AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies

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(The median citation count of AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
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Rabbi Shmuel Schneersohn of Lubavitch (“Maharash,” 1834–1882) and the False Twilight of Chabad Hasidism1
The Retribution of Identity: Colonial Politics inFauda1
The Sin of American Jewish Exceptionalism1
The Art of Ambiguity: The Karaites as Portrayed in Judah Halevi's Book of the Kuzari1
The ʾAgur: A Halakhic Code for Print0
Jannis Panagiotidis. The Unchosen Ones: Diaspora, Nation, and Migration in Israel and Germany. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 363 pp.0
Philip Hollander. From Schlemiel to Sabra: Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 270 pp.0
Jeffrey Shandler. Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors’ Stories and New Media Practices. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. ix + 232 pp.0
On the Yehi Raẓon Formula in the Blessing for the New Month in the Ashkenazic Rite0
Yael Zerubavel. Desert in the Promised Land. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. xii + 346 pp.0
Mikhail Krutikov. Der Nister's Soviet Years: Yiddish Writer as Witness to the People. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 309 pp.0
Louis A. Fishman. Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908–1914: Claiming the Homeland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 226 pp.0
Textual Variants and Textual Criticism in the Works of Rabbenu Tam: Between Theory and Practice0
“These and Those Are the Words of the Living God, but …”: Meaning, Background, and Reception of an Early Rabbinic Teaching0
Rachel Kranson. Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xiv + 232 pp.0
Tamar Herzig. A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 400 pp.0
Dan Porat. Bitter Reckoning: Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi Collaborators. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 276 pp.0
שינויים במפת המקומות הקדושים היהודיים בירושלים: תהליך התקדשותם של קברי צדיקים בשלושה מבתי הקברות של העיר, 1967–20170
T. M. Rudavsky. Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Science, Rationalism, and Religion. The Oxford History of Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 305 pp.0
Natan M. Meir. Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800–1939. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 343 pp.0
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Emily Sigalow. American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. 280 pp.0
Aviva Ben-Ur. Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651–1825. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 392 pp.0
David Biale. Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. 232 pp.0
Suppression of Permissive Norms in the Medieval Jewish Family0
Jonathan Decter. Dominion Built of Praise: Panegyric and Legitimacy among Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 387 pp.0
Anne C. Schenderlein. Germany on Their Minds: German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Their Relationships with Germany, 1938–1988. New York: Berghahn, 2020. 254 pp.0
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Benjamin E. Fisher. Amsterdam's People of the Book: Jewish Society and the Turn to Scripture in the Seventeenth Century. Cincinnati, OH: Hebrew Union College Press, 2020. 330 pp.0
Laura Limonic. Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2019. 264 pp.0
Lior B. Sternfeld. Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. 208 pp.0
Alex Kerner. Lost in Translation, Found in Transliteration: Books, Censorship, and the Evolution of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation of London as a Linguistic Community, 1663–1810. Leiden0
Martina Mampieri. Living under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (16th century). Leiden: Brill, 2020. xx + 0
Teaching for the Tithe: Donor Expectations and the Matrona's Tithe0
Daniel Mahla. Orthodox Judaism and the Politics of Religion: From Prewar Europe to the State of Israel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xvi + 306 pp.0
Marc David Baer. German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xii + 300 pp.0
Stanley Mirvis. The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. 285 pp.0
James A. Diamond. Jewish Theology Unbound. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 304 pp.0
Isaac Kalimi. Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 315 pp.0
Resolving Contradictions: Samuel Hirsch and the Stakes of Modern Jewish Thought0
Mónica Manrique. The Project of Return to Sepharad in the Nineteenth Century. Translated by Justin Peterson. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020. 96 pp.0
Jay Howard Geller. The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. 348 pp.0
Omri Asscher. Reading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation between Jews. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 256 pp.0
Nancy Sinkoff. From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2020. 538 pp.0
Dina Danon. The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 255 pp.0
Nathan P. Devir. New Children of Israel: Emerging Jewish Communities in an Era of Globalization. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2017. 310 pp.0
Kirsten Fermaglich. A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America. New York: New York University Press, 2018. 256 pp.0
David C. Flatto. The Crown and the Courts: Separation of Powers in the Early Jewish Imagination. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. 367 pp.0
Joachim Schaper. Media and Monotheism: Presence, Representation, and Abstraction in Ancient Judah. Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 33. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. xvii + 297 pp.0
Rachel Rojanski. Yiddish in Israel: A History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. 338 pp.0
Yosef Ofer. The Masora on Scripture and Its Methods. Translated by Michael Glatzer. Fontes et Subsidia ad Bibliam pertinentes (FoSub) 7. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2019. ix + 286 pp.0
Schismataand ʾAgudot: The Prohibition against Creating Factions in Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians and Rabbinic Literature0
Paul in the Eyes of Profayt Duran: Constructing a Jewish Paul0
The Conclusion of the Guide of the Perplexed in View of the Conclusion of The Nicomachean Ethics0
Allan Amanik. Dust to Dust: A History of Jewish Death and Burial in New York. New York: New York University Press, 2019. 272 pp.0
Paola Tartakoff. Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 304 pp.0
Daniel B. Schwartz. Ghetto: The History of a Word. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 266 pp.0
Yiddish, Scholarship, and Neoconservatism0
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Shai Secunda. The Talmud's Red Fence: Menstrual Impurity and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and Its Sasanian Context. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xvii + 203 pp.0
James Loeffler. Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. 384 pp.0
Changes in Jerusalem's Jewish Holy Places: The Sanctification of the Tombs of the Righteous in Three of the City's Cemeteries, 1967–20170
Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew Writings. Translated by Edward Breuer. Introduced and annotated by Edward Breuer and David Sorkin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. 560 pp.0
Paul Mendes-Flohr. Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. 405 pp.0
Gennady Estraikh. Transatlantic Russian Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020. 346 pp.0
Adriana X. Jacobs. Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. 344 pp.0
William M. Schniedewind. The Finger of the Scribe: How Scribes Learned to Write the Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. x + 236 pp.0
Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi. Goy: Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. viii + 333 pp.0
The Hebrew Translation of the Carolingian Lord's Prayer: A Case Study in Using Linguistics to Understand History0
Eyal Ben-Eliyahu. Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. xii + 158 pp.0
Jonathan Klawans. Heresy, Forgery, Novelty: Condemning, Denying, and Asserting Innovation in Ancient Judaism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 216 pp.0
Rhona Seidelman. Under Quarantine: Immigrants and Disease at Israel's Gate. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. 240 pp.0
Nathaniel Berman. Divine and Demonic in the Poetic Mythology of the Zohar: The “Other Side” of Kabbalah. Leiden: Brill, 2018. xiv + 312 pp.0
Philip Church. Hebrews and the Temple: Attitudes to the Temple in Second Temple Judaism and in Hebrews. Supplements to Novum Testamentum 171. Leiden: Brill, 2017. 615 pp.0
Pamela S. Nadell. America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today. New York: W. W. Norton, 2019. 352 pp.0
Jodi Magness. Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. x + 265 pp.0
Matthew J. Lynch. Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible: A Literary and Cultural Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 292 pp.0
Zionism, Pan-Asianism, and the Postcolonial Predicament in the Interwar Writings of Eugen Hoeflich0
Elissa Bemporad. Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets. New York: Oxford, 2019. 252 pp.0
Chaim Waxman. Social Change and Halakhic Evolution in American Orthodoxy. Liverpool: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2017. vi + 226 pp.0
Annette Yoshiko Reed. Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. x + 353 pp.0
Elisabeth Gallas. A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust. Translated by Alex Skinner. New York: New York University Press, 2019. 416 pp.0
Joyce Antler. Radical Jewish Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2018. 464 pp.0
François Soyer. Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World: Narratives of Fear and Hatred. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xvi + 315 pp.0
Laura Quick. Dress, Adornment, and the Body in the Hebrew Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xvi + 185 pp.0
Jennifer Craig-Norton. The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 364 pp.0
T. M. Lemos. Violence and Personhood in Ancient Israel and Comparative Contexts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 225 pp.0
Naomi S. S. Jacobs. Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink. A Commentary. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 148. Leiden: Brill, 2018. xxii + 274 pp.0
Devi Mays. Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 360 pp.0
Sharon B. Oster. No Place in Time: The Hebraic Myth in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2018. 368 pp.0
Judith H. Newman. Before the Bible: The Liturgical Body and the Formation of Scriptures in Early Judaism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiii + 178 pp.0
Judah M. Cohen. Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 318 pp.0
Mark L. Smith. The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2019. xviii + 462 pp.0
Karen Grumberg. Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 328 pp.0
Tzahi Weiss. “Sefer Yeṣirah” and Its Contexts: Other Jewish Voices. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 208 pp.0
Community and Controversy: Jews, Anglicans, and Biblical Criticism in Mid-Victorian England0
Marion Kaplan. Hitler's Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. 356 pp.0
“Haven't I Told You Not to Take Yourself outside of the Law?”: Rabbi Yirmiyah and the Characterization of a Scholastic0
How to Educate Children and Improve Family Life in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire, according to Rabbi Samuel Benveniste0
Julia Rhyder. Centralizing the Cult: The Holiness Legislation in Leviticus 17–26. Forschungen zum Alten Testament 134. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. xxi + 484 pp.0
Beauty and the Beast: On a Doe, a Devilish Hunter, and Jewish-Christian Polemics0
Sebastian Klor. Between Exile and Exodus: Argentinian Jewish Immigration to Israel, 1948–1967. Translated by Lenn Schramm. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2017. 256 pp.0
What Is Hidden in the Small Box? Narratives of Late Antique Roman Palestine in Dialogue0
Michal Bar-Asher Siegal. Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity: Heretic Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xi + 228 pp.0
Jodi Eichler-Levine. Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis: How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 229 pp.0
A Judaism of Ethics in a Post-Holocaust World: The Interplay of Literature and Theology in Cynthia Ozick's Messiah of Stockholm0
Decoding the Language of the Zohar: Lexicons to Kabbalah in Early Modernity0
Alyssa Quint. The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 300 pp.0
Laura Carlson Hasler. Archival Historiography in Jewish Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xiii + 216 pp.0
Message from the Incoming Editors0
Disordered Books and Dynamic Archives: Rabbinic Scholarly Practices in Early Modern Ashkenaz0
דיכוי נורמות מתירניות במשפחה היהודית בימי הביניים0
Malachi Haim Hacohen. Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History between Nation and Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 752 pp.0
Eyal Regev. The Temple in Early Christianity: Experiencing the Sacred. The Yale Anchor Bible Reference Library. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. xiii + 480 pp.0
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Kenneth D. Wald. The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 255 pp.0
Derek Penslar. Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. 239 pp.0
To Protect and Preserve: Echoes of Traditional Jewish Burial Culture in the Exhumation of Holocaust Mass Graves in Postwar Belarus and Ukraine0
Paula Fredriksen. Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. xii + 319 pp.0
Karel van der Toorn. Becoming Diaspora Jews: Behind the Story of Elephantine. The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. 288 pp.0
David Sorkin. Jewish Emancipation: A History across Five Centuries. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. 528 pp.0
Eric Lawee. Rashi's Commentary on the Torah: Canonization and Resistance in the Reception of a Jewish Classic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 478 pp.0
The Ethics of Narration in Helen Demidenko'sThe Hand That Signed the Paper, 1994 and 20170
Ross Shephard Kraemer. The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xiv + 486 pp.0
Sacha Stern. The Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921/2 CE. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 576 pp.0
Marc Volovici. German as a Jewish Problem: The Language Politics of Jewish Nationalism. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 352 pp.0
Nourishing a Community: Food, Hospitality, and Jewish Communal Spaces in Early Modern Frankfurt0
Hagith Sivan. Jewish Childhood in the Roman World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 443 pp.0
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Magda Teter. Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. xiii + 539 pp.0
Rella Kushelevsky. Tales in Context: Sefer ha-ma‘asim in Medieval Northern France. With a historical epilogue by Elisheva Baumgarten. Translations by Ruchie Avital and Chaya Naor. Detroit: Wayn0
Chaim N. Saiman. Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law. Library of Jewish Ideas 13. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. xiv + 296 pp.0
Zev Eleff. Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2020. 311 pp.0
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Sarah Stroumsa. Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. xvii + 220 pp.0
BambiAbroad, 1924–19540
Caroline A. Kita. Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna: Composing Compassion in Music and Biblical Theater. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 222 pp.0
Aaron Koller. Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2020. xxxv + 223 pp.0
Sarit Kattan Gribetz. Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 391 pp.0
Leslie Morris. The Translated Jew: German Jewish Culture outside the Margins. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018. 248 pp.0
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Rachel Havrelock. The Joshua Generation: Israeli Occupation and the Bible. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 245 pp.0
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Rena N. Lauer. Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 292 pp.0
What Is the Subject of Principle 2 in Maimonides'sBook of the Commandments? Towards a New Understanding of Maimonides's Approach to Extrascriptural Law0
Rachel Manekin. The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 280 pp.0
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