Judaism + Jewish history

Book Reviews

• 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
• György Dalos: The Circumcision
  - a Jewish orphan in post-war Hungary faces a choice
• Amy Ehrlich: With a Mighty Hand*
  The Story in the Torah
• 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
• Dov-Ber Kerler: The Politics of Yiddish
  Studies in Language, Literature and Society
• 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
• William H. Stiebing Jr: Out of the Desert?
  Archaeology and the Exodus/Conquest Narratives
• Piotr Szewc: Annihilation
  - a one day tour of a Polish-Jewish town in the 1930s
• Thomas L. Thompson: The Bible in History
  How Writers Create a Past
• A.B. Yehoshua: Mr. Mani*
  - linked stories about a Jewish lineage
• Béla Zsolt: Nine Suitcases*
  - a novel of the Holocaust in Hungary

See also: Christianity | Hebrew + Yiddish literature | Islam | Israel | religion