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Volume 37 - November 2013

Book Reviews: Medieval Jewish History and Thought

Pamela A. Patton. Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2012. xi, 206 pp.

Book Reviews: Jewish History and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antiquity

Tzvi Novick. What is Good, and What God Demands: Normative Structures in Tannaitic Literature. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2010. xii, 248 pp.

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture

Richard Hidary. Dispute for the Sake of Heaven: Legal Pluralism in the Talmud. Providence: Brown Judaic Studies, 2010. xii + 441 pp.

Book Reviews: Medieval Jewish History and Thought

Jonathan Ray, ed. The Jew in Medieval Iberia, 1100–1500. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2012. 350 pp. - Jonathan Ray, After Expulsion: 1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry. New York and London: New York University Press, 2013. 224 pp.

Jon D. Levenson. Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012. xvi, 244 pp.

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture

David H. Price. Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 370 pp.

Debra Kaplan. Beyond Expulsion: Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. xv, 254 pp.

Book Reviews: Antisemtism

Anthony Julius. Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, 864 pp.

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture

Eric Nelson, The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. 221 pp. + index.

Book Reviews: Early Modern Jewish History

Peter Mark and José da Silva Horta. The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 262 pp.

Yaacob Dweck. The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011. 280 pp. doi: 296.1'6-dc22 201000049226

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish History and Culture

Michah Gottlieb. Faith and Freedom: Moses Mendelssohn's Theological-Political Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 224 pp.

Rebecca Margolis. Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Culture in Montreal, 1905–1945. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011. xxii, 293 pp.

Book Reviews: Early Modern Jewish History

Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld. Poverty and Welfare among the Portuguese Jews in Early Modern Amsterdam. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2012. Xvii, 590 pp.

Robert Liberles. Jews Welcome Coffee: Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2012. Xviii, 169 pp.

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish History and Culture

Caitlin Carenen. The Fervent Embrace: Liberal Protestants, Evangelicals, and Israel. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 265 pp.

Book Reviews: Edited Volumes

Elisheva Carlebach and Jacob J. Schacter, eds. New Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations. In Honor of David Berger. Leiden: Brill, 2012. xii, 547 pp.

Book Reviews: Early Modern Yiddish Language and Literature

Jeremy Dauber. In the Demon's Bedroom: Yiddish Literature and the Early Modern. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 416 pp.

Book Reviews: Edited Volumes

Ra'anan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, Marina Rustow, eds. Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority, Diaspora, Tradition. Jewish Culture and Contexts Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. x, 424 pp.

Book Reviews: Early Modern Yiddish Language and Literature

Aya Elyada. A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany. (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture). Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. Xi, 260 pp.

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Volume 37 - November 2013

Book Reviews: Medieval Jewish History and Thought

Book Reviews: Jewish History and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antiquity

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture

Book Reviews: Medieval Jewish History and Thought

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture

Book Reviews: Antisemtism

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture

Book Reviews: Early Modern Jewish History

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish History and Culture

Book Reviews: Early Modern Jewish History

Book Reviews: Modern Jewish History and Culture

Book Reviews: Edited Volumes

Book Reviews: Early Modern Yiddish Language and Literature

Book Reviews: Edited Volumes

Book Reviews: Early Modern Yiddish Language and Literature