Israel’s Wars.” Gilead Morahg, “Shading the Truth: A.B. Yehoshua’s ‘Facing the Forests.’” Ruth Kartun-Blum, “Political Mothers: Women’s Voice and the Binding of Isaac in Israeli Poetry.” Naomi Sokoloff, “Zionist Dreams and Savyon Liebrecht’s ‘A Cow Named Virginia.’” Yael S. Feldman, “Between Genesis and Sophocles: Biblical Psychopolitics in A. B. Yehoshua’s Mr. Mani.” Nili Rachel Scharf Gold, “Amichai’s Open Closed Open and Now and in Other Days: A Poetic Dialogue.” Yigal Schwartz, “The Frigid Option: A Psychocultural Study of the Novel Love Life by Zeruya Shalev.” Publications of Arnold J. Band.

Aaron Demsky, editor. These Are The Names: Studies in Jewish Onomastics - Vol. 3. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2002. 154 pp, *170 pp.

CONTENTS: English Section. Aaron Demsky, “Hebrew Names in the Dual Form and the Toponym Yerushalayim.” Aharon Gaimani, “Family Names and Appellations among Yemenite Jews.” David Golinkin, “The Use of the Matronymic in Prayers for the Sick.” Ephrat Habas (Rubin), “Joul(l)us – A Jewish Name in Late Antiquity.” Rachel Hachlili, “Names and Nicknames at Masada.” Tal Ilan, “Yohana bar Makoutha and Other Pagans Bearing Jewish Names.” Marlene Schiffman, “The Role of the Library of Congress in the Establishment of English Names for Authors of Hebrew and Yiddish Works.” Hebrew Section. Yoel Elitzur, “Talmai- Talim- Talmayim?” Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky, “Jewish First Names in Smyrna in the 18th and 19th Centuries: A Study Based on the Bills of Divorce and the Community Gravestones.” Estée Dvorjetski, “The Names of Kefar Agon (Umm J?ni) and their Geographical-Historical Significance.” Yosef Tobi, “Translations of Personal Names in Medival Judeo-Arabic Bible Translation.” Chana Tolmas, “Name-Change Patterns of Bukharan Jews(1940s-Present Days).” David Lifshiz, “Humorous Names and Nicknames in the Talmud.” Aharon Megged, “Names with Meaning.” Emmanuel Friedheim, “The Names ‘Gad,’ ‘Gada,’ and ‘Gadya’ among Palestinian and Babylonian Sages, and the Rabbinic Struggle against Pagan Influences.” Yuval Shahar, “Mount Asamon- Har Ieshimon- Jebel Tur ‘an.” Shlomo Spitzer, “The Shmot Gittin Literature as a Source for the Research of Jewish Names.”

Debórah Dwork, editor. Voices and Views: A History of the Holocaust. New York: The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, 2002. iii, 686 pp.

CONTENTS: Paul Goldberger, “Preface.” Harold Schulweis, “Dedication.” Debórah Dwork, “Acknowledgements.” Debórah Dwork, “Introduction.” I. Jews, Gentiles, and Germans. Debórah Dwork, “Introduction.” William Nicholls, “Christian Antisemitism and Secular Antisemitism.” Robert S. Wistrich, “Antisemitism.” Richard Wagner, “Judaism in Music.” Richard Wagner, “What is German?” II. World War I and The Interwar Period. Debórah Dwork, “Introduction.” Eugen Weber, “A Wilderness Called Peace.” Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt, “Germany’s Turn to the East.” Eugen Diesel, “The Old Order.” Klaus P. Fischer, “The Trauma of Military Defeat and Economic Ruin, 1919-23.” Ezra Mendelsohn, “Poland.” Ezra Mendelsohn, “Jewish Life Between the Wars.” Tracy H. Koon, “Believe, Obey, Fight.” III. The National Socialist Regime. Debórah Dwork, “Introduction.” Wolfgang Sofsky, “On the History of the Concentration Camps.” William Carr, “Nazi Policy Against the Jews.” Marion Kaplan, “The November Pogrom and its Aftermath.” Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt, “The Third Reich.” IV. Refugee Policy. Debórah Dwork, “Introduction.” Henry L. Feingold, “Roosevelt’s New Deal Humanitarianism.” David S. Wyman, “The Abandonment of the Jews.” Bernard Wasserstein, “Sealing the Escape Routes.” Michael R. Marrus, “Rescue Efforts.” V. Gentile Life Under German Occupation. Debórah Dwork, “Introduction.” The Polish Ministry of Information, “The Black Book of Poland.” Margaret Collins Weitz, “France Under German Occupation.” Leni Yahil, “Under State Protection.” VI. Jewish Life Under German Occupation. Debórah Dwork, “Introduction.” Debórah Dwork, “At Home and in Secret.” Isaiah Trunk, “The Jewish Councils.” Chaim A. Kaplan, “Scroll of Agony.” Janina Bauman, “Behind the Walls.” Yisrael Gutman, “Days of Battle.” VII. The Machinery of Death and the Murderers. Debórah Dwork, “Introduction.” Reichsführer- SS, SS- Hauptant: “Der Untermensch,” trans. Robert Jan Van Pelt. Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, eds., “The Einsatzgruppen Reports.” Christopher R. Browning, “Initiation to Mass Murder: The Jozefow Massacre.” Raul Hilberg, “Origins of the Killing Centers.” Saul Friedländer, “Belzec and Treblinka.” Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt, “The Holocaust at Auschwitz.” Yehuda Bauer, “Gypsies.” Primo Levi, “On the Bottom.” VIII. Rescue. Debórah Dwork, “Introduction.” Debórah Dwork, “Into Hiding.” Per Anger, “Wallenberg’s Last Acts, His Unique Achievement.” Daniel Carpi, “The Rescue of Jews in the Italian Zone of Occupied Croatia.” Guenter Lewy, “The Jewish Question.” Saul Friedländer, “Consenting Elites, Threatened Elites.” Philip P. Hallie, “Help: 1940-1944.” IX. The Rescuers. Debórah Dwork, “Introduction.” Yehuda Bauer, “Rescue Attempts Out of Lithuania.” Nechama Tec, “From Self-Preservation to Rescue.” Nechama Tec, “Becoming a Rescuer: Overcoming Social Psychological, and Physical Barriers.” Raul Hilberg, “Helpers, Gainers, and Onlookers.” Miep Gies, “Refugees.” Carol Rittner, R.S.M. and Sondra Myers, “Magna Trocmé.” X. After the Holocaust. Debórah Dwork, “Introduction.” Mark Wyman, “Jews of the Surviving Remnant.” Primo Levi, “The Drowned and the Saved.” Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt, “The Netherlands.” Yehuda Bauer, “On the Place of the Holocaust in History.”

Laura Z. Eisenberg, Neil Caplan, Naomi B. Sokoloff, and Mohammed Abu-Nimer, editors. Traditions and Transitions in Israel Studies: Books on Israel, Volume VI. New York: State University of New York Press, 2003. vii, 342 pp.

CONTENTS: History and Memory. Mordechai Bar-On, Benny Morris and Motti Golani, “Reassuring Israel’s Road to Sinai/Suez, 1956: A ‘Trialogue.’” Rachel Feldhay Brenner, “The Holocaust and Its Fifty-Year-Old Commemoration: Have We Reached the Limit.” Israeli Society: The Jewish Community. David Newman, “Controlling Territory: Spatial Dimensions of Social and Political Change in Israel.” Ephraim Tabory, ‘“A Nation that Dwelleth Alone’: Judaism as an Integrating and Divisive Factor in Israeli Society.” Israeli Society: The Arab Community. Ilham Nasser, “Palestinians in Israel: Social and Educational Conditions in the 1990s.” Khawla Abu Baker, “Research on Welfare and Well-being in Israel: A Palestinian Perspective.” Whither Post-Zionism? Deborah L. Wheeler, “Does Post-Zionism Have a Future?” Leah Rosen and Ruth Amir, “The Open Society and Its Enemies: Changing Public Discourse in Israel.” Stephen Schecter, “Literature as a Response to Paradox: On Reading A.B. Yehoshua’s A Journey to the End of the Millennium.” Peace Process. Mira Sucharov, “Anthologizing the Peace Process.” Amal A. Jamal, “Power-Relations, Recognition, and Dialogue: The Dynamics of Israeli-Palestinian Peace.” Maen F. Nsour, “Economics as a Security Tool in an Era of ‘Peace’ in the Middle East.” Israel Studies Around the World. Antonio Donno, “Changing Italian Perspectives on Israel.” Angelika Timm, “Israel Tirns Fifty: New Books Published in Germany.” Xu Xin, “Israel in Chinese Scholarship.”

Daniel J. Elazar, Michael Brown, and Ira Robinson, eds. Not Written in Stone: Jews Constitutions, and Constitutionalism in Canada. Religions and Beliefs Series No. 11. Canada: University of Ottawa Press, 2003. xii, 280 pp.

Part I: The Setting. Daniel J Elazar, Michael Brown, Ira Robinson, “Issues and Contexts: An Introduction.” Daniel J Elazar, “Using Foundation Documents in the Study of Jewish Public Affairs.” Lorraine Eisenstat Weinrib, “‘Do Justice to Us!’ Jews and the Constitution of Canada.” Part II: Analysis and Discussion. Jay Eidelman, “Kissing Cousins: The Early History of Congregations Shearith Israel of New York City and Montreal.” Michael Brown, “Signs of the Times: Changing Notions of Citizenship, Governance, and Authority as Reflected in Synagogue Constitutions.” Ira Robinson, “They Work in Faithfulness: Constitutional Documents of Jewish Communal Organizations Other Than Synagogues.” Part III: Selected Documents (Excerpts).

Zvi Gitelman, editor. Jewish Life After the USSR. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003. vii, 286 pp.

CONTENTS: Zvi Gitelman, “Introduction.” I. Jews and the Soviet Regime. Yaacov Ro’i, “Religion, Israel, and the Development of Soviet Jewry’s National Consciousness, 1967-91.” Theodore H. Friedgut, “Nationalities Policy, the Soviet Regime, the Jews, and Emigration.” II. Politics, Identity, and Society. Zvi Gitelman, “Thinking about Being Jewish in Russia and Ukraine.” Valeriy Chervyakov, Zvi Gitelman, and Vladimir Shapiro, “E Pluribus Unum? Post-Soviet Jewish Identities and Their Implications for Communal Reconstruction.” Marshall I. Goldman, “Russian Jews in Business.” Robert J. Brym, “Russian Antisemitism.” III. Reconstructing Jewish Communities. Martin Horwitz, “The Widening Gap between Our Model of Russian Jewry and the Reality (1989-99).” Sarai Brachman Shoup, “From Leadership to Community: Laying the Foundation for Jewish Community in Russia.” Alanna Cooper, “Feasting, Memorializing, Praying, and Remaining Jewish in the Soviet Union: The Case of the Bukharan Jews.” Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, “The Revival of Academic Studies of Judaica in Independent Ukraine.” Mark Tolts, “Demography of the Jews in the Former Soviet Union: Yesterday and Today.” IV. Jews and Russian Culture. Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, “Jewish Converts to Orthodoxy in Russia in Recent Decades.” Musya Glants, “Jewish Artists in Russian Art: Painting and Sculpture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras.” Mikhail Krutikov, “Constructing Jewish Identity in Contemporary Russian Fiction.”

Matt Goldish, editor. Spirit Possession in Judaism: Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. 476 pp.

CONTENTS: Erika Bourguignon, “Foreword.” Matt Goldish, “Preface.” Section I: Historical and Phenomenological Background. Joseph Dan, “Introduction.” Yoram Bilu, “The Taming of the Deviants and Beyond: An Analysis of Dybbuk Possession and Exorcism in Judaism.” Jonathan Seidel, “Possession and Exorcism in the Magical Texts of the Cairo Geniza.” Section II: The Sixteenth Century. Lawrence Fine, “Benevolent Spirit Possession in Sixteenth-Century Safed.” J.H. Chajes, “City of the Dead: Spirit Possession in Sixteenth-Century Safed.” Menachem Kallus, “Pneumatic Mystical Possession and the Eschatology of the Soul in Lurianic Kabbalah.” Morris M. Faierstein, “Maggidim, Spirits, and Women in Rabbi Hayyim Vital’s Book of Visions.” Harris Lenowitz, “A Spirit Possession Tale as an Account of the Equivocal Insertion of Rabbi Hayyim Vital into the Role of Messiah.” Section III: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Matt Goldish, “Vision and Possession: Nathan of Gaza’s Earliest Prophecies in Historical Context.” Roni Weinstein, “Kabbalah and Jewish Exorcism in Seventeenth-Century Italian Jewish Communities: The Case of Rabbi Moses Zacuto.” Zvi Mark, “Dybbuk and Devekut in the Shivhe ha-Besht: Toward a Phenomenology of Madness in Early Hasidism.” Section IV: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Tamar Alexander, “Love and Death in a Contemporary Dybbuk Story: Personal Narrative and the Female Voice.” Yoram Bilu, “Dybbuk, Aslai, Zar: The Cultural Distinctiveness and Historical Situatedness of Possession Illnesses in Three Jewish Milieus.” Appendices. J.H. Chajes, “Appendix A: Texts concerning Spirit Possession in Sixteenth-Century Safed.” Menachem Kallus, “Appendix B: Lurianic Texts concerning ‘His Portion and His Neighbor’s Portion.’- A Moral Problem.” Menachem Kallus, “Appendix C: Lurianic Texts concerning the Hazards of the Self-Rectification of the Incomplete Tzaddik.” Menachem Kallus, “Appendix D: Lurianic Texts concerning Rabbi Hayyim Vital and His Psychical Experience.” Morris M. Faierstein, “Appendix E: On the Possession of Rabbi Hayyim Vital from His Book of Visions, book 5, chapter 12.” Harris Lenowitz, “Appendix F: Texts from Vital’s Autobiography concerning the Vision of Pillars.” Harris Lenowitz, “Appendix G: Selections from Sefer ha-Hezyonot, by Rabbi Hayyim Vital.” Matt Goldish, “Appendix H: From Sha’ar Ru’ah ha-Kodesh (The Gate of Holy Spirit), Rabbi Hayyim Vital.” Matt Goldish, “Appendix I: On How the Spirits of the Dead Enter the Bodies of the Living, from Sefer Nishmat Hayyim, by Rabbi Manasseh ben Israel, book 3, chapter 10.”

Leonard J. Greenspoon, Ronald A. Simkins, eds. Studies in Jewish Civilization, Volume 13: Spiritual Dimensions of Judaism. Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2003. xvi, 245 pp.

CONTENTS:. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, “Jewish Spirituality: Past Models and Present Quest.” Jerome (Yehuda) Gellman, “The Meaning of the Aqedah [Binding of Isaac] for Jewish Spirituality.” Charles D. Isbell, “Micah 6:1-8.” Steven D. Sacks, “Between Simeon’s Pillars: Religious Prioritization Between Ethics and Torah in Avot de-Rabbi Natan.” Zion Zohar, “Spirituality, Kavannah, and Ethics: Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World.” Morris M. Faierstein, “From Kabbalist to Zaddik: R Isaac Luria as Precursor of the Baal Shem Tov.” Ori Z. Soltes, “Spirituality Into a New Millennium: Mysticism in Jewish Art.” Thomas A. Kuhlman, “Elements of Spirituality in the Architecture of American Synagogues, 1763-2000.” Martin H. Shukert, “Designing for God: Personal Reflections on Designing a Synagogue.” Jenni L. Schlossman, “Visual Arts as a Pathway to Prayer and Meditation.” Charles D. Isbell, “Some ‘Earthy’ Dimensions of the Spiritual in Jewish Liturgy.” Rela Mintz Geffen, “Birth, Midlife, Menopause: Rites of Passage as Expressions of Spirituality in Contemporary American Judaism.”

Moshe Hallamish, Yosef Rivlin, and Raphael Shuchat, editors. The Vilna Gaon and his Disciples. Israel: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2003. 207 pp (Hebrew).

CONTENTS: English Section. Alan Brill, “Auxiliary to Hokhmah: The Writings of the Vilna Gaon and Philosophical Terminology.” Shaul Stampfer, “On the Creation and the Perpetuation of the Image of the Gaon of Vilna.” Elijah J. Schochet, “The Nature of Lithuanian Jewry: The Legacy of the Gaon of Vilna.” Hebrew Section. Halakhah and Commentaries. Yosef Tabory, “The Gaon’s Siddur.” Yeshayahu Vinograd, “Supplement to the article on the Gaon’s Siddur.” Yedidiya Ha-Levy Frankel, “The Original Manuscript of the Gaon’s Commentary to the Palestinian Talmud Zerai’m.” Yaakov Elman, “Methodology and Purpose of the Gaon’s Commentaries to the Halakhic Midrashim in Aderet Eliyahu on Leviticus.” Meir Gruzman, “The Gaon’s Textual Corrections Concerning the Terms HaTov ve-HaYashar in Midrashic Texts.” Hananel Mack, “R. Avraham, the Gaon’s Son, and Midrashic Research.” Philosophy and Kabbalah. Mordechai Pachter, “The Gaon’s Kabbalah from the Perspective of Two Traditions.” Yosef Rivlin, “The Influence of Kabbalah and Zoharic Literature on the Gaon’s Writings and Commentaries.” Raphael Shuchat, “Messianic and Mystical Elements Associated with the Study of Torah According to the Gaon and his Disciples.” Moshe Idel, “R. Menahem Mendel of Shklov and R. Avraham Abulafia.” Esther Eisenman, “The Structure and Content of R. Hayyim Volozhin’s Nefesh Ha-Hayyim.” Literature and History. Yehuda Friedlander, “The Gaon’s Relationship to Early Haskalah: The Gaon and N.H. Weisel.” Arye Morgenstern, “The Place of the Ten Tribes in the Redemption Process.”

Eli Lederhendler and Jonathan D. Sarna, editors. America and Zion: Essays and Paper in Memory of Moshe Davis. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 286 pp.

CONTENTS: Eli Lederhendler, “Foreword: America and Zion.” Part I: Moshe Davis: The Man and the Scholar. Jonathan D. Sarna, “Achavah and History: Reflections on the Historical Emphases of Moshe Davis.” Robert T. Handy, “Vision and Persistence: Origins of the America-Holy Land Studies Project.” Michael Brown, “Moshe Davis and the New Field of America-Holy Land Studies.” Part II: Historical Studies. John Davis, “’Each mouldering ruin recalls a history’: Nineteenth- Century Images of Jerusalem and the American Public.” Ruth Kark, “Historical Perspective Through the Study of Ordinary People: William H. Rudy (1845-1915), a Member of the American-Swedish Colony in Jerusalem.” Steven Epperson, “Dedicating and Consecrating the Land: Mormon Ritual Performance in Palestine.” Marianne Sanua, “The Esco Fund Committee: The Story of an American Jewish Foundation.” Matthew Silver, “A Cultural Model for America - Holy Land Studies: One Early Example.” Yaakov Ariel, “The Ambiguous Missionary: Robert Lindsey in Israel, 1948-1970.” Joseph B. Glass, “American Olim and the Transfer of Innovation to Palestine, 1917-1939.” Margaret M. McGuinness, “Armchair Travelers to the Holy Land: The Travel Accounts of Rev. J. Lynch, OSF.” David Klatzker, “The Franciscan Monastery in Washington, D.C.: ‘The Holy Land of America.’” Gershon Greenberg, “Jerusalem, Vilna, Chicago: Gedaliah Bublick’s Wartime Dilemma.” Appendix: Primary Occupations of North American Applicants for Immigration to Palestine, January 1, 1919- May 30, 1920.

Natasha Lehrer, ed. The Golden Chain: Fifty Years of the Jewish Quarterly. Portland: Vallentine Mitchell, 2003. xv, 286 pp.

CONTENTS: London. Arnold Wesker, “Time Parts Memory.” Emanuel Litvinoff, “A Jew in England.” Joseph Leftwich, “Rudolf Rocker: mentor of the Jewish Anarchists.” Emanuel Litvinoff, “To T.S. Eliot.” Wolf Mankowitz, “A Handful of Earth.” Harold Pinter, “Voices in the Tunnel.” A.N. Stencl, “Two poems.” Josef Herman, “The Singer of Whitechapel.” Sylvia Paskin and Jane Liddell-King, “Standing Still: Still Standing.” Sonja Linden, “Genocide is a Cheese Sandwich.” Dannie Abse, “The Arrival and Departure of Adam and Eve at Dover.” Jonathan Treitel, “The Golem of Golders Green.” Ghada Karmi, “A Palestinian in Golders Green.” Community. Frederic Raphael, “The Curiousness of Anglo-Jews.” Ruth Fainlight, “The English Country Cottage.” Barnet Litvinoff, “Chaim Superman encounters a Jewish intellectual.” Alexander Flinder, “The Yom Kippur Swimming Gala.” Jonathan Freedland, “Our destiny in whose hands?” Michael Rosen, “Trying to be Jewish.” Corinne Pearlman, “The non-Jewish Jewish female cartoonist and Other Confusion.” Vanished Worlds. Liz Cashdan, “The Tyre-Cairo Letters.” Yehuda Abravanel, “A Complaint against the times.” A.C. Jacobs, “Sol.” Hyam Maccoby, “The Legend of the Wandering Jew.” Rafael Scharf, “In the Warsaw Ghetto: Summer 1941.” Emanuel Ringelblum, “Janusz Korczak.” Yuri Suhl, “50 Jews and a dead cat.” Vera Elyashiv, “A letter I wrote in 1945.” Mark Mazower, “Homage to Salonika.” Frederick Goldman, “The Dancing Bear.” Nelly Sachs, “Three poems.” Shimon Markish, “Father, Jew, Poet.” Peretz Markish, “A Mirror on a Stone…” Lotte Kramer, “Two poems.” James E. Young, “Because of that War.” Ron Taylor, “The White Jews of Cochin.” On Writers and Writing. Aharon Appelfeld, “The road to myself.” Howard Jacobson, “Vay iz mir – Who’d be a Jewish writer?” Linda Grant, “Delmore Schwartz and Me; a literary rediscovery.” Anthony Rudolf, “Edmond Jabès: a translator’s tribute.” Rachel Spence, “A conversation with Adrienne Rich.” Michael Kustow, “Picturing Sylvester.” Literature. Shalom Aleichem, “Back from the Draft Board.” Gertrud Kolmar, “Jewish Woman.” Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, “Three poems.” Alexander Baron, “The Anniversary.” Michael Hamburger, “In a Cold Season.” Arnold Wesker, “The man who would never write like Balzac.” Al Alvarez, “Operation.” Anne Atik, “Teaching Noga the Hebrew alphabet.” Bernard Kops, “Shalom Bomb.” Elaine Feinstein, “New Year.” Gabriel Josipovici, “A Life: Sacha Rabinovitch (1910-96).” Bernice Rubens, “The Blood of the Lamb.” Tony Dinner, “Kiddish.” Gabriel Levin, “In the Month of Tammuz.” Wanda Barford, “‘Yes, Madam.’” Israel. A.C. Jacobs, “Religious Quarter.” T.R. Fyvel, “The Last Romantics.” Zvi Jagendorf, “The Key to Judah’s Camp.” Claude Vigée, “Kapparah, or the Last Chorale.” Ronit Matalon, “Home, Imagination and Malice.” Clive Sinclair, “The El-Al Prawn.” David Grossman, “Israel at Fifty.” Karen Alkalay-Gut, “The Hope.” David Herman, “A Sense of Place.” Michael Kustow with Joshua Sobel, “A Tour to the Heart of Darkness.” Jo Glanville, “Shylock in the Promised Land.” Jonathan Treitel, “Anybody who knows anything about washing socks in Jerusalem knows.”

Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Barry D. Walfish, and Joseph W. Goering, editors. With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiii, 488 pp.

CONTENTS: Part I: Medieval Jewish Exegesis of the Bible. Barry D. Walfish, “An Introduction to Medieval Jewish Biblical Interpretation.” Stephen D. Benin, “The Search for Truth in Sacred Scripture: Jews, Christians, and the Authority to Interpret.” Haggai Ben-Shammai, “The Tension between Literal Interpretation and Exegetical Freedom: Comparative Observations on Saadia’s Method.” Daniel Frank, “Karaite Commentaries on the Song of Songs from Tenth-Century Jerusalem.” Michael A. Signer, “Restoring the Narrative: Jewish and Christian Exegesis in the Twelfth Century.” Martin Lockshin, “Rashbam as a ‘Literary’ Exegete.” Elliot R. Wolfson, “Asceticism and Eroticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophical and Mystical Exegesis of the Song of Songs.” Barry D. Walfish, “Typology, Narrative, and History: Isaac ben Joseph ha-Kohen on the Book of Ruth.” Marc Saperstein, “The Method of Doubts: Problematizing the Bible in Late Medieval Jewish Exegesis.” Eric Lawee, “Introducing Scripture: The Accessus ad auctores in Hebrew Exegetical Literature from the Thirteenth through the Fifteenth Centuries.” Alan Cooper, “On the Social Role of Biblical Interpretation: The Case of Proverbs 22:6.” Part II: Medieval Christian Exegesis of the Bible. Joseph W. Goering, “An Introduction to Medieval Christian Biblical Interpretation.” Abigail Firey, “The Letter of the Law: Carolingian Exegetes and the Old Testament.” Edward Synant, “The Four ‘Senses’ and Four Exegetes.” James R. Ginther, “Laudat sensum et significationem: Robert Grosseteste on the Four Senses of Scripture.” Robert Sweetman, “Beryl Smalley, Thomas of Cantimpré, and the Performative Reading of Scripture: A Study in Two Exempla.” John F. Boyle, “The Theological Character of the Scholastic ‘Division of the Text’ with Particular Reference to the Commentaries of Saint Thomas Aquinas.” Édouard Jeauneau, “Thomas of Ireland and his De tribus sensibus sacrae scripturae.” A.J. Minnis, “Material Swords and Literal Lights: The Status of Allegory in William of Ockham’s Breviloquium on Papal Power.” Part III: Medieval Exegesis of the Qur’?n. Jane Dammen McAuliffe, “An Introduction to Medieval Interpretation of the Qur’?n.” Fred Leemhuis, “Discussion and Debate in Early Commentaries of the Qur’?n.” Herbert Berg, “Weaknesses in the Arguments for the Early Dating of Qur’?nic Commentary.” Gerhard Böwering, “The Scriptural ‘Senses’ in Medieval S?f? Qur’?n Exegesis.” Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, “Are There Allegories in S?f? Qur’?n Interpretation?” Angelika Neuwirth, “From the Sacred Mosque to the Remote Temple: S?rat al-Isr?’ between Text and Commentary.” Gerald Hawting, “Qur’?nic Exegesis and History.” Stefan Wild, “The Self-Referentiality of the Qur’?n: S?rat 3:7 as an Exegetical Challenge.” Andrew Rippin, “The Designation of ‘Foreign’ Languages in the Exegesis of the Qur’?n.” Jane Dammen McAuliffe, “The Genre Boundaries of Qur’?nic Commentary.”

Jacob Neusner, ed. God’s Rule: The Politics of World Religions. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003. 279 pp.

CONTENTS: William Scott Green, “Religion and Politics—a Volatile Mix.” Jacob Neusner, “Judaism.” Bruce D. Chilton, “Primitive and Early Christianity.” Charles E. Curran, “Roman Catholic Christianity.” Petros Vassiliadis, “Orthodox Christianity.” Martin E. Marty, “Reformation Christianity.” John L. Esposito with Natana J. De Long-Bas, “Classical Islam.” John L. Esposito with Natana J. De Long-Bas, “Modern Islam.” Brian K. Smith, “Hinduism.” Mark Csikszentmihalyi, “Confucianism.” Todd Lewis, “The Politics of Compassionate Rule.” Conclusion: Jacob Neusner, “Retrospective on Religion and Politics.”

Peter Ochs and Nancy Levene, eds. Textual Reasonings: Jewish Philosophy and Text Study at the End of the Twentieth Century. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2002. x, 310 pp.

CONTENTS: Part I: Textual reasoning. Michael Fishbane, “Anthological midrash and cultural paideia: The case of Songs Rabba 1.2.” Steven Fraade, “’The Kisses of His Mouth’: Intimacy and Intermediacy as Performative Aspects of a Midrash Commentary.” Steven Kepnes, “Fishbane’s commentary to Song of Songs Rabba as analytic textual reasoning.” Textual reasoning in biblical study. Tikva Frymer-Kensky, “Revelation revealed: The doubt of Torah.” Virginia Burrus, “Revelation revealed or reveiled? ‘Jewish’ and ‘Christian’ interpretation in late antiquity.” Aryeh Cohen, “Response to ‘Revelation revealed’.” Textual reasoning in talmudic stories: Law and semiotics. Robert Gibbs and Peter Ochs, “Gold and Silver: Philosophical Talmud.” Shaul Magid, “Rabbis of gold and sages of silver: A response to ‘Philosophical Talmud’.” Robert Gibbs, “Why Talmud: Renewing response.” Textual reasoning in talmudic studies: Law, history and change. Peter Orchs, “Talmudic scholarship as textual reasoning: Halvini’s pragmatic historiography.” David Halvini, “Response to ‘Talmudic scholarship as textual reasoning’.” Part II: Reflections on the Process of Textual Reasoning. Jewish reflections. Eugene Borowit, “Textual reasoning and Jewish philosophy: The next phase of Jewish postmodernity?” Jacob Meskin, “Textual reasoning, modernity and the limits of history.” Martin Kavka, “Textual reasoning and cultural memory: A response to Jacob Meskin.” Randi Rashkover, “Exegesis, redemption and the maculate Torah.” Zachary Braiterman, “Elu ve-elu: Textual difference and sublime judgement in Eruvin and Lyotard.” Laurie Zoloth, “Seeing the doubting judge: Jewish ethics and the postmodern project.” Michael Zank, “Franz Rosenzweig, the 1920s and the <email> moment of textual reasoning.” Christian reflections. George Lindbeck, “Progress in textual reasoning: from Vatican II to the conference at Drew.” David Ford, “Responding to textual reasoning: What might Christians learn?” Daniel Hardy, “Textual reasoning: A concluding reflection.”

Anthony Polonsky, editor. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry. Vol. 15: Focusing on Jewish Religious Life, 1500-1900. Oregon: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2002. xv, 558 pp.

CONTENTS: Part I: Jewish Religious Life, 1500-1900. Anthony Polonsky, “Introduction.” Krzysztof Pilarczyk, “Printing the Talmud in Poland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.” Stefan Schreiner, “Issac of Troki’s Studies of Rabbinic Literature.” Judith Kalik, “Polish Attitudes towards Jewish Spirituality in the Eighteenth Century.” Hanna W?grzynek, “Sixteenth-Century Accounts of Purim Festivities.” Gershon David Hundert, “Jewish Popular Spirituality in the Eighteenth Century.” Harris Lenowitz, “The Struggle over Images in the Propaganda of the Frankist Movement.” Jan Doktór, “The Non-Christian Frankists.” Sid Z. Leiman, “Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz’s Attitude towards the Frankists.” Michal Galas, “The Influence of Frankism on Polish Culture.” Karl E. Grözinger, “Tsadik and Ba’al Shem in East European Hasidism.” Susanne Galley, “Holy Men in their Infancy: The Childhood of Tsadikim in Hasidic Legends.” David Assaf, “One Event, Two Interpretations: The Fall of the Seer of Lublin in Hasidic Memory and Maskilic Satire.” Margarete Schlüter, “How Far was Krochmal Influenced by the Gaon Sherira ben Hanina in his Description of the Development of Oral Torah?” Roland Goetschel, “The Messiah Son of Joseph according to Rabbi Zaddok Hacohen.” Yoram Jacobson, “Primordial Chaos and Creation in Gur Hasidism: The Sabbath that Preceded Creation.” Part II. New Views. Veronica Belling, “‘Ahavat yehonatan’: A Poem by Judah Leo Landau.” Adam Ka?mierczyk, “Jakub Becal: King Jan II Sobieski’s Jewish Factor.” Scott Ury, “The Shtadlan of the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth: Noble Advocate or Unbridled Opportunist?” Eliyana R. Adler, “Educational Options for Jewish Girls in Nineteenth-Century Europe.” Szymon Rudnicki, “The Society for the Advancement of Trade, Industry, and Crafts.” Daniel Blatman, “Strangers in their Own Land: Polish Jews from Lublin to Kielce.” Eugenia Prokop-Janiec, “Jewish Writers in Polish Literature.” Slawomir Kapralski, “Auschwitz: Site of Memories.” Marta Kurkowska-Budzan, “My Jedwabne.” Part III: Reviews. Robert S. Wistrich, “The Vatican Documents and the Holocaust: A Personal Report.” Yaffa Eliach’s Eishyshok: Two Views. Sarunas Liekis, “‘The new Jew Hilter has fashioned into being.’” John Radzilowski, “Ejszyszki Revisited, 1939-1945.” Joanna Rostropowicz Clark, “Holocaust Survivors in Jadwiga Maurer’s Short Stories.” Jerzy Tomaszewski, “Polish Translations of Yiddish Literature Published in Wroclaw.” Book Reviews. Alice Nakhimovsky, “David Patterson, The Hebrew Novel in Czarist Russia.” Gary Fitelberg, “Shmuel A. Arthur Cygielman, Jewish Automony in Poland and Lithuania until 1648.” Gwido Zlatkes, “The Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation, The Jews of Poland.” Amir Weiner, “Henry Abramson, A Prayer for the Government: Ukranians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920.” Dora Kacnelson, “Henry Hoffman, Z Drohobycza do Ziemi Obiecanej.” Motti Zalkin, “Hirsz Abramowicz, Profiles of a Lost World: Memories of East European Jewish Life before World War II.” Chizuko Takao, “Robert Weinberg, Stalin’s Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland. An Illustrated History, 1928-1996.” John T. Pawlikowski, “Anna-Landau-Czajka, W jednym stali domu…Koncepjce rozwiqzania kwestii ?ydowskiej w publicystyce polskiej lat 1933-1939.” Gary Fitelberg, “Wladyslam Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw 1939-1945, with extracts from the diary of Wilm Hosenfeld.” Gwido Zlatkes, “Tadeusz Piotrowski, Poland’s Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947.” Joshua D. Zimmerman, “Wiktoria ?liwowska (ed.), The Last Eyewitnesses: Children of the Holocaust Speak.” Sabine Von Mering, “Dalia Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman (eds.), Women in the Holocaust.” Anna Petrov Bumble, “Ann Charney, Dobryd.”

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, editor. Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed Word. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002. xi, 515 pp.

CONTENTS: Lawrence E. Sullivan, “Preface.” Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, “Series Foreword.” Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, “Introduction. Judaism and the Natural World.” I. Constructive Jewish Theology of Nature. Arthur Green, “A Kabbalah for the Environmental Age.” Michael Fishbane, “Toward a Jewish Theology of Nature.” II. The Human Condition: Origins, Pollution, and Death. Evan Eisenberg, “The Ecology of Eden.” Eliezer Diamond, “How Much Is Too Much? Conventional versus Personal Definitions of Pollutions in Rabbinic Sources.” David Kraemer, “Jewish Death Practices: A Commentary on the Relationship of Humans to the Natural World.” Eilon Schwartz, “Response: Mastery and Stewardship, Wonder and Connectedness: A Typology of Relations to Nature in Jewish Text and Tradition.” III. The Doctrine of Creation. Stephen A. Geller, “Nature’s Answer: The Meaning of the Book of Job in Its Intellectual Context.” Neil Gillman, “Creation in the Bible and in the Liturgy.” David Novak, “The Doctrine of Creation and the Idea of Nature.” Jon D. Levenson, “Response: Natural and Supernatural Justice.” IV. Nature and Revealed Morality. Shalom Rosenberg, “Concepts of Torah and Nature in Jewish Thought.” Lenn E. Goodman, “Respect for Nature in the Jewish Tradition.” Moshe Sokol, “What Are the Ethical Implications of Jewish Theological Conceptions of the Natural World?” Barry S. Kogan, “Response: Construction, Discovery, and Critique in Jewish Ecological Ethics.” V. Nature in Jewish Mysticism. Elliot R. Wolfson, “Mirror of Nature Reflected in the Symbolism of Medieval Kabbalah.” Shaul Magid, “Nature, Exile, and Disability in R. Nahman of Bratslav’s ‘The Seven Beggars.’” Jerome (Yehudah) Gellman, “Early Hasidism and the Natural World.” Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, “Response: The Textualization of Nature in Jewish Mysticism.” VI. From Speculation to Action. Edward K. Kaplan, “Reverence and Responsibilty: Abraham Joshua Heschel on Nature and the Self.” Tsvi Blanchard, “Can Judaism Make Environmental Policy? Sacred and Secular Language in Jewish Ecological Discourse.” Mark X. Jacobs, “Jewish Environmentalism: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges.”

Robert Moses Shapiro, editor. Why Didn’t The Press Shout? American & International Journalism During the Holocaust. New Jersey: Yeshiva University Press/KTAV, 2003. ix, 665 pp.

CONTENTS: Robert Moses Shapiro, “Editor’s Preface.” Introduction. Marvin Kalb, “Journalism and the Holocaust, 1933-1945.” American Journalism. Abraham Brumberg, “Towards the Final Solution: Perceptions of Hitler and Nazism in the U.S. Left-of-Center Yiddish Press, 1930-1939.” Ron Hollander, “We Knew: America’s Newspapers Report the Holocaust.” Laurel Leff, “When the Facts Didn’t Speak for Themselves: The Holocaust in the New York Times, 1939-1945.” Max Frankel, “Turning Away From the Holocaust: The New York Times.” Robert St. John, “Reporting the Romanian Pogrom of 1940/41.” Jeffrey Shandler, “The Testimony of Images: The Allied Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps in American Newsreels.” Haskel Lookstein, “The Public Response of American Jews to the Liberation of European Jewry, January-May 1945.” British Journalism. Colin Shindler, “The ‘Thunderer’ and the Coming of the Shoah: 1933-1942.” David Cesarani, “The London Jewish Chronicle and the Holocaust.” Soviet Journalism. Yitshak Arad, “The Holocaust as Reflected in the Soviet Russian Language Newspapers in the Years 1941-1945.” Dov-Ber Kerler, “The Soviet Yiddish Press: During the War, 1942-1945.” German Journalism. Henry R. Huttenbach, “Adjusting to Catastrophe: The German Jewish Press (1933-1938) and the Debate Over Mass-Emigration.” Bruce F. Pauley, “The Austrian Press and the Third Reich: Contradictory Views from a Neighbor.” Franciszek Ryszka, “The Extermination of the Jews and the Leading Newspapers of the Third Reich: Völkischer Beobachter and Das Reich.” Italian Journalism. Alexander Stille, “An Italian Jewish-Fascist Editor: Ettore Ovazza and La Nostra Bandiera.” Lynn M. Gunzberg, “‘DISCRIMINARE NON SIGNIFICA PERSEGUITARE’ (Discrimination Does Not Mean Persecution).” Andrea Grover, “L’Osservatore romano and the Holocaust, 1933-45.” Hungarian Journalism. Randolph L. Braham, “The Hungarian Press, 1938-1945.” Romanian Journalism. Radu Ioanid, “The Romanian Press: Preparing the Ground for the Holocaust and Reporting on Its Implementation.” Polish Journalism. Anna Landau-Czajka, “Polish Press Reporting About the Nazi Germans’ Anti-Jewish Policy, 1933-1939.” Daniel Grinberg, “The Polish-Language Jewish Press and Events in the Third Reich, 1933-1939.” Lucjan Dobroszycki, “The Jews in the Polish Clandestine Press, 1939-1945.” Leni Yahil, “The Warsaw Ghetto Underground Press: A Case Study in the Reaction to Antisemitism.” Pawel Szapiro, “The Polish Clandestine Press’ Treatment of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.” Piotr Wr?bel, “Dziennik Polski, the Official Daily Organ of the Polish Government-in-Exile, and the Holocaust, 1940-1945.” Ukrainian Journalism. Henry Abramson, “‘This Is the Way It Was!’: Textual and Iconographic Images of Jews in the Nazi-Sponsored Ukrainian Press of Distrikt Galizien.” French Journalism. Jacques Adler, “The Jewish Press in Wartime Europe: France, 1940-1944.” Greek Journalism. Yitzchak Kerem, “The Greek Press, 1933-1945: The Writing on the Walls.” Hebrew Journalism. Tom Segev, “It Was in the Papers: The Hebrew Press in Palestine and the Holocaust.”

Shlomo Sharan, ed. Israel and the Post-Zionists: A Nation at Risk. Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2003. vii, 261 pp.

CONTENTS: Shlomo Sharan, “Introduction.” Yoav Gelber, “Redefining the Israeli Ethos: Transforming Israeli Society.” Shlomo Sharan, “Zionism, the Post-Zionists and Myth.” Edward Alexander, “Israeli Intellectuals and Israeli Politics.” Hanan A. Alexander “The Frankfurt School and Post-Zionist Thought.” David Bukay, “The Leftist Media and the al-Aqsa Uprising.” Raya Epstein, “Post-Zionism and Democracy.” John Fonte, “The Future of the Ideological Civil War Within the West.” Norman Doidge, “The West and Yasser Arafat.” Arieh Stav, “Israeli Anti-Semitism.” Yosef Oren, “Post-Zionism and Anti-Zionism in Israeli Literature.” Hillel Weiss, “The Messianic Theme in the Works of A.B. Yehoshua and Amos Oz.” Shlomo Sharan, “Pluralism, the Post-Zionists, and Israel as a Jewish Nation.”

Reeva Spector Simon, Michael Menachem Laskier, and Sara Reguer, editors. The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. vii, 549 pp.

CONTENTS: Part I: Themes. Jane S. Gerber, “History of the Jews in the Middle East and North Africa from the Rise of Islam Until 1700.” Reeva Spector Simon, “Europe in the Middle East.” Michael Menachem Laskier and Reeva Spector Simon, “Economic Life.” Michael Menachem Laskier, Sara Reguer, and Haim Saadoun, “Community Leadership and Structure.” Zvi Zohar, “Religion: Rabbinic Tradition and the Response to Modernity.” Ammiel Alcalay, “Intellectual Life.” David M. Bunis, Joseph Chetrit, and Haideh Sahim, “Jewish Languages Enter the Modern Era.” Rachel Simon, “Education.” Rachel Simon, “Zionism.” Issachar Ben-Ami, “Beliefs and Customs.” Esther Juhasz, “Material Culture.” Mark Kligman, “Music.” Sara Reguer, “The World of Women.” Part II. Country By Country Survey. Jacob M. Landau, “Ottoman Turkey.” Aron Rodrigue, “The Ottoman Balkans.” George E. Gruen, “Turkey.” Michael Menachem Laskier, “Syria and Lebanon.” Ruth Kark and Joseph B. Glass, “Eretz Israel/Palestine, 1800-1948.” Reeva Spector Simon, “Iraq.” Haideh Sahim, “Iran and Afghanistan.” Bat-Zion Eraqi-Klorman, “Yemen.” Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim, “Egypt and the Sudan.” Harvey E. Goldberg, “Libya.” Haim Saadoun, “Tunisia.” David Cohen, “Algeria.” Michael Menachem Laskier and Eliezer Bashan, “Morocco.”

Nancy R. Bowen and Brent A. Strawn, eds. A God So Near: Essays on Old Testament Theology in Honor of Patrick D. Miller. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2003. vii, 439 pp.

CONTENTS: Brent A Strawn and Nancy R. Bowen, “Preface.” Part I “Near Whenever We Call” God’s Nearness in Israel’s Crying Out (The Psalms and Beyond.) H. G. M. Williamson “Reading the Lament Psalms Backwards.” W. Sibley Towner, “‘Without Our Aid He Did Us Make.” Singing the Meaning of the Psalms.” Frank Lothar Hossfeld and Erich Zenger, “The So-Called Elohistic Psalter: A New Solution for an Old Problem.” Nancy R. Bowen, “A Fairy Tale Wedding? A Feminist Intertextual Reading of Psalm 45.” Frank Moore Cross, “Notes on Psalm 93: A Fragment of a Liturgical Poem Affirming Yahweh’s Kingship.” James Luther Mays, “There the Blessing: An Exposition of Psalm 133.” Carolyn Pressler, “Certainty, Ambiguity, and Trust: A Knowledge of God in Psalm 139.” James Limburg, “Quoth the Raven: Psalm 147 and the Environment.” J. Gerald Janzen, “Prayer and/as Self-Address: The Case of Hannah.” Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, “Naomi’s Cry: Reflections on Ruth I:20-21.” Gerhard Sauter, “Jonah 2: A Prayer Out of the Deep.” Mark A Throntveit, “Songs in a New Key: The Psalmic Structure of the Chronicler’s Hymn (I Chr 16:8-36).” Kathleen M. O’Connor, “Wild, Raging Creativity: The Scene in the Whirlwind (Job 38-41).” Part II “As Just as This Entire Law” God’s nearness in the Torah (Deuteronomy and Beyond). Terence E. Fretheim, “Law in the Service of Life: A Dynamic Understanding of Law in Deuteronomy.” Dennis T. Olson, “How Does Deuteronomy Do Theology? Literary Juxtaposition and Paradox in the New Moab Covenant in Deuteronomy 29-32.” Brent A. Strawn, “Keep/Observe/Do—Carefully—Today! The Rhetoric of Reputation in Deuteronomy.” Richard D. Nelson, “Divine Warrior Theology in Deuteronomy.” Norbert Lohfink, “Reading Deuteronomy 5 as Narrative.” Walter Brueggemann, “The Travail of Pardon: Reflections on slh. Werner E. Lemke, “Circumcision of the Heart: The Journey of a Biblical Metaphor.” Renita J. Weems, “Huldah, the Prophet: Reading a (Deuteronomistic) Woman’s Identity.” J.J. M. Roberts, “Prophets and Kings: A New Look at the Royal Persecution of Prophets against Its Near Eastern Background.” C.L. Seow, “From Mountain to Mountain: The Reign of God in Daniel 2.” Michael Welker, “Sola Scriptura? The Authority of the Bible in Pluralistic Environments.” Brent A. Strawn, “Bibliography of the Works of Patrick D. Miller, 1964-2001.”

Joshua Zimmerman, editor. Contested Memories: Poles and Jews During the Holocaust and Its Aftermath. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2003. xi, 324 pp.

CONTENTS: Joshua Zimmerman, “Introduction: Changing Perceptions in the Historiography of Polish-Jewish Relations during the Second World War.” Part I: The Prewar Legacy. Emanuel Melzer, “Emigration versus Emigrationism: Zionism in Poland and the Territorialist Projects of the Polish Authorities, 1936-1939.” David Engel, “Lwów, 1918: The Transmutation of a Symbol and Its Legacy in the Holocaust.” Part II: The Widening Gap, 1939-1941. Barbara Engelking-Boni, “Psychological Distance between Poles and Jews in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw.” Andrzej ?bikowski, “Polish Jews under Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941: Specific Strategies of Survival.” Ben Cion Pinchuk, “Facing Hitler and Stalin: On the Subject of Jewish ‘Collaboration’ in Soviet-Occupied Eastern Poland, 1939-1941.” Jan T. Gross, “Jews and Their Polish Neighbors: The Case of Jedwabne in the Summer of 1941.” Part III: Institutional Polish Reponses to the Final Solution. Dariusz Stola, “The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Final Solution: What Conditioned Its Actions and Inactions?” Shmuel Krakowski, “The Attitude of the Polish Underground to the Jewish Question during the Second World War.” John T. Pawlikowski, “Polish Catholics and the Jews during the Holocaust: Heroism, Timidity, and Collaboration.” Part IV: Poles through Jewish Eyes. David Blatman, “Poland and the Polish Nation as Reflected in the Jewish Underground Press.” Feliks Tych, “Jewish and Polish Perceptions of the Shoah as Reflected in Wartime Diaries and Memoirs.” Samuel Kassow, “Polish-Jewish Relations in the Writings of Emmanuel Ringelblum.” Henry Abramson, “Metaphysical Nationality in the Warsaw Ghetto: Non-Jews in the Wartime Writings of Rabbi Kalonimus Kalmish Shapiro.” Part V: The Destruction of Polish Jewry and Polish Popular Opinion. Gunnar S. Paulsson, “Ringelblum Revisited: Polish-Jewish Relations in Occupied Warsaw, 1940-1945.” Nechama Tec, “Hiding and Passing on the Aryan Side: A Gendered Comparison.” Israel Gutman, “Some Issues in Jewish-Polish Relations during the Second World War.” Part VI: Aftermath. Anna Cichopek, “The Cracow Pogrom of August 1945: A Narrative Reconstruction.” Bo?ena Szaynok, “The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Attitudes in Postwar Poland.” Natalia Aleksiun, “Jewish Responses to Antisemitism in Poland, 1944-1947.” Michael C. Steinlauf, “Teaching about the Holocaust in Poland.” Zvi Gitelman, “Collective Memory and Contemporary Polish-Jewish Relations.” Stanislaw Krajewski, “The Impact of the Shoah on the Thinking of Contemporary Polish Jewry: A Personal Account.”