Reviews

Joseph Yahalom. Sources of the Sacred Song: Crossroads in Jewish Liturgical Poetry. Jerusalem: Magnes, 2019. 300 pp. $33.00 (paper), ISBN 978-965-7008-41-6; $33.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-965-7008-42-3.

Reviewed by Tzvi Novick (University of Notre Dame) Published on H-Judaic (January, 2022) Commissioned by Robin Buller (University of California - Berkeley)

David C. Flatto. The Crown and the Courts: Separation of Powers in the Early Jewish Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. 367 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-73710-5.

Reviewed by Shlomo Zuckier (McGill University) Published on H-Judaic (November, 2021) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Jagiellonian University)

Adriana M. Brodsky. Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine: Community and National Identity. Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. xiv + 281 pp. $31.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-253-02319-3; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-02271-4; $32.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-02303-2.

Reviewed by Margalit Bejarano (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Published on H-Judaic (November, 2021) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)

Rachel S. Havrelock. The Joshua Generation: Israeli Occupation and the Bible. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. xiv + 245 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-19893-4.

Reviewed by Emily Filler (Washington and Lee University) Published on H-Judaic (September, 2021) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Jagiellonian University)

Elissa Bemporad. Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 252 pp. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-046645-9.

Reviewed by Magda Teter (Fordham University) Published on H-Judaic (February, 2021) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Jagiellonian University)

Susan Neiman. Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 432 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-374-18446-9. 

Reviewed by Irit Dekel (Indiana University Bloomington) Published on H-Judaic (December, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Jagiellonian University)

Natan M. Meir. Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. Illustrations. xiv + 343 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-1305-8; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-1183-2.