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