Zoltán Vági, László Csősz, Gábor Kádár. The Holocaust in Hungary: Evolution of a Genocide. Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2013. 510 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7591-2198-0.
Reviewed by Guy Miron (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies) Published on H-Judaic (April, 2015) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
The Hungarian Holocaust: Documents and Context
Hartley Lachter. Kabbalistic Revolution: Reimagining Judaism in Medieval Spain. Jewish Cultures of the World Series. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2014. 260 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8135-6875-1.
Reviewed by Mark Verman (Wright State University) Published on H-Judaic (April, 2015) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Kabbalah and Jewish Empowerment
Fran Markowitz, ed. Ethnographic Encounters in Israel: Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. x + 225 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-00856-5; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-00861-9.
Reviewed by Michal Raucher (University of Cincinnati) Published on H-Judaic (March, 2015) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Ethnography in Israel: Ethnography in a Country Like Any Other
Theodore Sasson. The New American Zionism. New York: New York University Press, 2015. x + 218 pp. $39.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-6086-4; $24.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4798-0611-9.
Reviewed by Noam Pianko (University of Washington) Published on H-Judaic (February, 2015) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
American Jews Remain Connected to Israel
Susanna Drake. Slandering the Jew: Sexuality and Difference in Early Christian Texts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 184 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4520-2.
Reviewed by Gail Labovitz (American Jewish University 15) Published on H-Judaic (February, 2015) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
According to the Flesh: Sexual Slander as a Tool of Early Christian Anti-Jewish Rhetoric
Raphael Jospe, Dov Schwartz, eds. Encounters in Modern Jewish Thought: The Works of Eva Jospe. Volume One: Martin Buber. Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2013. lxiii + 151 pp. $69.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61811-265-1.
Reviewed by Sam Brody (Department of Religious Studies University of Kansas) Published on H-Judaic (February, 2015) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
A New Edition of the Works of Eva Jospe: Student and Scholar of Modern Jewish Thought
Dianne Ashton. Hanukkah in America: A History. Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History. New York: New York University Press, 2013. vii + 343 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-0739-5.
Reviewed by Rachel B. Gross (Virginia Tech) Published on H-Judaic (February, 2015) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Creating the December Dilemma
Benjamin Maria Baader, Sharon Gillerman, Paul Lerner, eds. Jewish Masculinities: German Jews, Gender, and History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. viii + 242 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-00213-6; $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-00206-8; $23.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-253-00221-1.Ofer Nordheimer Nur. Eros and Tragedy: Jewish Male Fantasies and the Masculine Revolution of Zionism. Israel: Society, Culture, and History Series. Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2014. xxiv + 220 pp.
Jean Connell Hoff, John Friedman, and Robert Chazan. The Trial of the Talmud: Paris, 1240. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012. ix + 182 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-88844-303-8.
Reviewed by Piero Capelli Published on H-Judaic (January, 2015) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Disputation and Desecration: The Talmud Trial of 1240
Alon Confino. A World without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 304 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-18854-7.
Reviewed by Amos Goldberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Published on H-Judaic (January, 2015) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
A Shift in Perspective: From Causality to Meaning Making in Understanding the Holocaust
Julia Phillips Cohen, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, eds. Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 480 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-7165-8; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8047-9143-4.
Reviewed by Diane Matza (Utica College) Published on H-Judaic (January, 2015) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Documenting Sephardi Lives: An Essential Contribution to Jewish Studies
Irving Litvag. Commodore Levy: a Novel of Early America in the Age of Sail. Edited by Bonny V. Fetterman. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2014. 672 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-89672-881-3.
Reviewed by Marc Leepson (Lord Fairfax Community College) Published on H-Judaic (November, 2014) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Imagining Uriah Levy
John-Paul Himka, Joanna Beata Michlic, eds. Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. 892 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-2544-2.
Reviewed by Polly Zavadivker Published on H-Judaic (November, 2014) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Eastern and Central European Countries Reckoning with Their Unusable Pasts
Ilan Stavans. Singer's Typewriter and Mine: Reflections on Jewish Culture. Texts and Contexts Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012. 353 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8032-7136-4.
Reviewed by Jan Schwarz Published on H-Judaic (November, 2014) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Reflections about Jewish Multilingualism and Translationality
Leonard J. Greenspoon, ed. Jews in the Gym: Judaism, Sports, and Athletics. Purdue University Press, 2012. 240 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55753-629-7; ISBN 978-1-61249-239-1.
Reviewed by Ofer Ashkenazi (University of Minnesota) Published on H-Judaic (October, 2014) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Negotiating Jewish Identities in the Gym
