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BOOKS OF NOTE RELIGION OR ETHNICITY? JEWISH IDENTITIES IN EVOLUTION Zvi Gitelman, ed. Rutgers University Press, 2009. $29.95 ISBN: 978-0-8135-4451-9 Examines Judaism from the Greco- Roman age, through medieval times, modern Western and Eastern Europe, to today. Jewish identity has been defined as an ethnicity, a nation, a culture, and even a race, but what does it really mean to be Jewish? REVEALED TEXTS, HIDDEN MEANINGS: FINDING THE RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE IN TANAKH Hayyim J. Angel KTAV Publishing, 2009. $25.00 ISBN: 978-1-60280-128-8 In this second collection of his essays on Tanakh, Angel continues to present his learning methodology and in-depth text studies to a wider readership. SHABBAT THE RIGHT WAY: RESOLVING HALACHIC DILEMMAS Rabbi J. Simcha Cohen Urim Publications, 2009. $19.95 ISBN: 978-965-524-021-4 74 Jewish Book World Spring 5770/2010 Provides both the answers to questions on Shabbat observance and a look at the process by which the answers are derived. Cohen also analyzes contemporary, controversial, Shabbat issues. SCHOLARSHIP BEYOND THE QUMRAN COMMUNITY: THE SECTARIAN MOVEMENT OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS John J. Collins Wm. B. Eerdmans Co., 2009. $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-8028-2887-3 With the full publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls, fresh analysis of the evidence presented can be—and indeed, should be—made. Beyond the Qumran Community does just that, reaching a surprising conclusion: the sect described in the Dead Sea Scrolls developed later than has usually been supposed and was never confined to the site of Qumran. ENOCH AND THE MOSAIC TORAH: THE EVIDENCE OF JUBILEES Gabriele Boccaccini & Giovanni Ibba, eds. Wm. B. Eerdmans Co., 2009. $55.00 ISBN: 978-0-8028-6409-3 The early Enoch literature does not refer to the Mosaic Torah or emphasize the distinctively Mosaic laws designed for Israel. But the book of Jubilees gives room to both Mosaic and Enochic traditions within the Sinaitic revelatory framework. Readers will find a lively debate among the most distinguished international specialists, striving for a better understanding of this document. SEPHARDIC STUDIES MAQAM AND LITURGY: RITUAL, MUSIC, AND AESTHETICS OF SYRIAN JEWS IN BROOKLYN Mark L. Kligman Wayne State University Press, 2009. $34.95 ISBN: 978-0-8143-3216-0 Syrian Jews in Brooklyn, NY, number more than 40,000 and constitute the largest single group of immigrant Jews from Syria in the world. Kligman investigates the multidimensional interaction of music and text in Sabbath prayers of the Syrian Jews to trace how Arab and Jewish traditions have merged in this culture. Would you like to be a reviewer for Jewish Book World? Submit a writing sample to jbc@jewishbooks.org Please include your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and areas of interest. www.jewishbookcouncil.org
THE BOOK OF PSALMS: A TRANSLATION WITH COMMENTARY Robert Alter W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-393-33704-4 GENESIS: THE BEGINNING OF DESIRE Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg Jewish Publication Society, 2009. $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-8276-0915-0 HE IS...I SAY: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE NEIL DIAMOND David Wild Da Capo Press, 2009. $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-306-81835-6 HUNTING EICHMANN Neal Bascomb Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-547-24802-8 www.jewishbookcouncil.org JEWISH AMERICAN FOOD CULTURE Jonathan Deutsch and Rachel D. Saks University of Nebraska Press, 2009. $17.95 ISBN: 978-0-8032-2675-3 THE JEWISH BRIGADE: AN ARMY WITH TWO MASTERS 1944–45 Morris Beckman Spellmount Limited, 2008. $29.95 ISBN: 978-1-862274-23-5 KLEZMER AMERICA: JEWISHNESS, ETHNICITY, MODERNITY Jonathan Freedman Columbia University Press, 2009. $22.50 ISBN: 978-0-231-14279-3 NOW IN PAPERBACK MY FATHER’S PARADISE: A SON’S SEARCH FOR HIS FAMILY’S PAST Ariel Sabar Algonquin Books, 2009. $14.95 ISBN: 978-1565129337 PARTNERSHIP: THE MAKING OF GOLDMAN SACHS Charles D. Ellis Penguin Books, 2009. $20.00 ISBN: 978-0141035246 THE RETURN OF DEPRESSION ECONOMICS AND THE CRISIS OF 2008 Paul Krugman W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. $16.95 ISBN: 978-0393337808 For book club resources, please visit www.jewishbookcouncil.org. Be sure to check back often, as new resources are added monthly! RHYMING LIFE AND DEATH Amos Oz; Nicholas de Lange, trans. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. $13.95 ISBN: 978-0547-33684-4 SASHENKA Simon Montefiore Simon & Schuster, 2008. $15.00 ISBN: 978-1-4165-9555-7 SOTAH Naomi Ragen St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009. $14.99 ISBN: 978-0-312-57024-8 Spring 5770/2010 Jewish Book World 75
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