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  • Elisheva Carlebach, Columbia University, USA
    Robert Goldenberg, Stony Brook University, USA

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Table of Contents - Volume 31 - Issue 02  

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Research Articles

 
 

How Modern Is an Antimodernist Movement? The Emergence of Hasidic Politics in Congress Poland

Marcin Wodziński

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 221-240
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000505 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

The Late Zionism of Nathan Birnbaum: The Herzl Controversy Reconsidered

Jess Olson

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 241-276
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000517 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Plato in Rabbi Shimeon bar Yohai's Cave (B. Shabbat 33b–34a): The Talmudic Inversion of Plato's Politics of Philosophy

Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 277-296
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000529 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

How the 'Aylonit Got Her Sex

Sarra Lev

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 297-316
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000542 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Notes from the Field

 
 

Tehran's Unmined Archive of Kurdish Jewry: A Field Report

Mustafa Dehqan

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 317-327
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000554 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Review Essay

 
 

Roman Imperialism, Jewish Self-Definition, and Rabbinic Society: Belayche's Iudaea-Palaestina, Schwartz's Imperialism and Jewish Society, and Boyarin's Border Lines Reconsidered

Stuart S. Miller

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 329-362
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000566 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Book Reviews

 
 

Michael Fishbane. Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv, 458 pp.

Pamela Barmash

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 363-365
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000578 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Elliott Horowitz. Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. xiv, 340 pp.

Irven M. Resnick

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 365-367
doi:10.1017/S036400940700058X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Howard Schwartz. Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. lxxxvi, 618 pp.

Martin S. Jaffee

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 367-370
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000591 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Harvey E. Goldberg. Jewish Passages: Cycles of Jewish Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiii, 379 pp.

Oren Kosansky

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 370-372
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000608 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Ruth Fidler . “ xs1E24alomot ha-shav' yedaberu”? xs1E24alomot hitgalut ba-mikra' u-mekomam be-toldot ha-'emunah veha-masoret be-yisra'el ha-kedumah. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2005. viii, 456 pp.

Alan T. Levenson

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 372-374
doi:10.1017/S036400940700061X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Shaye J. D. Cohen. Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised? Gender and Covenant in Judaism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xvii, 317 pp.

Sarra Lev

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 374-377
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000621 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Dan Levene. A Corpus of Magic Bowls: Incantation Texts in Jewish Aramaic from Late Antiquity. London: Kegan Paul, 2003. xiv, 223 pp.

Michael D. Swartz

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 377-379
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000633 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Yehoshua Levinson. Ha-sipur she-lo' supar: ’omanut ha-sipur ha-mikra'i ma-murav be-midreshei azal. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2005. 360 pp.

Azzan Yadin

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 379-382
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000645 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Ann Brener. Judah Halevi and His Circle of Hebrew Poets in Granada. Hebrew Language and Literature Series 6. Leiden: Brill, 2005. x, 155 pp.

Chanita Goodblatt

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 382-384
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000657 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Robert Eisen. The Book of Job in Medieval Jewish Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii, 324 pp.

Raphael Jospe

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 384-388
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000669 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Joel Hecker. Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. x, 282 pp.

Eitan P. Fishbane

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 388-391
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000670 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Elliot R. Wolfson. Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination. New York: Fordham University Press, 2005. xxxi, 761 pp.

Kalman P. Bland

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 391-393
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000682 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Zvia Balshan. Iud mefulag: ha-berit ha-‘olamit shel miflegot po‘ale-Tsiyon, 1907–1920. Sde Boker: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2004. 416 pp.

Rachel Rojanski

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 394-396
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000694 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Israel Bartal. The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772–1881. Trans. Chaya Naor. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. vi, 203 pp.

Adam Rubin

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 396-399
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000700 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Deborah Dash Moore. GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. xiv, 352 pp.

Gary R. Mormino

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 399-401
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000712 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

David E. Fishman. The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 190 pp.

Kalman Weiser

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 401-403
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000724 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Murray Friedman. The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. v, 303 pp.

Michael Alexander

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 403-407
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000736 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Barbara Hahn. The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity. Trans. James McFarland. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. 233 pp.

Jonathan M. Hess

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 407-408
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000748 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Thomas C. Hubka. Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth-Century Polish Community. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2003. xix, 226 pp.

Adam Teller

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 409-412
doi:10.1017/S036400940700075X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Laurel Leff. Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xii, 426 pp.

Lawrence Douglas

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 412-414
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000761 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Matthias B. Lehmann. Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xii, 264 pp.

Jonathan Ray

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 415-417
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000773 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Ted Merwin. In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xiii, 215 pp.

Stephen J. Whitfield

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 417-419
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000785 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Samuel Moyn. A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2005. xii, 212 pp.

Michael R. Marrus

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 420-421
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000797 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Yaron Peleg. Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 153 pp.

Ranen Omer-Sherman

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 421-424
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000803 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Alyson Pendlebury. Portraying “the Jew” in First World War Britain. Foreword by Mark Levene. Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006. xii, 256 pp.

Judith W. Page

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 425-427
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000815 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
 

Nils Roemer. Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Between History and Faith. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. x, 251 pp.

Adam S. Ferziger

AJS Review, Volume 31, Issue 02, November 2007, pp 427-430
doi:10.1017/S0364009407000827 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2007
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