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  • Editor(s):
  • Elisheva Carlebach, Columbia University, USA
    Robert Goldenberg, Stony Brook University, USA

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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

 
 

AJS volume 33 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp f1-f5
doi:10.1017/S0364009409009994 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter

 
 

AJS volume 33 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp b1-b12
doi:10.1017/S0364009409009982 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Editorial

 
 

Statement from the Incoming Editors

Elisheva Carlebach and Robert Goldenberg

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 1-1
doi:10.1017/S0364009409000014 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Research Articles

 
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Neglected Origins of Modern Hebrew Prose: Hasidic and Maskilic Travel Narratives

Ken Frieden

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 3-43
doi:10.1017/S0364009409000026 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
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Talmudic Text and Iranian Context: On the Development of Two Talmudic Narratives

Shai Secunda

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 45-69
doi:10.1017/S0364009409000038 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Czechs, Germans, Arabs, Jews: Franz Kafka's “Jackals and Arabs” between Bohemia and Palestine

Dimitry Shumsky

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 71-100
doi:10.1017/S036400940900004X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
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The Formerly Wealthy Poor: From Empathy to Ambivalence in Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity

Alyssa M. Gray

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 101-133
doi:10.1017/S0364009409000051 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
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Theory and Practice: A Jewish Physician in Paris and Avignon

Susan Einbinder

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 135-153
doi:10.1017/S0364009409000063 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Review Essay

 
 

The New Spatial Turn in Jewish Studies

Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 155-164
doi:10.1017/S0364009409000075 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Book Reviews: Jewish History and Culture in Late Antiquity

 
 

Marc S. Bernstein. Stories of Joseph: Narrative Migrations between Judaism and Islam. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006. xviii, 315 pp.

Carol Bakhos

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 165-167
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001019 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Ian C. Werrett. Ritual Purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 72. Leiden: Brill, 2007. ix, 349 pp.

Jonathan Klawans

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 167-169
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001020 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Book Reviews: Talmud, Midrash, and Rabbinics

 
 

Shmuel Safrai ז״ל, Zeev Safrai, Joshua Schwartz, and Peter J. Tomson, eds. The Literature of the Sages. Second Part: Midrash and Targum, Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism, Contracts, Inscriptions, Ancient Science, and the Languages of Rabbinic Literature. Assen: Royal Van Gorcum; Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2006. xvii, 772 pp.

Martin S. Jaffee

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 169-173
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001032 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Devora Steinmetz. Punishment and Freedom: The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. xviii, 206 pp.

Azzan Yadin

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 173-176
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001044 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Book Reviews: Medieval Jewish Culture

 
 

Cedric Cohen Skalli, ed. and trans. Isaac Abravanel: Letters. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2007. xiv, 191 pp.

Eric Lawee

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 176-178
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001056 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Ephraim Shoham-Steiner. xs1E24arigim be‘al kor xs1E25am: Meshuga‘im u-metsora‘im ba- xs1E25evrah ha-Yehudit be-Eropah bi-Yeme ha-benayim. Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2008. 299 pp.

Pinchas Roth

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 178-181
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001068 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin. The Censor, the Editor, and the Text: The Catholic Church and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon in the Sixteenth Century. Trans. Jackie Feldman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. viii, 314 pp.

Kenneth Stow

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 181-185
doi:10.1017/S036400940900107X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish Thought and Theology

 
 

Steven E. Aschheim. Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. xi, 194 pp.

Willi Goetschel

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 185-187
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001081 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Christian Wiese. The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2007. 292 pp.

Eric Jacobson

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 188-189
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001093 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Ken Koltun-Fromm. Abraham Geiger's Liberal Judaism: Personal Meaning and Religious Authority. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. ix, 180 pp.

Allan Arkush

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 190-192
doi:10.1017/S036400940900110X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Abraham P. Socher. The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon: Judaism, Heresy, and Philosophy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xiii, 248 pp.

Adam Shear

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 192-195
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001111 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish Culture and History

 
 

Naomi Seidman. Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. viii, 333 pp.

Todd Samuel Presner

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 195-198
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001123 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Andreas Gotzmann and Christian Wiese, eds. Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness: Identities, Encounters, Perspectives. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xxii, 658 pp.

Claire E. Sufrin

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 198-201
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001135 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Margit Schad. Rabbiner Michael Sachs: Judentum als höhere Lebensanschauung. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2007. 463 pp.

Michael A. Meyer

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 201-204
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001147 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Todd Presner. Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration. New York: Routledge, 2007. xxiv, 279 pp.

Sebastian Wogenstein

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 204-206
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001159 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Katherine Elizabeth Fleming. Greece: A Jewish History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. xii, 271 pp.

Annette B. Fromm. We Are Few: Folklore and Ethnic Identity of the Jewish Community of Ioannina, Greece. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008. xx, 199 pp.

Steven Bowman

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 207-209
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001160 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Jack Kugelmass, ed. Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. viii, 232 pp.

Sharon Gillerman

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 210-212
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001172 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Julian Levinson. Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Literature and American Literary Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. x, 239 pp.

Emily Kopley

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 212-215
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001184 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Book Reviews: Yiddish Literature and Culture

 
 

Benjamin Harshav. The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. xiii, 199 pp.

Yair Lipshitz

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 215-218
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001196 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Book Reviews: Modern Hebrew Literature

 
 

Michael Gluzman. Ha-Guf ha- xs1E92iyoni: le'umiyut, migdar u-miniyut ba-sifrut ha-Ivrit ha- xs1E25adashah. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuhad, 2007. 281 pp.

Michal Ben-Horin

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 218-222
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001202 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
 

Book Reviews: Gender Studies

 
 

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz. The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. xvii, 296 pp.

Carol Conaway

AJS Review, Volume 33, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 222-224
doi:10.1017/S0364009409001214 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2009
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