Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras
Uriah Kfir. A Matter of Geography: A New Perspective on Medieval Hebrew Poetry. Leiden: Brill, 2018. 164 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 214-216
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Cornelia Aust. The Jewish Economic Elite: Making Modern Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. 218 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 216-219
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Eve Krakowski. Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. 350 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 219-221
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Alexander Green. The Virtue Ethics of Levi Gersonides. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xxiii + 195 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 221-223
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Book Reviews: Forum
Yair Mintzker. The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. xiv + 330 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 223-226
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Yair Mintzker. The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. 344 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 226-228
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Book Reviews: Modern Era
Shari Rabin. Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: New York University Press, 2017. 208 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 228-230
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Monika Rice. “What! Still Alive?!”: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2017. 253 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 230-232
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Tim Grady. A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. 304 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 232-234
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Jonathan M. Hess. Deborah and Her Sisters: How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and a Host of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism on the World Stage. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 263 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 235-237
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Nili Scharf Gold. Haifa: City of Steps. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2018. 266 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 237-239
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Jonathan Sciarcon. Educational Oases in the Desert: The Alliance Israélite Universelle's Girls’ Schools in Ottoman Iraq, 1895–1915. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017. 226 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 239-241
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Katja Garloff. Mixed Feelings: Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. 228 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 241-243
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Sharon Klein. Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. x + 369 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 243-245
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Joshua Schreier. The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. 199 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 246-247
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Walter Zev Feldman. Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxiv + 413 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 248-249
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Robert Eisen. Religious Zionism, Jewish Law, and the Morality of War: How Five Rabbis Confronted One of Modern Judaism's Greatest Challenges. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xv + 291 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 250-251
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Jay Geller. Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of the Jews. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018. ix + 404 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 252-253
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Michael Brenner. In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. 392 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 254-256
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Kerry Wallach. Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. 276 pp.
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- 24 April 2019, pp. 256-258
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