Book Reviews: Modern Era
Menashe Unger. A Fire Burns in Kotsk: A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland. Translated by Jonathan Boyarin, introduction by Glenn Dynner. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2015. 238 pp.
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- 13 April 2016, pp. 180-182
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Guy G. Stroumsa . The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 225 pp.
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- 23 November 2016, pp. 421-424
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Andrew D. Berns . The Bible and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Italy: Jewish and Christian Physicians in Search of Truth. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 309 pp.
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- 23 November 2016, pp. 424-427
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Sven-Erik Rose. Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789–1848. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2014. 381 pp.
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- 13 April 2016, pp. 182-185
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Jonathan Skolnik. Jewish Pasts, German Fictions: History, Memory, and Minority Culture in Germany, 1824–1955. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. 280 pp.
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- 13 April 2016, pp. 185-187
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Maud Kozodoy . The Secret Faith of Maestre Honoratus: Profayt Duran and Jewish Identity in Late Medieval Iberia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 314 pp.
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- 23 November 2016, pp. 427-429
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Hartley Lachter . Kabbalistic Revolution: Reimagining Judaism in Medieval Spain. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014. 260 pp.
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- 23 November 2016, pp. 429-431
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Todd M. Endelman. Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. 425 pp.
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- 13 April 2016, pp. 188-190
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David B. Ruderman . A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era: The Book of the Covenant of Pinḥas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014. 172 pp.
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- 23 November 2016, pp. 431-433
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Adam D. Mendelsohn. The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire. New York: New York University Press, 2014. 320 pp. - Hasia Diner. Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 280 pp.
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- 13 April 2016, pp. 190-194
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Deborah Dash Moore. Urban Origins of American Judaism. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014. 185 pp.
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- 13 April 2016, pp. 194-196
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Ana E. Schaposchnik . The Lima Inquisition: The Plight of Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Peru. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. 291 pp.
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- 23 November 2016, pp. 434-436
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Ephraim Shoham-Steiner . On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe. Translated by Haim Waltzman . Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2014. 288 pp.
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- 23 November 2016, pp. 436-439
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Adam Rovner. In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands before Israel. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 323 pp.
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- 13 April 2016, pp. 197-199
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Jeffrey R. Woolf . The Fabric of Religious Life in Medieval Ashkenaz (1000–1300): Creating Sacred Communities. Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval 30. Leiden: Brill, 2015. 246 pp.
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- 23 November 2016, pp. 439-441
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Shai Ginsburg. Rhetoric and Nation: The Formation of Hebrew National Culture, 1880–1990. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 484 pp.
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- 13 April 2016, pp. 199-201
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Mark S. Wagner. Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century Yemen. Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies, edited by Harvey E. Goldberg and Matthias Lehmann. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. 208 pp.
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- 13 April 2016, pp. 202-204
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Matthew Baigell . Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art 1880–1940. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2015. 262 pp.
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- 23 November 2016, pp. 442-444
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Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman. FDR and the Jews. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013. 433 pp.
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- 13 April 2016, pp. 204-206
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Michael Berkowitz . Jews and Photography in Britain. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. 358 pp.
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- 23 November 2016, pp. 444-446
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