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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Béla Zsolt: Nine Suitcases*
  - a novel of the Holocaust in Hungary

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