AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
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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
שינויים במפת המקומות הקדושים היהודיים בירושלים: תהליך התקדשותם של קברי צדיקים בשלושה מבתי הקברות של העיר, 1967–20170
Devi Mays. Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 360 pp.0
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
Teaching for the Tithe: Donor Expectations and the Matrona's Tithe0
Laura Carlson Hasler. Archival Historiography in Jewish Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xiii + 216 pp.0
Emily Sigalow. American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. 280 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
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
James A. Diamond. Jewish Theology Unbound. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 304 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
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
How to Educate Children and Improve Family Life in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire, according to Rabbi Samuel Benveniste0
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Dina Danon. The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 255 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
Lior B. Sternfeld. Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. 208 pp.0
What Is Hidden in the Small Box? Narratives of Late Antique Roman Palestine in Dialogue0
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
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
Beauty and the Beast: On a Doe, a Devilish Hunter, and Jewish-Christian Polemics0
Marc David Baer. German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xii + 300 pp.0
Isaac Kalimi. Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 315 pp.0
Paola Tartakoff. Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 304 pp.0
Zionism, Pan-Asianism, and the Postcolonial Predicament in the Interwar Writings of Eugen Hoeflich0
Alyssa Quint. The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 300 pp.0
James Loeffler. Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. 384 pp.0
To Protect and Preserve: Echoes of Traditional Jewish Burial Culture in the Exhumation of Holocaust Mass Graves in Postwar Belarus and Ukraine0
Malachi Haim Hacohen. Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History between Nation and Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 752 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
Adriana X. Jacobs. Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. 344 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
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
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
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
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Paul in the Eyes of Profayt Duran: Constructing a Jewish Paul0
Marc Volovici. German as a Jewish Problem: The Language Politics of Jewish Nationalism. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 352 pp.0
Rachel Rojanski. Yiddish in Israel: A History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. 338 pp.0
Eyal Ben-Eliyahu. Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. xii + 158 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
Daniel B. Schwartz. Ghetto: The History of a Word. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 266 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
Yiddish, Scholarship, and Neoconservatism0
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
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
Changes in Jerusalem's Jewish Holy Places: The Sanctification of the Tombs of the Righteous in Three of the City's Cemeteries, 1967–20170
Sarah Stroumsa. Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. xvii + 220 pp.0
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
Elissa Bemporad. Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets. New York: Oxford, 2019. 252 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
Aaron Koller. Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2020. xxxv + 223 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
Joyce Antler. Radical Jewish Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2018. 464 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
Jonathan Klawans. Heresy, Forgery, Novelty: Condemning, Denying, and Asserting Innovation in Ancient Judaism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 216 pp.0
Rachel Havrelock. The Joshua Generation: Israeli Occupation and the Bible. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 245 pp.0
Rhona Seidelman. Under Quarantine: Immigrants and Disease at Israel's Gate. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. 240 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
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
Pamela S. Nadell. America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today. New York: W. W. Norton, 2019. 352 pp.0
The ʾAgur: A Halakhic Code for Print0
Jodi Magness. Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. x + 265 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
Chaim Waxman. Social Change and Halakhic Evolution in American Orthodoxy. Liverpool: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2017. vi + 226 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
Annette Yoshiko Reed. Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. x + 353 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
Community and Controversy: Jews, Anglicans, and Biblical Criticism in Mid-Victorian England0
Laura Quick. Dress, Adornment, and the Body in the Hebrew Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xvi + 185 pp.0
Yael Zerubavel. Desert in the Promised Land. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. xii + 346 pp.0
T. M. Lemos. Violence and Personhood in Ancient Israel and Comparative Contexts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 225 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
Nourishing a Community: Food, Hospitality, and Jewish Communal Spaces in Early Modern Frankfurt0
Rachel Kranson. Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xiv + 232 pp.0
Message from the Incoming Editors0
Suppression of Permissive Norms in the Medieval Jewish Family0
David Biale. Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. 232 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
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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
Marion Kaplan. Hitler's Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. 356 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
Karen Grumberg. Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 328 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
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
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
“Haven't I Told You Not to Take Yourself outside of the Law?”: Rabbi Yirmiyah and the Characterization of a Scholastic0
Paula Fredriksen. Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. xii + 319 pp.0
Mikhail Krutikov. Der Nister's Soviet Years: Yiddish Writer as Witness to the People. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 309 pp.0
A Judaism of Ethics in a Post-Holocaust World: The Interplay of Literature and Theology in Cynthia Ozick's Messiah of Stockholm0
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
Decoding the Language of the Zohar: Lexicons to Kabbalah in Early Modernity0
The Ethics of Narration in Helen Demidenko'sThe Hand That Signed the Paper, 1994 and 20170
Disordered Books and Dynamic Archives: Rabbinic Scholarly Practices in Early Modern Ashkenaz0
Mónica Manrique. The Project of Return to Sepharad in the Nineteenth Century. Translated by Justin Peterson. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020. 96 pp.0
דיכוי נורמות מתירניות במשפחה היהודית בימי הביניים0
Hagith Sivan. Jewish Childhood in the Roman World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 443 pp.0
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
Kenneth D. Wald. The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 255 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
Derek Penslar. Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. 239 pp.0
Chaim N. Saiman. Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law. Library of Jewish Ideas 13. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. xiv + 296 pp.0
Tzahi Weiss. “Sefer Yeṣirah” and Its Contexts: Other Jewish Voices. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 208 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 C. Flatto. The Crown and the Courts: Separation of Powers in the Early Jewish Imagination. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. 367 pp.0
David Sorkin. Jewish Emancipation: A History across Five Centuries. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. 528 pp.0
Sarit Kattan Gribetz. Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 391 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
Ross Shephard Kraemer. The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xiv + 486 pp.0
The Conclusion of the Guide of the Perplexed in View of the Conclusion of The Nicomachean Ethics0
Sacha Stern. The Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921/2 CE. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 576 pp.0
Resolving Contradictions: Samuel Hirsch and the Stakes of Modern Jewish Thought0
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Schismataand ʾAgudot: The Prohibition against Creating Factions in Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians and Rabbinic Literature0
Magda Teter. Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. xiii + 539 pp.0
Zev Eleff. Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2020. 311 pp.0
Philip Hollander. From Schlemiel to Sabra: Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 270 pp.0
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BambiAbroad, 1924–19540
Louis A. Fishman. Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908–1914: Claiming the Homeland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 226 pp.0
The Hebrew Translation of the Carolingian Lord's Prayer: A Case Study in Using Linguistics to Understand History0
Paul Mendes-Flohr. Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. 405 pp.0
Dan Porat. Bitter Reckoning: Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi Collaborators. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 276 pp.0
Jannis Panagiotidis. The Unchosen Ones: Diaspora, Nation, and Migration in Israel and Germany. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 363 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
Leslie Morris. The Translated Jew: German Jewish Culture outside the Margins. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018. 248 pp.0
Judah M. Cohen. Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 318 pp.0
Rachel Manekin. The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 280 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
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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
Jeffrey Shandler. Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors’ Stories and New Media Practices. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. ix + 232 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
On the Yehi Raẓon Formula in the Blessing for the New Month in the Ashkenazic Rite0
Jonathan Decter. Dominion Built of Praise: Panegyric and Legitimacy among Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 387 pp.0
Rena N. Lauer. Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 292 pp.0
Textual Variants and Textual Criticism in the Works of Rabbenu Tam: Between Theory and Practice0
Jennifer Craig-Norton. The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 364 pp.0
“These and Those Are the Words of the Living God, but …”: Meaning, Background, and Reception of an Early Rabbinic Teaching0
Laura Limonic. Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2019. 264 pp.0
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