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  • Books Received
Aiken, Edwin James. Scriptural Geography: Portraying the Holy Land. Tauris Historical Geography Series. London: I. B. Tauris, 2010.
Anthony, Julius. Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Antoni, Piero Degli. Block II. Translated by Erin Waggener. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2012.
Aptroot, Marion, et al., eds. Yiddish Studies Today. Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press, 2012.
Arbel, Vita Daphna. Forming Femininity in Antiquity: Eve, Gender, and Ideologies in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Asher, Robert J. Evolution and Belief: Confessions of a Religious Paleontologist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Astell, Ann W., and Sandor Goodhart, eds. Sacrifice, Scripture, and Substitution: Readings in Ancient Judaism and Christianity. Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity Series 18. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011.
Auron, Yair. Israeli Identities: Jews and Arabs Facing the Self and the Other. Translated by Geremy Forman. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012.
Baader, Benjamin Maria, Sharon Gillerman, and Paul Lerner, eds. Jewish Masculinities: German Jews, Gender, and History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.
Baer, Elizabeth R. The Golum Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012.
Bak, Sofie Lene. Nothing to Speak: Wartime Experiences of the Danish Jews, 1943–1945. English translation by Virginia Raynolds Laursen. The Danish Jewish Museum, 2011.
Bar-Asher, Moshe, and Steven D. Fraade, eds. Studies in the Culture of North African Jewry. (Hebrew). New Haven, Conn./Jerusalem: Program for Judaic Studies, Yale University/Center for Jewish Languages and Literatures, Hebrew University, 2011.
Barbour, Jennie. The Story of Israel in the Book of Qohelet: Ecclesiastes as Cultural Memory. Oxford Theological Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Bar-Kochva, Bezalel. The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature: The Hellenistic Period. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Bar-On, Mordechai. Moshe Dayan: Israel’s Controversial Hero. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2012.
Bartor, Assnat. Reading Law as Narrative: A Study in the Casuistic Laws of the Pentateuch. SBL Ancient Israel and Its Literature 5. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010.
Bashkin, Orit. New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012.
Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor. Never Look Back: The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain, 1938–1945. Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2012.
Baumgarten, Jean et al., eds. En mémoire de Sophie Kessler-Mesguich. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2012.
Beckman, Gary, Trevor Bryce, and Eric Cline. The Ahhiyawa Texts. SBL Writings from the Ancient World 28. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011.
Bejarano, Margalit, and Edna Aizenberg, eds. Contemporary Sephardic Identity in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Modern Jewish History. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2012.
Bendix, Regina F., and Galit Hasan-Rokem, eds. A Companion to Folklore. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Benor, Sarah Bunin. Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism. Jewish Cultures of the World. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2012.
Berkowitz, Joel, and Barbara Henry, eds. Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage: Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012.
Bernardi, Daniel, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, eds. Hollywood’s Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema. Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013.
Biale, David. Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011.
Bick, Ezra, and Yaakov Beasley, eds. Torah Mi-Etzion: New Readings in Tanach: Devarim. Jerusalem: Maggid Books (Koren Publishers Jerusalem Ltd.), 2012.
Biemann, Asher D. Dreaming of Michelangelo: Jewish Variations on the Modern Theme. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012.
Botticini, Maristella, and Zvi Eckstein. The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70–1492. Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
Boyarin, Daniel. The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ. New York: New Press, 2012.
Brin, Gershon. Reuel and His Friends: Jewish Byzantine Exegetes from around the Tenth Century C.E. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 2012.
Brinkmann, Tobias. Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago. Chicago: University of...

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