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  • Books Received

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Aczel, Amir D. The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000. 304 pp. ISBN 1-56858-105-X.
Adelman, Gary. Retelling Dostoyevsky: Literary Responses and Other Observations. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press, 2001. 273 pp. ISBN 0-8387-5473-2.
Albrecht, Michael and Eva J. Engel, eds. Moses Mendelssohn im Spannungsfeld der Aufklärung. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2000. 284 pp. ISBN 3-7728-1956-7.
Alpert, Rebecca T. and Jacob J. Staub. Exploring Judaism: A Reconstructionist Approach. Elkins Park, PA: Reconstructionist Press, 2000. 178 pp. ISBN 0-935457-50-X.
Amariglio, Erika Kounio. From Thessaloniki to Auschwitz and Back: Memories of a Survivor from Thessaloniki. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2000. 160 pp. ISBN 0-85303-390-0.
Angel, Marc D. But Who Am I, and Who Are My People? A Rabbi’s Reflections on the Rabbinate and the Jewish Community. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Publishing House, 2001. 181 pp. ISBN 0-88125-694-3.
Arad, Gulie Ne’eman. America, Its Jews, and the Rise of Nazism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. 314 pp. ISBN 0-253-33809-3.
Avineri, Shlomo and Werner Weidenfeld, eds. Intergration and Identity: Challenges to Europe and Israel. Bonn: Europa Union Verlag, 1999. 198 pp. ISBN 3-7713-0582-9.
Balin, Carole B. To Reveal Our Hearts: Jewish Women Writers in Tsarist Russia. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2000. 269 pp. ISBN 0-87820-423-7.
Bar-Itzhak, Haya. Jewish Poland, Legends of Origin: Ethnopoteics and Legendary Chronicles. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. 195 pp. ISBN 0-8143-2789-3.
Barkan, Elazar. The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000. 414 pp. ISBN 0-393-04886-1.
Baron, Dvora. “The First Day” and Other Stories. Naomi Seidman and Chana Kronfeld, trans. and eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 236 pp. ISBN 0-520-08538-8.
Barragan, Nina. Losers and Keepers in Argentina. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. 253 pp. ISBN 0-8263-2222-0.
Bartfeld-Feller, Margit. Wie aus ganz andern Welten: Erinnerungen an Czernowitz und die sibirische Verbannung. Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre Verlag, 2000. 72 pp. ISBN 3-89649- 527-5.
Bass, Gary Jonathan. Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 402 pp. ISBN 0-691-04922-X.
Beattie Jung, Patricia, Mary E. Hunt, and Radhika Balakrishnan. Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the World’s Religions. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. 220 pp. ISBN 0-8135-2884-4.
Belpoliti, Marco and Robert Gordon, eds. The Voice of Memory: Primo Levi, Interviews, 1961–1987. New York: The New Press, 2001. 306 pp. ISBN 1-56584-645-1.
Ben Israel, Manasseh. The Conciliator: A Reconcilement of the Apparent Contradictions in Holy Scripture, translated by E. H. Lindo. Brooklyn, NY: Sepher-Hermon Press, 2001. 336 pp. ISBN 0-87203-124-1.
Bookman, Terry. God 101: Jewish Ideals, Beliefs, and Practices for Renewing Your Faith. New York: Perigee, 2001. 192 pp. ISBN 0-399-52658-7.
Borchert, Christian, et al., eds. Victor Klemperer: Ein Leben in Bildern. Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, 1999. 223 pp. ISBN 3-551-02399-5.
Bottéro, Jean. The Birth of God: The Bible and the Historian, translated by Kees W. Bolle. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2000. 214 pp. ISBN 0-271-02060-1.
Botterweck, G. Johannes, Helmer Ringgren, and Heinz-Josef Fabry, eds. Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament. Vol. XI, English version. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2001. 615 pp. ISBN 0-8028-2335-1.
Bregman, Ahron. Israel’s Wars, 1947–93. London: Routledge, 2000. 173 pp. ISBN 0-415- 21468-8.
Bruck, Edith. Who Loves You Like This. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2001. 137 pp. ISBN 0- 9664913-7-8.
Burleigh, Michael. The Third Reich: A New History. New York: Hill & Wang, 2000. 965 pp. ISBN 0-8090-9325-1.
Carroll, James. Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. 756 pp. ISBN 0-395-77927-8.
Charlesworth, James, et al. Miscellaneous Texts from the Judaean Desert. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. 250...