AJS Review • Collected Studies
July 2004 - March 2005

Seyla Benhabib and Nancy Fraser, eds. Pragmatism, Critique, Judgement: Essays for Richard J. Bernstein. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2004. xix, 379 pp.

Contents: Richard Rorty, “Philosophy as a Transitional Genre,” Jürgen Habermas, “The Moral and the Ethical: A Reconsideration of the Issue of the Priority of the Right over the Good,” Geoffrey Hartman, “ “… Ergo sum” – Between Poetry and Philosophy,” Charles Taylor, “What is Pragmatism?,” Yirmiyahu Yovel, “Hegel’s Aphorisms about “The True”,” Nancy Fraser, “Institutionalizing Democratic Justice: Redistribution, Recognition, and Participation,” Thomas McCarthy, “Political Philosophy and Racial Injustice: From Normative to Critical Theory,” Seyla Benhabib, “Kantian Questions, Arendtian Answers: Statelessness, Cosmopolitanism, and the Right to Have Rights,” Jacques Derrida, “Capital Punishment: Another “Temptation of Theodicy”,” Agnes Heller, “Memory Traces, Archive, Historical Truth, and the Return of the Repressed: On the Rediscovery of Freud’s Moses,” Joel Whitebook, “Omnipotence and Radical Evil: On a Possible Rapprochement between Hannah Arendt and Psychoanalysis,” Jerome Kohn, “Reflecting on Judgment: Common Sense and a Common World,” Carol L. Bernstein, “Semprun and the Experience of Radical Evil,” Soshana Yovel, “The Seventh Demon: Reflections on Absolute Evil and the Holocaust,” Judith Friedlander, “A Philosopher from New York.”

Gerald L. Blidstein, ed. Sabbath: Idea, History, Reality. The Goldstein-Goren Library of Jewish Thought, 1. Beer Sheva: Ben Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2004. 312 pp.

Contents: Shemaryahu Talmon, “Reckoning the Sabbath in the First and Early Second Temple Period – From the Evening or the Morning?,” Joseph M. Baumgarten, “Some Theological Aspects of Second Temple Shabbat Practice,” Michael Wyschogrod, “On the Christian Critique of the Jewish Sabbath,” Moshe Idel, “Sabbath: On Concepts of Time in Jewish Mysticism,” Arthur Green, “Some Aspects of Qabbalat Shabbat,” Michael Fishbane, “Transcendental Consciousness and the Stillness in the Mystical Theology of R. Yehuda Arieh Leib of Gur,” Elliot Horowitz, “Sabbath Delights: Toward a Social History.”

Sara J. Bloomfield, ed. Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiii, 226 pp.

Contents: Sheila Faith Weiss, “German Eugenics, 1890 – 1933,” Daniel J. Kevies, “International Eugenics,” Gisela Bock, “Nazi Sterilization and Reproductive Policies,” Benoit Massin, “The “Science of Race”,” Michael Burleigh, “Nazi “Euthanasia” Programs,” Henry Friedlander, “From “Euthanasia” to the “Final Solution”,” Benno Müller-Hill, “Reflections of a German Scientist.”

Ra’anan S. Boustan and Annette Yoshiko Reed, eds. Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiii, 335 pp.

Contents: Ra’anan S. Boustan and Annette Yoshiko Reed, “Introduction: “In Heaven as It Is on Earth”,” Fritz Graf, “The Bridge and the Ladder: Narrow Passages in Late Antique Visions,” Katharina Volk, “ “Heavenly Steps”: Manilius 4.119–121 and Its Background,” Annette Yoshiko Reed, “Heavely Ascent, Angelic Descent, and the Transmission of Knowledge in 1 Enoh 6-16,” Gottfried Schimanowski, “ “Connecting Heaven and Earth”: The Function of the Hymns in Revelation 4–5,” Sarah Iles Johnston, “Working Overtime in the Afterlife; or, No Rest for the Virtuous,” Martha Himmelfarb, “Earthly Sacrifice and Heavenly Incense: The Law of the Priesthood in Aramaic Levi and Jubilee,” John W. Marshall, “Who’s on the Throne? Revelation in the Long Year,” Kirsti B. Copeland, “The Earthly Monastary and the Transformation of the Heavenly City in Late Antique Egypt,” Jan N. Bremmer, “Contextualizing Heaven in Third-Century North Africa,” Adam H. Becker, “Bringing the Heavenly Academy Down to Earth: Approaches to the Imagery of Divine Pedagogy in the East Syrian Tradition,” Ra’anan D. Boustan, “Angels in the Architecture: Temple Art and the Poetics of Praise in the Song of the Sabbath Sacrifice,” Christopher A. Faraone, “The Collapse of Celestial and Chthonic Realms in a Late Antique “Apollonian Invocation” (PGM I 262–347),” Peter Schäfer, “In Heaven As It Is in Hell: The Cosmology of Seder,” Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, “The Faces of the Moon: Cosmology, Genesis, and the Mithras Liturgy,” Susanna Elm, “ “O Paradoxical Fusion!”: Gregory of Nazianzus on Baptism and Cosmology (Orations 38–40).”

Bryan Cheyette and Nadia Valman, eds. The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789 – 1914. Parkes-Wiener Series on Jewish Studies. Portland, Or.: Vallentine Mitchell, 2004. 247 pp.

Contents: Nils Roemer, “Towards a Comparative Jewish Literary History: National Literary Canons in Nineteenth-Century Germany and England,” Michael Galchinsky, “Africans, Indians, Arabs and Scots: Jewish and Other Questions in the Age of Empire,” Jefferson S. Chase, “The Homeless Nation: The Exclusion of Jews in and from Early Nineteenth-Century German Historical Fiction,” Florian Krobb, “Distinctiveness and Change: The Depiction of Jews in Theodor Fontane and Other Bourgeois Realist Authors,” David Forgacs, “Building the Body of the Nation: Lombroso’s L’antisemitismo and Fin-de-Siècle Italy,” Nadia Valman, “ ‘Barbarous and Mediaeval’: Jewish Marriage in Fin de Siècle English Fiction,” Marilyn Reizbaum, “Max Nordau and the Generation of Jewish Muscle,” Edward J. Hughes, “Textual and Tribal Assimilation: Representing Jewishness in A la recherché du temps perdu,” Nelly Wilson, “Péguy, the Jews and the Jewish Question,” David Glover, “Liberalism, Anglo-Jewry and the Diasporic Imagination: Herbert Samuel via Israel Zangwill, 1890 – 1914,” Estelle Pearlman, “The Representation of Jews on Edwardian Postcards.”

Allison P. Coudert and Jeffrey S. Shoulson, eds. Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe. Jewish Culture and Contexts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. x, 316 pp.

Contents: Michael A. Signer, “Polemic and Exegesis: The Varieties of Twelfth-Century Hebraism,” Moshe Idel, “Man as the “Possible” Entity in Some Jewish and Renaissance Sources,” Fabrizio Lelli, “Jews, Humanists, and the Reappraisal of Pagan Wisdom Associated with the Ideal of the Dignitas Hominis,” Peter N. Miller, “The Mechanics of Christian-Jewish Intellectual Collaboration in Seventeenth-Century Provence: N.-C. Fabri de Peiresc and Salomon Azubi,” Jason P. Rosenblatt, “John Selden’s De Jure Naturali … Juxta Disciplinam Ebraeorum and Religious Toleration,” Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, “Censorship, Editing, and the Reshaping of Jewish Identity: The Catholic Church and Hebrew Literature in the Sixteenth Century,” Ora Limor and Israel Jacob Yuval, “Skepticism and Converstions: Jews, Christians, and Doubters in Sefer ha-Nizzahon,” Stephen G. Burnett, “Reassessing the “Basel-Wittenberg Conflict”: Dimensions of the Reformation-Era Discussion of Hebrew Scholarship,” Yaacov Deutsch, “Polemical Ethnographies: Descriptions of Yom Kippur in the Writings of Christian Hebraists and Jewish Converts to Christianity in Early Modern Europe,” Michael Heyd, “The “Jewish Quaker”: Christian Perceptions of Sabbatai Zevi as an Enthusiast,” Nils Roemer, “Colliding Visions: Jewish Messianism and German Scholarship in the Eighteenth Century,” Allison P. Coudert, “Five Seventeenth-Century Christian Hebraists.”

Philip A. Cunningham, ed. Pondering the Passion: What’s at Stake for Christians and Jews? A Sheed & Ward Book. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004. xvi, 214 pp.

Contents: Claudia Setzer, “The Jews under Roman Rule,” Michael J. Cook, “The Problem of Jewish Jurisprudence and the Trial of Jesus,” John Clabeaux, “Why Was Jesus Executed? History and Faith,” Walter Harrelson, “Protestant Understandings of the Passion,” George M. Smiga, “Separating the True from the Historical: A Catholic Approach to the Passion Narratives,” Pamela Berger, “The Depiction of Jews in Early Passion Iconography,” Raymond G. Helmick, “The Passion in Music: Bach’s Settings of the Matthew and John Passions,” A. James Rudin, “Oberammergau: A Case Study of Passion Plays,” John J. Michalczyk, “Celluloid Passions,” Clark Williamson, “What Does It Mean to be Saved?,” Louis Roy, “Why Is the Death of Jesus Redemptive?,” Phillip A. Cunningham, “A Challenge to Catholic Teaching,” John T. Pawilkowski, “Gibson’s Passion in the Face of the Shoah’s Ethical Considerations,” Maddy Cunningham, “Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? The Psychologival Risks of “Witnessing” the Passion,” Mary C. Boys, “Educating for a Faith that Feels and Thinks.”

George M. Goodwin and Ellen Smith, eds. The Jews of Rhode Island. Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture and Life. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 2004. xvi, 268 pp.

Contents: Marilyn Kaplan, “The Jewish Merchants of Newport, 1749 – 1790,” Holly Snyder, “Reconstructing the Lives of Newport’s Hidden Jews, 1740 – 1790,” Eleanor F. Horvitz, “Old Bottles, Rags, Junk! The Story of the Jews of South Provience,” Steven Culbertson and Calvin Goldscheider, “United Brothers, Bowling and Bagels in Bristol: A Study of the Changing Jewish Community in Bristol, Rhode Island,” Erwin Strasmich, “Jews and the Textile Industry in Rhode Island,” Richard A. Meckel, “The Jewelry Industry, Industrial Development, and Immigration in Providence, 1790 – 1993,” Joel Perlmann, “Beyond New York, a Second Look: The Occupations of Russian Jewish Immigrants in Providence, Rhode Island, and in Other Small Jewish Communities, 1900 – 1915,” Paul M. Buhle, “Jews in Rhode Island Labor: An Introductory Investigation,” Eleanor F. Horvitz and Geraldine S. Foster, “Jewish Farmers in Rhode Island,” Shalom Goldman, “Christians, Jews, and the Hebrew Language in Rhode Island,” Karen M. Lamoree, “ “Why Not a Jewish Girl?”: The Jewish Experience at Pembroke College in Brown University,” Geraldine S. Foster and Eleanor F. Horvitz, “Summers Along Upper Narragansett Bay, 1910 – 1938,” George M. Goodwin, “The Newport Folk Festival: A Jewish Perspective,” Seebert J. Goldowsky, “Bernard Manuel Goldowsky, 1864 – 1936,” Saul Barber, “My Life at the Jewish Orphanage of Rhode Island,” Rabbi Eli A. Bohnen, “Our Rabbi with the Rainbow Division: A World War II Reminiscence,” Rabbi William G. Braude, “Recollections of a Septuagenarian.”

Leonard J. Greenspoon, Ronald A. Simkins and Jean Axelrad Cahan, eds. Women and Judaism. Studies in Jewish Civilization, vol. 14. Omaha, Neb.: Creighton University Press, 2003. xviii, 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.”

Leonard J. Greenspoon, Ronald A. Simkins and Jean Axelrad Cahan, eds. Food and Judaism. Studies in Jewish Civilization, vol. 15. Omaha, Neb.: Creighton University Press, 2005. xv, 345 pp.

Contents: Joan Nahan, “A Social History of Jewish Food in America,” Eve Jochnowitz, “Smoked Salmon Sushi and Sturgeon Stomachs: The Russian Jewish Foodscapes of New York,” Ori Z. Soltes, “The Art of Jewish Food,” Marcie Cohen Ferris, “Exploring Southern Jewish Foodways,” S. Daniel Breslauer, “The Vegetarian Alternative: Biblical Adumbrations, Modern Reverberations,” Cara De Silva, “In Memory’s Kitchen: Reflections on a Recently Discovered Form of Holocaust Literature,” Jonathan D. Brumberg-Kraus, “Does God Care What We Eat? Jewish Theologies of Food and Reverence for Life,” Oliver B. Pollack, “Nebraska Jewish Charitable Cookbooks, 1901 – 2002,” Alice Stone Nakhimovsky, “Public and Private in the Kitchen: Eating Jewish in the Soviet State,” Ruth Ann Abusch-Magder, “Kashrut: The Possibility and Limits of Women’s Domestic Power,” Allan Nadler, “Holy Kugel: The Sanctification of Ashkenazic Ethnic Foods in Hasidism,” Maria Diemling, “ “As the Jews Like to Eat Garlick”: Garlic in Christian-Jewish Polemical Discourse in Early Modern Germany,” David Kraemer, “Separating the Dishes: The History of a Jewish Eating Practice,” Joel Hecker, “The Blessing in the Belly: Mystical Satiation in Medieval Kabbalah,” Brannon Wheeler, “Food of the Book or Food of Israel? Israelite and Jewish Food Laws in the Muslim Exegesis of Quran 3:93,” Jonathan D. Brumberg-Kraus, “Meals as Midrash: A Survey of Ancient Meals in Jewish Studies Scholarship,” Gary A. Rendsburg, “The Vegetarian Ideal in the Bible,” Jenna Weissman Joselit, “Food Fight: The Americanization of Kashrut in Twentieth-Century America.”

Christine Helmer and Christof Landmesser, eds. One Scripture of Many? Canon from Biblical, Theological, and Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xi, 249 pp.

Contents: Christine Helmer, “Transhistorical Unity of the New Testament Canon from Philosophical, Exegetical, and Systematic-Theological Perspectives,” Armin Lange, “From Literature to Scripture: The Unity and Plurality of the Hebrew Scriptures in Light of the Qumran Library,” Benjamin D. Sommer, “Unity and Plurality in Jewish Canons: The Case of the Oral and Written Torahs,” James Barr, “Unity: Within the Canon or After the Canon,” Christof Landmesser, “Interpretative Unity of the New Testament,” Avi Sagi, “Unity of Scripture Constituted through Jewish Traditions of Interpretation,” Nicholas Wolterstorff, “The Unity Behind the Canon.”

Pieter M. Judson and Marsha L. Rozenblit, eds. Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe. Austrian History, Culture, and Society, vol. 6. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005. xx, 293 pp,

Contents: Michael K. Silber, “From Tolerated Aliens to Citizen-Soldiers: Jewish Military Service in the Era of Joseph II,” Robert Nemes, “The Revolution in Symbols: Hungary in 1848 – 1849,” Daniel A. McMillan, “Nothing Wrong with my Bodily Fluids: Gymnastics, Biology, and Nationalism in the Germanies before 1871,” Eagle Glassheim, “Between Empire and Nation: The Bohemian Nobility, 1880 – 1918,” Pieter M. Judson, “The Bohemian Oberammergau: Nationalist Tourism in the Austrian Empire,” Cynthia Paces and Nancy M. Wingfield, “The Sacred and the Profane: Religion and Nationalism in the Bohemian Lands, 1880 – 1920,” Claire E. Nolte, “All For One! One for All! The Federation of Slavic Sokols and the Failure of Neo-Slavism,” Daniel Unowsky, “Staging Habsburg Patriotism: Dynastic Loyalty and the 1898 Imperial Jubilee,” Alon Rachamimov, “Arbiters of Allegiance: Austro-Hungarian Censors during World War I,” Marsha L. Rozenblit, “Sustaining Austrian “National” Identity in Crisis: The Dilemma of the Jews in Habsburg Austria, 1914 – 1919,” Paul Hanebrink, “ “Christian Europe” and National Identity in Interwar Hungary,” David Frey, “Just What is Hungarian? Concepts of National Identity in the Hungarian Film Industry, 1931 – 1944,” Patricia von Papen-Bodek, “The Hungarian Institute for Research into the Jewish Question and Its Participation in the Expropriation and Expulsion of Hungarian Jewry,” Peter Black, “Indigenous Collaboration in the Government General: The Case of the Sonderdienst,” Benjamin Frommer, “Getting the Small Decree: Czech National Honor in the Aftermath of the Nazi Occupation.”

Ivan Davidson Kalmar and Derek J. Penslar, eds. Orientalism and the Jews. The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 2005. xl, 285 pp.

Contents: Ivan Davidson Kalmar, “Jesus Did Not Wear a Turban: Orientalism, the Jews, and Christian Art,” Suzanne Conklin Albari, “Placing the Jews in Late Medieval English Literature,” Tudor Parfitt, “The Use of the Jew in Colonial Discourse,” Zhou Xun, “The “Kaifeng Jew” Hoax: Constructing the “Chinese Jew”,” John M. Efron, “Orientalism and the Jewish Historical Gaze,” Noah Isenberg, “To Pray Like a Dervish: Orientalist Discourse in Arnold Zweig’s The Face of East European Jewry,” Michael Berkowitz, “Rejecting Zion, Embracing the Orient: The Life and Death of Jacob Israel De Haan,” Eran Kaplan, “Between East and West: Zionist Revisionism as a Mediterranean Ideology,” Dalia Manor, “Orientalism and Jewish National Art: The Case of Bezadel,” Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, “The Zionist Return to the West and the Mizrahi Jewish Perspective,” Derek J. Penslar, “Broadcast Orientalism: Representations of Mizrahi Jewry in Israeli Radio, 1948 – 1967,” Sander L. Gilman, “ “We’re Not Jews”: Imagining Jewish History and Jewish Bodies in Contemporary Multicultural Literature.”

J. Shawn Landres and Michael Berenbaum, eds. After The Passion is Gone: American Religious Consequences. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Altamira Press, 2004. xiii, 348 pp.

Contents: Mark Silk, “Almost a Culture War: The Making of The Passion Controversy,” William J. Clark, “Passionate Blogging: Interfaith Controversy and the Internet,” Leslie E. Smith, “Living in the World, But Not of the World: Understanding Evangelical Support for The Passion of the Christ,” Eric. R. Samuelsen, “The Passion Pardox: Signposts on the Road toward Mormon Protestantization,” Julie Ingersoll, “Is it Finished? The Passion of the Christ and the Fault Lines in American Christianity,” Karen Jo Torjesen, “The Journey of the Passion Play from Medieval Piety to Contemporary Spirituality,” Lorenzo Albacete, “The Gibson Code?,” Robert A. Faggen, “ “But Is It Art?” A Prelude to Criticism of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ,” Gary Gilbert, “Antisemitism without Erasure: Sacred Texts and Their Contemporary Interpretations,” Jeffrey S. Siker, “ Theologizing the Death of Jesus, Gibson’s The Passion, and Christian Identity,” David Morgan, “Manly Pain and Motherly Love: Mel Gibson’s Big Picture,” Lloyd Baughk, SJ, “Imago Christi: Aesthetic and Theological Issues in Jesus Films by Pasolini, Scorsese, and Gibson,” Susannah Heschel, “Theological Bulimia: Christianity and Its Dejudaization,” Stephen R. Haynes, “A March of Passion; or, How I Came to Terms with a Film I Wasn’t Supposed to Like,” Richard L. Rubenstein, “The Exposed Fault Line,” Stephen T. Davis, “Crucifying Jesus: Antisemitism and the Passion Story,” David M. Elcott, “Five Introspective Challenges,” John K. Roth, “No Crucifixion = No Holocaust: Post-Holocaust Reflections on The Passion of the Christ,” Elliot N. Dorff, “The Passionate Encounter: The Ethics of Affirming Your Faith in a Multireligious World,” Kathryn J. Smith, “Reframing Difference: Evangelicals, Scripture, and the Jews.”

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

Contents: Dan Leon, “Introduction: Radical Alternatives,” Uri Avnery, “A Land Without a 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 Ecological Paradox of the Israeli Left,” Victor Cygielman, “The Left Needs Two Banners,” Tamar Gozansky, “The Roots of Israel’s Economic Crisis,” Shulamit Aloni, “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?”

Geoffrey Brahm Levey and Philip Mendes, eds. Jews and Australian Politics. Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press, 2004. viii, 262 pp.

Contents: John Goldlust, “Jews in Australia – A Demographic Profile,” Suzanne D. Rutland, “Who Speaks for Australian Jewry?,” Sol Encel, “Jews and the Australian Labor Party,” Philip Mendes, “Jews and the Left,” Peter Baume, “Jews and the Liberal Party of Australia,” William D. Rubinstein, “Political Conservatism and the Australian Jewish Community,” Andrew Markus, “Anti-Semitism and Australian Jewry,” Danny Ben-Moshe, “Pro-Israelism as a Factor in Australian Jewish Political Attitudes and Behaviour,” Barbara Bloch and Eva Cox, “Mending the World from the Margins: Jewish Women and Australian Feminism,” Colin Tatz, “Jews and Aborigines,” Geoffrey Brahm Levey and Philip Mendes, “The Hanan Ashrawi Affair: Australian Jewish Politics on Display,” Peter Y. Medding, “Conclusion: Australian Jewish Politics in Comparative Perspective.”

Beth Luey, ed. Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. vii, 255 pp.

Contents: William P. Sisler, “You’re the Author Now,” Beth Luey, “What Is Your Book About?,” Scott Norton, “Turning Your Dissertation Rightside Out,” Scott Norton, “Bringing Your Own Voice to the Table,” Jenya Weinreb, “Time to Trim: Notes, Bibliographies, Tables and Graphs,” Jennifer Crewe, “Caught in the Middle: The Humanities,” Peter J. Dougherty and Charles T. Myers, “Putting Passion into Social Science,” Trevor Lipscombe, “From Particles to Articles: The Inside Scoop on Scientific Publishing,” Judy Metro, “Illustrated Ideas: Publishing in the Arts,” Ann Regan, “A Sense of Place: Regional Books,” Johanna E. Vondeling, “Making a Difference: Professional Publishing,” Beth Luey, “Conclusion: The Ticking Clock.”

Martin Jan Mulder and Harry Sysling, eds. Mikra: Text, Translation, Reading & Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004. xxvi, 929 pp. 2nd ed. Paperback.

Contents: Aaron Demsky and Meir Bar-Ilan, “Writing in Ancient Israel and Early Judaism,” Roger T. Beckwith, “Formation of the Hebrew Bible,” Martin Jan Mulder, “The Transmission of the Biblical Text,” Charles Perrot, “The Reading of the Bible in the Ancient Synagogue,” Emmanuel Tov, “The Septuagint,” Abraham Tal, “The Samaritan Targum of the Pentateuch,” Philip S. Alexander, “Jewish Aramaic Translations of Hebrew Scriptures,” Peter B. Dirksen, “The Old Testament Peshitta,” Bejnamin Kedar, “The Latin Translations,” Michael Fishbane, “Use, Authority and Interpretation of Mikra at Qumran,” Devorah Dimant, “ Use and Interpretation of Mikra in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha,” Yehoshua Amit, “Authortity and Interpretation of Scripture in the Writings of Philo,” Louis H. Feldman, “Use, Authority and Exegesis of Mikra in the Writings of Josephus,” Pieter W. van der Horst, “The Interpretation of the Bible by the Minor Hellenistic Jewish Authors,” Rimon Kasher, “The Interpretation of Scripture in Rabbinic Literature,” Ruairidh Bóid (M.N. Saraf), “Use, Authority and Exegesis of Mikra in the Samaritan Tradition,” Birger A. Pearson, “Use, Authority and Exegesis of Mikra in Gnostic Literature,” E. Earle Ellis, “The Old Testament Canon in the Early Church,” E. Earle Ellis, “Biblical Interpretation in the New Testament Church,” William Horbury, “Old Testament Interpretation in the Writings of the Church Fathers.”

Shulamit Reinharz and Mark A. Raider, eds. American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 2005. lix, 393 pp.

Contents: Arthur Zeiger, “Emma Lazarus and Pre-Herzlian Zionism,” Allon Gal, “The Zionist Vision of Henrietta Szold,” Carole S. Kessner, “Marie Syrkin: An Exemplary Life,” Baila Round Shargel, “ “Never a Rubber Stamp”: Bessie Gotsfeld, Founder of Mizrachi Women of America,” Mary McCune, “Formulating the “Women’s Interpretation of Zionism”: Hadassah Recruitment of Non-Zionist American Women, 1914 – 1930,” Mark A. Raider, “The Romance and Realpolitik of Zionist Pioneering: The Case of the Pioneer Women’s Organization,” Esther Carmel-Hakim, “Hadassah-WIZO Canada and the Development of Agricultural Training for Women in Pre-State Israel,” Nelly Las, “The Impact of Zionism on the International Council of Jewish Women, 1914 – 1957,” Mira Katzburg-Yungman, “Women and Zionist Activity in Erez Israel: The Case of Hadassah, 1913 – 1958,” Joseph B. Glass, “Settling the Old-New Homeland: The Decisions of American Jewish Women during the Interwar Years,” Peri Rosenfeld, “Em Leemahot: The Public Health Contributions of Sara Bodek Paltiel to the Yishuv and Israel, 1932 – 1993,” Sara Kodesh, “Rose Viteles: The Double Life of an American Woman in Palestine,” Shulamit Reinharz, “Irma “Rama” Lindheim: An Independent American Zionist Woman,” Marie Syrkin, “Golda Meir and Other Americans,” Anita Shapira, “Golda: Femininity and Feminism,” Judith Korim Hortnstein, “Contemplating Aliyah to Palestine (Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1935),” Engee Caller, “From Brooklyn to Palestine in 1939 (Kibbutz Kfar Blum, 1985),” Golda Meir, “ “They Couldn’t Imagine an American Girl Would Do the Work” (Kibbutz Revivim, 1971),” Ruth Halprin Kaslove, “Memories of Rose Luria Halprin (Norwalk, Connecticut, 1999),” Irma “Rama” (Levy) Lindheim, “Coming of Age in Kibbutz (Kibbutz Mishmar Haemek, 1954),” Yocheved Herschlag Muffs, “Life in a Religious Kibbutz (New York, New York, 1999),” Lois Slott, “ “I Became a Zionist on the Top Floor” (Bethesda, Maryland, 1999),” Zipporah Porath, “Remembering Israel’s War of Independence (Givat Savyon, Israel, 1999)."

David B. Ruderman and Guiseppe Veltri, eds. Cultural Intermediaries: Jewish Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy. Jewish Culture and Contexts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 293 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 Sixteentn-Century Historiography,” Alessandro Guetta, “Religious Life and Jewish Erudition in Pisa: Yeiel 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 and His Son Abraham Provenzali 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 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.”

Anita Shapira, ed. Israeli Identity in Transition. Praeger Series on Jewish and Israeli Studies. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. xii, 268 pp.

Contents: Mordechai Bar-On, “New Historiography and National Identity: Reflections on Changes in the Self-Perception of Israelis and Recent Israel Revisionist Historiography,” Sammy Smooha, “Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel: A Deeply Divided Society,” Anita Shapiro, “Whatever Became of “Negating Exile”?,” Eli Lederhendler, “The Diaspora Factor in Israeli Life,” Dalia Ofer, “Fifty Years of Israeli Discourse on the Holocaust: Characteristics and Dilemnas,” Charles Liebman and Yaacov Yadger, “Israeli Identity: The Jewish Component,” Theodore H. Friedgut, “Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union: Their Influence and Identity,” Daniel Gutwein, “From Melting Pot to Multiculuralism; or, The Privatization of Israeli Identity,” Oz Almog, “The Globalization of Israel: Transformations.”

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. ix, 257 pp.

Contents: Adin Steinsaltz, “Where Do Torah and Science Clash?,” Moshe D. Tendler, “Torah and Science: Constructs and Methodology,” Yaakov Neuberger, “Halakhah and Scientific Method,” Carl Feit, “Darwin and Derash: The Interplay of Torah and Biology,” Jay F. Shachter, “Case Study: Diagnosis and Treatment of a Psychotic Depressive,” Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, “Ritual, Literalism and Diagnosis: Thoughts Provoked by a Provocative Essay,” Yitzchak Schechter, “Religion and Mental Health: A Theoretical and Clinical Perspective,” Moshe Halevi Spero, “ “A Garland for Ashes”: Regarding the Diagnosis of Religious Rituality in “Diagnosis and Treatment of a Psychotic Depressive”,” Shalom Carmy, “The Human Factor: A Plea for Second Opinions,” David Shatz and Joel B. Wolowelsky, “Introduction: Judaism, Genetic Engineering and the Cloning of Humans,” Yitzchok Adlerstein, “Scientific Advance and the Jewish Moral Conscience,” Kenneth Waxman, “Creativity and Catharsis: A Theological Framework for Evaluating Cloning,” Julian (Yoel) Jacobovits, “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 Dilemmas 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 Medical History.”

Nanette Stahl, ed. Sholem Asch Reconsidered. The Yale University Library Gazette Occasional Supplement 5. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Library, 2004. xii, 303 pp.

Contents: David Mazower, “Sholem Asch: Images of a Life,” Joel Berkowitz, “The Brothel as Symbolic Space in Yiddish Drama,” Naomi Seidman, “Staging Tradition: Piety and Scandal in God of Vengeance,” Nina Warnke, “God of Vengeance: The 1907 Controversy over Art and Morality,” Mikhail Krutikov, “Russia between Myth and Reality: From Meri to Three Cities,” Ellen Kellman, “Power, Powerlessness, and the Jewish Nation in Sholem Asch’s Af kidesh haShem,” Seth L. Wolitz, “The City as Cadre and Character in Sholem Asch’s Dray shtet,” Dan Miron, “God Bless America: Of and Around Sholem Asch’s East River,” Avraham Novershtern, “The Broken Fortress: The Jewish Family in America in the Novels of Sholem Asch,” David G. Roskies, “Found in America: Sholem Asch and I. B. Singer,” Anita Norich, “Sholem Asch and the Christian Question,” Hannah Berliner Fischthal, “Reactions of the Yiddish Press to The Nazarene by Sholem Asch,” Matthew Hoffman, “Sholem Asch’s True Christmas: The Jews as People of Christs.”

David Stern, ed. The Anthology in Jewish Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. x, 350 pp.

Contents: David Stern, “The Anthology in Jewish Literature: An Introduction,” Jeffrey H. Tigay, “Anthology in the Torah and the Question of Deuteronomy,” James Kugel, “Wisdom and the Anthological Temper,” Yaakov Elman, “Order, Sequence, and Selection: The Mishnah’s Anthological Choices,” Eliezer Segal, “Anthological Dimensions of the Babylonian Talmud,” David Stern, “Anthology and Polysemy in Classical Myth,” Josephh Tabory, “The Prayerbook (Siddur) as an Anthology of Judaism,” Jacob Elbaum, “Yalqut Shim ‘oni and the Medieval Midrashic Anthology,” Eli Yassif, “The Hebrew Narrative Anthology in the Middle Ages,” Marc Bregman, “Midrash Rabbah and the Medieval Collector Mentality,” Zipora Kagan, “Homo Anthologicus: Micha Joseph Berdyczewski and the Anthological Genre,” Mark W. Kiel, “Sefer Ha’aggadah: Creating a Classic Anthology,” Israel Bartal, “The Ingathering of Traditions: Zionism’s Anthology Projects,” Kathryn Hellerstein, “Gender and the Anthological Tradition in Modern Yiddish Poetry,” Hannan Hever, “ “Our Poetry Is Like an Orange Grove”: Anthologies of Hebrew Poetry in Eretz Yisrael,” Jeffrey Shandler, “Anthologizing the Vernacular: Collections of Yiddish Literature in English Translation,” Galit Hasan-Rokem, “Textualizing the Tales of the People of the Book: Folk Narrative Anthologies and National Identity in Modern Israel,” David G. Roskies, “The Holocaust According to Its Anthologists.”

David G. Stern and Bèla Szabados, eds. Wittgenstein Reads Weininger. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. vii, 197 pp.

Contents: Bèla Szabados, “Eggshells or Nourishing Yolk? A Portrait of Wittgenstein as a Weiningerian,” Allan Janik, “Weininger and the Two Wittgensteins,” Steven Burns, “Sex and Solipsism: Weininger’s On Last Things,” Joachim Schulte, “Wittgenstein and Weininger: Time, Life, World,” Daniel Steuer, “Uncanny Differences: Wittgenstein and Weininger as Dopplegänger,” David G. Stern, “Weininger and Wittgenstein on “Animal Psychology”.”

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, ed. Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy. Jewish Literature and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. xiii, 356 pp.

Contents: Sarah Pessin, “Loss, Presence, and Gabirol’s Desire: Medieval Jewish Philosophy and the Possibility of a Feminist Ground,” Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, “Thinking Desire in Gersonides and Spinoza,” Heidi Miriam Ravven, “Spinoza’s Ethics of the Liberation of Desire,” Jean Axelrad Cahah, “The Lonely Woman of Faith under Late Capitalism; or, Jewish Feminism in Marxist Perspective,” Leora Batnitzky, “Dependency and Vulnerability: Jewish and Feminist Existentialist Constructions of the Human,” Claire Elise Katz, “From Eros to Maternity: Love, Death, and “the Feminine” in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Lewis,” T. M. Rudavsky, “To Know What Is: Feminism, Metaphysics and Epistemology,” Laurie Zoloth, “Into the Woods: Killer Mothers, Feminist Ethics, and the Problem of Evil,” Nancy K. Levene, “Judaism’s Body Politic,” Suzanne Last Stone, “Feminism and the Rabbinic Conception of Justice,” Sandra B. Lubarsky, “Reconstructing Divine Power: Post-Holocaust Jewish Theology, Feminism, and Process Philosophy,” Rand Rashkover, “Theologial Desire: Feminism, Philosophy, and Exegetical Jewish Thought.”

Jack Wertheimer, ed. Jewish Religious Leadership: Image and Reality. 2 vols. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 2004. xxii, 903 pp.

Contents: Stephen A. Geller, “Who May Rule the People of God? Contradictions of Leadership in the Hebrew Bible,” Stephen Garfinkel, “The Man Moses, the Leader Moses,” Adele Reinhartz, “Women at War: Gender and Leadership in Biblical and Post-Biblical Literature,” Ellen Birnbaum, “A Leader with Vision in the Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Philo of Alexandria,” Richard Kalmin, “Hillel and the Soldiers of Herod: Sage and Sovereign in Ancient Jewish Society,” Christine Hayes, “Authority and Anxiety in the Talmuds: From Legal Fiction to Legal Fact,” Seth Schwartz, “Big-Men or Chiefs: Against an Institutional History of the Palestinian Patriarchate,” Menahem Ben-Sasson, “Religious Leadership in Islamic Lands: Forms of Leadership and Sources of Authority,” Daniel J. Lasker, “Karaite Leadership in Times of Crisis,” J. H. Chajes, “Women Leading Women (and Attentive Men): Early Modern Jewish Models of Pietistic Female Authority,” Ephraim Kanarfogel, “Religious Leadership During the Tosafist Period: Between the Academy and the Rabbinic Court,” Jonathan Ray, “Royal Authority and the Jewish Community: The Crown Rabbi in Medieval Spain and Portugal,” Stefanie B. Siegmund, “Communal Leaders (rashei qahal) and the Representation of Medieval and Early Modern Jews as “Communities”,” Adam Teller, “Rabbis Without a Function? The Polish Rabbinate and the Council of Four Lands in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries,” Emanuel Etkes, “Three Religious Leaders Cope with Crisis: A Comparative Discussion of the Vilna Gaon, Rabbi Hayyim of Volozhin, and Rabbi Israel Salanter,” Michael Stanislawski, “Reflections on the Russian Rabbinate,” Gershon Bacon, “The New Jewish Politics and the Rabbinate in Poland: New Directions in the Interwar Period,” Steven Lowenstein, “Old Orthodox and Neo-Orthodox Rabbinic Responses to the Challenges of Modernity in Nineteenth-century Germany,” Jay R. Berkovitz, “Rabbinic Leadership in Modern France: Competing Coneptions, Paradigms, and Strategies in the Emancipation Era,” Adam S. Ferziger, “Constituency Definition: The Orthodox Dilemma,” Leora Batnitzky, “Authority and Leadership in Rosenzweig, Levinas, and Strauss,” Hasia R. Diner, “Looking for Leadership in All the Right (and Wrong) Places: The Place of the Laity in the History of American Judaism,” Lee Shai Weissbach, “Rabbinic Leadership in Small-town America, 1880 – 1940,” Shuly Rubin Schwartz, “Serving the Jewish People: The Rebbetzin as Religious Leader,” Jenna Weissman Joselit, “In the Driver’s Seat: Rabbinic Authority in Postwar America,” David Ellenson, “A Portrait of the Poseq as Modern Religious Leader: An Analysis of Selected Writings of Rabbi Hayyim David Halevi,” Harvey E. Goldberg, “Sephardi Rabbinic “Openness” in Nineteenth-Centiry Tripoli: Examining a Modern Myth in Context,” Tova Cohen, “ “And All the Women Followed Her…”: On Women’s Religious Orthodoxy,” Menachem Friedman, “Halachic Rabbinic Authority in the Modern Open Society,” Richard I. Cohen, “Challenging Rabbinic Hegemony: Visual Representation of Modern Heroes,” David G. Roskies, “Pagan Rabbis in American Jewish Fiction,” Samuel C. Heilman, “A Face to Believe In: Contemporary Pictorial Images of Orthodox Rabbis and What They Represent.”