AJS Review • Collected Studies
September – October 2009

Bacon, Gershon, Daniel Sperber and Aharon Gaimani (eds.),  Mechkarim be-toldot yehudi ashkenaz: sefer yovel likvod Yitzhak (Eric) Zimmer (Studies On The History of The Jews of Ashkenaz: Presented to Eric Zimmer), Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 2008, 290 pp.  ISBN: 978-965-226-307-0

Contents: “Introduction,” Elisheva Baumgarten, “Women’s Rites- The Custom of the “Sabbath of the Parturient,” and its Cultural Context in Early Modern Europe,” Jay R. Berkovitz, “The Conception of Minhag in the Halakhic System of Rabbi Ya’ir Hayyim Bacharach,” Avraham Grossman, “‘And He Shall Rule over You’: Between Theory and Reality,” Yaakov Gartner, “Did an Early Ashkenazic Custom Influence the Text of the Mishnah? Study of Tractate Makkot, Chapter 3, Mishnah 14,” Jeffrey Woolf, “The Prohibition of Gentile Bread during the Ten Days of Repentance: On the Genesis and Significance of a Custom,” Moshe Hallamish, “The Kabbalah in Leqet Yosher,” Bracha Yaniv, “The Mappa (Wrapper) and the Torah Mantle in Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages,” Shulamit Laderman, “What Do Jewish Artistic Findings Teach Us About Head Covering For Men?,” Simcha Emanuel, “Invalidating a Marriage Agreement,” Ephraim Kanarfogel, “Esotericism and Magic in Ashkenazic Prayer During the Tosafist Period,” Yosef Rivlin, “Deeds Enactments and Customs as Reflected in the Jewish Shetarot,” Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, “The Leader and the Marginal Person: The Attitude of the Leadership in Medieval Jewish Ashkenaz to Involuntary Marginal Individuals in their Community,” Shimon Schwarzfuchs, “The Minhag and the Rabbis: The Case of Metz,” Tamar Salmon-Mack, “Captive Jewish Women in the 17th Century: Dilemmas of Religion, Custom and Compassion,” Israel Ta-Shma, “On the Book “Pnei Yehoshua” and its Author,” “The Words of Prof. Eric Zimmer: Bibliography.” 

Boccaccini, Gabriele and Giovanni Ibba (eds.),  Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees, Grand Rapids MI, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2009, xxi, 474 pp.  ISBN: 978-0-8028-6409-3

Contents: Gabriele Boccaccini, “Preface: The Enigma of Jubilees and the Lesson of the Enoch Seminar,” James C. VanderKam, “The Manuscript Tradition of Jubilees,” Michael Segal, “The Composition of Jubilees,” John S. Bergsma, “The Relationship Between Jubilees and the Early Enochic Books (Astronomical Book and Book of the Watchers),” Matthias Henze, “Daniel and Jubilees,” James M. Scott, “The Chronologies of the Apocalypse of Weeks and the Book of Jubilees,” Esther Eshel, “The Aramaic Levi Document, the Genesis Apocryphon, and Jubilees: A Study of Shared Traditions,” Lawrence H. Schiffman, “The Book of Jubilees and the Temple Scroll,” Benjamin G. Wright III, “Jubilees, Sirach, and Sapiential Tradition,” Andrei A. Orlov, “The Heavenly Counterpart of Moses in the Book of Jubilees,” Lester L. Grabbe, “Jubilees and the Samaritan Tradition,” Helge S. Kvanvig, “Enochic Judaism- a Judaism without the Torah and the Temple?,” William K. Gilders, “The Concept of Covenant in Jubilees,” Gabriele Boccaccini, “From a Movement of Dissent to a Distinct Form of Judaism: The Heavenly Tablets in Jubilees as the Foundation of a Competing Halakhah,” Jacques van Ruiten, “Abram’s Prayer: The Coherence of the Pericopes in Jubilees 12:16-27,” Hindy Najman, “Reconsidering Jubilees: Prophecy and Exemplarity,” Aharon Shemesh, “4Q265 and the Authoritative Status of Jubilees at Qumran,” Lutz Doering, “Purity and Impurity in the Book of Jubilees,” Jonathan Ben-Dov, “Tradition and Innovation in the Calendar of Jubilees,” Loren T. Stuckenbruck, “The Book of Jubilees and the Origin of Evil,” Betsy Halpern-Amaru, “The Festivals of Pesach and Massot in the Book of Jubilees,” John C. Endres, “Eschatalogical Impulses in Jubilees,” Kelley Coblentz Bautch, “Amplified Roles, Idealized Depictions: Women in the Book of Jubilees,” Annette Yoshiko Reed, “Enochic and Mosaic Traditions in Jubilees: The Evidence of Angelology and Demonology,” Erik Larson, “Worship in Jubilees and Enoch,” Martha Himmelfarb, “The Book of Jubilees and Early Jewish Mysticism,” David W. Suter, “Jubilees, the Temple, and the Aaronite Priesthood,” David R. Jackson, “Jubilees and Enochic Judaism,”  Eyal Regev, “Jubilees, Qumran, and the Essences,” Veronika Bachmann and Isaac W. Oliver, “The Book of Jubilees: A Bibliography, 1850-Present.” 

Bohlman, Philip V. (ed.), Jewish Musical Modernism: Old and New, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008, xix, 281 pp.  ISBN: 978-0-226-06326-3

Contents: Philip V. Bohlman, “Introduction: The Transcendent Moment of Jewish Mysticism,” Mitchell G. Ash, “Multiple Modernisms?  Episodes from the Sciences as Cultures, 1900-1945,” Edwin Seroussi, “Sephardic Fins des Siecles: The Liturgical Music of Vienna’s Turkisch-Israelitische Community on the Threshold of Modernity,” Pamela M. Potter, “Jewish Music and German Science,” Kay Kaufman Shelemay, “Echoes From Beyond Europe: Music and the Beta Israel Transformation,” Michael P. Steinberg, “Charlotte Salomon’s Modernism,” Philip V. Bohlman, “Epilogue: Beyond Jewish Modernism.” 

Brandon, Ray and Wendy Lower (eds.), The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization, Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 2008, ix, 378 pp.  ISBN: 978-0-253-35084-8

Contents: Ray Brandon and Wendy Lower, “Introduction,” Dieter Pohl, “The Murder of Ukraine’s Jews Under German Military Administration and in the Reich Commissariat Ukraine,” Timothy Snyder, “The Life and Death of Western Volhynian Jewry 1921-1945),” Frank Golczewski, “Shades of Grey: Reflections on Jewish-Ukrainian and German-Ukrainian Relations in Galicia,” Dennis Deletant, “Transnistria and the Romanian Solution to the “Jewish Problem,”” Andrej Angrick, “Annihilation and Labor: Jews and Thoroughfare IV in Central Ukraine,” Wendy Lower, “ ‘On Him Rests the Weight of the Administration’: Nazi Civilian Rules and the Holocaust in Zhytomyr,” Martin Dean, “Soviet Ethnic Germans and the Holocaust in the Reich Commissariat Ukraine, 1941-1944,” Alexander Kruglov, “Jewish Losses in Ukraine 1941-1944,”  Karel C. Berkhoff, “Dina Pronicheva’s Story of Surviving the Babi Yar Massacre: German, Jewish, Soviet, Russian, and Ukrainian Records,” Omer Bartov, “White Spaces and Black Holes: Eastern Galicia’s Past and Present.”

Davis, Michael Thomas and Brent A. Strawn (eds.), Qumran Studies: New Approaches, New Questions, Grand Rapids MI, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007, xxvii, 296 pp.  ISBN: 978-0—80280-6080-4

Contents: Michael Thomas Davis and Brent A. Strawn, “Introduction,” John B. Faulkenberry Miller, “4QLXXLev (a) and Proto-Septuagint Studies: Reassessing Qumran Evidence for the Urtext Theory,” Henry W. Morisada Rietz, “Identifying Compositions and Traditions of the Qumran Community: The Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice as a Test Case,” Brent A. Strawn with Henry W. Morisada Rietz, “(More Sectarian Terminology in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice: The Case of Tamimi Derekh,” Brent A. Strawn, “Excerpted ‘Non-Biblical’ Scrolls At Qumran?  Background, Analogies, Function,” Loren T. Stuckenbruck, “Temporal Shifts from Text to Interpretation: Concerning the Use of the Perfect and Imperfect in Habbakuk Pesher (1QpHab),” Michael A. Daise, “The Temporal Relationship between the Covenant Renewal Rite and the Initiation Process in 1QS,” Shane A. Berg, “An Elite Group Within the Yachad, Revisiting 1QS 8-9,” C.D. Elledge, “The Prince of the Congregation: Qumran “Messianism” In the Context of Milchama,” Lidija Novakovic, “4Q521: The Works of the Messiah or the Signs of the Messianic Time,” Carsten Claussen and Michael Thomas Davis, “The Concept of Unity At Qumran,” Loren L. Johns, “Identity and Resistance: The Varieties of Competing Models in Early Judaism.” 

Delany, Sheila (ed.), Turn It Again: Jewish Medieval Studies and Literary Theory, Eugene OR, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2004, 234 pp.  978-1-55635-442-7

Contents: Sheila Delany, “Introduction,” William Chester Jordan, “Jewish Studies and the Medieval Historian,” Daniel Boyarin, “A Tale of Two Synods: Nicaea, 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,” Chanita Goodblatt, “Women, Demons and the Rabbi’s Son: Narratology and “A Story from Worms.” ”

Frank, Davniel and Matt Golidish (eds.), Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics: Jewish Authority, Dissent, and Heresy in Medieval and Modern Times, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2008, xv, 480 pp.  ISBN: 978-0-8143-3237-4

Contents: Daniel Frank and Matt Goldish, “Rabbinic Culture and Dissent: An Overview,” Adena Tanenbaum, “Arrogance, Bad Form, and Curricular Narrowness: Belletristic Critiques of Rabbinic Culture from Medieval Space and Provence,” Menachem Kellner, “Maimonides’ Critique of the Rabbinic Culture of His Day,” Ephraim Kanarfogel, “Varieties of Belief in Medieval Ashkenaz: The Case of Anthropomorphism,” Joseph Davis, “Drawing the Line: Views of Jewish Heresy and Belief among Medieval and early Modern Ashkenazic Jews,” Marina Rustow, “Laity versus Leadership in Eleventh-Century Jerusalem: Karaites, Rabbanites, and the Affair of the Ban on the Mount of Olives,” Daniel Frank, “Elijah Yerushalmi and Karaite Ambivalence Toward Rabbanite Literature,” Miriam Bodian, “From the Dossiers of the Inquisition: Crypto-Jewish Attacks on Ecclesiastical Authority,” Adam Sutcliffe, “Regulating Sociability: Rabbinical Authority and Jewish-Christian Interaction in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam,” Marc Saperstein, “The Treatment of ‘Heretical Views’ in the Sermons of Saul Levi Morteira of Amsterdam,” Steven Nadler, “Spinoza and the Rabbis: Immortality on the Amstel,” Allan Nadler, “The Besht as Spinozist: Abraham Krochmal’s Preface to He-Ketav ve-ha-Mikhtav: Introduction and Translation,” Matt Goldish, “Toward a Reevaluation of the Relationship between Kabbalah, Sabbateanism, and Heresy,” Harris Lenowitz, “Jacob Frank Fabricates a Golem,” Sid Z. Leiman, “When A Rabbi Is Accused of Heresy: The Stance of Rabbi Jacob Joshua Falk in the Emden-Eibeschuetz Controversy.” 

Kamesar, Adam (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Philo, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, xv, 301 pp.  ISBN: 987-0-521-67802-5

Contents: Adam Kamesar, “Introduction,” Daniel R. Schwartz, “Philo, His Family, and His Times,” James R. Royse, “The Works of Philo,” Adam Kamesar, “Biblical Interpretation in Philo,” Cristina Termini “Philo’s Thought within the Context of Middle Judaism,” Roberto Radice, “Philo’s Theology and Theory of Creation,” Carlos Levy, “Philo’s Ethics,” Folker Siegert, “Philo and the New Testament,” David T. Runia, “Philo and the Early Christian Fathers,” David Winston, “Philo and Rabbinic Literature.” 

Knoppers, Gary N. and Bernard M. Levinson (eds.), The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models For Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance, Winona Lake, IN, Eisenbrauns, 2007, xvi, 352 pp.  ISBN: 978-1-57506-140-5

Contents: Gary N. Knoppers and Bernard M. Levinson, “How, When, Where, and Why Did the Pentateuch Become the Torah?,” Konrad Schmid, “The Persian Imperial Authorization as a Historical Problem and a Biblical Construct: A Plea for Distinctions in the Current Debate,” David M. Carr, “The Rise of the Torah,” Anselm C. Hagedorn, “Local Law in an Imperial Context: The Role of Torah in the (Imagined) Persian Period,” Reinhard G. Kratz, “Temple and Torah: Reflections on the Legal Status of the Pentateuch between Elephantine and Qumran,” Gary N. Knoppers and Paul B. Harvey Jr., “The Pentateuch in Ancient Mediterranean Context: The Publication of Local Lawcodes,” Jean-Louis Ska, “From History Writing to Library Building: The End of History and the Birth of the Book,” Eckart Otto, “Scribal Scholarship in the Formation of Torah and Prophets: A Postexilic Scribal Debate between Priestly Scholarship and Literary Prophecy- The Example of the Book of Jeremiah and Its Relation to the Pentateuch,” Christophe Nihan, “The Torah between Samaria and Judah: Shechem and Gerizim in Deuteronomy and Joshua,” Joachim Schaper, “The “Publication” of Legal Texts in Ancient Judah,” Reinhard Pummer, “The Samaritans and Their Pentateuch,” Sebastian Gratz, “The Second Temple and the Legal Status of the Torah: The Hermeneutics of the Torah in the Books of Ruth and Ezra,” Arie van der Kooij, “The Septuagint of the Pentateuch and Ptolemaic Rule,” Sidnie White Crawford, “The Use of the Pentateuch in the Temple Scroll and the Damascus Document in the Second Century B.C.E.,” James W. Watts, “The Torah as the Rhetoric of Priesthood.” 

Lipsker, Avidov and Rella Kushelevsky (eds.), Ma’aseh sippur: machkorim b’siporet ha’yehudit: kerech bet (Studies in Jewish Narrative Volume II), Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009, 461 pp.  ISBN: 978-965-226-339-1

Contents: Uri Gershowitz, Arkady Kovelman, “Text Construction Mechanism and Metaphoric Principles in the Structure of the Mishnah: A Formalistic Analysis of Tractate Kiddushin,” Hananel Mak, “Cain and Abel: One Murder and Four Betrayals,” Admiel Kosman, “R. Akiba and Kalba Sabua’s Daughter (BT Ketubbot): Toward a Clarification of the Concept of Love in the Talmud Story,” Ido Hevroni, “The Reed, the Cedar and the Wind: On the Relation between ‘Torah’ and ‘Olam’ in a Talmudic Story (BT Ta’anit 20a-b),” Tamar Meir, “The Individuals Fast: A Consideration of the Cycle of Stories in the Yerushalmi (Ta’anit I,4;64b),” Yirmiyahu Malchi, “On Deeds Alluded to in the Talmud  and Interpreted by Rashi and Other Sources,” Tzvi Mark, “The Stream of Mystical Consciousness: A Consideration of the Nature of Mystical Experience and its Literary Shaping in R. Nahman of Braslau’s ‘Ore’ah Nikhnas’ - A Guest Enters,” Nicham Ross, “The Rabbi of Bialia Escapes from the Yeshivah: Y.L. Peretz’s “Bein Shtei Arim” (Between Two Cities) and the Modernistic Image of Hasidism,” Gidi Nevo, “Jewish Humor in Hebrew Garb: On Sholem Aleichem’s “Back from the Draft” in Y.D. Berkowitz’s Translation,” Ravit Raufman, “The “Feminine Metaphor”: The Affinity Between Magic in the Wonder Tale Genre and the Female Body,” Hillel Weiss, Boris Kolterman, Abraham Yosef, “The Uniqueness of the Story “Ba-Mezulot” (In the Depth) and Its Place Within Agnon’s Cycle of Legends About Poland,” Michal Arbell, “R. Amnon of Mainz as an Exemplary Figure: The Development of a Cultural Icon in Agnon’s Works,” Yaniv Hagbi, “The Poetics of Plagiarism; Aspects of Plagiarism in Agnon’s Works,” Roman Katzman, “The Study of Gestures in Culture and Literature,” Nancy Ezer, “From Text to Context: The Reader and the Signification Process in Yuval Shimoni’s “Heder” (A Room),” Moshe Goultschin, “Heterotopia Now: Mesopotamian Consciousness in Daniel Shalem’s Achim min ha-Midbar,” Tal Frenkel Alroy, “Hypertrophy: Linguistic Growths in Yoel Hoffman’s Works.”

Miron, Guy and Anna Szalai (eds.), Yehudim al parashat derakhim: siah ha-zehut ha-Yehudit be-Hungaryah ben mashber le-hithadshut 1908-1926 (Jews at the Crossroads: The Jewish Identity Discourse In Hungary Between Crisis and Renewal 1908-1926), Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009, 234 pp.  ISBN 978-965-226-337-7

Contents: Guy Miron, “Introduction,” Ignotus, “Jargon,” Bernat Alexander,“The Problems of the Jews,” Jozsef Patai, “An Open Answer to the Open Letter of Dezso Szabo to the Journal Past and Present,”  Sandor Brody, “About the Jews,” Lajos Hatvany, “The Jewish Question in Hungary,” Anna Lesznai, “The Jewish Question in Hungary,” Armin Beregi, “The Jewish Question in Hungary,” Dezso Szomory, “A Comment to a Letter,” Tamas Kobor, “What Is The Truth?,” Sandor Brody, “Interviews with Sandor Brody,” Lajos Biro, “The Jewish Path,” Aladar Komlos, “Jews at the Crossroads,” Aladar Komlos “Conversations on the Jewish Question,” Anna Szalai, “Conclusion.” 

Ravitzky, Aviezer (ed.), Ha Rambam: shamranut, mekoriut, mahafchanut: aleph: historia v’halakhah (Maimonides: Conservatism, Originality, Revolution: Volume One: History and Halakhah), Jerusaelm, the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2008, 294 pp.  ISBN: 978-965-227-245-4

Contents: Menahem Ben-Sasson, “Preface,” Paul B. Fenton, “Between Father and Son- Moses and Abraham Maimonides, Continuity and Change,” Menahem Ben-Sasson, “Maimonides in His Dynasty- between Conservatism and Revolution,” Nachum B. Rabinovitch, “Sanctuary, Society and History,” Daniel J. Lasker, “Tradition and Innovation in Maimonides’ Attitude Toward Other Religions,” Abraham Melamed, “Maimonides on the Authority of Books,” Israel M. Ta-Shma, “Was Maimonides’ Position on Talmud Study Truly Revolutionary?,” David Hanshke, “On Maimonides’ Halakhic Thought: Inner Dynamism versus Institutional Conservatism- On The Nature of the Halakha in Maimonides’ Sefer ha-Mitzvot,” Yuval Sinai, “Contradictions in Maimonides’ Writings,” Judah Zvi Stampfer, “The Influence of Rav Samuel Ben Hofni Gaon’s Halakhic Writings on Maimonides,” Robert Brody, “The Influence of Sa’adyah Gaon’s Halakhic Monographs on Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah.” 

Ravitzky, Aviezer (ed.), Ha Rambam: shamranut, mekoriut, mahafchanut: beit: hagut v’chadashnut (Maimonides: Conservatism, Originality, Revolution: Volume Two: Thought and Innovation), Jerusaelm, the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2008, 331 pp.  ISBN: 978-965-227-245-4

Contents: Charles H. Manekin, “The Limitations of Human Knowledge According To Maimonides: Earlier vs. Later Writings,” Lenn E. Goodman, “The Psychology of Maimonides and Halevi,” Howard Kreisel, “Maimonides on Divine Religions,” Michael Zvi Nehorai “The Mitzvot- A Decree of God or an Intellectual Challenge?,” James A. Diamond, “Maimonides on Leprosy: From Idle Gossip to Heresy,” Lawrence Kaplan, “Monotonically Decreasing Esotericism and the Purpose of the Guide of the Perplexed,” Dov Schwartz, “Maimonidies’ Philosophical Methodology: A Reappraisal,” Josef Stern, “The Enigma of the Guide of the Perplexed I, 68,” Sarah Stroumsa, “Maimonides: A “Fundamentalist” Thinker?,” Amira Eran, “The Influence of Avicenna and Ghazali on Maimonides’ Notion of Intellectual Passion,” Alfred H. Ivry, “The Image of Moses in Maimonides’ Thought,” Gad Freudenthal, “Four Observations on Maimonides’ Four Celestial Globes (Guide 2:9-10),”  Carols Fraenkel, “From Maimonides to Samuel Ibn Tibbon: Interpreting Judaism as a Philosophical Religion,” Aviezer Ravitzky, “The Political Destiny of the Philosopher: Samuel Ibn Tibbon versus Maimonides,” James T. Robinson, “Maimonides, Samuel Ibn Tibbon, and the Construction of a Jewish Tradition of Philosophy,” Eric Lawee, “Maimonides in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of Rashi’s “Resisting Readers.” ”

Schwartz, Dov and Ariel Gross (eds.), Al ha-teshuvah v’al ha-geulah: minchat shay Binyamin Gross (On Repentence and Redemption: Presented to Binyamin Gross), Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 2008, 462 pp.  ISBN: 978-965-226-335-3

Contents: Dov Schwartz, “Repentance, Redemption and Philosophy in the Works of Professor Binyamin Gross: Several Aspects,” Michael Wygoda, “The Place of Remorse in Maimonides’ Laws of Repentance,” Adiel Kadari, “ “The Place Where Penitents Stand” –Rabbinical Language and Philosophical Language in Maimonides’ Laws of Repentance,” Dror Ehrlich, “Sin, Repentence and Heresy in R. Joseph Albo’s Book of Principles,” Hanoch Ben Pazi, “Forgiveness: From the Generic to the Impossible,” Airle Gross, “Mega-cognition as an Aid to the Process of Repentance,” Ronen Achituv, “Redemption by Torah Study: The Theology of the Study of Torah in the Mishna and the Talmud,” Shaul Regev, “The Redemption of Israel and the Redemption of the World: Rabbi Moshe Di Trani (Ha-ma-bit)’s Messianic Perception,” Dov Schwartz, “Land of Romanticism and Redemption: Buber as Commentator of R. Judah Loew of Prague,” Ze’ev Levy, “On the Concept of Redemption in the Thought of Four Modern Jewish Philosophers,” Raphael Yospe and Ephraim Meir, “Franz Rosenzweig’s Inexpressible Joy,” Avi Sagi, “Mending This World- Or Replacing It With The Heavenly Kingdom: A Jewish-Christian Dispute in the Wake of Stefan Heym’s The Wandering Jew,” Paul Elbar, “Crime and Atonement: A Modern Interpretation of the Tower of Babel,” Yossef Charvit, “Christianity and Islam in the Philosophy of Rabbi Yehuda Leon Ashkenazi (Manitou)- Chronicles and “The End of Days,” ” Michael Gross, “Rabbi Moses Ibn Tibbon’s Commentary on the Song of Songs: Education, Repentance and Human Redemption,” Shmuel Wygoda, “ “All the Deadlines Have Passed”: Redemption and Repentance in the Philosophy of R. Isaac ben Yedaiah, the Maharal of Prague, and Levinas,” Moshe Hallamish, “Repentance and Redemption as Reflected in Kabbalistic Rituals of Shabbat,” Avinoam Rosenak, “Like Father, Like Son: History, Redemption and Repentance in the Thought of Rabbi Abraham Hazan,” Elie Wiesel, “   ,” David Banon, “The Education of Racine on Repentance and Redemption,” Claude-Annie Gugenheim, “The Woman As Agent of Redemption in the Tanakah,” Raphael Drai, “Dimensions of Messianism,” Francine Kaufman, “Walter Benjamin And Translation As a Messianic Act: A Jewish Lecture,” Thierry J. Alcoloumbre, “Zionism As A Voluntary Transgression?  [Comments] on Various Talmudic Sources of Rav Kook.” 

Spicer, Kevin P. (ed.), Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust.  Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 2007, xxi, 329 pp.  ISBN: 978-0-253-34873-9

Contents: John T. Pawlikowski and Kevin P. Spicer “Introduction: Love Thy Neighbor?,” Thorsten Wagner, “Belated Heroism: The Danish Lutheran Church and the Jews, 1918-1945,” Anna Lysiak, “Rabbinic Judaism in the Writings of Polish Catholic Theologians, 1918-1939,” Robert A. Krieg, “German Catholic Views of Jesus and Judaism, 1918-1945,” Donald J. Dietrich, “Catholic Theology and the Challenge of Nazism,” Kevin P. Spicer, “Working for the Fuhrer: Father Dr. Philipp Haeuser and the Third Reich,” Beth A. Griech-Polelle, “The Impact of the Spanish Civil War upon Roman Catholic Clergy in Nazi Germany,” Paul A. Shapiro, “Faith, Murder, Resurrection: The Iron Guard and the Romanian Orthodox Church,” Matthew D. Hockenos, “The German Protestant Church and Its Judenmission, 1945-1950,” Elias H. Fullenbach, “Shock, Renewal, Crisis: Catholic Reflections on the Shoah,” Gershon Greenberg, “Wartime Jewish Orthodoxy’s Encounter with Holocaust Christianity,” Suzanne Brown-Fleming, “Confronting Antisemitism: Rabbi Philip Sidney Bernstein and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy,” Richard Steigmann-Gall, “Old Wine in New Bottles? Religion and Race in Nazi Antisemitism.” 

Wimpfheimer, Barry S. (ed.), Wisdom of Bat Sheva: The Dr. Beth Samuels Memorial Volume, Jersey City, Ktav, x, 334 pp.  ISBN: 978-1-60280-127-1

Contents: Ari Tuchman, “Introduction, Beth Samuels, “A Literary Study of Numbers in Genesis,” Ari Tuchman, “Quantum Mechanical Divine Providence and Rational Prayer,” Aryeh Bernstein, “What’s the Matter With Women? Gender in the Thought of the Maharal of Prague,” Alan Tzvika Nissel, “Equality or Equivalence: A Very Brief Survey of Lex Talionis as a Concept of Justice in the Bible,” Andrew Rosenblatt, “Midwives and Moral Reasoning, Love and Law: A Gendered Reading of the Book of Exodus,” Zvi Septimus, “Trigger Words and Simultexts: The Experience of Reading The Bavli,” Shera Aranoff Tuchman and Sandra E. Rapoport, “Women of the Exodus- An Excerpt,” Avi Weiss, “Tefilah: Feeling the Presence of God,” Andrea Wershot Schwartz, “From Fast to Feast in the Book of Zechariah,” Barry S. Wimpfheimer, “Interrupting Birth Control: Re-reading a Famous Beraita.”