Volume 45 - Issue 2 - November 2021
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Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras
Magda Teter. Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. xiii + 539 pp.
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Aviva Ben-Ur. Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651–1825. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 392 pp.
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- 08 November 2021, pp. 461-464
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François Soyer. Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World: Narratives of Fear and Hatred. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xvi + 315 pp.
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- 08 November 2021, pp. 464-468
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Paola Tartakoff. Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 304 pp.
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Book Reviews: Modern Era
Dina Danon. The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 255 pp.
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Karen Grumberg. Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 328 pp.
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- 08 November 2021, pp. 473-475
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Marc Volovici. German as a Jewish Problem: The Language Politics of Jewish Nationalism. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 352 pp.
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- 08 November 2021, pp. 476-477
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Gennady Estraikh. Transatlantic Russian Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020. 346 pp.
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Daniel Mahla. Orthodox Judaism and the Politics of Religion: From Prewar Europe to the State of Israel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xvi + 306 pp.
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- 08 November 2021, pp. 480-482
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Nancy Sinkoff. From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2020. 538 pp.
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- 08 November 2021, pp. 482-484
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Mark L. Smith. The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2019. xviii + 462 pp.
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Marc David Baer. German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xii + 300 pp.
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Philip Hollander. From Schlemiel to Sabra: Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 270 pp.
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- 08 November 2021, pp. 489-492
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Emily Sigalow. American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. 280 pp.
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- 08 November 2021, pp. 492-494
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Rhona Seidelman. Under Quarantine: Immigrants and Disease at Israel's Gate. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. 240 pp.
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- 08 November 2021, pp. 494-496
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Devi Mays. Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 360 pp.
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Zev Eleff. Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2020. 311 pp.
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Rachel Rojanski. Yiddish in Israel: A History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. 338 pp.
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Aaron Koller. Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2020. xxxv + 223 pp.
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Mónica Manrique. The Project of Return to Sepharad in the Nineteenth Century. Translated by Justin Peterson. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020. 96 pp.
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- 08 November 2021, pp. 505-507
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