Periodicals, Collected Essays, and Brief Notices

PERIODICALS, COLLECTED ESSAYS, AND BRIEF NOTICES Compiled by Pamela Barmash, Shachar Pinsker, and Rick Painter ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES REVIEW. 30.1 (2006) Adam Teller, “Hasidism and the Challenge of Geography: The Polish Background to the Spread of the Hasidic Movement,” pp. 1–29; Magda Teter and Edward Fram, “Apostasy, Fraud, and the Beginnings of Hebrew Printing in Cracow,” pp. 31–66; Meira Polliack, “Rethinking Karaism: Between Judaism and Islam,” pp. 67–93; Alanna E. Cooper, “Conceptualizing Diaspora: Tales of Jewish Travelers in Search of the Lost Tribes,” pp. 95–117; Bernard D. Cooperman, “Ethnicity and Institution Building among Jews in Early Modern Rome,” pp. 119–145; Reuven Shoham, “Intertextuality and Its Meaning in Natan Zach’s ‘'Enosh keair yamav’ (As for man, his days are as grass),” pp. 147–166; Gilead Morahg, “Borderling Cases: National Identity and Territorial Affinity in A. B. Yehoshusa’s Mr. Mani,” pp. 167–182; Book Reviews, pp. 183–225. ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES REVIEW. 30.2 (2006) Naomi Sokoloff, “Introduction: American Jewish Writing Today,” pp. 227–230; Sara R. Horowitz, “Mediating Judaism: Mind, Body, Spirit, and Contempoary North American Jewish Fiction,” pp. 231–253; Wendy Zierler, “A Dignitary in the Land? Literary Representations of the Americn Rabbi,” pp. 255–275; Jeremy Dauber, “Comic Books, Tragic Stories: Will Eisner’s American Jewish History,” pp. 277–304; Naomi Sokoloff, “Reading for the Plot? Philip Roth’s the Plot Against America,” pp. 305–312; Adam Rovner, “So Easily Assimilated: The New Immigrant Chic,” pp. 313–324; Devora Steinmetz, “Beyond the Verse: Midrash Aggadah as Interpretation of Biblical Narrative,” pp. 325–345; Jenny R. Labendz, “The Book of Ben Sira in Rabbinic Literature,” pp. 347–392; Eric Lawee, “From Sepharad to Ashkenaz: A Case Study in the Rashi Supercommentary Tradition,” pp. 393–425; Book Reviews, pp. 427–491. ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES REVIEW. 31.1 (2007) Steven D. Fraade, “Rabbinic Polysemy and Pluralism Revisited: Praxis and Thematization,” pp. 1–40; Yitzhak Berger, “Peshat and the Authority of Hazal in the Commentaries of Radak,” pp. 41–59; David Henshke, “‘The Lord Brought Us Forth from Egypt’: On the Absence of Moses in the Hebrew Studies 48 (2007) 414 Periodicals and Collected Essays Passover Haggadah,” pp. 61–73; Michael Weingrad, “Messiah, American Style: Mordecai Manuel Noah and the American Refuge,” pp. 75–108; Ken Koltun-Fromm, “Performing the Material Self: Mordecai Kaplan and the Art of Journal Writing,” pp. 109–131; Benjamin Pollock, “Thought Going to School with Life? Fackenheim’s Last Philosophical Testament,” pp. 133– 159. Book Reviews, pp. 161–220. ISRAEL STUDIES. 11.1 (2006) Moshe Shemesh, “The Fida’iyyun Organization’s Contribution to the Descent to the Six-Day War,” pp. 1–34; Lauren Erdreich, “Strategies Against Patriarchy: Sexualized Political Activism of Palestinian Israeli Women on Campus,” pp. 35–58; Aviva Halamish, “A New Look at Immigration of Jews From Yemen to Mandatory Palestine,” pp. 59–78; Hedva Ben-Israel, “Debates With Toynbee: Herzog, Talmon, Friedman,” pp. 79–90; Natan Aridan, “Abba Eban: The Toynbee Heresy,” pp. 91–107; Pnina Lahav, “A Chandelier For Women: A Tale About the Diaspora Museum and Maurycy Gottlieb’s ‘Day Of Atonement’—Jews Praying on Yom Kippur,” pp. 108–142; Alexandra Nocke, “Israel and the Emergence of Mediterranean Identity: Expressions of Locality in Music and Literature,” pp. 143–173; Idit Pintel-Ginsberg, “Narrating the Past—‘New Year of the Trees’ Celebrations in Modern Israel,” pp. 174–193; Emanuele Ottolenghi, “The Question of Zion,” pp. 194–203; Donna Robinson Divine, “American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise,” pp. 204–210; Alexandra Nocke, “Israel and the Maghreb: From Statehood to Oslo,” pp. 211–215. ISRAEL STUDIES. 11.2 (2006) Havatzelet Yahel, “Land Disputes between the Negev Bedouin and Israel,” pp. 1–22; Elie Rekhess, “State Commission of Inquiry into the Events of October 2000: A Retrospective,” pp. 23–53; Mahmoud Kayyal, “A Hesitant Dialogue with ‘The Other’: The Interactions of Arab Intellectuals with the Israeli Culture,” pp. 45–74; Dan Bar-On, “Stereotypes and Prejudice in Conflict: Representations of Arabs in Israeli-Jewish Society,” pp. 75–80; Alan J. Flashman, “The International Self: Psychoanalysis and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace,” pp. 81–87; Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, “The Spymaster, the Communist...