Nathan Wachtel. The Faith of Remembrance: Marrano Labyrinths. Trans. Nikki Halpern. Jewish Culture and Contexts Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Illustrations. 408 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4455-7.
Reviewed by Ronnie Perelis (Yeshiva University) Published on H-Judaic (July, 2014) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Moshe Sokol. Judaism Examined: Essays in Jewish Philosophy and Ethics. Touro College Series. Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2013. 518 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61811-165-4.
Reviewed by David B. Levy (Touro College) Published on H-Judaic (July, 2014) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Vu s’iz Torah dort iz chochmah (Where Torah is, there is wisdom)
Carl S. Ehrlich, Anders Runesson, Eileen M. Schuller, eds. Purity, Holiness, and Identity in Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Memory of Susan Haber. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament 305. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck. x + 313 pp. $204.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-16-152547-6.
Reviewed by Jonathan Klawans (Boston University) Published on H-Judaic (July, 2014) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Josef Stern. The Matter and Form of Maimonides' "Guide". Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. 448 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-05160-7.
Reviewed by Daniel Davies (Cambridge University Library) Published on H-Judaic (July, 2014) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Maimonides the Skeptic
Saskia Dönitz. Überlieferung und Rezeption des Sefer Yosippon. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013. xii + 339 pp. $169.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-16-152663-3.
Reviewed by Steven Bowman (University of Cincinnati) Published on H-Judaic (June, 2014) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Sefer Yosippon: From Hebrew to German
Aomar Boum. Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. xvii + 220 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-8699-7.
Reviewed by Harvey Goldberg (Dept. Sociology and Anthropology) Published on H-Judaic (June, 2014) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Jews in the Saharan Fringe: Ethnohistory and Moroccan Memories
Saba Soomekh. From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. 224 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-4383-6; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4384-4384-3.
Reviewed by Erik Greenberg (Autry National Center) Published on H-Judaic (May, 2014) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
The Transnational Experiences of Persian Jewish Women
Moshe Behar, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, eds. Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893-1958. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2013. xxxix + 257 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58465-884-9; $26.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-58465-885-6.
Reviewed by Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago) Published on H-Judaic (May, 2014) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Aaron W. Hughes. The Study of Judaism: Authenticity, Identity, Scholarship. Albany: State University of New York Press. ix + 162 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-4861-9; $23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4384-4862-6.
Reviewed by Michael Satlow (Brown University) Published on H-Judaic (May, 2014) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Jewish Studies Today: Not So Good
Jay Geller. The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. 448 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-3361-8; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-3362-5.
Reviewed by David Meola (University of British Columbia) Published on H-Judaic (May, 2014) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Giulia Miller. Reconfiguring Surrealism in Modern Hebrew Literature: Menashe Levin, Yitzhak Oren, and Yitzhak Orpaz. London: Vallentine Mitchell Publishers, 2013. 188 pp. $84.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-85303-843-6.
Reviewed by Karen Grumberg (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Judaic (May, 2014) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Hebrew Modernism Reconsidered
Yaakov Ariel. An Unusual Relationship: Evangelical Christians and Jews. Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History. New York: New York University Press, 2013. x + 307 pp. $39.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-7068-9.
Reviewed by Motti Inbari (University of North Carolina at Pembroke) Published on H-Judaic (April, 2014) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Evangelical Christians and Jews: A Match Made in Heaven?
M. M. Silver. Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America: A Biography. Modern Jewish History Series. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2012. 644 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8156-1000-7.
Reviewed by Daniel Kotzin (Medaille College) Published on H-Judaic (April, 2014) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Louis Marshall in American Jewish Life
Sergey Dolgopolski. The Open Past: Subjectivity and Remembering in the Talmud. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. xi + 379 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-4492-8.
Reviewed by Jason Mokhtarian (Indiana University) Published on H-Judaic (April, 2014) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Virtual Thinking and Authorship in the Talmud and Beyond
Susan Zuccotti. Père Marie-Benoît and Jewish Rescue: How a French Priest Together with Jewish Friends Saved Thousands during the Holocaust. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xv + 276 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-00853-4.
Reviewed by Daniel Lee (Brasenose College, Oxford) Published on H-Judaic (April, 2014) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
A Transnational Study of Jewish Rescue during the Holocaust
