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