AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies

Uriah Kfir. A Matter of Geography: A New Perspective on Medieval Hebrew Poetry. Leiden: Brill, 2018. 164 pp.

“Oh Mohammed, Are You Still Awake?”: Admiel Kosman, Martin Buber, and the Poetics of Engagement

Ivan G. Marcus. “Sefer Hasidim” and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. xiii + 202 pp.

Adrian Sackson. Joseph ibn Kaspi: Portrait of a Hebrew Philosopher in Medieval Provence. Leiden: Brill, 2017. 351 pp.

Shari Rabin. Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: New York University Press, 2017. 208 pp.

Yair Mintzker. The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. 344 pp.

Eve Krakowski. Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. 350 pp.

Joshua A. Berman. Inconsistency in the Torah: Ancient Literary Convention and the Limits of Source Criticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xii + 307 pp.

Karen Ross. Youth Encounter Programs in Israel: Pedagogy, Identity, & Social Change. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2017. 220 pp.

Introduction to the Theme: The Jerusalem Temple in History, Memory, and Ritual

Yair Mintzker. The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. xiv + 330 pp.

Katja Garloff. Mixed Feelings: Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. 228 pp.

Monika Rice. “What! Still Alive?!”: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2017. 253 pp.

Jack Wertheimer. The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. 379 pp.

Albert van der Heide. “Now I Know”: Five Centuries of Aqedah Exegesis. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2017. 504 pp.

Imagining the Temple in Rabbinic Stone: The Evolution of the ʾEven Shetiyah

Francesca Trivellato. The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. 424 pp.

Adriane Leveen. Biblical Narratives of Israelites and Their Neighbors: Strangers at the Gate . Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biblical Criticism. London: Routledge, 2017. 215 pp.

Tal Ilan. Massekhet Hullin. A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud 3. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017. 671 pp.

Sightseeing and Spectacle at the Jewish Temple

Susan L. Einbinder. After the Black Death: Plague and Commemoration among Iberian Jews. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 232 pp.

Jerold C. Frakes. The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature: Cultural Translation in Ashkenaz. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. 286 pp.

Françoise Mirguet. An Early History of Compassion: Emotion and Imagination in Hellenistic Judaism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 271 pp.

Shachar M. Pinsker. A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2018. 384 pp.

Feet in the Rabbinic Imagination and the Prohibition against Wearing Shoes on Yom Kippur

Maya Barzilai. Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters. New York: New York University Press, 2016. 288 pp.

Abigail Gillman. A History of German Jewish Bible Translation. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 320 pp.

Shaul Mitelpunkt. Israel in the American Mind: The Cultural Politics of US-Israeli Relations, 1958–1988. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 385 pp.

Jennifer Otto. Philo of Alexandria and the Construction of Jewishness in Early Christian Writings. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xi + 231 pp.

Karen B. Stern. Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. 312 pp.

Mara H. Benjamin. The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018. 155 pp.

Gerben Zaagsma. Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. 250 pp.

Kerry Wallach. Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. 276 pp.

Ayelet Hoffmann Libson. Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 224 pp.

Nili Scharf Gold. Haifa: City of Steps. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2018. 266 pp.

Elaine T. James. Landscapes of the Song of Songs: Poetry and Place. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 233 pp.

From Dungeon to Haven: Competing Theories of Gestation in Leviticus Rabbah and the Babylonian Talmud

Aimée Israel-Pelletier. On the Mediterranean and the Nile: The Jews of Egypt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018. 226 pp.

Chad Alan Goldberg. Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 256 pp.

Stephen Silverstein. The Merchant of Havana: The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive . Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. 205 pp.

Julia Watts Belser. Rabbinic Tales of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Disability in the Ruins of Jerusalem. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 245 pp.

Yoma from Babylonia to Egypt: Ritual Function, Textual Transmission, and Sacrifice

Alexander Green. The Virtue Ethics of Levi Gersonides. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xxiii + 195 pp.

Jonathan M. Hess. Deborah and Her Sisters: How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and a Host of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism on the World Stage. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 263 pp.

Cornelia Aust. The Jewish Economic Elite: Making Modern Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. 218 pp.

Joshua Schreier. The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. 199 pp.

Jessica Cooperman. Making Judaism Safe for America: World War I and the Origins of Religious Pluralism. New York: New York University Press, 2018. vii + 209 pp.