Flora Cassen. Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy: Politics, Religion, and the Power of Symbols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 225 pp.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published November 2018 in AJS Review

Authors: Andrew Berns

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.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published November 2021 in AJS Review

Authors: Alexander W. Marcus

Tzahi Weiss. “Sefer Yeṣirah” and Its Contexts: Other Jewish Voices. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 208 pp.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published November 2021 in AJS Review

Authors: Alessia Bellusci

Tamar Herzig. A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 400 pp.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published November 2021 in AJS Review

Authors: Andrew Berns

Laura Carlson Hasler. Archival Historiography in Jewish Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xiii + 216 pp.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published November 2021 in AJS Review

Authors: Eric X. Jarrard

Julia Rhyder. Centralizing the Cult: The Holiness Legislation in Leviticus 17–26. Forschungen zum Alten Testament 134. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. xxi + 484 pp.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published November 2020 in AJS Review

Authors: Liane Feldman

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.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published November 2020 in AJS Review

Authors: David Marcus

Rena N. Lauer. Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 292 pp.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published November 2020 in AJS Review

Authors: Edward Fram

Mikhail Krutikov. Der Nister's Soviet Years: Yiddish Writer as Witness to the People. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 309 pp.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published April 2021 in AJS Review

Authors: Anna Shternshis

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.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published April 2021 in AJS Review

Authors: Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg

Steven Nadler. Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. 312 pp.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published November 2019 in AJS Review

Authors: Matt Goldish

Susan L. Einbinder. After the Black Death: Plague and Commemoration among Iberian Jews. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 232 pp.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published November 2019 in AJS Review

Authors: Benjamin R. Gampel

Sarah Wobick-Segev. Homes Away from Home: Jewish Belonging in Twentieth-Century Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. 312 pp.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published November 2019 in AJS Review

Authors: Jeffrey Veidlinger

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.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published November 2020 in AJS Review

Authors: Gary A. Anderson

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.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published April 2020 in AJS Review

Authors: Susan A. Glenn

Thomas W. Barton. Contested Treasure: Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2015. 312 pp.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published April 2016 in AJS Review

Authors: Maud Kozodoy

Julia Watts Belser. Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity: Rabbinic Responses to Drought and Disaster. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 239 pp.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published April 2016 in AJS Review

Authors: Jordan Rosenblum

Edmund Levin. A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel. New York: Schocken, 2014. 377 pp. - Robert Weinberg. Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia: The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. 188 pp.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published April 2016 in AJS Review

Authors: Hillel J. Kieval

Benjamin D. Sommer. Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 419 pp.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published April 2016 in AJS Review

Authors: Marvin A. Sweeney

Martin Jacobs. Reorienting the East: Jewish Travelers to the Medieval Muslim World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 344 pp.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published November 2015 in AJS Review

Authors: Mark R. Cohen