Shmuel Katz. Lone Wolf: A Biography of Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. New York: Barricade Books, 1996. 1855 pp. $100 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-56980-042-3.
Reviewed by Paul Radensky (Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Published on H-Judaic (July, 1997)
Zionismm's Other Voice
Jeffrey S. Gurock, Jacob J. Schachter. A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy and American Judaism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. x + 161 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-10626-9.
Reviewed by Theodore Weinberger (Florida International University) Published on H-Judaic (July, 1997)
Owning Up To Heresy
Alan Mintz. Hurban: Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996. xiv + 283 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8156-0424-2; $84.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-05634-2.
Reviewed by Theodore Weinberger (Florida International University) Published on H-Judaic (July, 1997)
Meaningful Catastrophe
Marc-Alain Ouaknin. The Burnt Book: Reading the Talmud Translated by Llewellyn Brown. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xxii + 336pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-03729-5.
Reviewed by Joseph Kanofsky (Boston University) Published on H-Judaic (June, 1997)
Burnt Books, Dead Hasidim, and Living Texts
Naomi G. Cohen. Philo Judaeus: His Universe of Discourse. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1995. xx + 381 pp. $57.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-8204-1650-3.
Reviewed by Tzvee Zahavy (Teaneck, New Jersey) Published on H-Judaic (June, 1997)
Harvey E. Goldberg, ed. Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History and Culture in the Modern Era. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. xv + 346 pp. $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-21041-8; $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-33013-0.
Reviewed by Daphne Tsimhoni (Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Published on H-Judaic (May, 1997)
Ken Frieden, Harold Bloom, eds. The Stories of David Bergelson: Yiddish Short Fiction from Russia. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1996. xxxii + 157 pp. $16.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8156-0402-0; $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8156-2712-8.
Reviewed by Stefan Gunther (Brandeis University) Published on H-Judaic (May, 1997)
Dissolving Worlds
Shlomo Zalman Havlin, ed. Seder ha-kabalah le-rabenu Menahem ha-Meiri. Jerusalem and Cleveland: Ofeq Institute, 1995. lvii + 286 pp. $16.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-881255-07-9.
Reviewed by Henry Abramson (Florida Atlantic University) Published on H-Judaic (May, 1997)
A Rishon from the Russian Archives
Michael Marrus. The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945-46: A Documentary History. Boston: St. Martin's Press, 1997. xi + 276 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-312-13691-8; $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-312-16386-0.
Reviewed by Jamie L. Wraight (University of Toledo) Published on H-Judaic (May, 1997)
Ellen Eisenberg. Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1995. xxiii + 218 pp. $20.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8156-2663-3; $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8156-2652-7.
Reviewed by Pamela S. Nadell (American University) Published on H-Judaic (April, 1997)
Jewish Farmers in the Garden State
Michael Taub, ed. Israeli Holocaust Drama. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996. ix + 332 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8156-2674-9; $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8156-2673-2.
Reviewed by Eric Sterling (Auburn University at Montgomery) Published on H-Judaic (April, 1997)
A Valuable Contribution
Zvi Rin, Shifra Rin. 'Alilot ha-'Elim: Kol Shirot 'Ugarit (Acts of the Gods: The Ugaritic Epic Poetry). Philadelphia: Inbal Publishers, 1996. lxxxi + 881 pp.
Reviewed by Gary A. Rendsburg (Cornell University) Published on H-Judaic (April, 1997)
The Ugaritic Texts and Their Relationship to the Bible
Henry L. Feingold. Lest Memory Cease: Finding Meaning in the American Jewish Past. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996. x + 226 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8156-0400-6; $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8156-2710-4.
Reviewed by Andrew Furman (Florida Atlantic University) Published on H-Judaic (March, 1997)
Reflections upon the American Jewish Past and the Uncertain Future
David Hollinger. Science, Jews and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996. xi + 178 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-01143-1.
Reviewed by Gad Freudenthal (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris) Published on H-Judaic (February, 1997)
Dan Miron. A Traveler Disguised: The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996. xviii + 347 pp. $16.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8156-0330-6.
Reviewed by Magdalena Teter (Columbia University) Published on H-Judaic (February, 1997)
The Real Mendele Mokher Seforim
