Books Received

T H E JE W I S H Q UA R T E R LY R E V I E W, Vol. 94, No. 4 (Fall 2004) 725–744 B O O K S R E C E I V E D ABRAMOVITSH, S.Y. (MENDELE MOYKHER SFORIM). The Wishing Ring: A Novel. Translated from the Yiddish by Michael Wex. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2003. ADLER, WILLIAM, AND PAUL TUFFIN. The Chronography of George Synkellos: A Byzantine Chronicle of Universal History from the Creation. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002. AIZENBERG, EDNA. Books and Bombs in Buenos Aires: Borges, Gerchunoff, and Argentine-Jewish Writing. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England , 2002. ALBERTZ, RAINER, AND BOB BECKING, eds. Yahwism after the Exile: Perspectives on Israelite Religion in the Persian Era. Studies in Theology and Religion 5. Assen: Royal Van Gorcum, 2003. ALEXANDER, MICHAEL. Jazz Age Jews. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. ALEXANDER, PHILIP S. The Targum of Canticles: Translated with a Critical Introduction, Apparatus, and Notes. The Aramaic Bible Volume 17A. Collegeville , Minn.: The Liturgical Press, 2003. ALEXY, TRUDI. The Marrano Legacy: A Contemporary Crypto-Jewish Priest Reveals Secrets of His Double Life. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. ANCEL, JEAN. Transnistria, 1941–1942, The Romanian Mass Murder Campaigns . Volumes 1–3: Documents 1–1109 (Romanian and English). Project for the History of the Jews in Romania. Tel Aviv: Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University, 2003. ANGIER, CAROLE. The Double Bond: Primo Levy: A Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. The Jewish Quarterly Review (Fall 2004) Copyright 䉷 2004 Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. All rights reserved. 726 JQR 94:4 (2004) ANIDJAR, GIL. The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. ARBEL, VITA DAPHNA. Beholders of Divine Secrets: Mysticism and Myth in the Hekhalot and Merkavah Literature. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. AREND, AARON. Elef ha-magen: Perush ‘al agadot Masekhet Megilah le-R. Shemaryah ben Eliyahu ha-Ikriti. Jerusalem: Mekitse Nirdamim, 2003. ARUZ, JOAN, ed. Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Idus. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. ASTRO, ALAN, ed. Yiddish South of the Border: An Anthology of Latin American Yiddish Writing. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. ATHAS, GEORGE. The Tel Dan Inscriptions: A Reappraisal and a New Interpretation . JSOT Supplement Series 360. New York: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003. ATTIAS, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE, AND ESTHER BENBASSA. Israel, the Impossible Land. Translated by Susan Emanuel. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. AVERROÈS. La Béatitude de l’Âme. Éditions, traductions annotées, études doctrinales et historiques d’un traité d’ «Averroès» par Marc Geoffroy et Carlos Steel. Paris: Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2001. BAER, ELIZABETH R., AND MYRNA GOLDENBERG, eds. Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. BAIGELL, MATTHEW. Jewish Artists in New York: The Holocaust Years. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2002. BAILEY, RANDALL C., ed. Yet with a Steady Beat: Contemporary U.S. Afrocentric Biblical Interpretation. SBL Semeia Studies 42. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003. BOOKS RECEIVED 727 BAR-ASHER, M., AND D. DIAMANT, eds. Meghillot: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Vol I. Jerusalem/Haifa: Bialik Institute and Haifa University, 2003. BARGAD, WARREN, AND STANLEY F. CHYET, eds. and trans. No Sign of Ceasefire: An Anthology of Contemporary Israeli Poetry. Los Angeles: Skirball Cultural Centers, 2002. BAR-GAL, YORAM. Propaganda and Zionist Education: The Jewish National Fund 1924–1947. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2003. BARTLETT, JOHN R., ed. Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities. London : Routledge, 2002. BARTOV, OMER. Germany’s War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories. Ithaca , N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. BASS, WARREN. Support Any Friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. BAUER, YEHUDA. Rethinking the Holocaust. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002. BAUMEL, JUDITH TYDOR, AND TOVA COHEN, eds. Gender, Place and Memory in the Modern Jewish Experience: Re-placing Ourselves...