AJS Review • Collected Studies
March–December 2005

Agosín, Marjorie, ed. Memory, Oblivion, and Jewish Culture in Latin America . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xxii, 348 pp.

Contents: Reyes Coll-Tellechea, “Remembering Sephard,” Angelina Muñiz Huberman, “The Sephardic Legacy,” David Brailovsky, “Tuesday is a Good Day,” Murray Baumgarten, “My Panama,” Sandra McGee Deutsch, “A Journey Through My Life and Latin American Jewish Studies,” Graeme S. Mount, “Chile and the Nazis,” Diana Anhalt, “‘Are You Sure They're Really Jewish?' A Selective History of Mexico City's Beth Israel Community Center,” Adina Cimet, “Dancing around the Political Divide: Between the ‘Legal' and the ‘Regal' in the Mexican Jewish Community,” Naomi Lindstrom, “The Heterogeneous Jewish Wit of Margo Glantz,” Rhonda Dahl Buchanan, “Preserving the Family Album in Letargo by Perla Suez,” Stephen A. Sadow, “Lamentations for the AMIA: Literary Responses to Communal Trauma,” Raanan Rein, “Nationalism, Education, and Identity: Argentine Jews and Catholic Religious Instruction, 1943 – 1955,” Darrell B. Lockhart, “From Gauchos judíos to Ídishe mames posmodernas : Popular Jewish Culture in Buenos Aires,” David William Foster, “Gabriel Valansi: Neoliberal Nights in Buenos Aires,” and Ruth Behar, “While Waiting for the Ferry to Cuba: Afterthoughts about Adio Kerida .”

Bar-Asher, Moshe and Moshe Florentin, eds. Samaritan, Hebrew and Aramaic Studies: Presented to Professor Abraham Tal . Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2005. xii, 385 pp (Hebrew), 173 pp. (English and French).

Contents: Ze'ev Ben-Hayyim, “One More Comment about Tibåt Mårqe,” Ali Watad, “Hamelis: The Dictionary Attributed to Pinhas Hacohen Ben Yosef Haraban,” Aryeh Kasher, “Those Confident on the Hill of Samaria,” Menachem Mor, “The Samaritan Shrine: A Solvable Enigma!,” Moshe Florentin, “Normative Decisions that Mold Languages: The Samaritans' and the Jews' Cases,” Elisha Qimron, “Substitutions for the Weak Consonants in the Samaritan Tradition,” Joshua Blau, “Studies in the Historic Grammar of Biblical Hebrew,” Gershon Brin, “On the Uses of the Formula ‘Until This Day',” Aron Dotan, “ Paseq in Antiquity,” Yair Hoffman, “The First Creation Story (Gen. 1:1-2:3): Canonical and Diachronic Aspects,” David Talshir, “The Forms ‘ahot and ‘edot in Ancient Hebrew,” Shimon Sharvit, “The Emergence and Crystallization of Verbal Nouns in Ancient Hebrew,” Moshe Bar-Asher, “On the Noun's Morphology in Mishnaic Hebrew,” Chaim E. Cohen, “Participle Niph'al in Mishnaic Hebrew (according to MS Kaufmann A 50),” Hezy Mutzafi, “The Reflexes of the Word ???? (‘ear') in Eastern Neo-Aramaic: Etymology, Diversification and Innovation,” Steven E. Fassberg, “Lexical Investigations in Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: Is There a Slip of ‘Aleph to ‘Ayin ?,” Menahem Zevi Kaddari, “The Relative Clause in Ben-Sira's Language,” Moshe Azar, “Legal Texts and their Interpretation by the Supreme Court,” Esther Borochovsky, “More about Semantic and Syntactic Valence of Verbs,” Penina Tromer, “Categorical Shfts in Adjectives in Israeli Hebrew,” Shlomo Izre'el, “Corpus Linguistics and Lexical Grammar or: Are New Methods in Lexicology Useful or Do They Cause Harm?,” Tamar Sovran, “‘Hinnam': Semantic Frames in Contact,” Alan David Crown, “An Alternative View of Qumran,” Andre Lemaire, “ PR en Araméen Ancien et les origins de la fête de Pûrîm ,” Takamitsu Muraoka, “Linguistic Notes on Moabite Inscriptions and Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions,” Sergio Noja Noseda, “Quran II, 65; VII, 166; V, 60 and the Old and New Testament Atmosphere,” Reinhard Pummer, “The Samaritans in Damascus,” Jean-Pierre Rothschild, “Ètat et perspectives de la recherché sur la halakha samaritaine,” Paul Stenhouse, “Surviving the Samaritan Literature and the Sources of Abu ‘l-Fath's Chronicle,” and Gerhard Wedel, “Jewish Responsa and Muslim Fatwa: A Comparison of Approaches to Cultural Exchange and Mutual Acknowledgement in Standard Encyclopedias.”

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

Contents: 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, “Heavenly Ascent, Angelic Descent, and the Transmission of Knowledge in 1 Enoch 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 Jubilees ,” John W. Marshall, “Who's on the Throne? Revelation in the Long Year,” Kristi B. Copeland, “The Earthly Monastery 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 S. Boustan, “Angels in the Architecture: Temple Art and the Poetics of Praise in the Songs 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 Rabbah di-Bereshit ,” Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, “The Faces of the Moon: Cosmology, Genesis, and the Mithras Liturgy ,” and Susanna Elm, “ “O Paradoxical Fusion!”: Gregory of Nazianzus on Baptism and Cosmology ( Orations 38-40).”

Boys, Mary C., ed. Seeing Judaism Anew: Christianity's Sacred Obligation . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005. xxiv, 283 pp.

Contents: Eva Fleischer, “The Shoah and Jewish-Christian Relations,” Mary C. Boys, “The Enduring Covenant,” Joseph B. Tyson, “Jesus – A Faithful Jew,” Joseph B. Tyson, “The Death of Jesus,” Celia Deutsch, “Ancient Rivalries and New Testament Interpretation: An Example from the Acts of the Apostles,” Jean-Pierre Ruiz, “Ancient Jewish-Christian Rivalries in the Shadow of Empire: The Tensions of the Past as Lessons for the Present,” Mary C. Boys, “Christian Feminism and Anti-Judaism,” Deidre Good, “Jewish Feminist Scholars: Vibrant Voices in New Testament Study,” Peter A. Pettit and John Townsend, “‘In Every Generation': Judaism as a Living Faith,” Walter Harrelson, “Contemporary Christians and Israel's Ancient Scriptures,” Peter C. Phan, “Jesus as the Universal Savior in the Light of God's Eternal Covenant with the Jewish People: A Roman Catholic Perspective,” Clark M. Williamson, “The Universal Significance of Christ,” Joann Spillman, “Targeting Jews for Conversion Contradicts Christian Faith and Contravenes Christian Hope,” John. C. Merkle, “The God of Israel and Christian Worship,” Rosann M. Catalano, “A Matter of Perspective: An Alternative Reading of Mark 15:38,” Norman Beck, “Translations of the New Testament for Our Time,” Michael B. McGarry, “The Land of Israel in the Cauldron of the Middle East: A Challenge to Christian-Jewish Relations,” John T. Pawlikowski, “The Challenge of Tikkun Olam for Jews and Christians,” Franklin Sherman, “The Road to Reconciliation: Protestant Church Statements on Christian-Jewish Relations,” Eugene J. Fisher, “Catholic Teaching on Jews and Judaism: An Evolution in Process,” and Alice L. Eckhardt, “Revising Christian Teaching: The Work of the Christian Scholars Group on Christian-Jewish Relations.”

Broyde, Michael J. and Michael Ausubel, eds. Marriage, Sex, and Family in Judaism . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005. 340 pp.

Contents: Michael S. Berger, “Marriage, Sex, and Family in the Jewish Tradition: A Historical Overview,” David R. Blumenthal, “The Images of Women in the Hebrew Bible,” David Novak, “Jewish Marriage: Nature, Covenant, and Contract,” Michael J. Broyde, “Jewish Law and the Abandonment of Marriage: Diverse Models of Sexuality and Reproduction in the Jewish View, and the Return to Monogamy in the Modern Era,” Michael S. Berger, “Two Models of Medieval Jewish Marriage: A Preliminary Study,” Michael S. Berger, “Maimonides on Sex and Marriage,” Jonathan Reiss and Michael J. Broyde, “Prenuptial Agreements in Talmudic, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Thought,” Elliot N. Dorff, “The Jewish Family in America: Contemporary Challenges and Traditional Resources,” Jack Wertheimer, “What Is a Jewish Family? Changing Rabbinic Views,” Angela J. Riccetti, “A Break in the Path: Lesbian Relationships and Jewish Law,” and Michael J. Broyde, “Modern Reproductive Technologies and Jewish Law.”

Cernea, Ruth Fredman, ed. The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxxiii, 216 pp.

Contents: Bernard A. Weisberger, “Freedom, Latkes, and American Letters: An Original Contribution to Knowledge,” Allan Bloom, “Restoring the Jewish Canon,” Ted Cohen, “Consolations of the Latke,” Lawrence Sherman, “The Hamantash in Shakespeare,” Stuart Tave, “Jane Austen's Love and Latkes ,” Hanna Holborn Gray, “The Latke's Role in the Renaissance,” Leon Carnovsky, “The Approach through Bibliography,” Peter F. Dembowski, “ L'éternal retour : The Dichotomy of Latke-Hamantash in Old and New French,” Alan Gewirth, “The Apotheosis of the Latke: A Philosophical Analysis,” Herbert C. Kelman, “The Latke vs. the Hamantash in an Age of (M)oral Crisis,” William Meadow, “Influences of Latkes, Hamantashen, and Jewish Cooking in General on the Roots of Rock ‘n' Roll,” Paul Root Wolpe, “The Fundamental Jewish Cuisine,” Elihu Katz and Jacob J. Feldman, “The Voyage on the Bagel: In Honor of the Darwin Centennial,” Milton Friedman, “The Latke and the Hamantash at the Fifty-Yard Line,” Shalom Schwartz, “Hamantash, Bagel, or Latke: Who Has the Power?,” Jacob Getzels, “The Latke, the Hamantash, the Common Market, and Creativity,” Edward Stankiewicz, “Ode to the Latke,” Barbara Maria Stafford, “The Ineffable Allure of Hamantashen,” Simon Hellerstein, “Bull's Homage to a Latke: An Acrostic,” Françoise Meltzer, “Madeleine, Oh, Madeleine; or, Meditation on Short, Plump Pastries,” Emilie S. Passow, “The Hermeneutics of the Hamantash,” Michael Silverstein, “Heartburn as a Cultural System,” Judith Shapiro, “Latke vs. Hamantash: A Feminist Critique,” Robin Leidner, “Latke vs. Hamantash: A Materialist-Feminist Analysis; A Reply to Judith Shapiro,” Marvin Mirsky, “Latkes and Hamantashem as Dominant Symbols in Jewish Critical Thought,” Eugene Goodheart, “The Hamantash vs. the Latke: An Archetypal Study,” Robert Kirschner, “From Cain to Quincy: Jewish Food as Weapons of Violence,” Jerrold M. Sadock, “A New Page in the History of Atomic Physics,” Edward W. Kolb, “The Scientific Method and the Latke-Hamantash Issue,” Leon M. Lederman, “Paired Matter, Edible and Inedible,” Geoffrey R. Stone, “The Rights and Wrongs of Latkes,” John. D. Lantos, “The Bioethical Implications of the Latke-Hamantash Debate; or, Small Fry, Deep Fry, in Your Eye, Northrop Frye,” Martha C. Nussbaum, “Euripides' The Cooks of Troy : Hecuba's Lament,” Judith Zeitlin, “The Secret History of the Hamantash in China,” Harold T. Shapiro, “The Hamantash and the Foundation of Civilization; or, The Edible Triangle, the Oedipal Triangle, and the Interpretation of History,” and Wendy Doniger, “The Archetypal Hamantash: A Feminist Mythology; An Exercise in the History of Religious Methodology.”

Cluse, Christoph, ed. The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries):Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Speyer, 20 – 25 October 2002 . Turnhout, Belgium: Berpols Publishers, 2004. xvii, 512 pp.

Contents: Alfred Haverkamp, “The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages: By Way of Introduction,” Anna Sapir Abulafia, “Christians and Jews in the High Middle Ages: Christian Views of Jews,” Peter Schafer, “Jews and Christians in the High Middle Ages: The Book of the Pious ,” David Abulafia, “The King and the Jews – the Jews in the Ruler's Service,” Alferd Haverkamp, “Jews and Urban Life: Bonds and Relationships,” Yacov Guggenheim, “Jewish Community and Territorial Organization in Medieval Europe,” Sarah Stroumsa, “Maimonides and Mediterranean Culture,” Shlomo Simonsohn, “Sicily: a Millennium of Convivenza (or almost),” Menahem Ben-Sasson, “Al-Andalus: The So-Called ‘Golden Age' of Spanish Jewry – a Critical View,” Asunción Blasco Martínez, “Aragon: Christians, Jews and Muslims between Coexistence and Conflict,” Miguel Ángel Ladero Quesada, “Castile: an Overview (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries),” Juan Carrasco, “Navarre: The Other ‘People of the Book' ( c. 1000-1498),” Danièle Iancu-Agou, “Provence: Jewish Settlement, Mobility, and Culture,” Michelle Luzzati, “Northern and Central Italy: Assessment of Research and Further Prospects,” Gérard Nahon, “Zarfat: Medieval Jewry in Northern France,” Robin R. Mundill, “England: The Island's Jews and their Economic Pursuits,” Rainer Barzen, “Jewish Regional Organization in the Rhineland: The Kehillot Shum around 1300,” Jörg R. Müller, “ Erez gezerah – ‘Land of Persecution': Pograms against the Jews in the regnum Teutonicum from c. 1280 to 1350,” Nora Berend, “Hungary: The Jews Between Integration and Exclusion,” Avraham (Rami) Reiner, “From Rabbenu Tam to R. Isaac of Vienna: The Hegemony of the French Talmudic School of the Twelfth Century,” Simcha Emanuel, “Unpublished Responsa of R. Meir of Rothenburg as a Source for Jewish History,” Haym Soloveitchik, “ Halakhah , Taboo and the Origin of Jewish Moneylending in Germany,” Annegret Holtmann, “Jewish Moneylending as Reflected in Medieval Account Books: The Example of Vesoul,” Martha Keil, “Public Roles of Jewish Women in Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century Ashkenaz: Business, Community and Ritual,” Kay Peter Jankrift, “Jews in Medieval European Medicine,” Vivian B. Mann, “Towards an Iconography of Medieval Diaspora Synagogues,” Erika Timm, “The Early History of the Yiddish Language,” Matthiüas Schmandt, “Cologne, Jewish Centre on the Lower Rhine,” Karlheinz Müller, “Würzburg: The World's Largest Find From a Medieval Jewish Cemetary,” Silvia Codreanu-Windauer, “Regensburg: The Archaeology of the Medieval Jewish Quarter,” Pam Manix, “Oxford: Mapping the Medieval Jewry,” Monika Porsche, “Speyer: The Medieval Synagogue,” Werner Transier, “Speyer: The Jewish Community in the Middle Ages,” Gerold Bönnen, “Worms: The Jews between the City, the Bishops, and the Crown,” and Christoph Cluse, “Concluding Remarks.”

Delany, Shelia, ed. “Turn It Again:” Jewish Medieval Studies and Literary Theory . Asheville, NC: Pegasus Press, 2004. 234 pp.

Contents: Sheila Delany, “Introduction,” William Chester Jordan, “Jewish Studies and the Medieval Historian,” Daniel Boyarin, “A Tale of Two Synods: Nicea, Yavneh, and Rabbinic Ecclesiology,” Michael Chernick, “‘Turn it and turn it again': Culture and Talmud Interpretation,” Susan Einbinder, “Jewish Women Martyrs: Changing Models of Representation,” Elliot R. Wolfson, “Ontology, Alterity, and Ethics in Kabbalistic Anthropology,” Tova Rosen, “Sexual Politics in a Medieval Hebrew Marriage Debate,” Bruce Rosenstock, “Alonso de Cartagena: Nation, Miscegenation, and the Jew in Late-Medieval Castile,” Sonia Fellous, “Cultural Hybridity, Cultural Subversion: Text and Image in the Alba Bible, 1422 – 33,” and Chanita Goodblatt, “Women, Demons and the Rabbi's Son: Narratology and ‘A Story from Worms'.”

Greenbaum, Andrea, ed. Jews of South Florida . Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 2005. xxii, 236 pp.

Contents: Ira Sheskin, “Ten Percent of American Jews,” Marcia Kerstein Zerivitz, “Alligators and Matzo Balls: A Historical Overview of the Florida Jewish Community,” Stephen J. Whitfield, “Blood and Sand: The Jewish Community of South Florida,” Henry Abramson, “Anti-Semitism in Florida Culture,” Stephen Benz, “Cuban Jews in South Florida: Exile Redux,” Annette B. Fromm, “Sephardic Jews in South Florida,” Marcia Kerstein Zerivitz, “From Swamp to ‘Shayne Platz': Jewish Life in Broward County (Historical Photos from the Jewish Museum of Florida),” Linda Brockman, “Jews of Boca Raton,” Joel Saxe, “ Yiddishkeit in South Beach: ‘I Want to Be With You to Sing My Songs',” Gary Monroe, “Life on South Beach: A Photographic Portfolio,” Jack B. Moore, “Jewish Gangsters Starring Meyer Lansky,” Henry A. Green, “Leon Kronish: Miami Beach's Twentieth-Century Prophet,” Zev Ben Beitchman, “Synagogues in the Sand,” Susan Neimand, “Jewish Education in South Florida,” Joanie Glickstein, “A History of the National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Miami Section,” Andrea Greenbaum, “ Yizkor : Survivor Narratives at the Miami Holocaust Memorial,” and David Weintraub, “Behind the Cultural Façade: Yiddish Cultural Revival in Miami.”

Harris, Jay M., ed. Be'erot Yitzhak: Studies in Memory of Isadore Twersky . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. x, 453 pp.

Contents: Joseph R. Hacker, “Isador Twersky, Historian of Jewish Culture,” Bernard Septimus, “Isadore Twersky as a Scholar of Medieval Jewish History,” Edward Breuer, “Maimonides and the Authority of Aggadah,” Bernard Dov Cooperman, “Political Discourse in a Kabbalistic Register: Isaac de Lattes' Plea for Stronger Communal Government,” Daniel Frank, “A Karaite Shehitah Controversy in the Seventeenth Century,” Steven Harvey, “Alghazali and Maimonides and their Books of Knowledge,” Eric Lawee, “‘The Good that we Accept and the Bad we do not': Aspects of Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Towards Maimonides,” Diana Lobel, “‘Taste and See that the Lord is Good': Halevi's God Re-visited,” Ira Robinson, “Cyrus Adler and The American : A Moment in the Intellectual History of American Jewry,” James T. Robinson, “The Ibn Tibbon Family: A Dynasty of Translators in Medieval ‘Provence',” Marc Saperstein, “The Diaspora and the Holy Land: Two Manuscript Sermons by Saul Levi Morteria of Amsterdam,” Jacob J. Schacter, “Rabbi Jacob Emden, Philosophy, and Maimonides,” Meir Sendor, “The Rule for the Admissibility of Kabbalah in Halakhah,” Marc B. Shapiro, “Aspects of Rabbi Moses Sofer's Intellectual Profile,” David Sklare, “Are the Gentiles Obligated to Observe the Torah? The Discussion Concerning the Universality of the Torah in the East in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries,” Gregg Stern, “What Divided the Moderate Maimonidean Scholars of Southern France in 1305?,” Adena Tanenbaum, “The Andalusian Selihah and Its Individualistic Conception of Penitence,” Mark Verman, “Reincarnation and Theodicy: Traversing Philosophy, Psychology, and Mysticism,” and Jeffrey R. Woolf, “Admiration and Apathy: Maimonides' Mishneh Torah in High and Late Medieval Ashkenaz.”

Kaplan, Dana Evan, ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxvi, 462 pp.

Contents: Dana Evan Kaplan, “Introduction,” Eli Faber, “Preservation to Innovation: Judaism in America, 1654 – 1880,” Lloyd P. Gartner, “American Judaism, 1880 – 1945,” Dana Evan Kaplan, “Trends in American Judaism from 1945 to the present,” Lawrence Grossman, “Jewish religious denominations,” Chaim I. Waxman, “Patterns of American Jewish religious behavior,” Byron L. Sherwin, “Thinking Judaism through: Jewish theology in America,” Charles S. Liebman, “The essence of American Judaism,” Isa Aron, Michael Zeldin, and Sara S. Lee, “Contemporary Jewish education,” Debra Renee Kaufman, “The place of Judaism in American Jewish identity,” Lynn Rapaport, “The Holocaust in American Jewish life,” Steven T. Rosenthal, “Long-distance nationalism: American Jews, Zionism and Israel,” Rela Mintz Geffen, “Life-cycle rituals: Rites of passage in American Judaism,” Sylvia Barack Fishman, “Choosing lives: Evolving gender roles in American Jewish families,” David Biale, “The body and sexuality in American Jewish culture,” Nathan Glazer, “The American Jewish urban experience,” Jonathan Woocher, “‘Sacred survival' revisited: American Jewish civil religion in the new millennium,” Alan Mittleman, “Judaism and democracy in America,” Carmel U. Chiswisk, “The economics of American Judaism,” Yaakov Ariel, “American Judaism and interfaith dialogue,” Murray Baumgarten, “American midrash: Urban Jewish writing and the reclaiming of Judaism,” Mark Kligman, “Recent trends in new American Jewish music,” Matthew Baigell, “The visual arts in the American Jewish experience,” Bruce Phillips, “American Judaism in the twenty-first century,” and Jonathan D. Sarna, “Afterward: The Study of American Judaism: A Look Ahead.”

Katz, Steven T., ed. The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Theology . New York: New York University Press, 2005. 310 pp.

Contents: Eliezer Schweid, “Is There a Religious Meaning to the Idea of a Chosen People after the Shoah?,” Steven T. Katz, “The Issue of Confirmation and Disconfirmation in Jewish Thought after the Shoah,” Joseph A. Turner, “Philosophical and Midrashic Thinking on the Fateful Events of Jewish History,” Shalom Rosenberg, “The Holocaust: Lessons, Explanation, Meaning,” Gershon Greenberg, “Between Holocaust and Redemption: Silence, Cognition, and Eclipse,” Gershon Greenberg, “Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Thought about the Holocaust since World War II: The Radicalized Aspect,” Michael Rosenak, “Theological Reflections on the Holocaust: Between Unity and Controversy,” Ester Farbstein, “Building amidst Devastation: Halakic Historical Observations on Marriage during the Holocaust,” Warren Zev Harvey, “Two Jewish Approaches to Evil in History,” Rabbi Shmuel Jakobovits, “A Call to Humility and Jewish Unity in the Aftermath of the Holocaust,” Shalom Ratzabi, “Is There a Religious Meaning to the Rebirth of the State of Israel after the Shoah?,” Yehoyada Amir, “The Concept of Exile as a Model for Dealing with the Holocaust,” David Novak, “Is There a Theological Connection between the Holocaust and the Reestablishment of the State of Israel?,” Dan Michman, “The Holocaust and the State of Israel: A Historical View of Their Impact on and Meaning for the Understanding of the Behavior of Jewish Religious Movements,” Yosef Achituv, “Theology and the Holocaust: The Presence of God and Diving Providence in History from the Perspective of the Holocaust,” and Tova Ilan, “Educational Implications of Holocaust and Rebirth.”

Kertzer, David I., ed. Old Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the West . Teaneck, NJ: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 2005. x, 219 pp.

Contents: Leon Wieseltier, “Old Demons, New Debates,” Omer Bartov, “The New Anti-Semitism: Genealogy and Implications,” Mark Lilla, “The End of Politics,” Hillel Halkin, “Zionism and Anti-Semitism,” Fiamma Nirenstein, “Israel, Globalization, and Anti-Semitism in Europe,” Anthony Julius, “Anti-Semitism and the English Intelligentsia,” Robert S. Wistrish, “Playground for Jihad? The Case of Great Britain,” Pierre Birnbaum, “The Retreat of the Strong State and the New Anti-Semitic Mobilization in France,” Konstanty Gebert, “Esau Can Change, but Will We Notice?,” Jaroslaw Anders, “Telling the Past Anew: Recent Polish Debates on Anti-Semitism,” Enrique Krauze, “Anti-Semitism in the Spanish-Speaking World,” David I. Kertzer, “Anti-Semitism and the Vatican Today,” Deborah Lipstadt, “Holocaust Denial,” Nathan Glazer, “Anti-Semitism in the United States,” and Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, “The Globalization of Anti-Semitism.”

McGinn, Bernard J., John J. Collins and Stephen J. Stern, eds. The Continuum History of Apocalypticism . New York: Continuum, 2003. 680 pp.

Contents: Richard J. Clifforf, S.J., “The Roots of Apocalypticism in Near Eastern Myth,” Anders Hultgård, “Persian Apocalypticism,” John J. Collins, “From Prophecy to Apocalypticism: The Experience 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 the 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 Potestà, “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 Smolinksi, “Apocalypticism in Colonial North America,” James H. Moorhead, “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,” and J. Eugene Clay, “Apocalypticism in Eastern Europe.”

Mercer-Taylor, Peter, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Mendelssohn . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xv, 315 pp.

Contents: Peter Mercer-Taylor, “Introduction: Mendelssohn as border-dweller,” Peter Mercer-Taylor, “Mendelssohn and the institution(s) of German art music,” Michael P. Steinberg, “Mendelssohn and Judaism,” Marian Wilson Kimber, “Felix and Fanny: fender, biography and history,” James Garratt, “Mendelssohn and the rise of musical historicism,” Greg Vitercik, “Mendelssohn as progressive,” Douglass Seaton, “Symphony and overture,” Steve Linderman, “The works for solo instrument(s) and orchestra,” Thomas Schmidt-Beste, “Mendelssohn's chamber music,” Glenn Stanley, “The music for keyboard,” R. Larry Todd, “On Mendelssohn's sacred music, real and imaginary,” Susan Youens, “Mendelssohn's songs,” Monika Hennemann, “Felix Mendelssohn's dramatic compositions: from Liederspiel to Lorelei ,” John Michael Cooper, “Mendelssohn received,” and Leon Botstein, “Wagner as Mendelssohn: revising habits and reclaiming meaning in the performance of Mendelssohn's music for orchestra and chorus.”

Mintz, Adam and Lawrence Schiffman, eds. Jewish Spirituality and Divine Law . The Orthodox Forum. Robert S. Hirt, series ed. New York: Yeshiva University Press, 2005. xxi, 534 pp.

Contents: Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, “Law and Spirituality: Defining the Terms,” Lawrence H. Schiffman, “Jewish Spirituality in the Bible and Second Temple Literature,” Yaakov Elman, “Torah ve-Avodah: Prayer and Torah Study As Competing Values in the Time of Hazal,” Alan Brill, “Dwelling with Kabbalah: Meditation, Ritual and Study,” Daniel J. Lasker, “Models of Spirituality in Medieval Jewish Philosophy,” Steven Fine, “Spirituality and the Art of the Ancient Synagogue,” Vivian B. Mann, “Spirituality and Jewish Ceremonial Art,” Moshe Sokolow, “Teaching Spirituality in Day Schools and Yeshiva High Schools,” Erica S. Brown, “Orthodoxy and the Search for Spirituality in Jewish Adult Education,” Arthur Hyman, “Maimonides on Prayer,” Judith Bleich, “Liturgical Innovation and Spirituality: Trends and Trendiness,” Naftali Loewenthal, “Spiritual Experience for Hasidic Youths and Girls in Pre-Holocaust Europe – A Confluence of Tradition and Modernity,” Shalom Carmy, “Without Intelligence, Whence Prayer?,” and Chaim I. Waxman, “Religion, Spirituality, and the Future of American Judaism.”

Neusner, Jacob, Alan J. Avery Peck, Antti Laato, Risto Nurmela and Karl-Gustav Sadlein, eds. Ancient Israel, Judaism, and Christianity in Contemporary Perspective: Essays in Memory of Karl-Johan Illman . Studies in Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2006. xi, 448 pp.

Contents: Siv Illman, “Karl-Johan Illman (“Kalle”), June 27, 1936 – December 20, 2002: A Memoir,” Karl-Gustav Sandelin, “Eulogy,” Siv Illman, “Karl-Johan Illman: Publications,” Bertil Albrektson, “Masoretic or Mixed: On Choosing a Textual Basis for a Translation of the Hebrew Bible,” Per Bilde, “How Did the Fall of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. Influence the Development of Christianity?,” Peder Borgen, “Some Crime-and-Punishment Reports,” Bruce D. Chilton, “Recovering Jesus' Mamzerut,” Reijo E. Heinonen, “Interconnectedness and Complementarity: Preconditions for an Inter-Cultural and Inter-Religious Dialogue,” Ruth Illman, “Seeing the Other: Understanding and Dialogue in Inter-Cultural and Inter-Religious Encounters,” Erkki Koskenniemi, “Philo and Classical Drama,” Arkady Kovelman, “Typology and Pesher in the Letter of Aristeas,” Anni Maria Laato, “A Shadow of Things to Come: Isidore of Seville on Jewish Feast Days,” Antti Laato, “Paul's Theology of ‘Righteousness Through Faith' in the Context of Tanak and Jewish Interpretive Traditions,” Pekka Lindqvist, “Sin at Sinai: Three First Century Versions,” Svante Lundgren, “The Three Phases of Jewish-Christian Relations,” Jacob Neusner, “The Parable ( Mashal ): A Documentary Approach,” Stig Norin, “Who Owns the Stage? Control and Affiliation in Dialogues between Women and Men in the Hebrew Bible,” Risto Nurmela, “A Holocaust Survivor and the Bible: Viktor E. Frankl Reads the Psalter and Job,” Heikki Räisänen, “True Man or True God? Christological Conceptions in Early Christianity,” Dagfinn Rian, “Religious education and the Presentation of Judaism in Public Schools in Norway,” Karl-Gustav Sandelin, “Jews and Alien Religious Practices During the Hellenistic Age,” Oskar Skarsaune, “Jewish-Christian Gospels: Which and How Many?,” Roger Syrén, “The Metaphoric Use of ‘Light' and ‘Darkness' in Some Biblical and Post-Biblical Traditions,” Hanne Trautner-Kromann, “Bible Interpretations: Use or Abuse? Debated Bible Passages and Jewish-Christian Relations,” and Timo Veijola, “Law and Wisdom: The Deuteronomistic Heritage in Ben Sira's Teaching of the Law.”

Nolden, Thomas and Frances Malino, eds. Voices of the Diaspora: Jewish Women Writing in Contemporary Europe . Evanston, Il.: Northwestern University Press, 2005. xxxvi, 146 pp.

Contents: Marlène Amar, “On the Edge of the World,” Reina Roffé, “Exotic Birds,” Ruth Beckermann, “Beyond the Bridges,” Myriam Anissimov, “A Yiddish Writer Who Writes in French,” Clara Sereni, “Jews,” Ludmila E. Ulitskaya, “March 1953,” Carl Friedman, “Holy Fire,” Barbara Honigmann, “On My Great-Grandfather, My Grandfather, My Father, and Me,” and Michelene Wandor, “Song of the Jewish Princess.”

Royal, Derek Parker, ed. Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author . Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2005. ix, 303 pp.

Contents: Derek Parker Royal, “Introduction; or, ‘Now vee may perhaps to begin. Yes?',” Jessica G. Rabin, “Still (Resonant, Relevant and) Crazy After All These Years: Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories ,” Julie Husband, “Female Hysteria and Sisterhood in Letting Go and When She Was Good ,” David Brauner, “‘Getting in Your Retaliation First': Narrative Strategies in Portnoy's Complaint ,” Anne Margaret Daniel, “Philip Roth, MVP: Our Gang, The Breast and The Great American Novel ,” Margaret Smith, “ My Life as a Man : ‘The Suprises Manhood Brings',” Aimee Pozorski, “How to Tell a True Ghost Story: The Ghost Writer and the Case of Anne Frank,” Alexis Kate Wilson, “The Ghosts of Zuckerman's Past: The Zuckerman Bound Series,” Bonnie Lyons, “En-Countering Pastorals in The Counterlife ,” Richard Tuerk, “Caught between The Facts and Deception ,” Benjamin Hedin, “The Measure of All Things: Patrimony ,” Elaine B. Shafer, “ Operation Shylock : Double Double Jewish Trouble,” Ranen Omer-Sherman, “‘A Little Stranger in the House': Madness and Identity in Sabbath's Theater ,” Derek Parker Royal, “Pastoral Dreams and National Identity in American Pastoral and I Married a Communist ,” Tim Parrish, “Becoming Black: Zuckerman's Bifurcating Self in The Human Stain ,” Kevin R. West, “Professing Desire: The Kepesh Novels,” Alan Cooper, “It Can Happen Here, or All in the Family Values: Surviving The Plot Against America ,” and Darren Hughes, “The ‘Written World' of Philip Roth's Nonfiction.”

Scham, Paul, Walid Salem and Bejamin Portugal, eds. Shared Histories: A Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue . Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2005. x, 297 pp.

Contents: Ruth Kark, “Napoleon to Allenby: Processes of change in Palestine, 1800-1918,” Adel Manna, “Continuity and change in Palestine: The late-Ottoman period, 1856-1918,” Ran Aaronsohn, “The beginnings of Jewish settlement and Zionism, to World War I,” Issam Nassar, “The pre-history of Palestinian nationalism,” Manuel Hassassian, “The Palestinian national movement, 1919-1939,” Norman Rose, “Zionist diplomacy, 1914-1939,” Dalia Ofer, “The Holocaust, the establishment of Israel, and the shaping of Israeli society,” Ata Qaymari, “The Holocaust in the Palestinian perspective,” Moshe Ma'oz, “The UN resolution of 1948: Why wasn't it implemented?,” Walid Salem, “The paradox of the UN partition plan,” Avraham Sela, “Israeli historiography of the 1948 War,” Adel Yahya, “The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem in 1947-48,” Moshe Amirav, “Holiness and conflict in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” and Salim Tamari, “Jerusalem refugees and property claims since the 1948 War.

Schiff, Ellen and Michael Posnick, eds. Nine Contemporary Jewish Plays . Austin: University of Texas, 2005. xviii, 567 pp.

Contents: Donald Margulies, “God of Vengeance,” Nora Glickman, “A Certain Raquel,” Elsie Thoron, “Green Violin,” Ari Roth, “Life in Refusal,” Corey Fischer, “See Under: Love,” Jeffrey Sweet, “The Action Against Sol Schumann,” Motti Lerner, “Exile in Jerusalem,” Marilyn Clayton Felt, “Asher's Command,” and Jennifer Maisel, “The Last Seder.”

Simich, Jerry L. and Thomas C. Wright, eds. The People of Las Vegas: One City, Many Faces . Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005. xvii, 305 pp.

Contents: Eugene P. Moehring, “Immigration, Ethnicity, and the Rise of Las Vegas,” Dina Titus and Thomas C. Wright, “The Ethnic Diversification of Las Vegas,” Martha C. Knack, “Southern Paiutes, the Native Americans,” M.L. (Tony) Miranda, “The Mexicans,” Earnest N. Bracey, “The African Americans,” Sue Fawn Chung, “The Chinese,” E.D. Karampetsos and Stavros Anthony, “The Greeks,” Alan Balboni, “The Italians,” Michael Green, “The Jews,” Jerry L. Simich, “The Croats,” Ted G. Jelen, “The Poles,” Art D. Clarito, Heather Lawler, and Gary B. Palmer, “The Filipinos,” Thomas C. Wright and Jesse Dino Moody, “The Salvadorans,” Satish Sharma, “Peoples from the Indian Subcontinents,” and Bernardo T. Arriaza, “The Chileans.”

Spector, Sheila A., ed. The Jews and British Romanticism: Politics, Religion, Culture . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xiv, 334 pp.

Contents: Sheila A. Spector, “Introduction: The Politics of Religion,” Frank Felsenstein, “Mr. Punch at the Great Exhibition: Stereotypes of Yankee and Hebrew in 1851,” Michael Ragussis, “Passing for a Jew, On Stage and Off: Stage Jews and Cross-Dressing Gentiles in Georgian England,” Marsha Keith Schuchard, “William Blake and the Jewish Swedenborgians,” R. Paul Yoder, “Blake and the Book of Numbers: Joshua the Giant Killer and the Tears of Balaam,” Michael Scrivener, “Following the Muse: Inspirations, Prophecy, and Deference in the Poetry of Emma Lyon (1788 – 1870), Anglo-Jewish Poet,” Stuart Peterfreund, “Identity, Diaspora, and the Secular Voice in the Works of Isaac D'Israeli,” Judith W. Page, “Anglo-Jewish Identity and the Politics of Cultivation in Hazlitt, Aguilar, and Disraeli,” Diane Long Hoeveler, “Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya: The Gothic Demonization of the Jew,” Reeva Spector-Simon, “Commerce, Concern, and Christianity: Britain and Middle-Eastern Jewry in the Mid-Nineteenth Century,” Sheila A. Spector, “Jewish Translations of British Romantic Literature (1753 – 1858): A Preliminary Bibliography,” Lilach Lachman, “The Reader as Witness: ‘City of the Killings' and Bialik's Romantic Historiography,” Stanley J. Spector, “Coleridge's Misreading of Spinoza,” Frederick Burwick, “Mendelssohn and Coleridge on Words, Thoughts and Things,” and Lloyd Guy Davies, “Standing at Mont Blanc: Coleridge and Midrash .”

Stern, David, ed. The Anthology in Jewish Literature . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 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 Midrash,” Joseph 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,” and David G. Roskies, “The Holocaust According to Its Anthologies.”

Stern, Marc D. ed. Formulating Responses in an Egalitarian Age . The Orthodox Forum Series. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005. 228 pp.

Contents: Marc D. Stern, “Egalitarianism and Halakha : An Introduction,” Aharon Lichtenstein, “Formulating Responses in an Egalitarian Age: An Overview,” Suzanne Last Stone, “Formulating Responses in an Egalitarian Age: An Overview,” David Berger, “Jews, Gentiles, and the Modern Egalitarian Ethos: Some Tentative Thoughts,” Michael J. Broyde, “Jewish Law and American Public Policy: A Principled Jewish View and Some Practical Jewish Observations,” Jay R. Berkovitz, “Changing Conceptions of Gentiles at the Threshold of Modernity: The Napoleonic Sanhedrin,” Edward Breuer, “Jews and Judaism in an Egalitarian Society: Traditionalist Responses in Historical Perspective,” Jack Bieler, “Modern Orthodox Jewish Day Schools and Non-Jews,” and Gidon Rothstein, “Re-Committing to Our Mission: How Hard an Endeavor?”

Talshir, Zipora and Dalia Amara, eds. On the Border Line: Textual Meets Literary Criticism . Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Alexander Rofé on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday . Beer-Sheva Studies by the Department of Bible and Ancient Near East. Shmuel Ahituv, series ed. Vol. XVII. Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2005. xx, 269 pp. (Hebrew)

Contents: Erhard Blum, “The Connection between the Books of Genesis and Exodus and the End of the Book of Joshua,” Alexander Rofé, “The Biblical Text in Light of Historico-Literary Criticism: The Reproach of the Prophet-Man in Judg 6:7-10 and 4QJudg,” Tova Forti, “Developing Proverbs: Ideational Stratification in the Editions of the Book of Proverbs,” Dalia Amara, “Theological Corrections in the Various Versions of the Book of Daniel,” Zipora Talshir, “Synchronic Approaches with the Diachronic Consequences in the Study of Parallel Redactions: New Approaches to I Esdras,” Jan Joosten, “Considering the Septuagint's Theological System,” Ronnie Goldstein, “From Gods to Idols – Changes in Attitude Towards Other Gods in Biblical Literature and the Revision of Isaiah 2:18-21,” Jonathan Ben-Dov, “Treasures of Light,” Ruth Fidler, “‘Midrashic Dramatization' or a Drama Subdued? The Feminine Voice in the Dispute on the Queen of Heaven (Jer 44),” Leor Gottlieb, “Repetition Due to Homoioteleuton,” Menahem Kister, “The Two Recensions of the Damascus Document,” and Yitzhak Dana, “Plutarch's Parallel Lives : From the Manuscript to the Printed Book.”

Vargon, Shmuel, Yosef Ofer, Jordan S. Penkower and Jacon Klein, eds. Studies in Bible and Exegesis . Vol. VII. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2005. 510 pp.

Contents: Yossi Peretz, “Bibliography of the Writings of Menachem Cohen,” Mordechai Breuer, “The Orthographic Tradition and the Reading Tradition,” Aron Dotan, “Babylonian Residues in the London Pentateuch Codex,” Lea Himelfarb, “The Masoretic Notes in Rashi's Commentary on the Bible and their Relation to His Commentary,” Sara Japhet, “Variant Readings in the Biblical Text in Light of Rashbam's Commentary on the Book of Job,” Dovid Y. Lyons, “A Comparison of the Ketiv and Qere Phenomena in the Authorized Bible Text and in the ‘Okhlah V' Okhlah Masora Compendium,” Yosef Ofer, “The Masora Quires Appended to the Aleppo Codex – According to a Copy Found in S. Baer's Archives,” Rafael B. Posen, “The Exegetic Meaning of Masoretic Notes to Targum Onkelos,” Yossi Peretz, “Unpunctuated Biblical Passages in Masoretic Codices of the Middle Ages,” Simcha Kogut, “Biblical Expressions for Ordering and Assigning Tasks: Studies in Syntactical Structures and Masoretic Accentuation,” Mayer Gruber, “Nuances of the Verb ??? – to Fructify,” Edward L. Greenstein, “The Extent of Job's First Speech,” Amos Frisch, “Allusions to the Prohibitions of the Deuteronomic ‘Law of the King' in the Former and Later Prophets,” Alexander Rofé, “The History of the Religion of Israel and the Biblical Text: Corrections Due to the Unification of Worship,” Yael Shemesh, “Rape Stories and Gender Construction: The Attitude toward Dinah, the Concubine of Gibeah, and Tamar in the Bible, Midrash, and Traditional Commentaries,” Amnon Shapira, “The Biblical Inclination to Limit and Mitigate War,” Shmuel Vargon and Moshe Zipor, “Samuel David Luzzato's Stance toward the Samaritan Version of the Torah,” Yeshayahu Maori, “The Yerusalmi which is Quoted in Rashi's (Ramban) Commentaries,” Aharon Mondschein, “Did R. Abraham Ibn Ezra Compose a Commentary on the Book of Chronicles?,” Jordan S. Penkower, “Rashi's Commentary on Ezekiel: On the Occasion of its New Edition in Mikra'ot Gedolot Haketer ,” Jonah Fraenkel, “ Piyyut and Interpretation: Toward an Understanding of the Aggadic Sources in Rashi's Commentary to the Torah,” and Moshe A. Zipor, “A Quaint Translation Technique in the Peshitta .”

Yehiya, Eliezer Don, ed. Between Tradition and Innovation: Studies in Judaism, Zionism and the State of Israel . Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2005. 610 pp.

Contents: Dan Michman, “Scholar, Teacher, Pathbreaker: On Yehoshua Kaniel's Activities as an Academic,” Margalit Shilo, “Women's Immigration as a Quasi-monastic Experience: Widows in the ‘Old Yishuv' of Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century,” Yosef Salmon, “Normalization and Messianism in Secular Jewish Thought,” Dov Schwartz, “Land Concreteness and Dialogue: Buber as a Commentator on the Kuzari,” Yaakov Zur, “The ‘Protestrabbiner': A Reevaluation,” Shmuel Sandler, “Land and State in Zionist Foreign Policy,” Moshe Hellinger, “Tradition and Modernity in the Thought of Torah Ve-Avodah : M. Unna's Universalism Versus S.Z. Shragai's Particularism,” Yossi Katz, “ Hapoel Hamizrachi and the Religious Urban Settlement: Vision and Reality in the ‘Yishuv' Period and since the Establishment of State,” Brurya Michman, “The 1932 Curriculum for the Primary Schools of the Mizrachi : Its Historical Context and Educational Characteristics,” Mordechai Bar-Lev, “Political Changes in the Youth Movement Brit Hachashmonaim (Alliance of the Hasmoneans),” Dvora Hacohen, “The Historical Alliance between Ideology and Politics,” Shulamit Eliash, “The Rabbi and the Statesman, The Rabbi as Statesman: Rabbi Herzog and Eamon de Valera,” Hava Eshloki (Wagman), “‘Destruction Becomes Creation': The Theological Reaction of National-Religious Zionism in Eretz-Israel to the Holocaust,” Yossef Fund, “The Poems of Yehoshua Landoy: The ‘Old Yishuv' Holocaust Poet,” Dov Levitan, “Yemenite Jewish Immigration to Israel: Realization of a Dream or Social Dilemma? The Case of the Missing Yemenite Children,” Ishai Arnon, “The Religious Zionist Youth in Tripoli: Its Immigration and Absorption in Israel During the Period of the ‘Mass Immigration' (1948 – 1952),” Anat Feldman, “The ‘Shas' Movement as a Social-Cultural Phenomenon,” Tali Tadmor Shimony, “The Text Book as an Ideological Text: The Formation of the National Identity in National School Readers and in Religious National School Readers,” Yaacov Yadgar, “From ‘A Chosen People' to ‘A Nation like all Nations': The National Narrative in the Israeli Press from the Six-Day War to the Assassination of Rabin,” Chaim A. Waxman, “The Sociology of Psika (Halakhic Ruling): An example from American Jewry,” Asher Cohen, “Halakhic Permit and Ideological Confrontation: The Shemittah (Sabbatical Year) Controversy in 2001 in Light of the Shemittah Controversy in the beginning of Jewish Settlement in the Land of Israel,” Zvi Zameret, “The Street that Became a Symbol: The Committee on Bar-Ilan Street in Jerusalem,” and Eliezer Don-Yehiya, “A Traditional Holiday and a National Myth: Hanukkah and the Myth of the Maccabees in Zionism, the ‘Yishuv' and the State of Israel.”

Zimmerman, Joshua D. Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922 – 1945 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xix, 374 pp.

Contents: Alexander Stille, “The Double Bind of Italian Jews: Acceptance and Assimilation,” Mario Toscano, “Italian Jewish Identity from the Risogimento to Fascism, 1848 – 1938,” Giorgio Fabre, “Mussolini and the Jews on the Eve of the March on Rome,” Michele Sarfatti, “Characteristics and Objectives of the Anti-Jewish Racial Laws in Fascist Italy, 1938 – 1943,” Annalisa Capristo, “The Exclusion of Jews from Italian Academics,” Roberto Finzi, “The Damage to Italian Culture: The Fate of Jewish University Professors in Fascist Italy and After, 1938 – 1946,” Sandro Servi, “Building a Racial State: Images of the Jews in the Illustrated Fascist Magazine, La Difesa della Razza , 1938 – 1943,” Iael Nidam-Orvieto, “The Impact of Anti-Jewish Legislation on Everyday Life and the Response of the Italian Jews, 1938 – 1943,” Klaus Voigt, “The Children of Villa Emma at Nonatola,” Fabio Levi, “Anti-Jewish Persecution and Italian Society,” Liliana Picciotto, “The Shoah in Italy: Its History and Characteristics,” Robert Katz, “The Möllhausen Telegram, the Kappler Decodes, and the Deportation of the Jews of Rome: The New CIA-OSS Documents, 2000 – 2002,” Cinzia Villani, “The Persecution of Jews in Two Regions of German-Occupied Northern Italy, 1943 – 1945: Operationszone Alpenvorland and Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland,” Frank J. Coppa, “The Papal Response to Nazi and Fascist Anti-Semitism: From Pius XI to Pius XII,” Susan Zuccotti, “Pius XII and the Rescue of Jews in Italy: Evidence of a Papal Directive,” Anna Bravo, “The Rescued and the Rescuers in Private and Public Memories,” Millicent Marcus, “Return of the Repressed: Italian Film and Holocaust Memory,” and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, “The Secret Histories of Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful .”

Zohar, Zion, ed. Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry: From the Golden Age of Spain to Modern Times . New York: New York University Press, 2005. viii, 343 pp.

Contents: Zion Zohar, “A Global Perspective on Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry: An Introductory Essay,” Mark R. Cohen, “ The Origins of Sephardic Jewry in the Medieval Arab World,” Norman A. Stillman, “The Judeo-Arabic Heritage,” David M. Bunis, “Judeo-Spanish Culture in Medieval and Modern Times,” Jonathan R. Decter, “Literatures of Medieval Sepharad,” Isaac Kalimi, “Medieval Sephardic-Oriental Jewish Bible Exegesis: The Contributions of Saadia Gaon and Abraham ibn Ezra,” Moshe Idel, “Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah in Spain,” Annette B. Fromm, “Hispanic Culture in Exile: Sephardic Life in the Ottoman Balkans,” Zvi Zohar, “Sephardic Jurisprudence in the Recent Half-Millennium,” Morris M. Faierstein, “Safed Kabbalah and the Sephardic Heritage,” Paméla Dorn Sezgin, “Jewish Women in the Ottoman Empire,” Jonathan Schorsch, “Early Modern Sephardism and Blacks: Contact and Conflict between Two Minorities,” Mark Kligman, “Diversity and Uniqueness: An Introduction to Sephardic Liturgical Music,” Henry Abramson, “A Double Occlusion: Sephardism and the Holocaust,” and Zion Zohar, “Sephardism and Oriental Jews in Israel: Rethinking the Sociopolitical Paradigm.”