Books Noted

Arts and Culture

Nemerov, Alexander. Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.

Biblical Studies

Barclay, Michael. Sacred Relationships. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2013.

Boyarin, Daniel. The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ. New York: The New Press, 2012.

Fogel, Joshua A. Daily Reflections on Idolatry: Reading Tractate Avodah Zarah of the Babylonian Talmud. Lanham: Hamilton Books, 2013.

Biography and Memoir

Lazaroms, Ilse Josepha. The Grace of Misery: Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile, 1919–1939. Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies 47. Leiden: Brill, 2013.

Olson, Jess. Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity: Architect of Zionism, Yiddishism, and Orthodoxy. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013.

Stern, Eliyahu. The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.

Ventresca, Robert A. Soldier of Christ: The Life of Pope Pius XII. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.

Black Studies and Jewish Studies

Parfitt, Tudor. Black Jews in Africa and the Americas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013.

Diaspora

Rabinovitch, Simon. Jews & Diaspora Nationalism: Writings on Jewish Peoplehood in Europe & the United States. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2012.

Education

Wagner, Jordan Lee. The Synagogue Survival Kit: A Guide to Understanding Jewish Religious Services. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson, 2013.

Ethnography

Cooper, Alanna E. Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.

History, Ancient

Glouberman, Mark. The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Meyers, Carol. Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Taylor, Joan E. The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

History, Europe and Soviet Union

Dieckmann, Christoph. Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen 1941–1944. Band 1–2. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2011.

Jaskot, Paul B. The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Rosenberg, Kurt F. Einer, der nicht mehr dazugehört: Tagebücher 1933–1937. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2012.

Shohet, Azriel. The Jews of Pinsk, 1881 to 1941. Edited by Mark Jay Mirsky and Moshe Rosman. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013.

Trubowitz, Lara. Civil Antisemitism, Modernism, and British Culture, 1902–1939. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Zadoff, Mirjam. Next Year in Marienbad: The Lost Worlds of Jewish Spa Culture. Translated by William Templer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.

History, United States

Klapper, Melissa R. Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890–1940. New York: New York University Press, 2013.

Kurtzer, Daniel C., Scott B. Lasensky, William B. Quandt, Steven L. Spiegel, and Shibley Z. Telhami. The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989–2011. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013.

Holocaust Studies

Gerhardt, Uta, and Thomas Karlauf, eds. The Night of Broken Glass: Eyewitness Accounts of Kristallnacht. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2012.

Goldenberg, Myrna, and Amy H. Shapiro, eds. Different Horrors, Same Hell: Gender and the Holocaust. The Stephen S. Weinstien Series in Post-Holocaust Studies. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013.

Löw, Andrea, and Markus Roth. Juden in Krakau unter deutscher Besatzung, 1939–1945. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2011.

Roskies, David G., and Naomi Diamant. Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2012.

Interfaith Studies

Grob, Leonard, and John K. Roth, eds. Encountering the Stranger: A Jewish Christian Muslim Trialogue. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012.

Israel Studies

Budd, Eric N. Conflicted Are the Peacemakers: Israeli and Palestinian Moderates and the Death of Oslo. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.

Jewish Identity

Litvin, Baruch, compiler. Jewish Identity: Who Is a Jew? Modern Responses and Opinions on the Registration of Children of Mixed Marriages. David Ben-Gurion’s Query to Leaders of World Jewry and Their Responses. Edited by Sidney B. Hoenig. Rev. ed. Jersey City, NJ: KTAV, 2012.

Language and Literature

Agnon, S. Y. Three Stories. Drawings by Shay Charka. Tel Aviv: Schocken, 2012.

Alderman, Naomi. The Liars’ Gospel. New York: Little, Brown, 2012.

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