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Table of Contents - Volume 29 - Issue 02  

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Research Articles

 
 

At the Nexus of History and Memory: The Ten Lost Tribes

Pamela Barmash

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 207-236
doi:10.1017/S0364009405000115 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

The Legend of Ger [Zdotu ]edek of Wilno as Polemic and Reassurance

Magda Teter

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 237-263
doi:10.1017/S0364009405000127 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Joseph Perl's Escape From Biblical Epigonism through Parody of [Hdotu ]asidic Writing

Ken Frieden

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 265-282
doi:10.1017/S0364009405000139 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Ahasuerus, the former Stable-Master of Belshazzar, and the Wicked Alexander of Macedon: Two Parallels between the Babylonian Talmud and Persian Sources

Geoffrey Herman

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 283-297
doi:10.1017/S0364009405000140 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Aaron Salomon Gumpertz, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and the First Call for an Improvement of the Civil Rights of Jews in Germany (1753)

Gad Freudenthal

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 299-353
doi:10.1017/S0364009405000152 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Review Essay

 
 

Tosaphists and Taboo: A Review of Haym Soloveitchik's “Yeinam”

Elliott Horowitz

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 355-360
doi:10.1017/S0364009405000164 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Biblical Studies

 
 

J. Edward Wright. Baruch Ben Neriah: From Biblical Scribe to Apocalyptic Seer. Studies on Personalities of the Old Testament. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. xii, 186 pp.

Benjamin G. Wright III

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 361-362
doi:10.1017/S0364009405210176 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Louis H. Feldman. “Remember Amalek!” Vengeance, Zealotry, and Group Destruction in the Bible According to Philo, Pseudo-Philo, and Josephus. Cincinnati, OH: Hebrew Union College Press, 2004. x, 272 pp.

Steven Bowman

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 363-364
doi:10.1017/S0364009405220172 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Judaism in Late Antiquity

 
 

David Noy and Hanswulf Bloedhorn. Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis. III Syria and Cyprus. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 102. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004. 284 pp.

Steven Bowman

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 365-367
doi:10.1017/S0364009405230179 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Hindy Najman. Seconding Sinai: The Development of Mosaic Discourse in Second Temple Judaism. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 77. Leiden: Brill, 2003. xiv, 176 pp.

Alex Jassen

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 367-369
doi:10.1017/S0364009405240175 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Andrew S. Jacobs. Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 249 pp.

Marina Greatrex

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 369-370
doi:10.1017/S0364009405250171 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Edward Kessler. Bound by the Bible: Jews, Christians and the Sacrifice of Isaac. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii, 222 pp.

Joel Kaminsky

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 370-372
doi:10.1017/S0364009405260178 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Cynthia M. Baker. Rebuilding the House of Israel: Architectures of Gender in Jewish Antiquity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. 260 pp.

Steven Fine

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 372-373
doi:10.1017/S0364009405270174 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Yizhar Hirschfeld. Qumran in Context, Reassessing the Archaeological Evidence. Peabody, MA: Henderson Publishers, 2004. 220 pp; 136 figures.

Rami Arav

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 373-376
doi:10.1017/S0364009405280170 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Rachel Elior. The Three Temples: On the Emergence of Jewish Mysticism. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 20004. xiv, 301 pp.

Jonathan Klawans

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 376-378
doi:10.1017/S0364009405290177 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Medieval

 
 

J. H. Chajes. Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 278 pp.

Anne Oravetz

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 378-380
doi:10.1017/S0364009405300171 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Modern

 
 

Christopher R. Browning. The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939–March 1942, with contributions by Jürgen Matthäus. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, and Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2004. xii, 615 pp.

David Engel

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 380-382
doi:10.1017/S0364009405310178 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Judah M. Cohen. Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Hanover, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2004. xxvi, 298 pp.

Alan F. Benjamin

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 382-384
doi:10.1017/S0364009405320174 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Derek J. Penslar. Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe. The S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xi, 374 pp.

Todd M. Endelman

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 384-386
doi:10.1017/S0364009405330170 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Moshe Halamish. The Kabbalah in North Africa: A Historical and Cultural Survey. Tel Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meu[hdotu ]ad, 2001. 239 pp. (Hebrew).

Pinchas Giller

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 387-388
doi:10.1017/S0364009405340177 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Elisheva Carlebach. Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany, 1500–1750. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. xii, 324 pp.

R. Po-chia Hsia

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 388-389
doi:10.1017/S0364009405350173 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

John M. Efron. Medicine and the German Jews: A History. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. viii, 343 pp.

Steven M. Lowenstein

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 390-391
doi:10.1017/S036400940536017X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Haya Bar-Itzhak. Jewish Poland—Legends of Origin: Ethnopolitics and Legendary Chronicles. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. 195 pp.

Ezra Mendelsohn

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 392-393
doi:10.1017/S0364009405370176 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Eli Lederhendler. New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950–1970. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001. xix, 275 pp.

Deborah Dash Moore

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 394-395
doi:10.1017/S0364009405380172 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Menachem Klein. Jerusalem: The Contested City. New York: New York University Press (in association with the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies), 2001. viii, 363 pp.

Bernard Reich

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 396-397
doi:10.1017/S0364009405390179 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Luis M. Girón-Negrón. Alfonso de la Torre's Visión Deleytable: Philosophical Rationalism and the Religious Imagination in Fifteenth-Century Spain. Leiden: Brill, 2001. xvi, 306 pp.

Norman Roth

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 397-399
doi:10.1017/S0364009405400173 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Gary Weissman. Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 288 pp.

Berel Lang

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 399-402
doi:10.1017/S036400940541017X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Iris Parush. Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press; Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2004. xix, 340 pp.

Eliyana R. Adler

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 402-404
doi:10.1017/S0364009405420176 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Ahuva Belkin. The Purimshpil, Studies in Jewish Folk Theater. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2002. 287 pp. (Hebrew).

Jean Baumgarten

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 404-405
doi:10.1017/S0364009405430172 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Peter Eli Gordon. Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2003. 357 pp.

Zachary Braiterman

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 405-407
doi:10.1017/S0364009405440179 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam J. Zohar and Ari Ackerman, eds. The Jewish Political Tradition. Volume Two: Membership. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 656 pp.

Julie E. Cooper

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 407-409
doi:10.1017/S0364009405450175 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Marianne R. Sanua. Going Greek: Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895–1945. American Jewish Civilization Series. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. 446 pp.

Diana Turk

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 409-412
doi:10.1017/S0364009405460171 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
 

Ofira Seliktar. Divided We Stand: American Jews, Israel, and the Peace Process. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. xvi, 272 pp.

Harold M. Waller

AJS Review, Volume 29, Issue 02, November 2005, pp 412-413
doi:10.1017/S0364009405470178 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2005
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