Hana Wirth-Nesher, ed. The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Illustrations. xviii + 732 pp. $189.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-04820-1.
Reviewed by Emily Robins Sharpe (Keene State College) Published on H-Judaic (October, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
Jeremy Dauber. Jewish Comedy: A Serious History. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2017. 384 pp. $28.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-393-24787-9.
Reviewed by Jennifer Caplan (Towson University) Published on H-Judaic (September, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
Daniel Kupfert Heller. Jabotinsky's Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 352 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-17475-4.
Reviewed by Sean Martin (Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland) Published on H-Judaic (September, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
Katell Berthelot. In Search of the Promised Land?: The Hasmonean Dynasty between Biblical Models and Hellenistic Diplomacy. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2017. 494 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-525-55252-0.
Reviewed by Matthew A. Kraus (University of Cincinnati) Published on H-Judaic (September, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
Heather Sharkey. A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 394 pp. $31.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-18687-2.
Reviewed by Jessica Marglin (University of Southern California) Published on H-Judaic (August, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
Vassili Schedrin. Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds: Jewish Bureaucracy and Policymaking in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1917. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2016. 288 pp. $49.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8143-4042-4.
Reviewed by Michael C. Hickey (Bloomsburg University) Published on H-Judaic (August, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
Matthew A. Kraus. Jewish, Christian, and Classical Exegetical Traditions in Jerome's Translation of the Book of Exodus: Translation Technique and the Vulgate. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2017. xiii + 266 pp. $131.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-34297-2.
Reviewed by Justin Rogers (Freed-Hardeman University) Published on H-Judaic (August, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
Rachel S. Harris. Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema. Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies Series. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2017. 336 pp. $35.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8143-3967-1.
Reviewed by David Hadar (Free University of Berlin) Published on H-Judaic (August, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
Alvin H. Rosenfeld. Deciphering the New Antisemitism. Studies in Antisemitism Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. 560 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-01865-6.
Reviewed by Kristoff Kerl (Cologne University) Published on H-Judaic (July, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
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Moshe Halbertal, Stephen Holmes. The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 232 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-17462-4.
Reviewed by Sam Brody (University of Kansas) Published on H-Judaic (July, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
Jordan Rosenblum. The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xiii + 193 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-09034-7.
Reviewed by Joshua Garroway (Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles) Published on H-Judaic (June, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
Joshua Schreier. The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. 216 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-9914-0.
Reviewed by Jonathan G. Katz (Oregon State University) Published on H-Judaic (June, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
Dana E. Katz. The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Illustrations. 202 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-16514-4.
Reviewed by Flora Cassen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Published on H-Judaic (May, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
Thomas Kaufmann. Luther's Jews: A Journey into Anti-Semitism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. vii + 193 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-873854-1.
Reviewed by David H. Price (Vanderbilt University) Published on H-Judaic (May, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
Flora Cassen. Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy: Politics, Religion, and the Power of Symbols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 300 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-17543-3.
Reviewed by Cornelia Aust (Leibniz Institute of European History) Published on H-Judaic (May, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
