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Books received: Alexander, Dominic, Saints and Animals in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 2008. Alford, Stephen, Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008. Atherstone, Andrew, ed., The Heart of Faith: Following Christ in the Church o/ England. Cambridge, U.K.: Lutterworth,...; Tags: A., Baptist, Bologna, Cambridge University Press, Church, Culture, David, Early, Grand, History, J., Jews, John, Life, Medieval, Oxford University Press, Press, R., Religion, SAINTS, Society, Theology, Thought; Research articles 2008-12-01
Visibility, accountability and discourse as essential to democracy: the underlying theme of Alan Dershowitz's writing and teaching: I have been writing about the law and justice for half a century. My first published law review piece appeared in 1960 as a student note in the Yale Law Journal. (1) Since that time, I have published nearly thirty books and hundreds of articles covering a wide range of...; Tags: A14, American, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, David, God, Harvard College, History, Holocaust, INTRODUCTION, J., Jews, John, Justice, King, Paper, Paul, Politics, Power, Rules, Seattle Times Co., U.S. Supreme Court, Warner, Yale University; Research articles 2008-06-22
Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen: Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen. By Jeremy Cohen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii + 320 pp. $29.95 cloth. Throughout his distinguished scholarly career, Jeremy Cohen has explored the perplexing and painful relationship between Jews and Christians in antiquity and...; Tags: Christians, Cohen, Gospels, Jews, Oxford University Press; Research articles 2008-03-01
Books received.: AARON, DAVID H. Etched in Stone: The Emergence of the Decalogue. New York: T and T Clark, 2006. ACKERMAN, ROBERT, ed. Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. AITKEN, JAMES K. AND EDWARD KESSLER, eds. Challenges in...; Tags: American, Berkeley, Cambridge University Press, Culture, David, Early, G., History, Holocaust, J., James, Jews, John, Judaism, L., Life, M., Medieval, Memory, Oxford University Press, Politics, Press, S., Science, Society, Stanford University, Trans, W.; Research articles 2007-09-22
BOOK MARKS: BOOK MARKS AN IMPORTANT, GROUNDBREAKING AND epoch-making volume gets my vote as presumptuous as it may sound this early in the year for the best Jewish book of the year. In Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion From the Bible to the Big Screen, by Jeremy Cohen (Oxford University...; Tags: Christians, Cohen, Jesus, Jews, Messiah, Oxford University Press; Research articles 2007-05-04

Racial categories and the politics of difference in late imperial Russia: The past two decades have produced a virtual explosion in academic interest in racial theory and the history of race and racism. Historians, literary critics, and moral philosophers have published a staggering number of books, articles, and journals and organized countless conferences, symposia, and seminars devoted to these themes. The...; Tags: A., American, D., David, Empire, G., History, Jew, Jews, John, Judaism, L., M., N., NJ, Oxford University Press, P., Paul, Politics, Press, Princeton University, Racism, S., Science, Social, West, Western; Research articles 2007-01-01
Jewish Pride On The Rise: More Jews than ever say being Jewish 'is very important,' but researchers not jumping for joy yet More people than ever before say that being Jewish "is verv important" to them, according to a recent survey by the American Jewish Committee. Sixty-one percent of respondents in the organization's annual survey...; Tags: American, Jews, Synovate Inc.; Research articles 2006-10-27
Book notes.: American Jewish Life From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture, by Paul Buhle. London: Verso, 2004. 304 pp. $25.00. ISBN 1-85984-598-3. This investigation of the formative Jewish influence upon the rise and development of American popular...; Tags: American, David, God, Hebrew, History, Holocaust, Jews, Judaism, Oxford University Press; Research articles 2006-09-22
Books received.(Bibliography): ABECASSIS, JACK I. Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices. Parallax Re-Visions of Culture and Society. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. ABRAMSON, GLENDA, AND HILARY KILPATRICK, eds. Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures. Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures 8. London: Routledge,...; Tags: American, Berkeley, Brandeis University, Cambridge University Press, God, History, Holocaust, Jews, Oxford University Press, Politics, Princeton University, Syracuse University; Research articles 2006-09-22
Tolerance In Intolerant Times: Tolerance In Intolerant Times New books chronicle the lives of British Christians who went against the grain in support of Jews. He Also Spoke as a Jew: The Life of the Reverend James Parkes. By Haim Chertok, Vallentine Mitchell, 516 pages, $85 Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden. By Jason...; Tags: James, Jews, John, Oxford University Press; Research articles 2006-06-23
Americanizing the Holocaust: the case of Jakob the Liar: Americanizing the Holocaust: The Case of Jakob the Liar by Pol O Dochartaigh This paper aims to investigate the cultural transformations that occurred in the process of converting Jurek Becker's 1969 novel Jakob der Lugner into the 1999 US film Jakob the Liar, directed by French director Peter Kassovitz....; Tags: American, American Media Inc., Americans, Becker, East, Frank, Holocaust, Jews, Peter, Russian, Soviet, Williams; Research articles 2006-04-01
Book Notes.: American Jewish Life The Body of Brooklyn, by David Lazar. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003. 163 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-87745-845-6. These essays offer a recollection of the author's Brooklyn upbringing in the 1960s and 1970s. His immigrant Jewish...; Tags: American, David, English, God, Hebrew, History, Holocaust, Jews, Judaism, Literature, Madison, Oxford University Press, Palestinian, Politics, Press, S., Smith, University of Wisconsin; Research articles 2004-09-22
Commentary on the Torah, with a New English Translation and the Hebrew Text.(Book Review): Commentary on the Torah, with a New English Translation and the Hebrew Text, by Richard Elliott Friedman. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001. 681 pp. $50.00. Other reviewers of Friedman's fresh translation and commentary on the Five Books of Moses have already mentioned Rashi in the...; Tags: Friedman, Friedman's Inc., God, Hebrew, Jews, Moses; Research articles 2004-09-22
Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America: Contemporary. Voices of White Nationalism in America. Edited by Carol M. Swain and Russ Nieli. (Cambridge and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 298. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-521-01693-2; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-521-81673-4.) The ten voices of contemporary white nationalism captured in this volume represent, in the words...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, Jews; Research articles 2004-08-01
Imperfect justice: looted assets, slave labor, and the unfinished business of World War II: I want to tell you an improbable story about how fifty years after the end of World War II, long-forgotten victims of not only the greatest genocide in history, but of what we learned was also the greatest theft in history, finally achieved some belated, as I call it, imperfect...; Tags: Austrian, CARTER, Evidence, Hitler, Holocaust, Jews, Let, Swiss National Bank, Western; Research articles 2004-03-01
Reflections on The Abandonment of the Jews: a symposium: Lawrence Baron: I first became aware of David Wyman's research when I was writing an article about the response of the residents of Oswego, New York, to the internment of refugees, mostly European Jews, in the nearby abandoned Fort Ontario Army base from the Summer of 1944 until the...; Tags: American, American Media Inc., Americans, David, Holocaust, Jews, John, S.; Research articles 2003-09-22
"Liberated by the Yanks": the Holocaust as an American story in postwar news articles: During World War II, The Washington Post was essentially a local newspaper whose hometown just happened to be the nation's capital. Like most American newspapers, it did not send many reporters abroad, relying primarily on the wire services to keep its readers abreast of the war's progress. It ran front-page...; Tags: American, American Media Inc., Americans, Army, Holocaust, Jews, New York Times Co., Press, Times, Washington Post Co.; Research articles 2003-09-22
9. Perspective: Analyzing "American" Wars As was mentioned at the beginning of this discussion, I have concentrated on the later history of the mass media's involvement with wars, as well as tending to focus on both American media and American wars. Both emphases seem justified on the grounds that the American...; Tags: American, American Media Inc., ARABS, God, Jews, Muslims, Palestinian, Protestant, Wagner; Research articles 2003-09-22
Post-World-War-II American Jewry and the confrontation with catastrophe: From the perspective of early-twenty-first-century American Jewish communal culture, few issues loom as large or carry as much valence in the performance of Jewish identity as the Holocaust, the horrific destruction of six million Jews at the hands of the Nazis and the obliteration of their communities. That cataclysmic event...; Tags: American, American Media Inc., Americans, Council, English, Eternal, Holocaust, Jews, Judaism, Klein, Life, Light, Peter, Prophet, Synagogue, West, Yiddish; Research articles 2003-09-01
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Andreini, Isabella. La Mirtilla: A Pastoral. Ed. Julie D. Campbell. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance, 2002. xxx + 106 pp. bibl. $26. ISBN: 0-86698-284-1. Bruno, Giordano. The Cabala of Pegasus. Trans. Sidney Sondergard and Madison U. Sowell. New Haven: Yale University Press,...; Tags: A., Cambridge University Press, David, De, Early, Ed, English, F., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, Jews, John, King, La, Lang, Leo, Les, Life, Maria, Medieval, Nicholas, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Politics, Pp, Reformation, Renaissance, Science, Susan, Things, Touch, Trans, Yale University; Research articles 2003-06-22