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THE JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES VOL. 40, NO. 1 • APRIL 2016

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AJS REVIEWTHE JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES

VOLUME 40, NUMBER 1 APRIL 2016

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

Sara OffenbergJacob the Knight in Ezekiel’s Chariot: Imagined Identity in a MicrographyDecoration of an Ashkenazic Bible .....................................................................................1

Yonatan FeintuchUncovering Covert Links between Halakhah and Aggadah in theBabylonian Talmud: The Talmudic Discussion of the Yom Kippur Afflictionsin B. Yoma .........................................................................................................................17

Yossi GoldsteinThe Beginnings of Ḥibbat Ẓion: A Different Perspective.................................................33

Sarit Kattan GribetzA Matter of Time: Writing Jewish Memory into Roman History.....................................57

Daniel HerskowitzThe Moment and the Future: Kierkegaard’s Øieblikket and Soloveitchik’sView of Repentance ...........................................................................................................87

Laura S. LieberStages of Grief: Enacting Lamentation in Late Ancient Hymnography .........................101

Debra KaplanEntangled Negotiations: Josel of Rosheim and the Peasants’ Rebellion of 1525...........125

FEATURED REVIEW

Edmund Levin. A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy inTsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood LibelRobert Weinberg. Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia: The RitualMurder Trial of Mendel BeilisHILLEL J. KIEVAL, Washington University in St. Louis..................................................145

BOOK REVIEWS

BIBLICAL STUDIES

Eve Levavi Feinstein. Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew BibleSANDRA JACOBS, King’s College London ......................................................................151

Esther J. Hamori. Women’s Divination in Biblical Literature: Prophecy,Necromancy, and Other Arts of KnowledgeJACQUELINE E. LAPSLEY, Princeton Theological Seminary............................................153

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Michael Fishbane. The JPS Bible Commentary: Song of SongsJONATHAN KAPLAN, The University of Texas ................................................................156

Benjamin D. Sommer. Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scriptureand TraditionMARVIN A. SWEENEY, Claremont School of Theology / Academy forJewish Religion, California..............................................................................................158

Katell Berthelot, Joseph E. David, and Marc Hirshman, eds. The Gift of theLand and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish ThoughtROBERT EISEN, George Washington University..............................................................161

RABBINICS

Jane L. Kanarek. Biblical Narrative and the Formation of Rabbinic LawJAMES ADAM REDFIELD, Stanford University ................................................................163

Julia Watts Belser. Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity:Rabbinic Responses to Drought and DisasterJORDAN ROSENBLUM, University of Wisconsin..............................................................166

Daniel Boyarin. A Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as DiasporaYAAKOV ELMAN, Yeshiva University..............................................................................168

MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ERAS

Elisheva Baumgarten. Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, andEveryday Religious ObservanceMICHAEL TOCH, Hebrew University ...............................................................................171

Thomas W. Barton. Contested Treasure: Jews and Authority in the Crown ofAragonMAUD KOZODOY, New York University .........................................................................172

David Nirenberg. Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in theMiddle Ages and TodayPAOLA TARTAKOFF, Rutgers University ...........................................................................175

Daniel Jütte. The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of SecretsANDREW BERNS, University of South Carolina ..............................................................178

MODERN ERA

Menashe Unger. A Fire Burns in Kotsk: A Tale of Hasidism in theKingdom of PolandMARCIN WODZIŃSKI, University of Wrocław.................................................................180

Sven-Erik Rose. Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789–1848DANIEL B. SCHWARTZ, George Washington University..................................................182

Jonathan Skolnik. Jewish Pasts, German Fictions: History, Memory,and Minority Culture in Germany, 1824–1955SONIA GOLLANCE, University of Pennsylvania ..............................................................185

Todd M. Endelman. Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and RadicalAssimilation in Modern Jewish HistoryMARSHA L. ROZENBLIT, University of Maryland ...........................................................188

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Adam D. Mendelsohn. The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way toSuccess in America and the British EmpireHasia Diner. Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New Worldand the Peddlers Who Forged the WayMICHAEL R. COHEN, Tulane University..........................................................................190

Deborah Dash Moore. Urban Origins of American JudaismLILA CORWIN BERMAN, Temple University....................................................................194

Adam Rovner. In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands before IsraelEITAN BAR-YOSEF, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ..............................................197

Shai Ginsburg. Rhetoric and Nation: The Formation of Hebrew NationalCulture, 1880–1990SHIMRIT PELED, Hebrew University................................................................................199

Mark S. Wagner. Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century YemenNORMAN (NOAM) A. STILLMAN, University of Oklahoma .............................................202

Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman. FDR and the JewsJEFFREY S. GUROCK, Yeshiva University........................................................................204

Dan Stone. The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust andIts AftermathTIMOTHY SNYDER, Yale University.................................................................................206

Kerri P. Steinberg. Jewish Mad Men: Advertising and the Design of theAmerican Jewish ExperienceRACHEL GORDAN, Brandeis University ..........................................................................209

Tamar Barzel. New York Noise: Radical Jewish Music and the Downtown SceneCASS FISHER, University of South Florida......................................................................211

Adam S. Ferziger. Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment ofAmerican Orthodox JudaismCHAIM I. WAXMAN, Rutgers University / Van Leer Institute..........................................214

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