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Volume 41 - November 2017

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras

David A. Wacks . Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature: Jewish Cultural Production before and after 1492. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. 298 pp.

Stefan C. Reif . Jewish Prayer Texts from the Cairo Genizah: A Selection of Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, Introduced, Transcribed, Translated, Annotated, with Images. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series 7. Leiden: Brill, 2016. 329 pp.

E. M. Rose . The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xii + 394 pp.

Matthew D. Warshawsky . The Perils of Living the Good and True Law: Iberian Crypto-Jews in the Shadow of the Inquisition of Colonial Hispanic America. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2016. 176 pp.

Book Reviews: Modern Era

Gur Alroey . An Unpromising Land: Jewish Migration to Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. 285 pp.

Yuval Ben-Bassat . Petitioning the Sultan: Protests and Justice in Late Ottoman Palestine. London: I. B. Tauris, 2013. 331 pp.

Jennifer Glaser . Borrowed Voices: Writing & Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016. 224 pp.

Daniella Doron . Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France: Rebuilding Family and Nation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. 310 pp.

Hillel Halkin . After One-Hundred-and-Twenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. 232 pp.

Lisa Moses Leff . The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 304 pp.

Chana Kronfeld . The Full Severity of Compassion: The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. 416 pp.

Patricia Keer Munro . Coming of Age in Jewish America: Bar and Bat Mitzvah Reinterpreted. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016. 212 pp.

Tabea Alexa Linhard . Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. 230 pp.

Timothy D. Lytton . Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. 214 pp.

Devin E. Naar . Jewish Salonica between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. xi–xxv + 367 pp.

Yonatan Sagiv . Indebted: Capitalism and Religion in the Writings of S. Y. Agnon. Cincinnati, OH: HUC Press/University of Pittsburgh Press. 220 pp.

Tahneer Oksman . “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 274 pp.

Jeffrey A. Summit . Singing God's Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 293 pp.

Ira Robinson . A History of Antisemitism in Canada. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015. 302 pp.

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