Frederick A. Lazin.
American Christians and the National Interreligious Task Force on Soviet Jewry: A Call to Conscience.
Lanham: Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2019. x + 253 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4985-8323-7. 
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)
Abigail Gillman.
A History of German Jewish Bible Translation.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. xxiii + 332 pp.
$35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-47772-5.
Reviewed by Elias Sacks (University of Colorado Boulder) 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.
Eitan P. Fishbane.
The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiii + 520 pp.
$125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-994863-5.
Reviewed by Mark Verman (Wright State University) Published on H-Judaic (November, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Jagiellonian University)
Jordan D. Finkin.
Exile as Home: The Cosmopolitan Poetics of Leyb Naydus.
Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College Press, 2017. 240 pp.
$28.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4506-2.
Reviewed by Itay Zutra (University of Manitoba) Published on H-Judaic (November, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Jagiellonian University)
Lily E. Hirsch.
Anneliese Landau's Life in Music: Nazi Germany to Émigré California.
Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2019. 246 pp.
$99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58046-951-7.Anneliese Landau, Daniela Reinhold.
Von Berlin nach Los Angeles: Die Musikwissenschaftlerin Anneliese Landau.
Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2017. 340 pp.
EUR 27.90 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-9556522-6-5.
Samantha Baskind.
The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture.
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. Illustrations. xv + 309 pp.
$44.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-271-07870-0.
Reviewed by Maya Balakirsky Katz (Bar-Ilan University) Published on H-Judaic (October, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Jagiellonian University)
Sarah Hammerschlag, ed.
Modern French Jewish Thought: Writings on Religion and Politics.
Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought Series. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2018. xxvii + 268 pp.
$26.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5126-0186-2; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61168-526-8.
Mir Yarfitz.
Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina.
Jewish Cultures of the World Series. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019. 224 pp.
$59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8135-9815-4.
Judah M. Cohen.
Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. xiii + 309 pp.
$25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-04021-3; $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-04020-6.
Ilana Pardes. The Song of Songs: A Biography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 296 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-14606-5.
Reviewed by Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch (Eastern University) Published on H-Judaic (August, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54699
Tamar Herzig.
A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy.
I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History Series. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. viii + 388 pp.
$49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-23753-7.
Rebecca Cypess, Nancy Sinkoff, eds.
Sara Levy's World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin.
Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018. x + 292 pp.
$99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58046-921-0.
Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Jason Wittenberg.
Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. Maps, graphs. 192 pp.
$29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-1525-9.
