Books Received

Adams, Samuel L. Social and Economic Life in Second Temple Judea. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2014.

An-Sky, S. A. Pioneers: A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s. Translated by Michael R. Katz. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.

Appelfeld, Aharon. Suddenly, Love. Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. New York: Schocken Books, 2014.

Arnold, Bill T., Nancy L. Erickson, and John H. Walton, eds. Windows to the Ancient World of the Hebrew Bible: Essays in Honor of Samuel Greengus. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2014.

Back, Rachel Tzvia, trans. In the Illuminated Dark: Selected Poems of Tuvia Ruebner. Cincinnati/Pittsburgh: Hebrew Union College Press/University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.

Balin, Carole B., and Wendy I. Zierler, eds. “To Tread on New Ground”: Selected Hebrew Writings of Hava Shapiro. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2014.

Barell, Ari. Engineer King: David Ben-Gurion, Science and National Building. (Hebrew.) Ramat Gan: The Ben-Gurion Research Institute, 2014.

Bartal, Israel, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Ada Rapoport-Albert, Claudia Rosenzweig, Vicky Shifriss, and Erika Timm, eds. A Touch of Grace: Studies in Ashkenazi Culture, Women’s History, and the Languages of the Jews Presented to Chava Turniansky. (Hebrew.) Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013.

Baskind, Samantha. Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014.

Baumgarten, Elisheva. Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance. Jewish Culture and Contexts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Bautch, Richard J., and J. Todd Hibbard, eds. The Book of Isaiah, Enduring Questions Answered Anew: Essays Honoring Joseph Blenkinsopp and His Contribution to the Study of Isaiah. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2014.

Bazyler, Michael J., and Frank M. Tuerkheimer. Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust. New York: New York University Press, 2014.

Becker, Robin. Tiger Heron. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.

Bell, Dean Phillip, ed. The Bloomsbury Companion to Jewish Studies. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.

Ben Avraham, Levi. Livyat Ḥen: The Secrets of the Faith, the Gate of the Haggadah. (Hebrew.) Edited with an introduction and notes by Howard Kreisel. The Goldstein-Goren Library of Jewish Thought 19. Jerusalem: Bialik, 2013.

Ben-Dov, Jonathan, and Seth Sanders, eds. Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature. New York: New York University Press and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 2014.

Ben-Shammai, Haggai, Aron Dotan, Yoram Erder, and Mordechai A. Friedman, eds. Studies in Judaeo-Arabic Culture: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies. (English and Hebrew.) Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 2014.

Berger, Joseph. The Pious Ones: The World of Hasidism and Their Battles with America. New York: Harper Perennial, 2014.

Berthelot, Katell, Joseph E. David, and Marc Hirshman, eds. The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Blenkinsopp, Joseph. David Remembered: Kingship and National Identity in Ancient Israel. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2013.

Boccaccini, Gabriele, and Jason M. Zurawski, eds. Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies. Library of Second Temple Studies 87. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.

Brook, Vincent, and Marat Grinberg, eds. Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2014.

Callender, Dexter E., Jr., ed. Myth and Scripture: Contemporary Perspectives on Religion, Language, and Imagination. SBL Resources for Biblical Study 78. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2014.

Cameron, Esther. Western Art and Jewish Presence in the Work of Paul Celan: Roots and Ramifications of the “Meridian” Speech. Graven Images. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2014.

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