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Volume 21 - Issue 2 - November 1996

Book Reviews

Alan Silverstein, Alternatives to Assimilation: The Response of Reform Judaism to American culture 1840–1930. Hanover Brandeis University Press, 1996. 275 pp.

David Cesarani. The “Jewish Chronicle” and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv, 329 pp.

Aron Rodrigue. Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in Transition: The Teachers of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1860–1939. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993. x, 308 pp.

Laura Zittrain Eisenberg. My Enemy's Enemy: Lebanon in the Early Zionist Imagination, 1900–1918. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996. 219 pp.

Tony Kushner, The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination: A Social and Cultural History. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers. 1996. xiii, 366 pp.

Moshe Y. Herczl. Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry. Translated by Joel Lerner. New York: New York University Press, 1993. 299 pp.

Reena Sigman Friedman. These Are Our Children: Jewish Orphanages in the United States, 1880–1925. Hanover, N.H.: Brandeis University Press, 1996. xiv, 298 pp.

Guy H. Haskell. From Sofia to Jaffa: The Jews of Bulgaria and Israel. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996. 235 pp.

Walter S. Wurzburger. Ethics of Responsibility: Pluralistic Approaches to Covenantal Ethics. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1996. xii, 156 pp.

Eliezer Schweid. Democracy and Halakhah. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1996. xxvi, 159 pp.

Collected Studies

Alexander Edward. The Jewish Wars: Reflections by One of the Belligerents. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996. xii, 207 pp.

Bartrop Paul, ed. False Havens: The British Empire and the Holocaust. Studies in the Shoah 10. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1995. xiv, 293 pp.

Beck Astrid B., Bartelt Andrew H., Raabe Paul R., and Franke Chris A., eds. Fortunate the Eyes That See: Essays in Honor of David Noel Freedman in Celebration of His Seventieth Birthday. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995. ix, 672 pp.

Beer Moshe, ed. Studies in Halakha and Jewish Thought Presented to Rabbi Menachem Emanuel Rackman on the 80th Anniversary. Jerusalem: Daf-Noy Press for Bar-Ilan University, 1994. 324 pp. (Hebrew), 66 pp. (English).

Benbassa Esther, ed. Mémoires Juives d'Espagne et du Portugal. Paris: Publisud, 1996. 365 pp.

Brown Michael, ed. Approaches to Antisemitism: Context and Curriculum. New York: American Jewish Committee and International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, 1994. vi, 330 pp.

Davies Jon, Harvey Graham, and Watson Wilfred G. E., eds. Words Remembered, Texts Renewed: Essays in Honour of John F. A. Sawyer. JSOT Supplement Series 195. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995. 533 pp.

Day John, Gordon Robert P., and Williamson H. G. M., eds. Wisdom in Ancient Israel: Essays in Honor of J. A. Emerton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xiii, 311 pp.

Fine Lawrence, ed. Essential Papers on Kabbalah. New York: New York University Press, 1995. ix, 550 pp.

Fishman David, ed. Yivo Bleter: Studies on the Culture and History of Lithuanian Jewry. New Series, vol. 2. New York: YTVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1994. 392 pp. (Yiddish).

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