AJS Review • Collected Studies
January–October 2006

Arav, Rami and Richard A. Freund, eds. Bethesaida: A City by the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee. Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press, 2004. xxv, 310pp.

Contents: Rami Arav, “Toward a Comprehensive History of Geshur,” Richard S. Hess, “’Geshurite’ Onomastica of the Bronze and Iron Ages,” John T. Greene, “Tiglath-pileser III’s War Against the City of Tzer,” Mark D. Smith, “Bethsaida in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder,” Fred Strickert, “The Renaming of Bethsaida in Honor of Livia, a.k.a. Julia, the Daughter of Caesar, in Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 18.27-28,” Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn, “Bethsaida in the Gospel of Mark,” Mark Appold, “Peter in Profile: From Bethsaida to Rome,” Fred Strickert, “The Dying Grain Which Bears Much Fruit: John 12:24, the Livia Cult, and Bethsaida,” Richard A. Freund, “Ereimos: Was Bethsaida a “Lonely Place” in the First Century CE?,” Hector Avalos, “Bethsaida in Light of the Study of Ancient Health Care,” Richard A. Freund, “The Tannery of Bethsaida?,” Mark D. Smith, “Eusebius of Caesarea and the Fate of Bethsaida,” Nicolae Roddy, “The Antichrist at Bethsaida.”

Bauman, Mark K., ed. Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University Alabama Press, 2006.vi, 480pp.

Contents: Mark I. Greenberg, “A ‘Haven of Benignity’: Conflict and Cooperation Between Eighteenth-Century Savannah Jews,” Gary P. Zola, “Southern Rabbis and the Founding of the First National Association of Rabbis,” Hollace Ava Weiner, “The Mixers: The Role of Rabbis Deep in the Heart of Texas,” Lee Shai Weissbach, “East European Immigrants and the Image of Jews in the Small-Town South,” Deborah R. Weiner, “Jewish Women in the Central Appalachian Coal Fields, 1880-1960: From Breadwinners to Community Builders,” Ira M. Sheskin, “The Dixie Diaspora: The ‘Loss’ of the Small Southern Jewish Community,” Elliot Ashkenazi, “Jewish Commercial Interests Between North and South: The Case of the Lehmans and the Seligmans,” Canter Brown Jr., “Philip and Morris Dzialynski: Jewish Contributors to the Rebuilding of the South,” Howard N. Rabinowitz, “Nativism, Bigotry and Anti-Semitism in the South,” Joshua D. Rothman, “’Notorious in the Neighborhood’: An Interracial Family in Early National and Antebellum Virginia,” Clive Webb, “Closing Ranks: Montgomery Jews and Civil Rights, 1954-1960,” Scott M. Langston, “Interaction and Identity: Jews and Christians in Nineteenth Century New Orleans,” Leonard Rogoff, “Is the Jew White? The Racial Place of the Southern Jew,” Stephen J. Whitfield, “The Braided Identity of Southern Jewry,” Eliza R. L. McGraw, “’How to Win Jews for Christ’: Southern Jewishness and the Southern Baptist Convention.”

Bazyler, Michael J. and Roger P. Alford, eds. Holocaust Restitution: Perspectives on the Litigation and Its Legacy. New York: New York University Press, 2006. xviii, 373pp.

Contents: Thomas J. Buergenthal, “International Law and the Holocaust,” William Z. Slany, “The State Department, Nazi Gold, and the Search for Holocaust Assets,” Michael Berenbaum, “Confronting History: Restitution and the Historians,” Robert A. Swift, “Holocaust Litigation and Human Rights Jurisprudence,” Burt Neuborne, “A Tale of Two Cities: Administering the Holocaust Settlements in Brooklyn and Berlin,” Roger M. Witten, “How Swiss Banks and German Companies Came to Terms with the Wrenching Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II: A Defense Perspective,” Si Frumkin, “Why Won’t These SOBs Give Me My Money? A Survivor’s Perspective,” Melvyn I. Weiss, “A Litigator’s Postscript to the Swiss Banks and Holocaust Litigation Settlements: How Justice Was Served,” Edward R. Korman, “Rewriting the Holocaust History of the Swiss Banks: A Growing Scandal,” Eric Freedman and Richard Weisberg, “The French Holocaust-Era Claims Process,” Shimon Samuels, “The French Bank Holocaust Settlement,” Lee Boyd, “Unholy Profits: Holocaust Restitution and the Vatican Bank,” Gideon Taylor, “Where Morality Meets Money,” Otto Graf Lambsdorff, “The Negotiations on Compensation for Nazi Forced Laborers,” Lothar Ulsamer, “German Economy and the Foundation Intiative: An Act of Solidarity for Victims of National Socialism,” Roland Bank, “Processing Claims for Slave and Forced Labor: Expediency versus Accuracy?,” Peter Hayes, “Corporate Profits and the Holocaust: A Dissent from the Monetary Argument,” Roman Kent, “It’s Not about the Money: A Survivor’s Perspective on the German Foundation Initiative,” Deborah Sturman, “Germany’s Reexamination of Its Past through the Lens of the Holocaust Litigation,” Hannah Lessing and Fiorentina Azizi, “Austria Confronts Her Past,” Lawrence Kill and Linda Gerstel, “Holocaust-Era Insurance Claims: Legislative, Judicial, and Executive Remedies,” Kai Henning, “The Road to Compensation of Life Insurance Policies: The Foundation Law and ICHEIC,” Sidney Zabludoff, “ICHEIC: Excellent Concept but Inept Implementation,” Monica S. Dugot, “The Holocaust Claims Processing Office: New York State’s Approach to Resolving Holocaust-Era Art Claims,” Howard H. Spiegler, “Portrait of Wally: The U.S. Government’s Role in Recovering Holocaust Looted Art,” E. Randol Schoenberg, “Whose Art Is It Anyway?,” Stuart E. Eizenstat, “The Unfinished Business of the Unfinished Business of World War II,” David A. Lash and Mitchell A. Kamin, “Poor Justice: Holocaust Restitution and Forgotten, Indigent Survivors,” Arie Zuckerman, “The Holocaust Restitution Enterprise: An Israeli Perspective,” Owen C. Pell, “Historical Reparation Claims: The Defense Perspective,” and Morris Ratner and Caryn Becker, “The Legacy of Holocaust Class Action Suits: Have They Broken Ground for Other Cases of Historical Wrongs?”

Benfey, Christopher and Karen Remmler, eds. Artists, Intellectuals, and World War II: The Pontigny Encounters at Mount Holyoke College, 1942-1944. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. xiii, 294pp.

Contents: Christopher Benfey, “Introduction: A Violence from Within,” Laurent Jeanpierre, “Pontigny-en-Amérique,” Elissa Gelfand, “The Vision of Helen Patch,” Leah D. Hewitt, “The OSS Pays a Visit,” Jacques Derrida, “The Philosophical Model of a Counter-Institution,” Stanley Cavell, “Reflections on Wallace Stevens at Mount Holyoke,” Jeffrey Mehlman, “Thoughts on Wallace Stevens’s Contribution at Pontigny-en-Amérique: Response to Cavell,” Stanley Cavell, “Postscript: Response to Mehlman,” Claire Paulhan, “Henry Church and the Literary Magazine Mesures: ‘The American Resource’,” Jed Perl, “Romantic Reverberations,” Mary Ann Caws, “Robert Motherwell and the Modern Painter’s World,” Romy Golan, “The Critical Moment: Lionello Venturi in America,” Nadia Margolis, “Medievalism and Pontigny,” Helen Solterer, “Gustave Cohen at Pont-Holyoke: The Drama of Belonging to France,” Jeffrey Mehlman, “The Tiger Leaps: Louis Aragon, Gustave Cohen, and the Poetry of Resistance,” Andrew Lass, “Poetry and Reality: Roman O. Jakobson and Claude Lévi-Strauss,” Donal O’Shea, “Jacques Hadamard and Creativity in the Sciences,” Christopher Benfey, “A Tale of Two Iliads,” Jerome Kohn and Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, “Hannah Arendt on Action and Violence with Reference to Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff on Homer’s Iliad: A Conversation,” Holger Teschke, “Concerning the Label Emigrant: Brecht’s Conversations in Exile and the Century of Refugees,” Olivier Salazar-Ferrer, “Rachel Bespaloff and the Nostalgia for the Instant,” Monique Jutrin, “Rediscovering Rachel Bespaloff,” Alyssa Dangiels, “Searching for Rachel Bespaloff,” Renee Scialom Cary, “Blend and Belong,” Barbara Levin Amster, “Memories of Rachel Bespaloff,” Naomi Bespaloff Levinson, “Pauvre Rachel,” and Karen Remmler, “Conclusion: Encounters of Hope.”

Beinin, Joel and Rebecca L. Stein, eds. The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1933-2005. Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xii, 401pp.

Contents: Joel Benin and Rebecca L. Stein, “Introduction: Histories and Futures of a Failed Peace,” Joel Benin, “The Oslo Peace Process and the Limits of a Pax Americana,” Yoav Peled, “From Zionism to Capitalism: The Political Economy of the Neoliberal Warfare State in Israel,” Emma C. Murphy, “Buying Poverty: International Aid and the Peace Process,” Jeff Halper, “The 94 Percent Solution: Israel’s Matrix of Control,” Mouin Rabbani, “Palestinian Authority, Israeli Rule,” Rema Hammami, “Palestinian NGOs since Oslo: From Politics to Social Movements?,” Rita Glacaman, Isiah Jad, and Penny Johnson, “Gender, Social Citizenship, and the Women’s Movement in Palestine,” interview with Marwan Barchouti with introduction by Lisa Hajjar, “Competing Political Cultures,” Charmaine Seitz, “Coming of Age: HAMAS’s Rise to Prominence in the Post-Oslo Era,” Rosemary Sayigh, “Back to the Center: Post-Oslo Revival of the Refugee Issue,” Sari Hanafi, “Opening the Debate on the Right of Return,” Ilan Pappé, “Post-Zionist Scholarship in Israel,” Oren Yiftachel, “The Shrinking Space of Citizenship: Ethnocratic Politics in Israel,” interview with Rela Mazali, “Acts of Refusal: Israeli Militarism, Gender, and the Politics of Dissent,” Letters to Ariel Sharon by Israeli Students, “ ‘Why We Refuse to Serve in the Israeli Defense Forces’,” B’Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, “ ‘Land Grab: Israel’s Settlement Policy in the West Bank’,” Robert Blecher, “Living on the Edge: The Threat of ‘Transfer’ in Israel and Palestine,” Jonathan Cook, “Israel’s Glass Walls: The Or Commission,” Sharif Waked, “ ‘Chic Point’: Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints,” David Tartakover, “The Art of Dissent,” interview with Mahmud Darwish, “A Love Story between an Arab Poet and His Land,” “In Memory of Fadwa Tuqan,” Rebecca L. Stein, “The Oslo Process, Israeli Popular Culture, and the Remaking of National Space,” Shira Robinson, “My Hairdresser Is a Sniper,” Ammiel Alcalay and Khaled Furani, “Poetry in a Time of Conflict,” Elliott Colla, “Solidarity in the Time of Anti-normalization,” Remma Hammami and Salim Tamari, “Anatomy of Another Rebellion: From Intifada to Interregnum,” Sara Roy, “Economic Siege and Political Isolation: The Gaza Strip in the Second Intifada,” Lori A. Allen, “Palestinians Debate ‘Polite’ Resistance,” Statement by Palestinian intellectuals, “ ‘Urgent Appeal to Stop Suicide Bombings’,” Gary Sussman, “The Challenge to the Two-State Solution,” Richard Falk, “International Law and Palestinian Resistance,” Adam Hanieh, “The Politics of Curfew in the Occupied Territories,” Catherine Cook and Adam Hanieh, “The Separation Barrier: Walling in People, Walling Out Sovereignty,” and International Court of Justice Ruling on the Separation Barrier, “ ‘Contrary to international law…’.”

Berger, Yitzhak and David Shatz, eds. Judaism, Science, and Moral Responsibility. The Orthodox Forum. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. vi, 303pp.

Contents: Yitzhak Berger and David Shatz, “Introduction,” Haim Sompolinsky, “A Scientific Perspective on Human Choice,” Robert Pollack, “Genetics and Morality,” David Shatz, “Is Matter All that Matters? Judaism, Free Will, and the Genetic Neuroscientific Revolutions,” Shalom Carmy, “Use It or Lose It: On the Moral Imagination of Free Will,” Basil Herring, “Choice-Diminished Behavior and Religious-Communal Policy,” Rivkah Teitz Blau, “If an Abuser Cannot Control His Impulses, What Is the Responsibility of Other Adults in the Community? A Response to Basil Herring,” Michelle Friedman and Rachel Yehuda, “Psychotherapy and Teshuvah: Parallel and Overlapping Systems for Change,” and Moshe Halevi Spero, “To Whom, to Where and to When Does One ‘Return’ in Teshuvah?”

Bloechl, Jeffrey and Jeffrey L. Kosky, eds. Levinas Studies: An Annual Review. Vol. 1. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2005. xii, 211pp.

Contents: Jeffrey Bloechl, “Introduction,” Michael L. Morgan, “Levinas and Judaism,” Ze’ev Levy, “Emmanuel Levinas on Secularization in Modern Society,” Richard A. Cohen, “Levinas, Plato and Ethical Exegesis,” Paola Marrati, “Derrida and Levinas: Ethics, Writing, Historiocity,” Rodolphe Calin, “The Exception of Testimony,” Jean-Luc Marion, “From the Other to the Individual,” Kevin Hart, “Ethics of the Image,” Alan Udoff, “Levinas and the Question of Friendship,” and Jeffrey L. Kosky, “The Blessings of a Friendship: Maurice Blanchot and Levinas Studies.”

Bloom, Rabbi Jack H., ed. Jewish Relational Care A-Z: We Are Our Other’s Keeper. New York: The Haworth Press, 2006. xxiii, 453pp.

Contents: Jack H. Bloom, “A Guide for the Reader,” Jack H. Bloom, “Premises of Jewish Relational Care,” Jack H. Bloom, “Language As a Relational Tool: Using Your Mouth with Your Head?,” David J. Zucker, “Taking Care of Ourselves: It’s About Time!,” David J. Stern, “Managing Compassion Fatigue,” Susan Gulack, “Maintaining Balance: The Kabbalah As a Resource,” David J. Zicker and Bonita E. Taylor, “The Muse of Visiting,” Jeffrey M. Silberman, “The Muse of Silence,” Samuel Chiel, “The Muse of Relational Listening,” Shira Stern, “The Muse of Music and Song,” Bonita E. Taylor, “The Muse of Chanting,” Marcia Cohn Spiegel, “The Muse of Creative Ritual for Relational Healing,” Charles P. Rabinowitz, “The Muse of Spontaneous Prayer for All the [Tzelem<->N’shamah] Relationships,” Gordon M. Freeman and Stuart Kelman, “Caring for the Non-Jews Within Our Community,” Judith B. Edelstein, “Caring for Non-Jews Outside Our Community,” Richard L. Rush, “What We Gentiles Need in Jewish Relational Care: A Minister’s Perspective,” Judith Levitan, “Caring for and Supporting Those Going Through Divorce,” Bonnie Margulis and Douglas Maben, “When a Pregnancy Is Unwelcome,” Nancy H. Wiener, “Caring for Those Whose Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Vary,” Steven Bayar, “Relating to and Caring for Those Who Don’t Care About You,” Jack H. Bloom, “Blessing Those We Have Trouble Blessing,” Reba Halpern Kieval and Dan Ornstein, “A Story of Brokenness and Healing: The Relationship of Rabbi and Congregant,” Jack H. Bloom, “T’shuvah in Sexual Violations with Direct Implications for Other Situations: Relational Care for Those Who Have Sinned and Wish to ‘Return’,” Jack H. Bloom, “Jewish Relational Thinking and a Difficult Text: Amalek and Us,” Richard F. Address, “Jewish Relational Care with the Healthy Aging,” Jack H. Bloom, “Jewish Relational Care and Retired Clergy,” Judith Z. Abrams, “There and Back Again – Journey into the “Death Zone”: Jewish Relational Care and Disabilities,” Andrew R. Sklarz, “When the Rabbi Needs Care,” Rachel Lev, “Caring for Those Violated by Child Sexual Abuse and Incest,” Cary Kozberg, “Relatiing Gently and Wisely with the Cognitively Impaired,” Judith Brazen, “Caring for the Mentally Ill,” Bernie Robinson, “Caring for the Institutionalized Developmentally Disabled,” Steven Moss, “Relating to the Sick and Dying,” Alison Jordan and Stuart Kelman, “The Vidui: Jewish Relational Care for the Final Moments of Life,” and Mel Glazer, “Jewish Relational Care with the Grieving.”

Bohlman, Philip V., Edith L. Blumhofer and Maria M. Chow, eds. Music in American Religious Experience. Oxford: Oxford Unviersity Press, 2006. xviii, 350pp.

Contents: Philip V. Bohlman, “Introduction: Music in American Religious Experience,” Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, “When Women Recite: ‘Music’ and Islamic Immigrant Experience,” Jon Michael Spencer, “African American Religious Music from a Theomusicological Perspective,” Ann Morrison Spinney, “Medeolinuwok, Music, and Missionaries in Maine,” Margarita Mazo, “Singing as Experience among Russian American Molokans,” Stephen A. Marini, “Hymnody and History: Early American Evangelical Hymns as Sacred Music,” Paul Westermeyer, “The Evolution of the Music of German American Protestants in Their Hymnody: A Case Study from an American Perspective,” Otto Holzapfel, “Singing from the Right Songbook: Ethnic Identity and Language Transformation in German American Hymnals,” Judith Gray, “ ‘When in Our Music God is Glorified:’ Singing and Singing about Singing in a Congregational Church,” Edith L. Blumhofer, “Fanny Crosby and Protestant Hymnody,” Phillip V. Bolman, “Prayer on the Panorama: Music and Individualism in American Religious Experience,” Janet Walton, “Women’s Ritual Music,” Jeffrey A. Summit, “Nusach and Identity: The Contemporary Meaning of Traditional Jewish Prayer Modes,” Maria M. Chow, “Reflections on the Musical Diversity of Chinese Churches in the United States,” Jeff Todd Titon, “ ‘Tuned Up with the Grace of God’: Music and Experience among Old Regular Baptists,” and Don E. Saliers, “Aesthetics and Theology in Congregational Song: A Hymnal Intervenes.”

Brenner, Michael and Gideon Reuveni, eds. Emancipation through Muscles: Jews and Sports in Europe. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. vii, 277pp.

Contents: Michael Brenner, “Why Jews and Sports,” Moshe Zimmerman, “Muscle Jews versus Nervous Jews,” Daniel Wildmann, “Jewish Gymnasts and Their Corporeal Utopias in Imperial Germany,” Gideon Reuveni, “Sports and the Militarization of Jewish Society,” Sharon Gillerman, “Strongman Siegmund Breitbart and Interpretations of the Jewish Body,” Jacob Borut, “Jews in German Sports during the Weimar Republic,” Jack Jacobs, “The Politics of Jewish Sports Movements in Interwar Poland,” John Bunzl, “Hakoah Vienna: Reflections on a Legend,” Michael John, “Antisemitism in Austrian Sports between the Wars,” Tony Collins, “Jews, Antisemitism, and Sports in Britain, 1900-1939,” Rudolf Oswald, “Nazi Ideology and the End of Central European Soccer Professionalism, 1938-1941,” Albert Lichtblau, “Soccer and Survival among Jewish Refugees in Shanghai,” Philipp Grammes, “Sports in the DP Camps, 1945-1948,” Victor Karady and Miklós Hadas, “Soccer and Antisemitism in Hungary,” and John Efron, “When Is a Yid Not a Jew? The Strange Case of Supporter Identity at Tottenham Hotspur.”

Brook, Vincent, ed. You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. ix, 337pp.

Contents: Vincent Brook, “Introduction: Seeing Isn’t Believing,” Andrea Most, “Re-imagining the Jew’s Body: From Self-Loathing to ‘Grepts’,” Janet Handler Burstein, “Recalling ‘Home’ from Beneath the Shadow of the Holocaust: American Jewish Women Writers of the New Wave,” Jan Lewis, “ ‘Your World Is Very Different from Mine’: Troubling Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Theater,” James Fisher, “Tony Kushner’s Metaphorical Jew,” Judah M. Cohen, “Exploring the Postmodern Landscape of Jewish Music,” Marsha Bryan Edelman, “Continuity, Creativity, and Conflict: The Ongoing Search for ‘Jewish’ Music,” Rebecca Rossen, “The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick: Stock Characterization and Jewish Masculinity in Postmodern Dance,” Ruth Weisberg, “Between Exile and Irony: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Jewish Modes of Thought,” MacDonald Moore and Deborah Dash Moore, “Observant Jews and The Photographic Arena of Looks,” Ruth D. Johnston, “Joke-Work: The Construction of Jewish Postmodern Identity in Contemporary Theory and American Film,” Daniel Itzkovitz, “They Are All Jews,” Donald Weber, “Geneologies of Jewish Stand-up: Looking Back, Moving Beyond,” Michelle Byers and Rosalin Krieger, “Something Old is New Again? Postmodern Jewishness in Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, and The O.C.,” and Vincent Brook, “ ‘Y’all Killed Him, We Didn’t!’ Jewish Self-Hatred and The Larry Sanders Show.”

Currah, Paisley, Richard M. Juang and Shannon Price Minter, eds. Transgender Rights. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xxiv, 368pp.

Contents: Paisley Currah, “Gender Pluralism under the Transgender Umbrella,” Taylor Flynn, “The Ties That (Don’t) Bind: Transgender Family Law and the Unmaking of Families,” Julie A. Greenberg, “The Roads Less Traveled: The Problem with Binary Sex Categories,” Jennifer L. Levi and Bennett H. Klein, “Pursuing Protection for Transgender People through Disability Laws,” Kylar W. Broadus, “The Evolution of Employment Discrimination Protections of Transgender People,” Morgan Holmes, “Deciding Fate or Protecting a Developing Autonomy? Intersex Children and the Colombian Constitutional Chart,” Nohemy Solóranzo-Thompson, trans., “The Rights of Intersexed Infants and Children: Decision of the Colombian Constitutional Court, Bogotá, Colombia, 12 May 1999 (SU-337/99),” Shannon Price Minter, “Do Transsexuals Dream of Gay Rights? Getting Real about Transgender Inclusion,” Dallas Denny, “Transgender Communities of the United States in the Late Twentieth Century,” Willy Wilkinson, “Public Health Gains of the Transgender Community in San Francisco: Grassroots Organizing and Community-Based Research,” Dean Spade, “Compliance is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy,” Richard M. Juang, “Transgendering the Politics of Recognition,” Mauro Cabral (A.I. Grinspan) and Paula Viturro, “(Trans)Sexual Citizenship in Contemporary Argentina,” Judith Butler, “Undiagnosing Gender,” Rutann Robson, “Reinscribing Normality? The Law and Politics of Transgender Marriage,” and Kendall Thomas, “Afterward: Are Transgender Rights Inhuman Rights?”

Garber, Zev, ed. Mel Gibson’s Passion: The Film, the Controversy, and Its Implications. Shofar supplements in Jewish studies. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2006. 184pp.

Contents: Irving Greeberg, “Review of The Passion of the Christ,” Penny Wheeler, “Gibson at the Crossroads,” Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan, “Gibson’s Passion,” Bruce Zuckerman, “Where are the Flies? Where Is the Smoke? The Real and Super-Real in Mel Gibson’s The Passion,” Klaus Hödl, “How Austrians Viewed The Passion of the Christ,” Richard Holdredge, “Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and the ‘Via Media’,” Peter Haas, “The Quest of the Historical Jesus Revisited: Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ,” Zev Garber, “The Jewish Jesus: A Partisan’s Imagination,” Gordon D. Young, “History, Archaeology, and Mel Gibson’s Passion,” S. Scott Bartchy, “Where Is the History in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ,” Louis H. Feldman, “Reflections on Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ,” Jacob Neusner, “Crucifixion in Rabbinic Context: Juridical or Theological?,” Gordon R. Mork, “Dramatizing the Passion: From Oberammeragau to Gibson,” Samuel Edelman and Carol Edelman, “Deicide Déjà vu: Mel Gibson’s Film The Passion – An Attack on Forty Years of Jewish-Christian Dialogue,” John T. Pawlikowski, “Gibson’s Passion: The Challenge for Catholics,” Richard Libowitz, “Gibson’s Passion on a Catholic Campus,” James F. Moore, “Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ: A Protestant Perspective,” Steven Leonard Jacobs, “Jewish ‘Officialdon’ and The Passion of the Christ: Who Said What and What Did They Say?,” Stuart D. Robertson, “A View from the Pew on Gibson’s Passion,” and Joseph A. Edelheit, “The Passion of the Christ and Congregational Interfaith Relations.”

Greenspoon, Leonard J., Ronald A. Simkins and Brian J. Horowitz, eds. The Jews of Eastern Europe. Studies in Jewish Civilization, vol 16. Omaha, NE: Creighton University Press, 2005. xxi, 351pp.

Contents: Avraham Greenbaum, “The Russian Rabbinate under the Czars,” Brian Horowitz, “The Image of Russian Jews in Russian-Jewish Historiography, 1860-1914,” Seth L. Wolitz, “The Ashkenazic Gaze: Creating the Jewish Art Book,” Alina Orlov, “Beyond ‘Jewish Luck’: The Institutional Context of Early Russian-Jewish Art,” Elizabeth Loentz, “Karl Emil Franzos and Bertha Papenheim’s Portraits of the (Eastern European Jewish) Artist,” Susan M. Filler, “The Politics and Priorities of Jewish Music Publishing in Eastern Europe,” Richard S. Esbenshade, “The Radical Assimilated: Hungarian ‘Urbanists’ and Jewish Identity in the 1930s,” Theodore R. Weeks, “The Transformation of Jewish Vilna, 1881-1939,” Gary Rosenthal, “Russian Literature and Jewish Death,” Jeffrey Veidlinger, “ ‘…even beyond Pinsk’: Yizke Bikher [Memorial Books] and Jewish Cultural Life in the Shtetl,” Harriet Murav, “New Jews: David Bergelson and Birobidzhan,” Andrey Bredstein, “Nokhem-Meyer Shaykevitsch: Another Classic of Yiddish Theater,” John D. Klier, “From ‘Little Man” to ‘Milkman’: Does Jewish Art Reflect Jewish Life?,” Rebecca Kobrin, “The Politics of Philanthropy: Migration, Emigration, and the Transformation of Jewish Communal Governance in Bialystok, 1885-1939,” Eliyana R. Adler, “Enlightened Self-Interest: The Men and Women Who Opened Schools for Jewish Girls in Late Imperial Russia,” Joshua Shanes, “The Transformation of Zionist Religious Rhetoric as Seen Through Its Yiddish-Language Progaganda: The Case of Galicia,” Abraham P. Socher, “Aristotle & the Ostjuden: Philosophical Thought Among the first Generations of Eastern Europe Maskilim,” Howard Lupovitch, “Searching for ‘Catholic Israel’ in Focsani: Solomon Schechter’s Childhood in Romania,” Zev Garber, “Language Violence: Auschwitz Convent Controversy,” and Steven Weiland, “Coming into Their Inheritance: Jewish-American Autobiographers Encounter Eastern Europe.”

Gregor, Neil, Nils Roemer, and Mark Roseman, eds. German History from the Margins. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. vi, 306pp.

Contents: Neil Gregor, Nils Roemer, and Mark Roseman, “Introduction,” Till van Rahden, “Germans of the Jewish Stamm: Visions of Community between Nationalism and Particularism, 1850 to 1933,” Yfaat Weiss, “Identity and Essentialism: Race, Racism, and the Jews at the Fin de Siècle,” Helmut Walser Smith, “Prussia at the Margins, or the World that Nationalism Lost,” Eric Kurlander, “Völkisch - Nationalism and Universalism on the Margins of the Reich: A Comparison of Majority and Minority Liberalism in Germany, 1898 – 1933,” Winson Chu, “ ‘Volksgemeinschaften unter sich’: German Minorities and Regionalism in Polant, 1918-39,” Frank Bösch, “A Margin at the Center: The Conservatives in Lower Saxony between Kaiserreich and Federal Republic,” Katharine Kennedy, “ ‘Black-Red-Gold Enemies’: Catholics, Socialists, and Jews in Elementary Schoolbooks from Kaiserreich to Third Reich,” Gideon Reuveni, “ ‘Productivist’ and ‘Consumerist’ Narratives of Jews in German History,” Dagmar Herzog, “How ‘Jewish’ is German Sexuality? Sex and Antisemitism in the Third Reich,” Atina Grossman, “Defeated Germans and Surviving Jews: Gendered Encounters in Everyday Life in U.S.-Occupied Germany, 1945-49,” Heide Fehrenbach, “Afro-German Children and the Social Politics of Race after 1945,” Karen Schönwälder, “The Difficult Task of Managing Migration: The 1973 Recruitment Stop,” and Geoff Eley, “How and Where is German History Centered?”

Hurwitz, Peter Joel, Jacques Picard, and Avraham Steinberg, eds. Jewish Ethics and the Care of End-of-Life Patients: A Collection of Rabbinical, Bioethical, Philosophical, and Juristic Opinions. Jersey City, NJ: KTAV Publishing House, 2006. vi, 254pp.

Contents: Jacques Picard, “Preface,” Peter Joel Hurwitz, “Introduction,” Rabbi David Bollag, “Jewish Religious Law,” Elias Hofstetter and Marion Marti, “Assisted Death,” J. David Bleich, “Treatment of the Terminally Ill,” Leonard S. Kravitz, “ ‘Some’ Reflections on Jewish Tradition and the End-of-Life Patient,” Avraham Steinberg, “A Law Proposal in Israel Regarding the Patient at the End of Life,” Vardit Ravitsky, “Dying with Dignity in a Jewish-Democratic State,” Shimon M. Glick, “The Jewish Physician and End-of-Life Decisions,” Maurice Lamm, “Implementing Empathy at the End of Life,” Lydia Goldschmidt, “Ethics and Reality,” Hans Küng, “Assisted Death?,” and Walter H. Hitzig, “Terminal Care of Children.”

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

Contents: Ivan Davidson Kalmar and Derek J. Penslar, “Orientalism and the Jews: An Introduction,” Ivan Davidson Kalmar, “Jesus Did Not Wear a Turban: Orientalism, the Jews and Christian Art,” Suzanne Conklin Akbari, “Placing 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’,” Noah Isenberg, “To Pray Like a Dervish: Orientalism 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 Bezalel,” 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,” and Sander L. Gilman, “ ‘We’re Not Jews’: Imagining Jewish History and Jewish Bodies in Contemporary Multicultural Literature.”

Kreisel, Howard, ed. Study and Knowledge in Jewish Thought. Vol. 1. Beer-Sheva, Israel: Ben Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2006. 373pp.

Contents: David Berger, “Identity, Ideology and Faith: Some Personal Reflections on the Social, Cultural, and Spiritual Value of Judaism,” Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, “ ‘Proto-Canonization’ of the Torah: A Self-Portrait of the Pentateuch in Light of Mesopotamian Writings,” Marc Hirshman, “Learning as Speech: Tosefta Peah in Light of Plotinus and Origen,” Martin S. Jaffee, “Oral Transmission of Knowledge as Rabbinic Sacrament: An Overlooked Aspect of Discipleship in Oral Torah,” Joseph Dan, “Is Midrash Exegesis?,” Ephraim Kanarfogel, “Torah Study and Truth in Medieval Ashkenazic Rabbinic Literature and Thought,” Sarah Klein-Braslavy, “Maimonides’ Exoteric and Esoteric Biblical Interpretation in the Guide of the Perplexed,” Howard Kreisel, “Esotericism to Exotericism: From Maimonides to Gersonides,” Colette Sirat and Marc Geoffoy, “The Modena Manuscript and the Teaching of Philosophy in Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Spain,” Boaz Huss, “Admiration and Disgust: The Ambivalent Re-Canonization of the Zohar in the Modern Period,” Charles H. Manekin, “Steinschneider’s ‘Decent Burial’: A Reappraisal,” Jonathan Garb, “ ‘Alien’ Culture in the Circle of Rabbi Kook,” Alan Brill, “Elements of Dialectic Theology in Rabbi Soloveitchik’s View of Torah Study,” Shulamit Valler, “Approaches to Jewish Studies in Secular Israeli Society,” Tamar Ross, “A Bet-Midrash of Her Own: Women’s Contribution to the Study and Knowledge of Torah,” and Eliezer Segal, “Digital Discipleship: Using the Internet for the Teaching of Jewish Thought.”

Kreisel, Howard, ed. Study and Knowledge in Jewish Thought. Vol. 2. Beer-Sheva, Israel: Ben Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2006. xvii, 299pp.

Contents: Eliezer Schweid, “My Path in the Research and Teaching of Jewish Thought: Some Personal Reflections on the Social, Cultural and Spiritual Value of the Academic Study of Judaism,” Adiel Kadari, “Liturgical Recitation as a Ritual of Study,” Alon Goshen-Gottstein, “ ‘The Sage is Superior to the Prophet’: The Conception of Torah through the Prism of this Proverb through the Ages,” Dov Schwartz, “Some Brief Comments on the Oral Law and its Transmission in Jewish Thought,” Rami Reiner, “The Acceptance of Halakhot Gedolot in Ashkenaz,” Jordan S. Penkower, “The Canonization of Rashi’s Commentary on the Pentateuch,” Gerald J. Blidstein, “On the License to Teach and the Authority to Rule: Two Maimonidean Responsa,” Moshe Hallamish, “ The Ritual of Reading and Speaking and its Kabbalistic Significance,” Ronit Meroz, “The Weaving of a Myth: An Analysis of Two Stories in the Zohar,” Melila Hellner-Eshed, “Rabbi Moshe Cordovero’s Mythical Midrash on the Fashioning of Ornaments,” Gad Freudenthal, “The Subversive Role of Science in R. Israel Zamosc’s Talmudic Novella,” Zeev Gries, “The Book as a Cultural Agent from the Beginning of Printing to the Modern Period,” Moti Zalkin, “The Heder: Between Ethos and Myth,” and Yehoyada Amir, “A Biographical-Philosophic Study of Franz Rosenzweig’s View of Jewish Education.”

Langer, Ruth and Steven Fine, eds. Liturgy in the Life of the Synagogue: Studies in the History of Jewish Prayer. Duke Judaic Studies Series, vol. 2. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2005. vii, 280pp.

Contents: Reuven Kimmelman, “Blessing Formulae and Divine Sovereignty in Rabbinic Liturgy,” Steven Fine, “Liturgy and the Art of the Dura Europos Synagogue,” Debra Reed Blank, “The Medieval French Practice of Repeating Qaddish and Barekhu for Latecomers to Synagogue,” Stefan C. Reif, “From Manuscript Codex to Printed Volume: A Novel Liturgical Transition?,” Vivian B. Mann, “Between Worshipper and Wall: The Place of Art in Liturgical Spaces,” Ruth Langer, “Sinai, Zion, and God in the Synagogue: Celebrating Torah In Ashkenaz,” Naomi Feuchtwanger, “ ‘May He Grow To the Torah…’: The Iconography of Torah Reading and Bar Mitzvah on Ashkenazi Torah Binders,” Mark L. Kligman, “Prayers in an Arab Mode: Liturgical Performance of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn,” Jonathan D. Sarna, “Jewish Prayers for the United States Government: A Study in the Liturgy of Politics and the Politics of Liturgy,” Joseph Tabory, “The Piety of Politics: Jewish Prayers for the State of Israel,” and Saul Philip Wachs, “Birkat Nahem: The Politics of Liturgy in Modern Israel.”

Lebow, Richard Ned, Wulf Kansteiner and Claudio Fogu, eds. The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xi, 366pp.

Contents: Richard Ned Lebow, “The Memory of Politics in Postwar Europe,” Heidemarie Uhl, “From Victim Myth to Co-Responsibility Thesis: Nazi Rule, World War II, and the Holocaust in Austrian Memory,” Richard J. Golsan, “The Legacy of World War II in France: Mapping the Discourses of Memory,” Wulf Kansteiner, “Losing the War, Winning the Memory Battle: The Legacy of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust in the Federal Republic of Germany,” Claudio Fogu, “Italiani brava gente: The Legacy of Fascist Historical Culture on Italian Politics of Memory,” Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, “New Threads on an Old Loom: National Memory and Social Identity in Postwar and Post-Communist Poland,” Regula Ludi, “What Is So Special about Switzerland? Wartime Memory as a National Ideology in the Cold War Era,” Thomas C. Wolfe, “Past as Present, Myth, or History? Discourses of Time and the Great Fatherland War,” and Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner, “The Politics of Memory and the Poetics of History.”

Lerner, Michael, ed. Tikkun Reader: Twentieth Anniversary. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007. viii, 368pp.

Contents: Michael Lerner, “Introduction,” Jorge N. Ferrer, “An Ocean with Many Shores,” Amitai Etzioni, “A God that is More than Loving,” Kirk J. Schneider, “Enchanted Agnosticism,” Harvey Gallagher Cox, “Pentecostalism and the Future of Christianity,” Daniel C. Matt, “The God Beyond God,” Robert Inchausti, “Redemption and Ontological Mystery,” Michael S. Kimmel, “The Kindest Un-Cut,” Jonathan Schorsch, “Making Judaism Cool,” Judith Plaskow, “Burning in Hell, Conservative Movement Style: Belief that Jews and Homosexuals Deserve Eternal Punishment,” Ruth Knafo-Setton, “Ten Ways to Recognize a Sephardic ‘Jew-ess’: a Short Story,” Nan Fink Gefen, “Crossing the Ethnic Divide: A Meditation on Anti-Semitism,” Gershon Winkler, “Notes on Jewish Spirituality,” Daphne Merkin, “The Woman in the Balcony: On Reading the Song of Songs,” Arthur Green, “A Kabbalah for the Environmental Age,” Joel R. Primack, “Quantum Cosmology and Kabbalah,” Arthur Waskow. “Religious Restoration or Religious Renewal: Orthodoxy versus Pluralism in Judaism,” Or Rose, “On the Growing Edge of Judaism: Reb Zalman at Eighty,” Estelle Frankel, “Life as a Sacred Narrative,” Rachel Adler, “In Your Blood, Live: Re-Visions of a Theology of Purity,” Naomi Wolf, “Starting on My Spiritual Path,” Zygmunt Bauman, “The Holocaust’s Life as a Ghost – Lingering Psychological Effects,” Lawrence L. Langer, “Tainted Legacy: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto,” Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, “The Paradigm Challenged – Study of the Holocaust,” Kim Chernin, “Seven Pillars of Jewish Denial,” Mohammed Abu-Nimer, “We the Peacemakers,” Tony Campolo, “The Ideological Roots of Christian Zionism,” Yitzhak Frankenthal, “Compromise for Peace,” Cherie R. Brown, “Healing Israel,” Michael Lerner, “An Interview on Spiritual Politics with Cornel West,” Daniel Berrigan, “Contemporary Developments in American Spirituality,” David C. Korten, “Economics of Meaning,” William M. Sullivan, “Experts and Citizens: Rethinking Professionalism,” Deepak Chopra, “Healing Our Hearts,” Jim Wallis, “Be Not Afraid,” Lama Surya Das, “The Force of Nonviolence,” Andrew Kimbrell, “Confronting Evil,” Jonathan Schell, “Power and Cooperation,” Peter Gabel, “Spiritualizing Foreign Policy,” Vandana Shiva, “Earth Democracy,” Roger S. Gottlieb, “A Spirituality of Resistance,” Fritjof Capra, “The Challenge of the Twenty-First Century,” Jackson Lears, “Techno-Utopia?,” Julian Levinson, “After the End of History,” and Neale Donald Walsch, “Millenial Possibilities.”

Lipsker, Avidov and Rella Kushelevsky, eds. Studies in Jewish Narrative: Ma’aseh Sippur. Ramat Gan, Israel: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2006. lix, 541pp.

Contents: Ofra Meir, “The Connection between the Prohibition against Worshipping Idols and the Death of Sages: On the Editorial Considerations of a Talmudic Issue in the Palestinian Talmud,” Avigdor Shinan, “Four Stories on the Causes and Results of the Destruction of the Temple,” Aliza Shenhar, “R. Eliezer’s Secret,” Avraham Grossman, “A Typological Legend about the Conversion of the Son of R. Gershom Me’or ha-Golah,” Tamar Alexander, “ ‘A Hasid Appeared in a Dream’: Dream Narratives in Sefer Hasidism,” Yoav Elstein and Ariela Krasney, “The Ma’aseh Buch: Mapping and Basic Problems,” Moshe Idel, “The Besht as a Prophet and as a Talismanic Magician,” Lewis Gilbert, “The Hasidic Tale and the Sociolinguistic Modernization of the Jews of Eastern Europe,” Chana Hendler, “The Hasidic Story – Between Literary Design and Spiritual Idea: Case Study of Three Versions of the Theme ‘A Treasure under the Bridge’,” Naomi Zohar, “A New Shulhan Arukh: A Study of Israel Gelbart’s He-Hasid ve-ha-Maskil,” Avidov Lipsker, “How One Becomes a Perfect Zaddik – Typology of the Changes that Occurred in the Transition of Themes from the East to the West: A Comparative Study of the Themes ‘Nathan of the Radiance’ and ‘The Radiant Robe’,” Rella Kushelevsky, “Gaps Between Versions Constituting a Thematic Series: A Study of the Legend ‘Solomon and Asmedai’,” Devora Matza, “The Story of Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife,” Karl E. Grözinger, “The Transfer of Cultural Patterns via Folktales among Ashkenazic Jewry,” Haya Bar-Itzhak, “From a Folk Legend to a Writer’s Legend: A Study of Agnon’s Ha-Minyan,” Isodor Levin, “How Should Folklore be Properly Studied: Comments on a Collection of Yiddish Folk Songs,” Avner Holtzman, “The Images of the Shtetl in Berdyczewski’s Works: A Tri-Lingual Perspective,” Yigal Schwartz, “ ‘We Were Driven Away without Anyone Saying to Us: Get Out’: Two Adaptations of a Biographical Trauma in Aharon Appelfield’s Works,” Avraham Holtz, “Balak the Dog Reveals the Demon’s Secret,” Ziva Shamir, “Starting from the Beginning: On Bialik’s Midrashic Legend Sefer Bereshit,” Hillel Weiss, “A Digital Princess in Agnon’s Works: The Contribution of the Computer to Textual Interpretation,” Tamar Wolf-Monzon, “Archetypal Images as Poetic Codes: A Reading of Uri Zvi Greenberg’s Shirei ha-Gavrut ha-Olah and Tur Malka,” Roman Katzman, “The Dance of Myths: Mythopoesis and Narrative Ethics – Agnon’s Meholat ha-Mavet and Leilot,” Yoav Elstein, “A Bibliography of Hasidic Literature in Alphabetical, Chronological, and Genealogical Order,” and Joseph Bamberger, “A List of Yoav Elstein’s Publications.”

Lorge, Michael M. and Gary P. Zola, eds. A Place of Our Own: The Rise of Reform Jewish Camping. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2006. ix, 228pp.

Contents: Gary P. Zola, “Jewish Camping and Its Relationship to the Organized Camping Movement in America,” Jonathan D. Sarna, “The Crucial Decade in Jewish Camping,” Michael M. Lorge and Gary P. Zola, “The Beginnings of Union Institute in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 1952-1970: Creation and Coalescence of the First UAHC Camp,” Michael Zeldin, “Making the Magic in Reform Jewish Summer Camps,” Hillel Gamoran, “The Road to Chalutzim: Reform Judaism’s Hebrew-Speaking Program,’ Donald M. Splansky, “Creating a Prayer Experience in Reform Movement Camps and Beyond,” Judah M. Cohen, “Singing Out for Judaism: A History of Song Leaders and Song Leading at Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute,” and Gerard W. Kaye, “Postscript: Reflections on Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute.”

McLeod, Hugh, ed. The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 9 – World Christianities c.1914 - c.2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xviii, 717pp.

Contents: Hugh McLeod, “Introduction,” Hugh McLeod, “Being a Christian in the early twentieth century,” John Pollard, “The papacy,” David M. Thompson, “Ecumenism,” Kevin Ward, “Christianity, colonialism and missions,” Allan Anderson, “The Pentecostal and Charismatic movements,” Allan Anderson and Edmond Tang, “Independency in Africa and Asia,” Michael Snape, “The Great War,” Martin Conway, “The Christian churches and politics in Europe, 1914-1939,” Christopher Abel, “Latin America c. 1914-c.1950,” Ogbu U. Kalu, “African Christianity: from the world wars to decolonization,” Roswith Gerloff, “The African diaspora in the Caribbean and Europe from pre-emancipation to the present day,” Colleen McDannell, “Christianity in the United States during the inter-war years,” Katharine Massam, “Christian churches in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, 1914-1970,” Andrew Chandler, “Catholicism and Protestantism in the Second World War,” Dianne Kirby, “The Cold War, the hegemony of the United States and the golden age of Christian democracy,” Michael Walsh, “The religious ferment of the sixties,” Hugh McLeod, “The crisis of Christianity in the West: entering a post-Christian era?,” Philip Walters, “The revolutions in eastern Europe and the beginnings of the post-communist era,” Edward L. Cleary, “The transformation of Latin American Christianity, c.1950-2000,” Steve De Gruchy, “Religion and racism: struggles around segregation, ‘Jim Crow’ and apartheid,” David Maxwell, “Post-colonial Christianity in Africa,” Chandra Mallampalli, “South Asia, 1911-2003,” John Roxborough, “Christianity in south-east Asia, 1914-2000,” Richard Fox Young, “East Asia,” Bryan D. Spinks, “Liturgy,” Daniel R. Langton, “Relations between Christians and Jews, 1914-2000,” David Thomas, “Relations between Christians and Muslims,” David Cheetham, “Relations between Christians and Buddhists and Hindus,” David Cheetham, “Theologies of religions,” Duncan B. Forrester, “Wealth and poverty,” Adrian Thatcher, “Marriage and the family,” David Hilliard, “Homosexuality,” Pirjo Markkola, “Patriarchy and women’s emancipation,” Pirjo Markkola, “The Church as women’s space,” Peter J. Bowler, “Christianity and the sciences,” David Jasper, “Literature and film,” Andrew Wilson-Dickson, “Music and Christianity in the twentieth century,” Jutta Vinzent, “Christianity and art,” Nigel Yates, “Church architecture,” Hugh McLeod, “Role models,” and Hugh McLeod, “Being a Christian at the end of the twentieth century.”

Nelson, Louis P., ed. American Sanctuary: Understanding Sacred Spaces. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. xi, 280pp.

Contents: Louis P. Nelson, “Introduction,” Gretchen Buggeln, “New England Orthodoxy and the Language of the Sacred,” Paula A. Mohr, “God in Gotham: The Design of Sacred Space in New York’s Central Park,” Jennifer Cousineau, “The Urban Practice of Jewish Space,” John Beardsley, “Salvage/Salvation: Recent African Yard Shows,” Joanne Punzo Waghorne, “Spaces for a New Public Presence: The Sri Siva Vishnu and Murugan Temples in Metropolitan Washington, D.C.,” Paula M. Kane, “Getting beyond Gothic: Challenges for Contemporary Catholic Church Architecture,” Louis P. Nelson, “Word, Shape, and Image: Anglican Constructions of the Sacred,” Erika Meitner, “The Mezuzah: American Judaism and Constructions of Domestic Sacred Space,” Jeffrey F. Meyer, “Mythic Pieties of Permanence: Memorial Architecture and the Struggle for Meaning,” and Jeanne Halgren Kilde, “Reading Megachurches: Investigating the Religious and Cultural Work of Church Architecture.”

Neusner, Jacob, ed. Religious Foundations of Western Civilizaion: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2006. ix, 686pp.

Contents: William Scott Green, “What Do We Mean by ‘Religion’ and ‘Western Civilization’?,” Jacob Neusner, “Judaism,” Bruce Chilton, “Christianity: What It Is and How It Defines Western Civilization,” Th. Emil Homerin, “Islam: What It Is and How It Has Interacted with Western Civilization,” Alan J. Avery-Peck, “Judaism,” Bruce Chilton, “Chrisitianity,” Th. Emil Homerin, “Islam,” Seymour Feldman, “Philosophy: Averroes, Maimonides, and Aquinas,” Elliot R. Wolfson, “Mysticism as a Meeting Ground: Seeing the Unseen,” James A. Brundage, “Latin Christianity, the Crusades, and the Islamic Response,” Olivia Remie Contable, “Judaism, Christianity, and Islan in Spain from the Eighth to the Fifteenth Centuries,” Amila Buturovic, “Christianity and Islam in the Balkans from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries,” Jacob Neusner, “Zionism,” Bruce Chilton, “Christian Imperialism,” Th. Emil Homerin, “Political Islam,” Bruce Chilton, “The Modernization of Christianity,” Jacob Neusner, “The Modernization of Judaism,” Th. Emil Homerin, “The Modernization of Islam,” Jon D. Levenson, “Judaism Addresses Christianity,” Bruce Chilton, “Christianity Meets Other Religions,” and Th. Emil Homerin, “Islam and Pluralism.”

Patel, Eboo and Patrice Brodeur, eds. Building the Interfaith Youth Movement: Beyond Dialogue to Action. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. vii, 276pp.

Contents: Patrice Brodeur and Eboo Patel, “Introduction,” Eboo Patel, “Affirming Identity, Achieving Pluralism,” James P. Keen, “Young Adult Development, Religious Identity, and Interreligious Solidarity in an Interfaith Learning Community,” J. Nathan Kline, “Theologies of Interreligious Encounters and Their Relevance to Youth,” Patrice Brodeur, “Towards a Transnational Interfaith Youth Network in Higher Education,” Zulfikhar Akram and Ramola Sundram, “The Gujarat Young Adult Project of the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF),” Sarah Talcott, “Youth Leadership,” Josh Borkin, “The Next Generation,” Grove Harris, “Youth and the Pluralism Project,” Karen Wood, “Seminarians Interacting,” Victor H. Kazanijian, Jr., “Towards a Multifaith Community at Wellesley College,” Savva Amusin, Sarah Bier, Arielle Hertzberg, Rozina Kanchwala, Nicholas Price, and Alison Siegel, “Bringing Interfaith to the University of Illinois,” Alison L. Boden, “Articulating What Is at Stake in Interreligious Work,” Jane S. Rechtman, “Teaching World Religions,” David Streight, “Secondary School Teacher Training in Religious Studies,” Matthew Weiner and Timur Yuskaev, “Training Teachers in American Religious Diversity,” Eboo Patel and Mariah Neuroth, “The Interfaith Youth Core,” Julie Eberly, “The Interfaith Youth Leadership Council of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington,” Joe Hall and Andrew Unger, “The Sacred Stories Project of the Ghetto Film School,” Annapurna Astley, “Spirit into Action,” Sidney Schwartz, “E. Pluribus Unum,” Lori Eisenberg, “The Chicago Interfaith Service House,” Katharine Henderson and Melodye Feldman, “Face to Face / Faith to Faith,” Paul Raushenbush, “Ask Pastor Paul,” and Eboo Patel, “Conclusion.”

Rashkover, Randi and C.C. Pecknold, eds. Liturgy, Time, and the Politics of Redemption. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2006. ix, 254pp.

Contents: Randi Rashkover, “Introduction: The Future of the Word and the Liturgical Turn,” Graham Ward, “A Christian Act: Politics and Liturgical Practice,” Peter Ochs, “Morning Prayer as Redemptive Thinking,” Scott Bader-Saye, “Figuring Time: Providence and Politics,” Steven Kepnes, “Rosenzweig’s Liturgical Reasoning as Response to Augustine’s Temporal Aporias,” Robert Gibbs, “Eternity in History: Rolling the Scroll,” Ben Quash, “Holy Seeds: The Trisagion and the Liturgical Untilling of Time,” Samuel Wells, “For Such a Time as This: Esther and the Practices of Improvisation,” Shaul Magid, “The Ritual is Not the Hunt: The Seven Wedding Blessings, Redemption, and Jewish Ritual as Fantasy,” Oliver Davies, “Cosmic Speech and the Liturgy of Silence,” and C.C. Pecknold, “Liturgy, Time, and the Politics of Redemption: Concluding Unscientific Postscript.”

Safran, Gabriella and Steven J. Zipperstein, eds. The Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xxxii, 541pp.

Contents: Steven J. Zipperstein, “Introduction: An-sky and the Guises of Modern Jewish Culture,” David G. Roskies, “An-sky, Sholem Aleichem, and the Master Narrative of Russian Jewry,” Sylvie Anne Goldberg, “Paradigmatic Times: An-sky’s Two Worlds,” Gabriella Safran, “An-sky in 1892: The Jew and the Petersburg Myth,” Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, “ ‘We Are Too Late’: An-sky and the Paradigm of No Return,” Brian Horowitz, “Spiritual and Physical Strength in An-sky’s Literary Imagination,” Mikhail Krutikov, “The Russian Jew as a Modern Hero: Identity Construction in An-sky’s Writings,” Jonathan Frankel, “ ‘Youth in Revolt’: An-sky’s In shtrom and the Instant Fictionalization of 1905,” Seth L. Wolitz, “Inscribing An-sky’s Dybbuk in Russian and Jewish Letters,” Izaly Zemtovsky, “The Musical Strands of An-sky’s Texts and Contexts,” Michael C. Steinlauf, “’Fardibekt!’: An-sky’s Polish Legacy,” Vladislav Ivanov (translated by Anne Eakin Moss), “An-sky, Evgeny Vakhtangov, and The Dybbuk,” Nathaniel Deutsch, “An-sky and the Ethnography of Jewish Women,” Benjamin Lukin, “ ‘An Academy Where Folklore Will be Studied’: An-sky and the Jewish Museum,” John E. Bowlt, “Ethnic Loyalty and International Modernism: The An-sky Expeditions and the Russian Avant-Garde,” Cecile E. Kuznitz, “An-sky’s Legacy: the Vilna Historic-Ethnographic Society and the Shaping of Modern Jewish Culture,” and Jack Kugelmass, “The Father of Jewish Ethnography?”

Satori, Eva Martin and Madeleine Cottenet-Hage, eds. Daughters of Sarah: Anthology of Jewish Women Writing in French. Teaneck, NJ: Homes & Meier, 2006. xxix, 271pp.

Contents: Eugénie Foa, “The Jewess,” Pauline Franck, “A Woman’s Life,” Julienne Bloch, “Letter to Monsieur Eugène de Mirecourt,” Elissa Rhaïs, “Children of Palestine,” Irène Némirovsky, “Fraternité,” Sarah Lévy, “Beloved,” Clara Malraux, “And Yet, I Was Free,” Jacqueline Mednil-Amar, “Those Who Sleep Through the Night,” Simone Weil, “What Is a Jew,” Simone Weil, “Israel,” Anna Langfus, “The Lost Shore,” Viviane Forrester, “Tonight, After the War,” Liliane Atlan, “Mister Fugue,” Sarah Kofman, “Rue Ordener, rue Labat,” Hélène Cixous, “Dawn of Pallocentrism,” Hélène Cixous, “Bare Feet,” Elisabeth Gille, “Shadows of a Childhood,” Régine Robin, “Yiddishkeit,” Michèle Sarde, “The Disaster,” Annie Cohen, “La Rivière des Cobelins,” Paula Jacques, “Light of My Eye,” Brigitte Peskine, “The Sweet Waters of Europe,” and Chochana Boukhobza, “A Summer in Jerusalem.”

Seeskin, Kenneth, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xv, 406pp.

Contents: Kenneth Seeskin, “Introduction,” Joel L. Kraemer, “Moses Maimonides: An Intellectual Portrait,” Alfred L. Ivry, “The Guide and Maimonides’ Philosophical Sources,” Kenneth Seeskin, “Metaphysics and Its Transcendence,” Josef Stern, “Maimonides’ Epistemology,” Gad Freudenthal, “Maimonides’ Philosophy of Science,” David Shatz, “Maimondes’ Moral Theory,” Haim Kreisel, “Maimonides’ Political Philosophy,” David Novak, “Jurisprudence,” Sara Klein-Braslavy, “Bible Commentary,” Menachem Kellner, “Spiritual Life,” Aviezer Ravitzky, “Maimondes: Esotericism and Educational Philosophy,” and Seymour Feldman, “Maimonides – A Guide for Posterity.”

Stein, Rebecca L. and Ted Swedenburg, eds. Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 413pp.

Contents: Rebecca L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg, “Introduction: Popular Culture, Transnationality, and Radical History,” Salim Tamari, “Wasif Jawhariyyeh, Popular Music, and Early Modernity in Jerusalem,” Mark LeVine, “The Palestinian Press in Mandatory Jaffa: Advertising, Nationalism and the Public Sphere,” Ilan Pappé, “Post-Zionism and Its Popular Culture,” Carol Bardenstein, “Cross/Cast: Passing in Israeli and Palestinian Cineman,” Laleh Khalili, “Virtual Nation: Palestinian Cyberculture in Lebanese Camps,” Livia Alexander, “Is There a Palestinian Cinema? The National and Transnational in Palestinian Film Production,” Joseph Massad, “Liberating Songs: Palestine Put to Music,” Amy Horowitz, “Dueling Nativities: Zehava Ben Sings Umm Kulthum,” Ted Swedenberg, “Against Hybridity: The Case of Enrico Macias / Gaston Ghrenassia,” Rebecca L. Stein, “ ‘First Contact’ and Other Israeli Fictions: Tourism, Globalization, and the Middle East Peace Process,” Melani McAlister, “Prophecy, Politics, and the Popular: The Left Behind Series and Christian Evangelicalism’s New World Order,” Mary Layoun, “Telling Stories in Palestine: Comix Understanding and Narratives of Palestine-Israel,” and Elliot Colla, “Sentimentality and Redemption: The Rhetoric of Egyptian Pop Culture Intifada Solidarity.”

Troxel, Ronald L., Kelvin G. Friebel and Dennis R. Magary, eds. Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2005. xxviii, 507pp.

Contents: Menahem Haran, “Observations on Ezekiel as a Book Prophet,” Kelvin G. Friebel, “The Decrees of Yahweh That Are ‘Not Good’: Ezekiel 20:25-26,” Cynthia L. Miller, “Ellipsis Involving Negation in Biblical Poetry,” Theron Young, “Psalm 18 and 2 Samuel 22: Two Versions of the Same Song,” Adele Berlin, “The Wisdom of Creation in Psalm 104,” William P. Brown, “ ‘Come, O Children… I Will Teach You the Fear of the Lord’ (Psalm 34:12): Comparing Psalms and Proverbs,” James L. Crenshaw, “A Proverb in the Mouth of a Fool,” John A. Cook, “Genericity, Tense, and Verbal Patterns in the Sentence Literature of Proverbs,” Robert D. Holmstedt, “Word Order in the Book of Proverbs,” Shamir Yona, “Exegetical and Stylistic: Analysis of a Number of Aphorisms in the Book of Proverbs: Mitigation of Monotony in Repetitions in Parallel Texts,” Christine Roy Yoder, “Forming ‘Fearers of Yaweh’: Repetition and Contradiction as Pedagogy in Proverbs,” Carole R. Fontaine, “Visual Metaphors and Proverbs 5:15-20: Some Archaeological Reflections on Gendered Iconography,” Nili Shupak, “The Instruction of Amenomope and Proverbs 22:17-24:22 from the Perspective of Contemporary Research,” Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, “The Woman of Valor and A Woman Large of Head: Matchmaking in the Ancient Near East,” Tova Forti, “The Fly and the Dog: Observations on Ideational Polarity in the Book of Qoheleth,” Richard L. Schultz, “A Sense of Timing: A Neglected Aspect of Qoheleth’s Wisdom,” J. Cheryl Exum, “The Little Sister and Solomon’s Vineyard: Song of Songs 8:8-12 as a Lover’s Dialogue,” Dennis R. Magary, “Answering Questions, Questioning Answers: The Rhetoric of Interrogatives in the Speeches of Job and His Friends,” Theodore J. Lewis, “The Mysterious Disappearance of Zerubbabel,” Sidnie White Crawford, “Textual Criticism of the Book of Deuteronom and the Oxford Hebrew Bible Project,” Ronald L. Troxel, “What’s in a Name? Contemporarization and Toponyms in LXX-Isaiah,” Karl. V. Kutz, “Characterization in the Old Greek of Job,” Heidi M. Szpek, “On the Influence of Job on Jewish Hellenistic Literature,” Claudia V. Camp, “Becoming Canon: Women, Texts, and Scribes in Proverbs and Sirach,” Leonard Greenspoon, “Translating Biblical Words of Wisdom into the Modern World,” Johann Cook, “The Text-Critical Value of Septuagint of Proverbs,” Stephen G. Burnett, “Christian Aramaism: The Birth and Growth of Aramaic Scholarship in the Sixteenth Century,” Carol A. Newsom, “Spying out the Land: A Report from Genealogy,” Shemaryahu Talmon, “What’s in a Calendar? Calendar Conformity, Calendar Controversy, and Calander Reform in Ancient and Medieval Judaism,” and Frederick E. Greenspahn, “Competing Commentaries.”

Walzer, Michael, ed. Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. vii, 217pp.

Contents: Robert M. Cover, “Obligation: A Jewish Jurisprudence of the Social Order,” Suzanne Last Stone, “Judaism and Civil Society,” Noam J. Zohar, “Civil Society and Government,” David Biale, “Autonomy and Modernity,” David Novak, “Land and People,” Noam J. Zohar, “Contested Boundaries: Visions of a Shared World,” Menachem Fisch, “Diversity, Tolerance, and Sovereignty,” Adam B. Seligman, “Responses to Modernity,” David Novak, “Judaism and Cosmopolitanism,” Michael Walzer, “Commanded and Permitted Wars,” Aviezer Ravitzky, “Prohibited Wars,” and Geoffrey B. Levey, “Judaism and the Obligation to Die for the State.”

Zohar, Noam J., ed. Quality of Life in Jewish Bioethics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. xiv, 139pp.

Contents: Noam J. Zohar, “ The Expanding Goals of Medicine and the Quest for Refocusing Jewish Bioethics,” Paul Root Wolpe, “Understanding ‘Quality of Life’: Does It Have a Role in Medical Decision-Making?,” Noam J. Zohar, “Is Enjoying Life a Good Thing? Quality-of-Life Questions for Jewish Normative Discourse,” Laurie Zoloth, “The Shomer – Qualities of Mercy and Qualities of Life: Arguments from Jewish Bioethics,” William Cutter, “Do the Qualities of Story Influence the Quality of Life? Some Perspectives on the Limitations and Enhancements of Narrative Ethics,” Elliot N. Dorff, “The Place of Hope in Patient Care: A Review Essay of Jerome Groopman’s The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness (New York: Random House, 2004),” Dayle A. Friedman, “Balancing Parents’ and Children’s Quality of Life: Dilemmas in Caregiving,” Deena Zimmerman, “Family Obligations and Caregivers’ Quality of Life: Thoughts from Halakhic Sources,” Thomar R. Cole and Robin Solomon, “Reflections on Enhancement, Authenticity, and Aging,” Mordechai Halperin, “The Theological and Halakhic Legitimacy of Medical Therapy and Enhancement,” and Louis E. Newman, “Therapy and Enhancement: Jewish Values on the Power and Purpose of Medicine.”