Reviews

Author: 
Samantha Baskind
Reviewer: 
Maya Balakirsky Katz

Balakirsky Katz on Baskind, 'The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture'

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)

Author: 
Sarah Hammerschlag, ed.
Reviewer: 
Jonathan Judaken

Judaken on Hammerschlag, 'Modern French Jewish Thought: Writings on Religion and Politics'

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. 

Author: 
Judah M. Cohen
Reviewer: 
Martha Stellmacher

Stellmacher on Cohen, 'Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack'

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. 

Author: 
Ilana Pardes
Reviewer: 
Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch

Burnette-Bletsch on Pardes, 'The Song of Songs: A Biography'

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

Author: 
Tamar Herzig
Reviewer: 
Katherine E. Aron-Beller

Aron-Beller on Herzig, 'A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy'

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

Author: 
Rebecca Cypess, Nancy Sinkoff, eds.
Reviewer: 
Caroline A. Kita

Kita on Cypess and Sinkoff, 'Sara Levy's World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin'

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

Author: 
Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Jason Wittenberg
Reviewer: 
Polly Zavadivker

Zavadivker on Kopstein and Wittenberg, 'Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust'

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

Author: 
Merav Mack, Benjamin Balint
Reviewer: 
Jordan Finkin

Finkin on Mack and Balint, 'Jerusalem: City of the Book'

Merav Mack, Benjamin Balint. Jerusalem: City of the Book. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 272 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-22285-2.

Reviewed by Jordan Finkin (Hebrew Union College) Published on H-Judaic (July, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55225

Author: 
Joshua Cole
Reviewer: 
Alma Heckman

Heckman on Cole, 'Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria'

Joshua Cole. Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 336 pp. ISBN 978-1-5017-3943-9; ISBN 978-1-5017-3944-6.

Reviewed by Alma Heckman (University of California, Santa Cruz) Published on H-Judaic (July, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Author: 
Robert Chazan
Reviewer: 
Rebecca Wartell

Wartell on Chazan, 'Refugees or Migrants: Pre-modern Jewish Population Movement'

Robert Chazan. Refugees or Migrants: Pre-modern Jewish Population Movement. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. vi + 262 pp. $38.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-21857-2.

Reviewed by Rebecca Wartell (University of Colorado) Published on H-Judaic (July, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Author: 
Jelena Subotić
Reviewer: 
Monika Rice

Rice on Subotić, 'Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism'

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)

Author: 
Shai Ginsburg, Martin Land, Jonathan Boyarin, eds.
Reviewer: 
Sebastian Musch

Musch on Ginsburg and Land and Boyarin, 'Jews and the Ends of Theory'

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 (Jagiellonian University)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54230

Author: 
Yaron Harel, Mauro Perani, eds.
Reviewer: 
Howard Adelman

Adelman on Harel and Perani, 'The Jews in Italy: Their Contribution to the Development and Diffusion of Jewish Heritage'

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)

Author: 
Willi Goetschel
Reviewer: 
Martin Shuster

Shuster on Goetschel, 'Heine and Critical Theory'

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)

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