In this Issue

Table of Contents

Color Plates

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0012
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Letter to the Editor

Stephen J. Whitfield, Michael E. Staub
pp. 1-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0051
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The Chosen: Defining American Judaism

Kathryn McClymond
pp. 4-23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0039
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Almost Friends: Post-Holocaust Comedy, Tragedy, and Friendship in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated

Menachem Feuer
pp. 24-48
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0020
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Just A Jew Named Joe

Steven G. Kellman
pp. 49-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0031
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R. B. Kitaj: The Tate Fiasco and Some Key History Paintings

Carol Salus
pp. 63-81
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0046
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From Acculturation to Interaction: A New Perspective on the History of the Jews in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

Klaus Hödl
pp. 82-103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0026
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The Jewish Calendar \-\- A Mix of Astronomy and Theology

Solomon Gartenhaus, Arnold Tubis
pp. 104-124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0022
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A Tale of Two Roosevelts: Review Essay

Saul Lerner
pp. 125-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0035
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Formulating Responses in an Egalitarian Age (review)

Nathan Aviezer
pp. 130-132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0003
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After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity (review)

Marc Dollinger
pp. 132-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0015
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The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World (review)

Christopher Martin
pp. 134-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0037
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The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture (review)

Matthew Hoffman
pp. 137-139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0027
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Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture (review)

Miriam Isaacs
pp. 139-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0029
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Making Wise the Simple: The Torah in Christian Faith and Practice (review)

Markus N. A. Bockmuehl
pp. 142-144
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0006
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Talking with Christians: Musings of a Jewish Theologian (review)

Zev Garber
pp. 144-147
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0021
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Women's Voices: New Perspectives for the Christian-Jewish Dialogue (review)

K. Hannah Holtschneider
pp. 147-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0028
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Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism (review)

Joshua Kulp
pp. 149-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0032
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Households and Holiness: The Religious Culture of Israelite Women (review)

Hector Avalos
pp. 152-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0002
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The Stains of Culture: An Ethno-Reading of Karaite Jewish Women (review)

Daniel J. Lasker
pp. 153-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0034
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Men and Women: Gender, Judaism and Democracy (review)

Marla Brettschneider
pp. 156-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0009
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The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics: Israel Versus the American Jewish Establishment (review)

David M. Reimers
pp. 158-160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0043
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Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon? (review)

Paul S. Boyer
pp. 160-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0008
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Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (review)

Deena R. Harris
pp. 163-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0025
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Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper (review)

Brian B. Kahn
pp. 166-168
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0030
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Jüdische Gemeinden, Vereine, Stiftungen und Fonds: "Arisierung" und Restitution (review)

Helga Embacher
pp. 168-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0016
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Gebildete Doppelgänger: Bürgerliche Juden und Protestanten im 19. Jahrhundert (review)

Hermann Beck
pp. 170-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0004
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A Concise History of American Antisemitism (review)

Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
pp. 173-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0024
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The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism (review)

Steven M. Glazer
pp. 175-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0023
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Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer (review)

Stephen J. Whitfield
pp. 176-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0052
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To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico (review)

Judith S. Neulander
pp. 179-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0040
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Conflict and Coexistence: Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews in Medieval Spain (review)

Anna Sapir Abulafia
pp. 181-183
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0000
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Maimonides (review)

Marc B. Shapiro
pp. 183-185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0047
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Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry: From the Golden Age of Spain to Modern Times (review)

Ranen Omer-Sherman
pp. 185-188
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0041
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Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt (review)

James Brodman
pp. 188-190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0011
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Haskalah and Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland: A History of Conflict (review)

Shmuel Feiner
pp. 190-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0019
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The Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels (review)

Roberta Rosenberg Farber
pp. 193-195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0018
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The Nonverbal Language of Prayer (review)

Gerald J. Blidstein
pp. 195-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0005
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Song of Songs (review)

Francis Landy
pp. 196-198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0033
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Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection (review)

Randal A. Argall
pp. 198-200
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0001
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Rereading the Mishnah: A New Approach to Ancient Jewish Texts (review)

Rivka Ulmer
pp. 200-203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0050
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Josephus Geographicus (review)

Stuart Robertson
pp. 205-207
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0045
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The Budding of Modern Hebrew Creativity in Babylon, and: The Collected Essays of Rabbi Shelomo Bekhor Hutsin (review)

Yair Mazor
pp. 207-208
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0038
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The Holocaust Novel (review)

David Patterson
pp. 208-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0042
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Imagining Lives: Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers (review)

G. Ėstraĭkh
pp. 210-212
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0017
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The Faces of Janus: English-language Fiction by German-speaking Exiles in Great Britain, 1933-1945 (review)

Charmian Brinson
pp. 212-214
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0010
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Gates of Bronze (review)

Joel Streicker
pp. 214-216
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0048
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The Sermon and Other Stories (review)

Joel Streicker
pp. 216-219
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0049
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Mordecai and Me, an Appreciation of a Kind (review)

Nathalie Cooke
pp. 219-221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0014
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The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate (review)

Saul Lerner
pp. 221-224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0036
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Contributors to This Issue

pp. ix-x
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0013
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Philo's Flaccus, The First Pogrom: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (review)

Stuart Robertson
pp. 203-205
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0044
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Book Notes

pp. 225-233
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0007
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