AJS Review • Collected Studies
January - June 2005

Thomas Adam, ed. Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. x, 228 pp.

CONTENTS: Thomas Adam, “Philanthropy and the Shaping of Social Distinctions in Nineteenth-Century U.S., Canadian, and German Cities.” Karsten Borgmann, “’The Glue of Civil Society’: A Comparative Approach to Art Museum Philanthropy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Brett Fairbairn, “Self-Help and Philanthropy: The Emergence of Cooperatives in Britain, Germany, the United States, and Canada from Mid-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century.” David. C. Hammack, “Patronage and the Great Institutions of the Cities of the United States: Questions and Evidence, 1800 – 2000.” Eckhardt Fuchs and Dieter Hoffman, “Philanthropy and Science in Wilhelmine Germany.” Margaret Eleanor Menninger, “The Serious Matter of True Joy: Music and Cultural Philanthropy in Leipzig: 1781 – 1933.” Susannah Morris, “Changing Perceptions of Philanthropy in the Voluntary Housing Field in Nineteenth - and Early Twentieth - Century London.” Maria Benjamin Baader, “Rabbinic Study, Self-Improvement, and Philanthropy: Gender and the Refashioning of Jewish Voluntary Associations in Germany, 1750 – 1870.” Tobias Brinkmann, “Ethnic Difference and Civic Unity: A Comparison of Jewish Communal Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century German and U.S. Cities.” Simone Lässig, “Bürgerlichkeit, Patronage, and Communal Liberalism in Germany, 1871 – 1914.”

Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini, eds. Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. ix, 413 pp.

CONTENTS: Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini, “Strange Bedfellows: An Introduction.” Marjorie Garber, “Category Crises: The Way of the Cross and the Jewish Star.” Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Epistemology of the Closet.” Janet R. Jakobsen, “Queers Are Like Jews, Aren’t They? Analogy and Alliance Politics.” Jay Geller, “Freud, Blüher, and the Secessio Inversa: Männerbünde, Homosexuality, and Freud’s Theory of Cultural Foundation.” Paul B. Franklin, “Jew Boys, Queer Boys: Rhetorics of Antisemitism and Homophobia in the Trial of Nathan 'Babe' Leopold, Jr. and Richard ‘Dickie’ Loeb.” Alisa Solomon, “Viva la Citizenship: Post-Zionism and Gay Rights.” Daniel Boyarin, “Homophobia and the Postcoloniality of the ‘Jewish Science’.” Bruce Rosenstock, “Messianism, Machismo, and ‘Marranism’: The Case of Abraham Miguel Cardoso.” Naomi Seidman, “The Ghost of Queer Loves Past: Ansky’s ‘Dybbuk’ and the Sexual Transformation of Ashkenaz.” Stacy Wolf, “Barbra’s ‘Funny Girl’ Body.” Michael Moon, “Tragedy and Trash: Yiddish Theater and Queer Theater, Henry James, Charles Ludlam, Ethyl Eichelberger.” Jacob Press, “You Go, Figure; or, The Rape of a Trope in the ‘Prioress’s Tale’.” David A. H. Hirsch, “Dickens’s Queer ‘Jew’ and Anglo-Christian Identity Politics: The Contradictions of Victorian Family Values.” Jonathan Freedman, “Coming Out of the Jewish Closet with Marcel Proust.” Daniel Fischlin, “Queer Margins: Cocteau, La Belle er la bête, and the Jewish Differend.” Judith Butler, “Reflections on Germany.”

Marshall J. Breger, ed. The Vatican-Israel Accords: Political, Legal and Theological Contexts. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. xvii, 392 pp.

CONTENTS: Lorenzo Cremonesi, “The Stages of Diplomatic Negotiations.” David-Maria A. Jaeger, O.F.M., “The Fundamental Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Israel: A New Legal Regime of Church-State Relations.” Leonard Hammer, “Israel’s Understanding of the Fundamental Agreement with the Holy See.” Silvio Ferrari, “The Fundamental Agreement between the Holy See and Israel and the Conventions between the States and the Church since the Vatican II Council.” Rafael Palomino, “The Fundamental Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Israel and Church-State Agreements in Spain: Some Contrasts and Comparisons.” Roland Minnerath, “The Position of the Catholic Church regarding Concordats from a Doctrinal and Pragmatic Perspective.” Leonard Hammer, “The Holy See–PLO Basic Agreement in Light of the Holy-See–Israel Fundamental Agreement.” David Rosen, “Israel-Vatican Relations since the Signing of the Fundamental Agreement.” Moshe Hirsch, “The Freedom of Proselytism under the Fundamental Agreement and International Law.” Goeffrey R. Watson, “Progress for Pilgrims? An Analysis of the Holy See–Israel Fundamental Agreement.” Giorgio Filibeck, “Human Rights, the Foundation of Peace: The Teaching of the Catholic Church, the Special Reference to Religious Freedom.” Ruth Lapidoth, “Freedom of Religion and of Conscience in Israel.” Silvio Ferrari, “The Vatican and the Middle East during the Pontificate of John Paul III.” Drew Christiansen, S.J., “Palestinian Christians: Recent Developments.” Jack Bemporad, “Jews and Catholics in the Last Half Century.”

Aaron Demsky, ed. These Are The Names: In Honor of Prof. Edwin D. Lawson on his 80th Birthday. Studies in Jewish Onomastics, Vol. 4. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2003. *119, 343 pp.

CONTENTS: Donald M. Lance, “Ed Lawson — The Man and the Scholar.” Edward Callary, “Ed Lawson’s Contribution to Onomastics.” André Lapierre, “Edwin Lawson and ICOS.” Edwin D. Lawson, “List of Publications.” Alexander Beider, “Methodological Principles for Determining Etymologies of Ashkenazic Given Names.” Rita Bredefeldt, “Naming Customs as an Indication of Assimilation: A Study of First Names in the Jewish Congregations of Stockholm and Malmö (1895 – 1921).” Aaron Demsky, “Some Reflections on the Names of the Jews of Kaifeng, China.” Boris Kotlerman, “Jewish Names on the Map of Birobidzhan.” Donald M. Lance, “Biblical Names in the Toponymy of Missouri.” Stanley Lieberson, “Jewish Names and the Names of Jews.” Chana Tolmas, “The Laqab of Bukharan Jews.” Edwin D. Lawson, “Some Jewish Personal Names – 2, An Annotated Bibliography.” Tal Ilan, “Rabbi Yose the Tanna and Rabbi Yose Ben Halafta.” Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky, “Personal Names of Salonikan Jewry in Recent Generations According to Marriage Certificates and Gravestones.” Elisheva HaCohen, “The Name Riddle in the Poetry of Anatoly bar Yosef.” Admiel Kosman, “The Hero’s Name as a Literary Device In the Talmudic Story in Gender Contexts: The Case of Mar ‘Uqba’ (TB Ketubot 67b).” Yosef Rivlin, “The Esoteric Meaning of Hebrew Names According to Rabbi Elijah of Vilna (Gra).”

Rachel Elior, ed. Men and Women: Gender, Judaism and Democracy. Jerusalem: Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 2004. 213 pp.

CONTENTS: Pinhas Shifman, “The Family Status of Women: Legal Changes and Social Climate.” Orit Kamir, “’The King’s Daughter is all Dignified Within’ (Psalms 45:14): Basing Israeli Women’s Status and Rights on Human Dignity.” Susan Weiss, “Israeli Divorce Law: The Maldistribution of Power, its Abusess, and the ‘Status’ of Jewish Women.” Deborah Weissman, “Women’s Sufferage: A Halakhic Perspective.” Rachel Elior, “’Blessed art Thou, Lord our God, who has not made me a woman’.” Lea Shakdiel, “Feminism as Tikkun Ha-Olam.” Chana Safrai, “The Minyan: Gender and Democracy.” Tova Cohen, “Appropriating the Bible: Women and Haskalah in the 19th Century.” Naftali Rothenberg, “Written by Men for Men: Feminist Revolution and Innovation in the Canonical Sources.” Bilha Admanit, “The Educational Message to Girls and Boys in an Age of Change.” Chana Kehat, “Feminist Currents and Trends Among Various Orthodox Groups.”

Murray Friedman, ed. Philadelphia Jewish Life: 1940 – 2000. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. liii, 282 pp.

CONTENTS: Murray Friedman and Andrew Harrison, “Introduction to the New Edition: The Eighties to a New Century.” Murray Friedman, “Introduction: From Outsiders to Insiders? Philadelphia Jewish Life, 1940–1985.” Philip Rosen, Robert Tabak, and David Gross, “Phliadelphia Jewry and the Holocaust.” Philip Rosen, “Four Fateful Years: Philadelphia’s Jews and the Creation of the State of Israel.” Thomas A. Kolsky, “The Opposition to Zionism: The American Council for Judaism Under the Leadership of Rabbi Louis Wolsey and Lessing Rosenwald.” Paul Lyons, “Philadelphia Jews and Radicalism: The American Jewish Congress Cleans House.” Dennis Clark, “From Periphery to Prominence: Jews in Philadelphia Politics, 1940­­­–1985.” Murray Friedman and Carolyn Beck, “An Ambivalent Alliance: Blacks and Jews in Philadelphia, 1940–1985.” David P. Varady, “Wynnefield: Story of a Changing Neighborhood.” Peter Binzen, “A Place to Live: The Jewish Builders of Northeast Philadelphia.” Nora Levin, “Home and Haven: Soviet Jewish Immigration to Philadelphia, 1972–1982.” Sidney H. Schwartz, “Changing Styles of Synagogue Life: Conservative Judaism in Philadelphia.” Diane A. King, William B. Lakritz, and Saul P. Wachs, “A Generation of Learning: Jewish Education in Philadelphia, 1940–1980.” Ernest M. Kahn, “The Jewish Federation of Greater Phildelphia: A Quarter Century of Change.” Ron Avery, “From A to’Zink’: Philadelphia Jews in Sports.” Don Harrison, “Jews and the Cultural Revival of Philadelphia.” Dan Rottenberg, “Afterword: The Once and Future City—One Jewish Philadelphian’s Odyssey.”

Deborah R. Geis, ed. Reconsidering “Maus”: Approaches to Art Spiegelman’s
‘Survivor’s Tale’ of the Holocaust. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. x, 192 pp.

CONTENTS: David Mikics, “Underground Comics and Survival Tales: Maus in Context.” Hamida Bosmajian, “The Orphaned Voice in Art Spiegelman’s Maus.” Nancy K. Miller, “Cartoons of the Self: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Murderer—Art Spiegelman’s Maus.” Michael G. Levine, “Necessary Stains: Art Spiegelman’s Maus and the Bleeding of History.” Arlene Fish Wilner, “‘Happy, Happy Ever After’: Story and History in Art Spiegelman’s Maus.” Alan C. Rosen, “The Language of Survival: English as Metaphor in Art Spiegelman’s Maus.” Michael P. Rothberg, “’We Were Talking Jewish’: Art Spiegelman’s Maus as ‘Holocaust’ Production.” John C. Anderson and Bradley Katz, “Read Only Memory: Maus and Its Marginalia on CD-ROM.”

Leonard J. Greenspoon, Ronald A. Simkins and Jean Axelrad Cahan, eds. Studies in Jewish Civilization, Volume 14: Women and Judaism. Omaha: Creighton Univeristy Press, 2003. xvii, 302 pp.

CONTENTS: Susan A. Brayford, “The Domestication of Sarah: From Jewish Matriarch to Hellenistic Matron.” Charles David Isbell, “Nice Jewish Girls: Liquor, Sex, and Power in Antiquity.” Sidnie White Crawford, “Traditions About Miriam in the Qumran Scrolls.” Marjorie Lehman, “Women and Passover Observance: Reconsidering Gender in the Study of Rabbinic Texts.” Jayne K. Guberman, “Weaving Women’s Words: Gendered Oral Histories for the Study of American Jewish Women.” S. Daniel Breslauer, “Stories and Subversion.” Henry Abramson, “A Derivative Hatred: Images of Jewish Women in Modern Anti-Semitic Caricature.” Dan W. Clanton, Jr., “Judy in Disguise: D. W. Griffith’s Judith of Bethulia.” Reina Rutlinger-Reiner, “Creative Expressions of Resistance: Original Theater of Orthodox Israeli Women.” Ori Z. Soltes, “Fixing It and Fitting In: Contemporary Jewish American Women Artists.” Gail Twersky Reimer, “Women on the Wall.” Esther Fuchs, “Jewish Feminist Scholarship: A Critical Perspective.” Morris M. Faierstein, “Women as Prophets and Visionaries in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism.” Keren R. McGinity, “Immigrant Jewish Women Who Married Out.” Karla Goldman, “Finding Women in the Story of American and Omaha Reform Judaism.”

Ladislau Gyémánt, ed. Studia Judaica X. Cluj-Napoca, Romania: “Dr Moshe Carmilly” Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History, 2001. 244 pp.

Contents: Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger, “Forced and Voluntary Self-sacrifice.” Jonah Rosen, “The Parachutists Mission during World War II.” Prof. N. Kallós, “Address.” Yehezkel Barnea and Flora James, “Address in memory of their brother, the parachutist Peretz Goldstein.” Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger, “Communal and Spiritual Resistance of the Transylvanian Jews between 1933–1944.” Arnold Paucker, “German / Austrian Jewish Resistance – European Jewish Resistance: A Comparison.” Arno Lustiger, “Some Problems and Aspects in the Historiography of the Jewish Resistance.” Lucien Steinberg, “Reflections on Jewish Resistance in France 1940–1944.” Yitzhak (Menu) Ben-Efraim, “From a Land under Siege to a People Besieged.” Yehuda Don, “Why Was There No Massive Jewish Resistance in Hungary.” Daniel Blatman, “The Jewish Resistance through the Prism of the Underground Press in the Warsaw Ghetto.” Maria Radosav, “Defying Death: The Resistance of Jewish Women during the Holocaust and Their Social Reintegration after the Holocaust.” Liviu Rotman, “A Specific Form of Jewish Resistance: the Parallel Space.” Raphael Vágó, “The Concepts of Resistance and Heroism in Israeli Historiography and Public Opinion.” Mihaela Mudure, “The Power of Words and Resistance to the Holocaust.” Claudia Ursutiu, “Jewish Resistance to the Anti-Semitic Policy of the Goga-Cuza Government.” Andrei Marga, “From Teleology to Awareness of Possibility, The Existentialist Turn in Philosophy and Judaism.”

Ladislau Gyémánt, ed. Studia Judaica XI—XII. Cluj-Napoca, Romania: ‘Dr. Moshe Carmilly’ Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History, 2004. 295 pp.

CONTENTS: Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger, “Two Biblical Scholars in Transylvania-Banat: Professor Leopold Fleischer and Dr. Lipót Kecskméti.” Lucian-Zeev Herscovici, “From Timisoara to Jerusalem: The Scientific Work of Eleazar Gruenhut.” Maria Radosav, “Jewish Printing in the North-West of Transylvania: The 19th and 20th Centuries.” Ladislay Gyémánt, “Jewish Education in Transylvania in the Inter-war Period.” Eugen Glück, “The Development of Jewish Education in Alba-Iulia.” Ionel Popescu, “Synagogues and Jewish Schools in Banat in the 18th and 19th Centuries.” Andrei Marga, “A Program that is Both Challenging and Timely.” Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger, “Man’s Free Will and His Responsibility.” Andrei Marga, “Hannah Arendt and History.” Arnold Paucker, “Changing Perceptions: Reflections on the Historiography of Jewish Self-Defence and Jewish Resistance 1890 – 2000.” W. Zev Harvey, “New and Unexpected Problems Facing 21st-Century Jewish Philosophy.” Nicolae Kallós, “The Impact of the Holocaust on Philosophy.” Ticu Goldstein, “Emmanuel Levinas: Etica Prima.” Ze’ev Levy, “Modern Jewish Philosophy and Its Contribution to Present-day Throught.” Alexandru Singer, “Henri Wald’s Contribution to Romanian Culture and Philosophy.” Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger, “‘The Voice of Jacob!’ At the Inaguration of the ‘Moshe Carmilly Institute’ in the Former ‘Shas-Hevrah’ Synagogue.” Andrei Marga, “The ‘Babes-Bolyai’ University Will Respect the History of the Synagogue.” Alexandra Rus, “Egon Marc Lövith’s Work.” Avram Rosen, “Economic Relations with Romania Before the Proclamation of the State of Israel: The Joint Chambers of Commerce in Bucharest and Tel-Aviv Yafo in the Thirties.” Grigore Buda, “Jews in the Agriculture of North-West Romania in the Inter-war Period.”

Nicholas V. Iljine, ed. Odessa Memories. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. lv, 143 pp.

CONTENTS: Nicolas V. Iljine, “Preface.” Bel Kaufman, “My Odessa.” Patricia Herlihy, “Odessa Memories.” Oleg Gubar and Alexander Rosenboim, “Daily Life in Odessa,” trans. Antonia W. Bouis.

Marjo C. A. Korpel and Josef M. Oesch, eds. Unit Delimitation in Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic Literature. Assen, The Netherlands: Van Gorcum, 2003. vii, 320 pp.

Contents: R. de Hoop, “Genesis 49 Revisited: The Poetic Structure of Jacob’s Testament and the Ancient Versions.” R. de Hoop, “’Trichotomy’ in Masoretic Accentuation in Comparison with the Delimitation of Units in the Versions: With Special Attention to the Introduction to Direct Speech.” M.C.A. Korpel, “The Priestly Blessing Revisited (Num. 6:22-27).” M.C.A. Korpel, “Who is Who? The Structure of Canticles 8:1-7.” I. Kottsieper, “Zu graphischen Abschnittmarkierungen in nordwestsemitischen Texten.” J. M. Oesch, “Skizze einer formalen Gliederungshermeneutik der Sifre Tora.” J. W. Olley, “Trajectories in Paragraphing of the Book of Esekiel.” G.T.M. Prinsloo, “Unit Delimitation in the Egyptian Hallel (Psalms 113-115).” P. Sanders, “Pausal Forms and the Delimitation of Cola in Biblical Hebrew Poetry.” E. Ulrich, “Impressions and Intuition: Sense Divisions in Ancient Manuscripts of Isaiah.”

Dan Leon, ed. Who’s Left in Israel? Radical Political Alternatives for the Future of Israel. Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press, 2004. xiii, 189 pp.

Contents: Dan Leon, “Introduction: Radical Alternatives.” Uri Avnery, “A Land Without People…” As’ad Ghanem, “The Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel.” Amira Hass, “Israeli Colonialism under the Guise of the Peace Process, 1993-2000.” Avraham Burg, “The End of Zionism?” David Newman, “Religion, State and Society.” Ilan Pappe, “The Making and Unmaking of the Israeli Jewish Left.” Lev Grinberg, “Post-Mortem for the Ashkenazi Left.” Hillel Schenker, “Jewish National Self-Determination at the Crossroads.” Alon Tal, “Left Out — the Ecologial Paradox of the Israeli Left.” Victor Cygielman, “The Left Needs Two Banners.” Tamar Gozansky, “The Roots of Israel’s Economic Crisis.” Shulamit Aloni, “The Dilemmas of Israeli Education.” Erella Shadmi, “The Israeli Woman and the Feminist Commitment.” Henrietta Dahan-Kalev, “The Mizrahim: Challenging the Ethos of the Melting Pot.” Menahem Klein, “Jerusalem: Constructive Division or Spartaheid?”

Christof Mauch and Joseph Salmons, German-Jewish Identities in America. Madison, Wisc.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2003. xii, 171 pp.

Contents: Christof Mauch and Joseph Salmons, “Introduction.” Henry Feingold, “German Jews and the American-Jewish Synthesis.” Anke Ortlepp, “‘Give to the Poor! You’ll Bless!’ Jewish Charities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1850–1914.” Tobias Brinkmann, “‘We Are Brothers! Let Us Separate’: Jewish Immigrants in Chicago between Gemeinde and Network Community before 1880.” Cornelia Wilhelm, “Shaping the American Jewish Community: The Independent Order of B’nai B’rith, 1843–1914.” Mitchell B. Hart, “Franz Boas as German, American and Jew.” Harley Erdman, “German Jews and American Show Business: A Reconsideration.” Thomas Kovach, “German Jews and Ostjuden in the American South: Alfred Uhry’s Last Night of Ballyhoo.” Monika S. Schmid, “‘I Always Thought I Was a German—It Was Hitler Who Taught Me I Was a Jew’: National-Socialist Persecution, Identity, and the German Language.” Manfred Kirchheimer, “German Jew or Jewish German?: Post-Immigration Questions.”

Bernard J. McGinn, John J. Collins and Stephen J. Stein, eds. The Continuum History of Apocalypticism. New York: Continuum, 2003. xv, 671 pp.

Richard J. Clifford, S.J., “The Roots of Apocalypticism in Near Eastern Myth.” Anders Hultgård, “Persian Apocalypticism.” John. J. Collins, “From Prophecy to Apocalypticism: The Expectation of the End.” Florentino García Martínez, “Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls.” James C. VanderKam, “Messianism and Apocalypticism.” Dale C. Allison, Jr., “The Eschatology of Jesus.” M.C. de Boer, “Paul and Apocalyptic Eschatology.” Adela Yarbro Collins, “The Book of Revelation.” Brian E. Daley, S.J., “Apocalypticism in Early Christian Theology.” David Olster, “Byzantine Apocalypses.” Bernard McGinn, “Apocalypticism and Church Reform, 1100-1500.” Gian Luca Potestá, “Radical Apocalyptic Movements in the Late Middle Ages.” Robin Barnes, “Images of Hope and Despair: Western Apocalypticism ca. 1500-1800.” Moshe Idel, “Jewish Apocalypticism, 670-1670.” Saïd Amir Arjomand, “Islamic Apocalypticism in the Classic Period.” Alain Milhou, “Apocalypticism in Central and South American Colonialism.” Reiner Smolinski, “Apocalypticism in Colonial North America.” James H. Moorhead, “Apocalypticism in Mainstream Protestantism, 1800 to the Present.” Stephen J. Stein, “Apocalypticism Outside the Mainstream in the United States.” Paul Boyer, “The Growth of Fundamentalist Apocalyptic in the United States.” Robert M. Levine, “Apocalyptic Movements in Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.” Aviezer Ravitzky, “The Messianism of Success in Contemporary Judaism.” Abbas Amanat, “The Resurgence of Apocalyptic in Modern Islam.” Sandra L. Zimdars-Swartz and Paul F. Zimdars-Swartz, “Apocalypticism in Modern Western Europe.” J. Eugene Clay, “Apocalypticism in Eastern Europe.”

Alan Mittleman, ed. Religion as a Public Good: Jews and Other Americans on Religion in the Public Square. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003. 336 pp.

Contents: Jean Bethke Elshtain, “The Liberal Social Contract and the Privatization of Religion.” Marc Dollinger, “‘A Proper Blessing?’: The Jew and the American Public Square.” Alan Mittleman, “The Theological-Political Predictament of American Jewry.” Kenneth D. Wald, “The Probable Persistence of American Jewish Liberalism.” Erwin Chemerinsky, “The Need for a Wall Separating Church and State: Why the Establishment Clause Is So Important for Jews and Why Jews Are So Important for the Establishment Clause.” Gertrude Himmelfarb, “American Jewry, Pre- and Post- 9/11.” William A. Galston, “Traditional Judaism and American Citizenship.” David Novak, “A Jewish Policy on Church-State Relations.” Michael J. Broyde, “Jewish Law and American Public Policy: A Principled Jewish Law View and Some Practical Jewish Observations.” Alan Wolfe, “Religious Diversity and the Common Good.” Michael Gottsegen, “Religion and the Public Good.” Elliot N. Dorff, “Judaism Influencing American Public Philosophy.” Carl A. Raschke, “9/11 and the Aftershocks: Rethinking American Secularism and Religious Pluralism.” Micky Edwards, “The Jew in the Amercan Public Square.” Kevin J. Hasson, “From China to Jersey City: Religious Pluralism, Religious Liberty, and Human Rights.” Jonathan Sacks, “Afterword: Looking Forward: From Jewish Interest to Judaic Principle.”

Hannah Naveh, ed. Gender and Israeli Society: Women’s Time. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2003. xiv, 199 pp.

Contents: Hanna Herzog, “Redefining Political Spaces: A Gender Perspective on the Yishuv Historiography.” Rachel Rojanski, “At the Center or on the Fringes of the Public Arena: Esther Mintz-Aberson and the Status of Women in American Poalei Zion, 1905–35.” Billie Melman, “The Legend of Sarah: Gender, Memory and National Identities (Eretz Yisrael / Israel, 1917–90).” Judith Tydor Baumel, “‘Teacher, Tiller, Solider, Spy’? Women’s Representations in Israeli Military Memorials.” Michael Feige, “Do Not Weep Rachel: Fundamentalism, Commemoration and Gender in a West Bank Settlement.” Tsila (Abramovitz) Ratner, “Discourses of Negotiation: The Writing of Orthodox Women in Israel.” Tova Cohen, “‘Information about women is necessarily information about men’: On Iris Patush’s Reading Women.”

Hannah Naveh, ed. Israeli Family and Community: Women’s Time. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2003. xvi, 199 pp.

Contents: Manar Hasan, “The Politics of Honor: Patriarchy, the State and the Murder of Women in the Name of Family Honor.” Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui, “Familism, Postmodernity and the State: The Case of Israel.” Amia Lieblich, “Women and the Changing Israeli Kibbutz: A Preliminary Three-State Theory.” Khawla Abu Baker, “‘Career Women’ or ‘Working Women’? Change versus Stability for Young Palestinian Women in Israel.” Dafna Lemish, “Normalizing Inequality: Portrayals of Women in the Israeli Media.” Leah Shakdiel, “Women of the Wall: Radical Feminism as an Opportunity for a New Discourse in Israel.” Orly Lubin, “‘Gone to Soldiers’: Feminism and the Military in Israel.”

Daniel Polisar, ed. Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation. no. 17. Jerusalem: The Shalem Center, 2004. 136 pp.

Contents: Yossi Klein Halevi, “Jacob Birnbaum and the Struggle for Soviet Jewry.” Evelyn Gordon, “Strikes Again.” David Hazony, “Eliezer Berkovitz, Theologian of Zionism.” Yuval Levin, “Zakaria’s Prophecy.” Benjamin Balnit, “Nothing There.”

Antony Polonsky and Joanna B. Michlic, eds. The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy Over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xiv, 489 pp.

Contents: Andrzej Kaczynski, “‘Burnt Offering,’ Rzeczpospolita, 5 May 2000.” Gabriela Szczesna, “‘The Blood of Jedwabne,’ Kotakty, 7 May 2000.” Maria Kaczynska, “‘In Memory and Admoination,’ Gazeta Wspolczesna, 11 July 2000.” Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, “‘Prophecies Are Being Fulfilled,’ Prawda, May 1942.” Joanna Tokarsk-Bakir, “‘Obsessed with Innocence,’ Gazeta Wyborcza, 13–14 January 2001.” Jan Nowak-Kezioranski, “‘A Need for Compensation,” Rzeczpospolita, 26 January 2001.” Antoni Macierwicz, “‘The Revolution of Nihilism,’ Glos, 3 February 2001.” Hanna Swida-Ziemba, “‘The Shortsightedness of the “Cultured”,’ Gazeta Wyborcza, 6 April 2001.” Jerzy Slawomir Mac, “‘Homo Jedvabicus,’ Wprost, 22 July 2001.” “Living in Truth: Special Statement by Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek regarding the Slaughter of Jews in Jedwabne in 1941, April 2001.” “Address Delivered by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., 5 April 2001.” “Address by President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski at the Ceremonies in Jedwabne Marking the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Jedwabne Tragedy on 10 July 2001.” “Findings of Investigation S 1/00/Zn into the Murder of Polish Citizens of Jewish Origin in the Town of Jedwabne on 10 July 941, pursuant to Article 1 Pont 1 of the Decree of 31 August 1944.” “‘Jedwabne—Let Us Be Silent in the Face of This Crime: Piotr Lipinski Talks with Professor Andrzej Rzeplinski,’ Gazeta Wyborcza, 22 July 2002.” “‘A Poor Christian Looks at Jedwabne: Adam Boniecki and Michal Okonski Talk with Archbishop Henryk Muszynski,’ Tygodnik Powszechny, 25 March 2001.” “Interview with the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Józef Glemp, on the Murder of Jews in Jedwabne, 15 May 2001.” “Rev. Stanislaw Musical, ‘We Ask You to Help Us Be Better,’ Gazeta Wyborcza, 23 May 2001.” “‘We Are Different People: A Discussion about Jedwabne in Jedwabne,’ Wiez, April 2001.” “Marta Kurkowska-Budzan, ‘My Jedwabne.’” Tomas Strzembosz, “‘Collaboration Passed Over in Silence,’ Rzeczpospolita, 27 January 2001.” Jerzy Jedlicki, “‘How to Grapple with the Perplexing Legacy,’ Polityka, 10 February 2001.” “‘A Roundtable Discussion: Jedwabne—Crime and Memory,’ Rzeczpospolita, 3 March 2001.” Anna Bikont, “‘We of Jedwabne,’ Gazeta Wyborcza, 23 March 2001.” Bogdan Musial, “The Pogram in Jedwabne: Critical Remarks about Jan T. Gross’s Neighbors.” Jan Gross, “Critical Remarks Indeed.” “‘Jedwabne without Stereotypes: Agnieszka Sabor and Marek Zajac Talk with Professor Tomasz Szarota,’ Tygodnik Powszechny 28 April 2002.” Darius Stola, “Jedwabne: How Was It Possible?” David Engel, “Introduction to the Hebrew Edition of Neighbors.” Israel Gutman, “Do the Poor Poles Really Look at the Ghetto? Introduction to Hebrew Edition of Neighbors.” Istvan Deak, “‘Heroes and Victims’ (Extracts), New York Review of Books, 31 May 2001.” Richard Lukas, “‘Jedwabne and the Selling of the Holocaust,’ Polish American Journal, May 2001.” Adam Michnik, “‘Poles and the Jews: How Deep the Guilt?’ New York Times, 17 March 2001.” Leon Wieseltier and Adam Michnik, “‘Washington Diarist: Righteous,’ and an Exchange of Letters, New Republic, 9, 17, and 24 April 2001.”

Reporters Without Borders, ed. Israel / Palestine: The Black Book. London: Pluto Press, 2003. xii, 212 pp.

Contents: Jocelyn Grange, “Introduction.” Amnesty International, “Killing committed by Israelis.” B’Tselem, “Excessive Force by Israeli Defence Forces.” B’Tselem, “House demolitions and destruction of agricultural land.” Reporters Without Borders, “Israeli violations of freedom of the press.” Amnesty International, “The heavy price of Israeli incursions.” International Federation of Human Rights Leagues, “Operation Defensive Shield.” Human Rights Watch, “Operation Defensive Shield, Jenin.” Reporters Without Borders, “The Israeli army turns on the media, 29 March-15 June 2002.” Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, “Torture in Israel.” International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH), “The status of the Palestinian minority in Israel.” Amnesty International, “Killings committed by Palestinians.” Amnesty International, “Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians.” Human Rights Watch, “Shortcomings of the Palestinian justice system.” Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, “The right to free expression on Palestine.” Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, “The death penalty in Palestine.” Reporters Without Borders, “Press freedom violations by the Palestinian Authority.”

David B. Ruderman and Giuseppe Veltri, eds. Cultural Intermediaries: Jewish Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 295 pp.

Contents: Fabrizio Lelli, “Biography and Autobiography in Yohanan Alemanno’s Literary Perception.” Harvey Hames, “Elijah Delmedigo: An Archetype of the Halakhic Man?” Giuseppe Veltri, “Philo and Sophia: Leone Ebreo’s Concept of Jewish Philosophy.” Martin Jacobs, “Joseph ha-Kohen, Paolo Giovio, and Sixteenth-Century Historiography.” Alessandro Guetta, “Religious Life and Jewish Erudition in Pisa: Yehiel Nissim da Pisa and the Crisis of Aristotelianism.” Joanna Weinberg, “The Beautiful Soul: Azariah de Rossi’s Search for Truth.” Gianfranco Miletto, “The Teaching Program of David ben Abraham Provensali in Its Historical-Cultural Context.” Adam Shear, “Judah Moscato’s Scholarly Self-Image and the Question of Jewish Humanism.” Don Harrán, “As Framed, So Perceived: Salamone Rossi Ebreo, Late Renaissance Musician.” Eleazar Gutwirth, “Amatus Lustianus and the Location of the Sixteenth-Century Cultures.” Moshe Idel, “Italy in Safed, Safed in Italy: Toward an Interactive History of Sixteenth Century Kabbalah.” Giuseppe Veltri, “A Bibliography of Jewish Cultural History in the Early Modern Period.”

David T. Runia, Gregory E. Sterling and Hindy Najman, eds. Laws Stamped with the Seals of Nature: Law and Nature in Hellenistic Philosophy and Philo of Alexandria. The Studia Philonica Annual: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism, vol. XV: no. 337. Providence: Brown University Press, 2003. 199 pp.

Contents: David Sedley, “The Nomothetês in Plato’s Cratylus.” Paul A. Vander Waerdt, “The Original Theory of Natural Law.” Phillip Mitsis, “The Stoics and Aquinas on Virtue and Natural Law.” Hindy Najman, “A Written Copy of the Law of Nature: An Unthinkable Paradox?” Gregory E. Sterling, “Universalizing the Particular: Natural Law in Second Temple Jewish Ethics.” Brad Inwood, “Natural Law in Seneca.” Book Reviews.

Ellen Schiff, ed. Awake & Singing: Six Great American Jewish Plays (new edition). New York: Applause Theater & Cinema Books, 2004. 587 pp.

Contents: Elmer Rice, “Counsellor-at Law.” Clifford Odets, “Wake and Sing!” Sylvia Regan, “Morning Star.” Paddy Chayefsky, “The Tenth Man.” Herb Gardner, “Conversations with my Father.” Arthur Miller, “Broken Glass.”

David Shatz and Joel B. Wolowelsky, eds. Mind, Body and Judaism: The Interaction of Jewish Law with Psychology and Biology. New York: Yeshiva University Press, 2004. 257 pp.

Contents: Shalom Carmy, “The Human Factor: A Plea for Second Opinions.” David Shatz and Joel. B. Wolowelsky, “Introduction.” Yitzchok Adlerstein, “Scientific Advance and the Jewish Moral Conscience.” Kenneth Waxman, “Creativity and Catharsis: A Theological Framework for Evaluating Cloning.” Julian (Yoel) Jakobovits, “Cloning and Its Challenges.” Avraham Steinberg, “Human Cloning: Scientific, Moral and Jewish Perspectives.” Michael J. Broyde, “Cloning and the Noahide Legal Code.” Fred Rosner, “The Case for Genetic Engineering.” Richard V. Grazi, “Cloning as a Remedy for Reproductive Failure.” Eitan Fiorino, “The Case Against Cloning.” Feige Kaplan, “Human and Molecular Cloning: Ethical Dilemnas in a Brave New World.” John D. Loike, “Is a Human Clone a Golem?” Yigal Shafran, “A Matter of Time: The Moral Status of Cloning.” Edward Reichman, “The Halakhic Definition of Death in Light of Medial History.”

Michael C. Steinlauf and Antony Polonsky, eds. Focusing on Jewish Popular Culture in Poland and its Afterlife. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 16. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003. 602 pp.

Contents: Michael Steinlauf, “Introduction” Ariela Krasney, “The Badkhn: From Wedding Stage to Writing Desk.” Walter Zev Feldman, “Remembrance of Things Past: Klezmer Musicians of Galicia, 1870-1940.” Michael Aylward, “Early Recordings of Jewish Music in Poland.” Michael Steinlauf, “Jewish Theatre in Poland.” François Guesnet, “A Tuml in the Shetl: Khayim Betsalel Grinberg’s Di Khevre-Kedishe sude.” Natan Gross, “Mordechai Gebirtig: The Folk Song and the Cabaret Song.” Seth L. Wolitz, “Simkhe Plakhte: From ‘Folklore’ to Literary Artefact.” Shalom Sabar, “Between Poland and Germany: Jewish Religious Practices in Illustrated Postcards of the Early Twentieth Century.” Joshua Shanes, “Papers for the Folk: Jewish Nationalism and the Birth of the Yiddish Press in Galicia.” Nathan Cohen, “Shund and the Tabloids: Jewish Popular Reading in Inter-War Poland.” Ellen Kellman, “Dos yidishe bukh alarmirt! Towards the History of Yiddish Reading in Inter-War Poland.” Edward Portnoy, “Exploiting Tradition: Religious Iconography in Cartoons of the Polish Yiddish Press.” Bret Werb and Barbara Milewski, “From ‘Madagaskar’ to Sachsenhausen: Singing about ‘Race’ in a Nazi Camp.” Yaakov Mazor, “The Badkhn in Contemporary Hasidic Society: Social, Historical, and Musical Observations.” Alex Lubet, “Transmigrations: Wolf Krakowski’s Yiddish Worldbeat in its Socio-Musical Context.” Jeffrey Shandler, “‘The Time of Vishniac’: Photographs of Pre-War East European Jewry in Post-War Contexts.” Erica Lehrer, “Repopulating Jewish Poland—in Wood.” Ruth Ellen Gruber, “The Kraków Jewish Culture Fesitval.” Michael C. Steinlauf, “A. Litvin: Chronicler of Jewish Souls.” A. Litvin, “Excerpts from Yidishe neshomes.” Gwido Zlatkes, “Urke Nachalnik: A Voice from the Underworld.” Urke Nachalnik, “Excerpts from Zyciorys wlasny przestepcy.” Brian Portner, “Making Space for Antisemitism: The Catholic Hierarchy and the Jews in the Early Twentieth Century.” Alexander B. Rossino, “Polish ‘Neighbours’ and German Invaders: Anti-Jewish Violence in the Bialystok District during the Opening weeks of Operation Barbarossa.” Andrzej Paczkowski, “Jews in the Polish Security Apparatus: An Attempt to Test the Stereotype.” Andrzej Trzcinski and Marcin Wodzinski, “Some Remarks on Leszek Hondo’s Study of the Old Jewish Cemetary in Kraków.” Anna Landau-Czajka, “The Last Controversy over Ritual Murder? The Debate over the Paintings in Sandomierz Cathedral.” Wlodzimierz Rozenbaum, “The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland of 1967-1968: Documents.” Book Reviews.