Israel + Judaism + Jewish history

Book Reviews

David Aberbach: Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy, 750-500 BCE
- the Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold
Gilad Atzmon: The Wandering Who?
A Study of Jewish Identity Politics
Simeon D. Baumel: Sacred Speakers
Language and Culture among the Haredim in Israel
Ariel Bloch, Chana Bloch: The Song of Songs*
- a compelling translation of the great Hebrew love poem
Marc Zvi Brettler: The Creation of History in Ancient Israel*
- the biblical authors and their presentations of the past
György Dalos: The Circumcision
- a Jewish orphan in post-war Hungary faces a choice
S.D. Goitein: A Mediterranean Society
- the Jewish community in medieval Cairo
Leonard Gross: The Last Jews in Berlin
- the gripping stories of seven Holocaust survivors
Stefan Heym: The King David Report**
- a very funny novel about the politics of history in the 10th century BC
Primo Levi: If Not Now, When?*
- a novel of Jewish partisans in Russia and Poland in WWII
Torgny Lindgren: Bathsheba
- an earthy, mytho-poetic novel about the later days of King David
Mario Liverani: Israel's History and the History of Israel**
- ancient histories, normal and invented
Nur Masalha: Catastrophe Remembered
Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees
Ilan Pappe: A History of Modern Palestine*
One Land, Two Peoples
Donald B. Redford: Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times
- from prehistory to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC
Igal Sarna: Broken Promises
Israeli Lives
William H. Stiebing Jr: Out of the Desert?
Archaeology and the Exodus/Conquest Narratives
Thomas L. Thompson: The Bible in History
How Writers Create a Past
A.B. Yehoshua: Mr. Mani*
- linked stories about a Jewish lineage
S. Yizhar: Khirbet Khizeh*
- evicting a Palestinian village in 1948
Béla Zsolt: Nine Suitcases*
- a novel of the Holocaust in Hungary

I realise the conflation of Judaism and Israel is problematic, and at some point I plan to separate the two categories.