Jelena Subotić. Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. Illustrations. 328 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-4240-8.
Reviewed by Monika Rice (Gratz College) Published on H-Judaic (June, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Shai Ginsburg, Martin Land, Jonathan Boyarin, eds. Jews and the Ends of Theory. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. viii + 328 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-8199-2.
Reviewed by Sebastian Musch (University of Osnabrueck) Published on H-Judaic (June, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Yaron Harel, Mauro Perani, eds. The Jews in Italy: Their Contribution to the Development and Diffusion of Jewish Heritage. Brookline: Academic Studies Press, 2019. 444 pp. $129.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-64469-026-0.
Reviewed by Howard Adelman (Queen's University) Published on H-Judaic (June, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Willi Goetschel.
Heine and Critical Theory.
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. xii + 311 pp.
$114.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-08729-3. 
Reviewed by Martin Shuster (Goucher College) Published on H-Judaic (June, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
David Jan Sorkin. Jewish Emancipation: A History across Five Centuries. Princeton, 2019. 528 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-18967-3.
Reviewed by Yaakov Andrea Lattes (Yaad Academic College) Published on H-Judaic (June, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
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K. Healan Gaston. Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 361 pp. $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-66385-2.
Reviewed by Martin Kavka (Florida State University) Published on H-Judaic (May, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Alan Dowty. Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 312 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-03865-4.
Reviewed by Tamir Karkason (Ben-Gurion University) Published on H-Judaic (May, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
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Magda Teter.
Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. 560 pp.
$39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-24093-3.
Reviewed by Heather Blurton (University of California, Santa Barbara) Published on H-Judaic (May, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Tova Ganzel, Yehudah Brandes, Chayuta Deutsch, eds. The Believer and the Modern Study of the Bible. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019. 582 pp. $139.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61811-951-3; $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-64469-257-8.
Reviewed by Yigal Levin (Bar Ilan University) Published on H-Judaic (April, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
George Y. Kohler. Kabbalah Research in the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1820-1880): The Foundation of an Academic Discipline. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. 282 pp. $114.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-11-062037-5.
Reviewed by Ori Werdiger (University of Chicago) Published on H-Judaic (April, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Victoria Aarons. Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019. Illustrations. 256 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-978802-56-8; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-978802-55-1.
Reviewed by Maya Balakirsky Katz (Bar-Ilan University) Published on H-Judaic (April, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Jacob Ari Labendz, Shmuly Yanklowitz, eds. Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism: Studies and New Directions. Albany: SUNY Press, 2019. xxiii + 348 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-7361-1.
Reviewed by Jonathan Brumberg Kraus (Wheaton College, MA) Published on H-Judaic (April, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Samuel J. Levine. Jewish Law and American Law: A Comparative Study, Volume 2. New York: Touro College Press, 2018. 238 pp. $109.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61811-657-4.Samuel J. Levine. Jewish Law and American Law: A Comparative Study, Volume 1. New York: Touro College Press, 2018. 384 pp. $109.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61811-655-0.
Marcin Wodziński. Hasidism: Key Questions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Illustrations, tables. 368 pp. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-063126-0.
Reviewed by Ariel Evan Mayse (Stanford University) Published on H-Judaic (March, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Aaron W. Hughes, James T. Robinson, eds. Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Its Literary Forms. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. viii + 363 pp. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-04252-1.
Reviewed by Eric Lawee (Bar-Ilan University) Published on H-Judaic (March, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
