AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies

Papers
(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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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The Art of Ambiguity: The Karaites as Portrayed in Judah Halevi's Book of the Kuzari1
Rabbi Shmuel Schneersohn of Lubavitch (“Maharash,” 1834–1882) and the False Twilight of Chabad Hasidism1
The Sin of American Jewish Exceptionalism1
Karen Grumberg. Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 328 pp.0
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
What Is Hidden in the Small Box? Narratives of Late Antique Roman Palestine in Dialogue0
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
Tzahi Weiss. “Sefer Yeṣirah” and Its Contexts: Other Jewish Voices. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 208 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
Lior B. Sternfeld. Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. 208 pp.0
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
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
Laura Carlson Hasler. Archival Historiography in Jewish Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xiii + 216 pp.0
Paul Mendes-Flohr. Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. 405 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
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
Marc Volovici. German as a Jewish Problem: The Language Politics of Jewish Nationalism. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 352 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
Nourishing a Community: Food, Hospitality, and Jewish Communal Spaces in Early Modern Frankfurt0
Community and Controversy: Jews, Anglicans, and Biblical Criticism in Mid-Victorian England0
Ross Shephard Kraemer. The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xiv + 486 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
On the Yehi Raẓon Formula in the Blessing for the New Month in the Ashkenazic Rite0
Laura Limonic. Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2019. 264 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
Dina Danon. The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 255 pp.0
Jodi Magness. Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. x + 265 pp.0
Rachel Manekin. The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 280 pp.0
Annette Yoshiko Reed. Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. x + 353 pp.0
Disordered Books and Dynamic Archives: Rabbinic Scholarly Practices in Early Modern Ashkenaz0
Laura Quick. Dress, Adornment, and the Body in the Hebrew Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xvi + 185 pp.0
The ʾAgur: A Halakhic Code for Print0
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Omri Asscher. Reading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation between Jews. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 256 pp.0
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
François Soyer. Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World: Narratives of Fear and Hatred. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xvi + 315 pp.0
Jannis Panagiotidis. The Unchosen Ones: Diaspora, Nation, and Migration in Israel and Germany. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 363 pp.0
Mónica Manrique. The Project of Return to Sepharad in the Nineteenth Century. Translated by Justin Peterson. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020. 96 pp.0
Mikhail Krutikov. Der Nister's Soviet Years: Yiddish Writer as Witness to the People. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 309 pp.0
Rachel Havrelock. The Joshua Generation: Israeli Occupation and the Bible. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 245 pp.0
Chaim Waxman. Social Change and Halakhic Evolution in American Orthodoxy. Liverpool: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2017. vi + 226 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
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
Emily Sigalow. American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. 280 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
Devi Mays. Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 360 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
Philip Hollander. From Schlemiel to Sabra: Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 270 pp.0
שינויים במפת המקומות הקדושים היהודיים בירושלים: תהליך התקדשותם של קברי צדיקים בשלושה מבתי הקברות של העיר, 1967–20170
Louis A. Fishman. Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908–1914: Claiming the Homeland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 226 pp.0
Decoding the Language of the Zohar: Lexicons to Kabbalah in Early Modernity0
Elissa Bemporad. Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets. New York: Oxford, 2019. 252 pp.0
Rhona Seidelman. Under Quarantine: Immigrants and Disease at Israel's Gate. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. 240 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
Sacha Stern. The Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921/2 CE. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 576 pp.0
Paul in the Eyes of Profayt Duran: Constructing a Jewish Paul0
Magda Teter. Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. xiii + 539 pp.0
A Judaism of Ethics in a Post-Holocaust World: The Interplay of Literature and Theology in Cynthia Ozick's Messiah of Stockholm0
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The Conclusion of the Guide of the Perplexed in View of the Conclusion of The Nicomachean Ethics0
Rachel Rojanski. Yiddish in Israel: A History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. 338 pp.0
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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
Zev Eleff. Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2020. 311 pp.0
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
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
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
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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
Matthew J. Lynch. Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible: A Literary and Cultural Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 292 pp.0
Jonathan Klawans. Heresy, Forgery, Novelty: Condemning, Denying, and Asserting Innovation in Ancient Judaism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 216 pp.0
Zionism, Pan-Asianism, and the Postcolonial Predicament in the Interwar Writings of Eugen Hoeflich0
Aaron Koller. Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2020. xxxv + 223 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
Paola Tartakoff. Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 304 pp.0
“These and Those Are the Words of the Living God, but …”: Meaning, Background, and Reception of an Early Rabbinic Teaching0
Dan Porat. Bitter Reckoning: Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi Collaborators. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 276 pp.0
Derek Penslar. Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. 239 pp.0
Sarit Kattan Gribetz. Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 391 pp.0
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Marion Kaplan. Hitler's Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. 356 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
Changes in Jerusalem's Jewish Holy Places: The Sanctification of the Tombs of the Righteous in Three of the City's Cemeteries, 1967–20170
Marc David Baer. German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xii + 300 pp.0
How to Educate Children and Improve Family Life in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire, according to Rabbi Samuel Benveniste0
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