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
David E. Kaufman. Jewhooing the Sixties: American Celebrity and Jewish Identity. Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life. Lebanon: Brandeis University Press, 2012. 360 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61168-314-1; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61168-313-4.
Reviewed by Kirsten L. Fermaglich (Michigan State University) Published on H-Judaic (March, 2014) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Popularizing Jewish Identity
Franklin Ruth. Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 272 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-997600-3.
Reviewed by Cynthia Crane (University of Cincinnati) Published on H-Judaic (March, 2014) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Narrative "Slippage" and Unclassified Authors: Truth and Fiction in Holocaust Literature
Richard Breitman, Allan J. Lichtman. FDR and the Jews. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013. 464 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-05026-6.
Reviewed by Bat Ami Zucker (Bar Ilan University) Published on H-Judaic (March, 2014) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Revisiting FDR's Response to the Holocaust
Lee Weissbach. A Jewish Life on Three Continents: The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2013. 517 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-8620-1.
Reviewed by Gil Ribak (American Jewish University) Published on H-Judaic (March, 2014) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Meir Persoff. Hats in the Ring: Choosing Britain's Chief Rabbis from Adler to Sacks. Judaism and Jewish Life Series. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2013. xxii + 337 pp. $69.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61811-177-7; $34.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61811-269-9.
Reviewed by Frederic J. Krome (University of Cincinnati Clermont College) Published on H-Judaic (March, 2014) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Naomi Grunhaus. The Challenge of Received Tradition: Dilemmas in Radak's Biblical Commentaries. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 274 pp. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-985840-8.
Reviewed by Devorah Schoenfeld (Loyola University Chicago) Published on H-Judaic (March, 2014) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Tradition and Rationality in David Kimhi's Commentaries
Devorah Schoenfeld. Isaac on Jewish and Christian Altars: Polemic and Exegesis in Rashi and the Glossa Ordinaria. Fordham Series in Medieval Studies. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. ix + 229 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-4349-5.
Reviewed by Jonathan Kearney (St Patrick's College) Published on H-Judaic (February, 2014) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Nechama Tec. Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 256 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-973541-9.
Reviewed by Peter Hoffmann Published on H-Judaic (February, 2014) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Survival in Poland
