In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction

Editors' Introduction

Elliott Horowitz, David N. Myers
pp. vii-ix
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0086
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Notes: "Recoveries

An Other Love

Daniel Boyarin
pp. 1-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0043
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Textuality and Subsurface Traditions

Michael Fishbane
pp. 3-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0056
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Kitaj's List

R. B. Kitaj
pp. 6-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0069
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What Does It Mean to Be Photographed as a Jew?

Jeffrey Shandler
pp. 8-11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0002
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The Importance of Being Frank: Solomon Schechter's Departure from Cambridge

David B. Starr
pp. 12-18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0014
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Truth and Illusion

Suzanne Last Stone
pp. 19-22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0026
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The Joy of Thought

Leon Wieseltier
pp. 23-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0038
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Articles

"Epigraphical" Rabbis, Helios, and Psalm 19: Were the Synagogues of Archaeology and the Synagogues of the Sages One and the Same?

Stuart S. Miller
pp. 27-76
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0051
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Halakhah, Hermeneutics, and Martyrdom in Medieval Ashkenaz (Part I of II)

Haym Soloveitchik
pp. 77-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0064
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Major Trends in Yiddish Parody

David G. Roskies
pp. 109-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0077
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"I am a memory come alive": Nahum Glatzer and the Legacy of German Jewish Thought in America

Eugene R. Sheppard
pp. 123-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0009
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Book Reviews

David's Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King (review)

Marc Z. Brettler
pp. 149-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0021
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King David: A Biography (review)

Alexander Rofé
pp. 153-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0033
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The Elders of the City: A Study of the Elders-Laws in Deuteronomy (review)

Leslie J. Hoppe
pp. 158-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0046
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Torat ha-kedushah: 'Iyyunim ba-ḥukkah ha-kohanit sheba-Torah (The Holiness Legislation: Studies in the Priestly Code) (review)

Pamela Barmash
pp. 162-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0059
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Primaeval History Interpreted: The Rewriting of Genesis 1-11 in the Book of Jubilees (review)

James C. VanderKam
pp. 164-166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0072
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Le-Havin Divre Ḥakhamim: Mivhar Divre Mavo' La-Aggadah Vela-Midrash, mi-shel Ḥakhme Yeme Ha-Benayim (Medieval Perspectives on Aggadah and Midrash) (review)

Carmi Horowitz
pp. 167-171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0005
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In Queen Esther's Garden: An Anthology of Judeo-Persian Literature (review)

David Yeroushalmi
pp. 172-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0017
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Transmitting Jewish Traditions: Orality, Textuality, and Cultural Diffusion (review)

David Stern
pp. 176-177
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0029
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Gaḥaltan shel ḥakhamim: perakim be-toldot ha-ra-banut be-Germanyah be-me'ah ha-shesh-'esreh uva-me'ah ha-sheva'-'esreh. (The Fiery Embers of the Scholars: The Trials and Tribulations of German Rabbis in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) (review)

Dean Phillip Bell
pp. 178-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0041
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An Alternative Path to Modernity: The Sephardi Diaspora in Western Europe (review)

Adam Sutcliffe
pp. 182-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0054
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The Impact of the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth Century: The Life and Thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont (1614-1698) (review)

Adam Shear
pp. 185-190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0067
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Spinoza and the Irrelevance of Biblical Authority (review)

Nancy Levene
pp. 191-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0000
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Shabta' ut: Hebetim Hevratiyim (Sabbateanism: Social Perspectives) (review)

Elisheva Carlebach
pp. 202-204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0012
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The Berlin Haskalah and German Religious Thought: Orphans of Knowledge (review)

Shmuel Feiner
pp. 205-208
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0024
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Haskalah and History: The Emergence of a Modern Jewish Historical Consciousness (review)

Edward Breuer
pp. 209-212
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0036
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Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families in Nineteenth-Century America (review)

Dianne Ashton
pp. 213-216
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0049
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New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970, and: Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America (review)

Beth Wenger
pp. 217-220
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0062
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The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America (review)

Samuel C. Heilman
pp. 221-223
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0075
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Conservative Party Attitudes to Jews, 1900-1950 (review)

William D. Rubinstein
pp. 224-226
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0007
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The Selected Poetry of Dan Pagis, and: Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky, and: Profane Scriptures: Reflections on the Dialogue with the Bible in Modern Hebrew Poetry (review)

Chanita Goodblatt
pp. 227-231
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0019
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The Sabra: The Creation of the New Jew (review)

Barbara Mann
pp. 232-237
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0031
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Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe (review)

Jeffrey Shandler
pp. 238-240
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0044
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The Jew: Assumptions of Identity (review)

Sander L. Gilman
pp. 241-242
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0057
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Elvis in Jerusalem: Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel (review)

Allan Arkush
pp. 243-246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0070
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Disserations in Jewish Studies

Dissertations in Jewish Studies

pp. 247-249
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0003
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List of Contributors

Contributors

p. 251
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0084
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