Book Reviews
Mystical Resistance
Read moreEllen Davina Haskell:
Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar's Conversations with Christianity.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
256 pp.…Memoirs of a Hopeful Pessimist: A Life of Activism Through Dialogue
Read moreDebbie Weissman:
Memoirs of a Hopeful Pessimist: A Life of Activism Through Dialogue.
Jerusalem: Urim Publication, 2017.
160 pp. $16.50 (hardcover)Bringing Zion Home: Israel in American Jewish Culture
Read moreEmily Alice Katz:
Bringing Zion Home: Israel in American Jewish Culture.
New York: SUNY, 2015.
230 pp. $85.00 (cloth)A World without Jews
Read moreAlon Confino:
A World without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.
304 pp. $30.00Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Sources of Wonder
Read moreMichael Marmur:
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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.
296 pp. $80.00 (cloth).Maimonides and the Theological Diversity of Judaism
Read moreJames A. Diamond:
Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
319 pp. $99.00 (cloth).The Jewish Reception of the Apostle Paul
Read moreJohn G. Gager:
Who Made Early Christianity? The Jewish Lives of the Apostle Paul.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.
208 pp. $30.00 (cloth).Adloyada: Drunk on the History of Yishuv Purim Celebrations
Read moreHizky Shoham:
Carnival in Tel Aviv: Purim and the Celebration of Urban Zionism.
Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2014.
275 pp. $59.00 (cloth)Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945–1955
Read moreSéan Hand, Steven T. Katz:
Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945–1955.
New York: NYU Press, 2015.
256 S. $45.00 (cloth)A Thousand and One Sasanian Nights
Read moreRichard Kalmin:
Migrating Tales: The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context.
Oakland: University of California Press, 2014.
312 pp. $65.00…