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Volume 39 - November 2015

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish History

Corry Guttstadt. Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust. Translated from German by Kathleen M. Dell'Orto, Sabine Bartel, and Michelle Miles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 353 pp. - I. Izzet Bahar. Turkey and the Rescue of European Jews. New York and London: Routledge, 2015. 308 pp.

Libby Garland. After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921–1965. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 312 pp.

Jeffrey Veidlinger. In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. 424 pp.

Raanan Rein. Fútbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. 226 pp.

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish Thought and Literature

Anita Norich. Writing in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013. 165 pp.

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish History

Carmel Chiswick. Judaism in Transition: How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 234 pp.

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish Literature

Kathryn Hellerstein. A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586–1987. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 496 pp.

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish Thought and Literature

Shai Held. Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014. 352 pp.

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish Literature

Lital Levy. Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. 360 pp.

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish Thought and Literature

Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, eds. Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893–1958. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2013. 272 pp.

Book Reviews: Contemporary Jewish Thought

Claire Elise Katz. Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013. 247 pp.

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish Literature

Yigal Schwartz. The Zionist Paradox: Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity. Translated by Michal Sapir. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2014. 352 pp.

Book Reviews: Contemporary Jewish Thought

Aaron Hughes. Rethinking Jewish Philosophy: Beyond Particularism and Universalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 170pp.

Book Reviews: Jews and Contemporary Politics

Henry L. Feingold. American Jewish Political Culture and the Liberal Persuasion. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 384 pp.

Günther Jikeli, European Muslim Antisemitism: Why Young Urban Males Say They Don't Like Jews. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. 345 pp.

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Between Kabbalah, Gender, and Law: Sexual Ethics in the Zohar

Negation of Political Success in the Thought of Rabbi Isaac Pulgar

Israel and the Nations in Judah Halevi's Thought

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Volume 39 - November 2015

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish History

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish Thought and Literature

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish History

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish Literature

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish Thought and Literature

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish Literature

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish Thought and Literature

Book Reviews: Contemporary Jewish Thought

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish Literature

Book Reviews: Contemporary Jewish Thought

Book Reviews: Jews and Contemporary Politics

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