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Volume 39 - November 2015

Book Reviews: Judaism in Late Antiquity and Rabbinics

Sacha Stern. Calendars in Antiquity: Empires, States, and Societies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 457 pp.

Book Reviews: Biblical Studies

Michael L. Satlow. How the Bible Became Holy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 368 pp.

Book Reviews: Judaism in Late Antiquity and Rabbinics

Azzan Yadin-Israel. Scripture and Tradition: Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 320 pp.

Michal Bar-Asher Siegal. Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 242 pp.

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History

Martin Jacobs. Reorienting the East: Jewish Travelers to the Medieval Muslim World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 344 pp.

Book Reviews: Judaism in Late Antiquity and Rabbinics

Shai Secunda. The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in Its Sasanian Context. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 272 pp.

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History

Francesca Bregoli. Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2014. 339 pp.

Joseph Shatzmiller. Cultural Exchanges: Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. 202 pp.

Jessica L. Goldberg. Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Geniza Merchants and Their Business World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 450 pp.

Matthias B. Lehmann. Emissaries from the Holy Land: The Sephardic Diaspora and the Practice of Pan-Judaism in the Eighteenth Century. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 352 pp.

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish History

Chaeran Y. Freeze and Jay M. Harris, eds. Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia: Select Documents, 1772–1914. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2013. 635 pp.

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History

Richard I. Cohen, Natalie Dohrmann, Elchanan Reiner, and Adam Shear, eds. Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of David B. Ruderman. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press and Cincinnati, OH: Hebrew Union College Press, 2014. 378 pp.

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish History

Haim Gertner. Ha-rav ve-ha-‘ir ha-gedolah: Ha-rabanut be-Galiẓyah u-mifgashah ‘im ha-modernah, 1815–1867. Jerusalem: Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2013. 448 pp.

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History

Peggy K. Pearlstein, ed. Perspectives on the Hebraic Book: The Myron M. Weinstein Memorial Lectures at the Library of Congress. Washington, DC: The Library of Congress, 2012. 240 pp.

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish History

Simon Rabinovitch. Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 374 pp.

Iris Idelson-Shein. Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race during the Long Eighteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2014. 280 pp.

Stephen H. Norwood. Antisemitism and the American Far Left. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 318 pp.

Jonathan Marc Gribetz. Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. 312 pp.

Michael Livingston. The Fascists and the Jews of Italy: Mussolini's Race Laws, 1938–1943. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 274 pp.

Cecile Esther Kuznitz. YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 321 pp.

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Volume 39 - November 2015

Book Reviews: Judaism in Late Antiquity and Rabbinics

Book Reviews: Biblical Studies

Book Reviews: Judaism in Late Antiquity and Rabbinics

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History

Book Reviews: Judaism in Late Antiquity and Rabbinics

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish History

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish History

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish History