Adam Teller, Rebecca Kobrin, eds. Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History. Jewish Culture and Contexts Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 368 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4730-5.
Reviewed by Joshua Friedman (Duke University) Published on H-Judaic (September, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Uzi Rebhun. Jews and the American Religious Landscape. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 248 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-54149-7.
Reviewed by Emily Sigalow (Brandeis University) Published on H-Judaic (September, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Patricia Keer Munro. Coming of Age in Jewish America: Bar and Bat Mitzvah Reinterpreted. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2016. 230 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8135-7593-3; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8135-7594-0.
Reviewed by Samira Mehta (Albright College) Published on H-Judaic (August, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Richard H. Jones. Philosophy of Mysticism: Raids on the Ineffable. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016. 438 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-6119-9; $31.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4384-6118-2.
Reviewed by Michael Miller (Liverpool Hope University) Published on H-Judaic (June, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Helen Kiyong Kim, Noah Samuel Leavitt. JewAsian: Race, Religion, and Identity for America's Newest Jews. Studies of Jews in Society Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 198 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-8565-1.
Reviewed by Tahneer Oksman (Marymount Manhattan College) Published on H-Judaic (June, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Dov Weiss. Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. xii + 291 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4835-7.
Reviewed by Joseph Tabory (Bar-Ilan University) Published on H-Judaic (May, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Motti Inbari. Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women’s Equality. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 279 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-08810-8.
Reviewed by Hadas Fischer (Tel Aviv University) Published on H-Judaic (May, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Steven E. Aschheim, Vivian Liska, eds. The German-Jewish Experience: Contested Interpretations and Conflicting Perceptions. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 300 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-037293-9.
Reviewed by Tally Gur (Haifa University) Published on H-Judaic (April, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
The German Jewish Experience Revisited
Adam Rayski. The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance. Notre Dame: University Of Notre Dame Press, 2015. 408 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-268-04061-1.
Reviewed by Laurien F. Vastenhout (University of Sheffield) Published on H-Judaic (April, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Ken Frieden. Travels in Translation: Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2016. 389 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8156-3457-7; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8156-3441-6.
Reviewed by Danielle Drori (New York University) Published on H-Judaic (April, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Richard A. Cohen. Out of Control: Confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas. SUNY Series in Contemporary Jewish Thought. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016. 370 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-6109-0; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4384-6110-6.
Reviewed by Michael Miller (Liverpool Hope University) Published on H-Judaic (April, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Yonatan Sagiv. Indebted: Capitalism and Religion in the Writings of S. Y. Agnon. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2016. xx + 220 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4457-7.
Reviewed by Vered Weiss (Sapir College) Published on H-Judaic (March, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Julia Phillips Cohen. Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 256 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-934040-8.
Reviewed by Rebecca Wartell Lobel (Monash University) Published on H-Judaic (March, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Alain Brossat, Sylvie Klingberg. Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism. Translated by David Fernbach. London: Verso, 2016. 320 pp. $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78478-606-9; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-78478-607-6.
Reviewed by Aidan Beatty (Trinity College Dublin) Published on H-Judaic (February, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Ellen Davina Haskell. Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar's Conversations with Christianity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 256 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-060043-3.
Reviewed by Federico Dal Bo (Marie Curie fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona) Published on H-Judaic (February, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
