Books Received

Abrams, Daniel. Kabbalistic Manuscripts and Textual Theory: Methodologies of Textual Scholarship and Editorial Practice in the Study of Jewish Mysticism. Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 26. Jerusalem: Magnes Press/Cherub Press, 2010.

Abulafia, Anna Sapir. Christian-Jewish Relations, 1000–1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom. The Medieval World. Harlow, England: Pearson, 2011.

Adler, Eliyana R. In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011.

Alpert, Rebecca T. Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Alroey, Gur. Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear: Letters from Jewish Migrants in the Early Twentieth Century. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011.

Altman, William H. F. The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2011.

Anderson, John E. Jacob and the Divine Trickster: A Theology of Deception and YHWH’s Fidelity to the Ancestral Promise in the Jacob Cycle. Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2011.

Appelbaum, Alan. The Rabbis’ King-Parables: Midrash from the Third-Century Roman Empire. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2010.

Armada, Pawel, and Arkadiusz Górnisiewicz, eds. Modernity and What Has Been Lost: Considerations on the Legacy of Leo Strauss. South Bend, Ind./Krakow: St. Augustine’s Press/Jagiellonian University Press. 2011.

Asian, Reza, ed. Tablet and Pen: Library Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. A Words without Borders Anthology. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011.

Atlan, Henri. Selected Writings: On Self-Organization, Philosophy, Bioethics, and Judaism. Edited by Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011.

Atlan, Henri. The Sparks of Randomness, Volume 1, Spermatic Knowledge. Translated by Lenn J. Schramm. Cultural Memory in the Present. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2011.

Auerbach, Jerold S. Hebron Jews: Memory and Conflict in the Land of Israel. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009.

Bar-Ilan, Meir. Astrology and Other Sciences among the Jews of Israel in the Roman-Hellenistic and Byzantine Periods. (Hebrew). Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 2011.

Bar-Kochva, Bezalel. The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature: The Hellenistic Period. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

Baron, Lawrence, ed. The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2011.

Batnitzky, Leora. How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011.

Baumgarte n, Albert I. Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews: A Twentieth Century Tale. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 131. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010.

Ben -Amos, Dan, ed. Folktales of the Jews, Volume 3, Tales from Arab Lands. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2011.

Beneke, Chris, and Christopher S. Grenda, eds. The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America. Early American Studies Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Ben-Zaken, Avner. Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Ben Zvi, Ehud, and Diana Edelman, eds. What Was Authoritative for Chronicles? Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2011.

Biale, David. Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011.

Blatman, Daniel. The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide. Translated by Chaya Galai. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

Boehling, Rebecca, and Uta Larkey. Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust: A Jewish Family’s Untold Story. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Bornstein, George. The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011.

Boyarin, Jonathan. Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Summer on the Lower East Side. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011.

Boyarin, Jonathan. The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians, and the Identity of...