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Volume 24 - November 1999

Book Reviews

Allan Nadler. The Faith of the Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses to Hasidic Rapture. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1997. 254 pp.

Steven T. Katz, ed. American Rabbi: The Life and Thought of Jacob B. Agus. New York: New York University Press, 1997. x, 244 pp. - Steven T. Katz, ed. The Essential Agus: The Writings of Jacob B. Agus. New York: New York University Press, 1997. xii, 573 pp.

Jeffrey Gurock and Jacob Schacter. A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. x, 220 pp.

Susannah Heschel. Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus. Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xii, 315 pp.

Mark K. Bauman and Berkley Kalin, eds. The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997. x, 444 pp.

Raphael Patai. Jadīd al-Islam: The Jewish “New Muslims” of Meshhed. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. 325 pp.

Stuart A. Cohen. The Scroll or the Sword? Dilemmas of Religion and Military Service in Israel. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997. xii, 98 pp.

Joshua Eli Plaut. Greek Jewry in the Twentieth Century, 1913–1983: Patterns of Jewish Survival in the Greek Provinces Before and After the Holocaust. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996. 220 pp.

Dianne Ashton. Rebecca Gratz: Women and Judaism in Antebellum America. American Jewish Civilization Series.Detroit: University Press, 1997. 329 pp.

Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub, eds. Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997. xxxi, 506 pp.

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Jeffrey Herf. Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. 527 pp.

Emanuel Melzer. No Way Out: The Politics of Polish Jewry, 1935–1939. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1997. xii, 235 pp.

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Alan Berger. Children of Job: American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust. With a foreword by Elie Wiesel. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. ix, 215 pp.

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George Lavy. Germany and Israel: Moral Debt and National Interest. London: Frank Cass, 1996. 222 pp.

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Sharona Wachs. American Jewish Liturgies: A Bibliography of American Jewish Liturgy from the Establishment of the Press in the Colonies Through 1925. Bibliographica Judaica 14. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1997. ix, 221 pp.

Eric Friedland, “Were Our Mouths Filled With Song”: Studies in Liberal Jewish Liturgy. Monographs of the Hebrew Union College 20. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1977. xiv, 367 pp.

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