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
Gregg Gardner. The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 251 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-09543-4.
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz (Bar-Ilan University) Published on H-Judaic (January, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Charity with Dignity
Marc B. Shapiro. Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites Its History. Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2015. 364 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-904113-60-7.
Reviewed by Zev Eleff (Hebrew Theological College) Published on H-Judaic (January, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz. Chachmei Yisroel B'America: The Nineteen Biographical - Historical Works of Rabbi B. Z. Eisenstadt. Lakewood: American Jewish Legacy Publication Society, 2013. 3 volumes, 1072 pp. $300.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-9846180-0-2.
Reviewed by Shaul Stampfer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Published on H-Judaic (January, 2017) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Lucille Cairns. Francophone Jewish Writers Imagining Israel. Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures Series. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016. 224 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78138-262-2.
Reviewed by Robert Isaacson (George Washington University) Published on H-Judaic (January, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Israel in the Francophone Literary Imaginary
Lawrence J. Epstein. The Dream of Zion: The Story of the First Zionist Congress. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. 172 pp. $36.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4422-5466-4.
Reviewed by Brian Horowitz (Tulane University) Published on H-Judaic (January, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
A Perspective from Our Day on Theodor Herzl’s Dream Conference
Orit Rozin. A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the New Israeli State. Trans. Haim Watzman.: Lebanon, 2016. 248 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61168-949-5; $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61168-950-1.
Reviewed by Ranen Omer-Sherman (University of Louisville) Published on H-Judaic (January, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Michael Marmur. Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Souces of Wonder. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. 296 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4426-5122-7.
Reviewed by Ariel Evan Mayse (Hebrew College) Published on H-Judaic (December, 2016) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
Traces of Amazement
Emily Alice Katz. Bringing Zion Home: Israel in American Jewish Culture, 1948-1967. New York: SUNY, 2015. 230 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-5465-8.
Reviewed by Zev Eleff (Hebrew Theological College) Published on H-Judaic (December, 2016) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow
