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This volume offers new insights into rituals as old as the Hebrew Bible and as recent as the twenty-first century, in contexts as familiar as the American Midwest and as exotic as Karaism. It examines and frequently affirms some of the rituals that have traditionally been associated with these events, while inviting readers to cast a critical eye on the ways in which these customs have developed in recent years. The authors, who include congregational leaders as well as scholars, also affirm the need to enhance existing ceremo-nies to include groups whose needs have not traditionally been addressed.

Rites of Passage How Today’s Jews Celebrate, Commemorate, and CommiserateLeonard Greenspoon (ed.)(2010) • 978-1-55753-577-1 • Paperback • $35.00

There is a general understanding within religious and academic circles that the incarnate Christ of Christian belief lived and died a faithful Jew. This volume addresses Jesus in the context of Judaism. By emphasizing his Jewishness, the authors challenge today’s Jews to reclaim the Nazarene as a proto-rebel rabbi and invite Christians to discover or rediscover the Church’s Jewish heritage. The essays in this volume cover historical, liter-ary, liturgical, philosophical, religious, theological, and contemporary issues related to the Jewish Jesus. Several of them were originally presented at a three-day symposium on “Jesus in the Context of Judaism and the Challenge to the Church,” hosted by the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies at Case Western Reserve University in 2009. In the context of pluralism, in the temper of growing interreligious dialogue, and in the spirit of reconciliation, encountering Jesus as living history for Christians and Jews is both necessary and proper. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of the New Testament and Early Church who are seek-ing new ways of understanding Jesus in his religious and cultural milieu, as well Jewish and Christian theologians and thinkers who are concerned with contemporary Jewish and Christian relationships.

The Jewish JesusRevelation, Reflection, ReclamationZev Garber (ed.)(February 2011) • ISBN: 978-1-55753-579-5 Paperback • $59.95

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ContentsIntroduction 1 Carole Kessner and Ann ShapiroArticles“They Find You, Those Sons of Moses”: Collective Memory and the Disconnected Jew 3 Ellen SchiffA Kaddish for History: Holocaust Memory in Ehud Havazelet’s Bearing the Body 14 Victoria AaronsThrough an American Lens: Dreaming Utopia in Early Israeli Cinema 26 Janet BursteinShall Japheth Dwell in the Tents of Shem?: 40Hellenisms and Hebraisms in Selected American Jewish Literature Lewis FriedKaddish—The Final Frontier 49 Sara R. HorowitzThe Flight of Lilith: Modern Jewish American Feminist Literature 68 Ann R. ShapiroMichael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: The Return of the Golem 80 Alan BergerTwo Views of Jews: Bernard Malamud, Maurice Samuel, and the Beilis Case 90 Carole S. KessnerThe Impact of Trauma on the Encoding and Retrieval of Memory: 102Conversations with Survivors, Witnesses, and Rescuers Myra SklarewMalamud’s Early Stories: In and Out of Time, 1940-1960, with Humor, History, and Hawthorne 114 Sanford E. MarovitzOne Clove Away from a Pomander Ball: The Subversive Tradition of Female Comedians 123 Joyce AntlerAlienation and Black Humor in Philip Roth’s Exit Ghost 139 Elaine B. SaferPotok’s Asher Lev: Orthodoxy and Art: The Core-to-Core Paradox 148 Dan WaldenFiction And MeMoirHeaven is Full of Windows 154 Steve SternSaul Bellow’s Enigmatic Love 157 Norma RosenDiversity is More than Skin Deep: An Academic’s African Memoir 163 Evelyn AveryPlAysThe Old System 170 Sarah Blacher CohenA Silver Dish 202 Joanne KochtributesLetter to Sarah 237 Cynthia OzickFor Sarah 239 Miriyam GlazerBreathing 241Sarah Rising 242Sarah and the Samovar 243 Myra SklarewHesped for Sarah Blacher Cohen, z”l, Friday, November 14, 2008 244 Julie Pelc Adler

Studies in American Jewish LiteratureIn Honor of Sarah Blacher Cohen

Carole Kessner, Ann Shapiro (eds.)(2010) • ISBN: 978-1-55753-589-4 • Paperback • $35.00

Scholar, teacher, playwright, and editor, Sarah Blacher Cohen was one of the earliest cham-pions of the study of American Jewish literature, a field of academic study that has been in existence for barely thirty-five years. Over the years until her premature death in 2008, she contributed to the discipline in a profusion of genres, from scholarly to popular, from essay to drama, writing or editing seven books of her own. She also wrote and produced several plays with her longtime collaborator, Joanne B. Koch. This special volume (29) of the an-nual, Studies in American Jewish Literature (ISSN 0271-9274), the journal edited by Daniel Walden, contains a range of tributes from her many friends and colleagues.

This volume of the Casden Institute's annual series introduces new scholarship on the long-standing relationship between Jewish-Americans and the worlds of American popular music. Edited by scholar and critic Josh Kun, the essays in the volume blend single-artist investigations with looks at the industry of music making as a whole. They range from Jewish sheet music to the risqué musical comedy of Belle Barth and Pearl Williams, from the role of music in the shaping of Henry Ford's anti-Semitism to Bob Dylan's Jewishness, from the hybridity of the contemporary "Radical Jewish Culture" scene to the Yiddish experiments of 1930s African-American artists.

The Song is not the SameJews and American Popular Music(JRAL 8)Josh Kun (ed.)(2010) • 978-1-55753-586-3 • Paperback • $25.00

A Knight at the Opera examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) Tannhäuser played in Jewish cultural life in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The book analyzes how three of the greatest Jewish thinkers of that era, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Herzl, and I. L. Peretz, used this central myth of Germany to strengthen Jewish culture and to at-tack antisemitism. In the original medieval myth, a Christian knight lives in sin with the seduc-tive pagan goddess Venus. He escapes her clutches and makes his way to Rome to seek absolu-tion from the Pope. The Pope does not pardon Tannhäuser and he returns to the Venusberg.

A Knight at the OperaHeine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz and the Legacy of Der TannhäuserLeah Garrett(August 2011) • ISBN: 978-155753-601-3 • $39.95

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A compilation of Irving Howe’s interviews during the last fifteen years of his life, this book represents what could be viewed as the sequel to Howe’s intel-lectual autobiography, A Margin of Hope, which took the story of his life only up to the late 1970s.

Politics and the IntellectualConversations with Irving HoweJohn Rodden, Ethan Goffman(2010) • 978-1-55753-551-1 • Pb • $30.95

The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Creativity in Babylon, 1735- 1950

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This book begins with a brief history about the Jews in Babylon (Iraq), their Hebrew creativity, and the fact that

this creativity was excluded from the history of Modern Hebrew literature because it was unknown to the scholars. The book focuses on the years 1735-1950 and presents the secular Hebrew poetry written in Babylon at that time, the folktales, journalistic articles, epistles, research of Hebrew literature, a story, and a play. The last part presents the Hebrew periodicals that were published in Babylon.

This book begins with a brief history about the Jews in Babylon (Iraq), their literary creativity and the fact that this creativity was excluded from the history of Modern Hebrew literature because it was unknown to the scholars. The book presents secular Hebrew poetry written between 1735 and 1950.

The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Creativity in Babylon, 1735- 1950 Lev Hakak(2009) • 978-1-55753-514-6 • Pb • $39.95

Maven in Blue Jeans A Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber


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Steven Leonard Jacobs



ISBN–13: 978-1-57753-521-4

Jewish Studies

This collection of academic essays written by friends and colleagues of Professor Zev Garber, is a long-overdue tribute to an outstanding scholar, teacher, and mentor. Each contribution was written or

rewritten especially for this volume; only one has been previously published. The various sections into which these essays are divided reflect the areas in which Professor Garber has devoted his own prodi-gious teaching and writing energies: the Holocaust, Jewish-Christian relations, philosophy and theology, history, biblical interpretation. Also included is a full bibliography of Professor Garber’s own writings: books, articles both scholarly and popular, opinion pieces, and the like. The introduction by his good friend Steven Jacobs introduces Professor Garber to those who do not know him and reminds those who do of his important contributions to scholarship.

CONTENTS: Part 1 Exegesis and Eisegesis: Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Rabbinic Lit-erature • The Domestication of a Radical Jew: Paul of Tarsus • A “Seminal” Study of the Jesus Drasha in the Gospel of Matthew • The Messy Realities of Life: A Rereading of Numbers 19 and 20 • A Cos-mopolitan “Student of the Sages”: Jacob of Kefar Nevoraia in Rabbinic Literature • Floating Letters • Dialogue as Praxis: A Midrashic Reading of Numbers 19–20 and Hebrews 9 • Testing the Results of Richard Kalmin: A Null Hypothesis Examined in the Setting of Mishnah and Bavli Tractate Moed Qatan • Creation and Mortalization: A Religio-Literary Perspective • Jeremiah, the Shoah, and the Restoration of Israel • Part 2 Jewish-Christian-Muslim and Other Dialogues • Jewish-Christian Relations: A Dialogue with Zev Garber • Who Owns the Truth? The Question of the “Other” in Postdenominational Judaism and Christianity (and Islam) in the Next Fifty Years • The Backwards Man and the Jewish Giant: Mirrors of Traumatic Memory in the Late Photographs of Diane Arbus • Developments in Catholic-Jewish Relations: 1990 and Beyond • Part 3 Judaism as Historiosophy and Thought • Philo and the Dangers of Philosophizing • Exegetical Theology and Divine Suffering in Jewish Thought • Rabbi Abra-ham Joshua Heschel’s Paths to God • The Reception of Early German Haskalah in Nineteenth-Century Haskalah • Part 4 Reflections from the Field and the Classroom • Traveling in Ga(r)berdine • Jewish Studies without Jews: The Growth of an Academic Field in Austria and Germany • The Story of Shofar: An Editor’s Personal Account • “But It Isn’t on the Test!” Holocaust Education in the Age of “No Child Left Behind” • Spelling and Kabbalah: A Review Essay of Myla Goldberg’s Bee Season • Part 5 Shoah Theology and Other Shoah Matters, Including Antisemitism • What Do Americans Read When They Read about the Holocaust? • The Evolution and Devolution of a World Apart: The Nazi Concentration Camps and the Holocaust • Soft-core Holocaust Denial: Trivialization and Sanitization in the Early Twenty-first Century •The Scroll of the Shoah: The Case for the Writings of Yitzhak Katzenelson as the Basis of a Future Jewish Post-Shoah Jewish Theology • “Thou Shalt Teach It to Thy Children”: What American Jewish Children’s Literature Teaches about the Holocaust • Once More to the Jabbok: The Place of Midrashic Dialogue in Post-Shoah Hermeneutics • Portraits of Two Jewries: Experiencing the Shoah through Fiction • No Vindication to Venomous Verdict: The Poem “Mr. Auschwitz” by Ronny Someck • Holocaust or Shoah: The Greek Category versus Jewish Thought • What Have We Learned from the Holocaust? • On Oil and Antisemitism • Disraeli’s Boomerang Efforts to Combat Antisemi-tism: The Interplay of Ideas of Race, Religion, and Conspiracy Writing • The Landscape of Memory • Part 6 Zionism and Hebrew Studies • Hebrew Literature, Academic Politics, and Feminist Criticism: A Confessional Essay • The Folktales of Rabbi Yosef Hayyim • The Sha’ar Ha-Shamayim Synagogue (Keniset Ismā’īlīyah) in Cairo, Egypt • On Three Early Incidences of Hebrew Script in Western Art • The Literary Quest for National Revival: From Hazaz’s “The Sermon” (1942) to Yehoshua’s Mr. Mani (1990) • The Two-Bodied People, Their Cosmos, and the Origin of the Soul.

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This collection of academic essays written by friends and colleagues of Professor Zev Garber, is a long-overdue tribute to an outstanding scholar, teacher, and mentor. Each contribution was written especially for this volume; none have been previ-ously published.

Maven in Blue Jeans A Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber Steven Leonard Jacobs (ed.)(2009) • 978-1-557532-521-4 • Pb • $59.95

The contributions show that concerned and informed Jews and Christians together can assess dis/misinfor-mation, monitor dissent, alleviate community fears, and reassure that the solid rock of Jewish-Catholic-Protestant dialogue, though assailed, has not become chipped by this divisive movie.

Mel Gibson's PassionThe Film, the Controversy, and Its Implications Zev Garber (ed.)(2006) • 978-1-55753-405-7 • Pb • $14.95

The New York PublicIntellectuals and Beyond Exploring Liberal Humanism, Jewish Identity, and the American Protest Tradition


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The book gathers a variety of distinguished scholars, from Eugene Good-heart to Peter Novick to Nathan Glazer, from Morris Dickstein to Suzanne

Klingenstein to Ilan Stavans, to revisit and rethink the legacy of the New York intellectuals. It shows how a small New York group, predominantly Jewish, moved from communist and socialist roots to become a primary voice of lib-eral humanism and, for a few, to launch a new conservative movement. Along the way, this group became exemplars of public intellectuals, who are charged with disseminating ideas from a rarified scholarly realm to a wider public, and of acting as social critics, speaking up against corruption and for idealism. Concentrating on Lionel Trilling as the paradigmatic liberal intellectual, the book also includes thoughtful reconsiderations of Irving Howe and Dwight MacDonald, and explores the roots of the neoconservative movement and its changing role today.

Having submerged their Jewish background, the New York intellectuals in-creasingly explored this part of their identity. However great Jewish academic and intellectual success, the suppression of religious, cultural, and historical expression made for an emotional and intellectual incompleteness. The si-multaneous expression of Jewish and American identity often developed in synchronicity with other forms of ethnic and multicultural expression, albeit a clamorous synchronicity, punctuated with conflict.

The final section explores how the New York intellectuals fit into a broader protest tradition, beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson and including figures from W.E.B. DuBois to Alice Walker. It shows how the New York intellectuals catalyzed a tradition of diasporic, cosmopolitan intellectuals, often interna-tional in outlook. It probes how public intellectuals can help an increasingly multicultural society become one of unity and not division. And it asks how, in a post-9/11 world, a new generation can take the best of the New York intel-lectuals and, in a radically altered context, restore the viability of the public intellectual.

This book gathers a variety of distinguished scholars to show how a small New York group, predominantly Jewish, moved from communist and socialist roots to become a primary voice of liberal humanism and, in the case of a few, to launch a new conservative movement.

The New York Public Intellectuals and Beyond Exploring Liberal Humanism, Jewish Identity, and the American Protest TraditionEthan Goffman, Daniel Morris (eds.)(2008) • 978-1-55753-481-1 • Pb • $32.95

This book tells the story of Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., a young treasury department lawyer who risked his career to alert the world to the Holocaust. DuBois exposed the inequities in America's refugee policy and forced the United States government to take action to rescue the displaced Jews.

Blowing the Whistle on GenocideJosiah E. DuBois, Jr. and the Struggle for a U.S. Response to the HolocaustRafael Medoff (ed.)(2008) • 978-1-55753-507-8 • Pb • $17.95

This fascinating autobiography is set against the back-drop of some of the most dramatic episodes of the twentieth century. It is the story of a stubborn struggle against unjust regimes, sustained by a deep belief in the strength of the human spirit and the transcenden-tal power of music.

Of Exile and MusicA Twentieth Century LifeEva Mayer Schay(2010) • 978-1-55753-541-2 • Pb • $22.95

Shofar, a quarterly, interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies, is the official journal of the Midwest and Western Jewish Stud-ies Associations. With a distinguished editorial board, Shofar ranges far and wide in a multidisciplinary world that spans four thousand years. The journal publishes scholarly articles, opinion pieces, readers’ forums, pedagogical essays, and book reviews.

Studies in American Jewish Literature (SAJL), the official journal of the Society for the Study of American Jewish Literature, publishes peer reviewed scholarly articles, book reviews, occasional poetry, and short stories dealing with aspects of the Jewish experience in literature.

Philip Roth Studies, a peer-reviewed semiannual journal published by Purdue University Press in cooperation with the Philip Roth Society, welcomes all writing pertaining to Philip Roth, his fiction, and his literary and cultural significance. Recently-published articles include "It Is Happening Here: The Plot Against America and the Political Movement," and "Impotence and the Futility of Liberation in Portnoy's Complaint."

Philip Roth StudiesEditor: Derek Royal • ISSN: 1547-3929 • E-ISSN: 1940-5278 [Project Muse]

Since 1998, the USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life has been bringing new insight to bear upon the important role played by Jewish people in American Culture, particularly in the West. The Jewish Role in American Life is an Annual Review connected to the Institute. Since Volume 6, the editors have decided to focus each issue on a single topic and to present articles that largely consider aspects of that topic alone.

The Jewish Role in American LifeEditors: Bruce Zuckerman, Lisa Ansell • ISSN: 1934-7529

Studies in Jewish Civilization, based on the annual symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, examines Jewish history and culture around the world and throughout history. Recent volumes have taken a thematic approach, and are also made available as books. Volume 21 is the first published by Purdue University Press. Previous volumes in the series were pub-lished by Creighton University Press and distributed by University of Nebraska Press.

Studies in Jewish CivilizationEditor: Leonard Greenspoon • ISSN: 1070-8510

Studies in American Jewish LiteratureEditor: Daniel Walden •ISSN: 0271-9247 • E-ISSN: 1948-5077 [Project Muse]

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish StudiesEditors: Zev Garber, Daniel Morris • ISSN: 0882-8539 • E-ISSN: 1534-5165 [Project Muse]

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ArticlesThe Wound of Memory: Uri Zevi Greenberg’s “From the Book of the Wars of the Gentiles”Glenda Abramson ...............................................................................1

Are You There God? Judaism and Jewishness in Judy Blume’s Adolescent Fiction Jonathan Krasner and Joellyn Wallen Zollman ................................22

German or Jewish, Humanity or Raison d’Etat: The German Scholars in Turkey, 1933–1952I. Izzet Bahar ....................................................................................48

An Inconvenient Past:Post-Communist Holocaust MemorializationJeffrey Blutinger ................................................................................73

A Reconsideration of Imam Yahya’s Attitude Toward Forced Conversion of Jewish Orphans in YemenAri Ariel .............................................................................................95

Ethnic Influence and American Foreign Policy: American Jewish Leaders and President Jimmy CarterArlene Lazarowitz ...........................................................................112

Review essay:A Little World in Transition: Jewish Culture and the Russian RevolutionAmelia Glaser .................................................................................137

Book Reviews ..........................................................................145

Book Notes ................................................................................196

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The aim of the collection of essays and studies in this volume is intended to stress the cultural aspects of the Jewish experience of coming to and living in the Golden State. While it looks at the Jewish experience in California in general, particular emphasis is placed on Southern California.

A Cultural History of Jews in California(JRAL 7)William Deverell (ed.)(2009) • 978-1-55753-564-1 • Pb • $25.00

This volume consider topics such as the immigrant experience in coming to America after the trauma of the Holocaust, how the Shoah has shaped more recent interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, and the role that survivors have fulfilled in educating American youth about the value of tolerance

The Impact of the Holocaust in America(JRAL 6)Zev Garber (ed.)(2008) • 978-1-553753-534-4 • Pb • $25.00

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A dozen Purdue University Jewish faculty members (10 men and 2 women) who were forced to flee their homes in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary during the Holocaust, tell their stories in a series of interviews conducted by Kleine-Ahlbrandt, a history professor at Purdue.

Bitter Prerequisites A Faculty for Survival from Nazi TerrorWm. Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt(2011) • 978-1-55753-600-6 • Pb • $24.95

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A compilation of Irving Howe’s interviews during the last fifteen years of his life, this book represents what could be viewed as the sequel to Howe’s intel-lectual autobiography, A Margin of Hope, which took the story of his life only up to the late 1970s.

Politics and the IntellectualConversations with Irving HoweJohn Rodden, Ethan Goffman(2010) • 978-1-55753-551-1 • Pb • $30.95

The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Creativity in Babylon, 1735- 1950


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Lev Hakak has been a professor of Hebrew language and literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, since 1974. He taught at various universities, including University of California, Berkeley, a joint program of Hebrew Union College and University of Southern California, and the American Jewish University (formerly University of Judaism). He published eight books and numerous articles in the field of Modern Hebrew Literature. Some of his publications focus on the literature of and about Sephardi and Near Eastern Jews. In addition to his research books he published two novels, a poetry volume and a volume of short stories. He was the last editor of Hadoar published by the Histadruth Ivrith of America, and then the editor of Hador: The Hebrew Annual of America. Hakak is also a member of the Israeli Bar and the State Bar of California, 1980.

This book begins with a brief history about the Jews in Babylon (Iraq), their Hebrew creativity, and the fact that

this creativity was excluded from the history of Modern Hebrew literature because it was unknown to the scholars. The book focuses on the years 1735-1950 and presents the secular Hebrew poetry written in Babylon at that time, the folktales, journalistic articles, epistles, research of Hebrew literature, a story, and a play. The last part presents the Hebrew periodicals that were published in Babylon.

This book begins with a brief history about the Jews in Babylon (Iraq), their literary creativity and the fact that this creativity was excluded from the history of Modern Hebrew literature because it was unknown to the scholars. The book presents secular Hebrew poetry written between 1735 and 1950.

The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Creativity in Babylon, 1735- 1950 Lev Hakak(2009) • 978-1-55753-514-6 • Pb • $39.95

Maven in Blue Jeans A Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber


edited by

Steven Leonard Jacobs



ISBN–13: 978-1-57753-521-4

Jewish Studies

This collection of academic essays written by friends and colleagues of Professor Zev Garber, is a long-overdue tribute to an outstanding scholar, teacher, and mentor. Each contribution was written or

rewritten especially for this volume; only one has been previously published. The various sections into which these essays are divided reflect the areas in which Professor Garber has devoted his own prodi-gious teaching and writing energies: the Holocaust, Jewish-Christian relations, philosophy and theology, history, biblical interpretation. Also included is a full bibliography of Professor Garber’s own writings: books, articles both scholarly and popular, opinion pieces, and the like. The introduction by his good friend Steven Jacobs introduces Professor Garber to those who do not know him and reminds those who do of his important contributions to scholarship.

CONTENTS: Part 1 Exegesis and Eisegesis: Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Rabbinic Lit-erature • The Domestication of a Radical Jew: Paul of Tarsus • A “Seminal” Study of the Jesus Drasha in the Gospel of Matthew • The Messy Realities of Life: A Rereading of Numbers 19 and 20 • A Cos-mopolitan “Student of the Sages”: Jacob of Kefar Nevoraia in Rabbinic Literature • Floating Letters • Dialogue as Praxis: A Midrashic Reading of Numbers 19–20 and Hebrews 9 • Testing the Results of Richard Kalmin: A Null Hypothesis Examined in the Setting of Mishnah and Bavli Tractate Moed Qatan • Creation and Mortalization: A Religio-Literary Perspective • Jeremiah, the Shoah, and the Restoration of Israel • Part 2 Jewish-Christian-Muslim and Other Dialogues • Jewish-Christian Relations: A Dialogue with Zev Garber • Who Owns the Truth? The Question of the “Other” in Postdenominational Judaism and Christianity (and Islam) in the Next Fifty Years • The Backwards Man and the Jewish Giant: Mirrors of Traumatic Memory in the Late Photographs of Diane Arbus • Developments in Catholic-Jewish Relations: 1990 and Beyond • Part 3 Judaism as Historiosophy and Thought • Philo and the Dangers of Philosophizing • Exegetical Theology and Divine Suffering in Jewish Thought • Rabbi Abra-ham Joshua Heschel’s Paths to God • The Reception of Early German Haskalah in Nineteenth-Century Haskalah • Part 4 Reflections from the Field and the Classroom • Traveling in Ga(r)berdine • Jewish Studies without Jews: The Growth of an Academic Field in Austria and Germany • The Story of Shofar: An Editor’s Personal Account • “But It Isn’t on the Test!” Holocaust Education in the Age of “No Child Left Behind” • Spelling and Kabbalah: A Review Essay of Myla Goldberg’s Bee Season • Part 5 Shoah Theology and Other Shoah Matters, Including Antisemitism • What Do Americans Read When They Read about the Holocaust? • The Evolution and Devolution of a World Apart: The Nazi Concentration Camps and the Holocaust • Soft-core Holocaust Denial: Trivialization and Sanitization in the Early Twenty-first Century •The Scroll of the Shoah: The Case for the Writings of Yitzhak Katzenelson as the Basis of a Future Jewish Post-Shoah Jewish Theology • “Thou Shalt Teach It to Thy Children”: What American Jewish Children’s Literature Teaches about the Holocaust • Once More to the Jabbok: The Place of Midrashic Dialogue in Post-Shoah Hermeneutics • Portraits of Two Jewries: Experiencing the Shoah through Fiction • No Vindication to Venomous Verdict: The Poem “Mr. Auschwitz” by Ronny Someck • Holocaust or Shoah: The Greek Category versus Jewish Thought • What Have We Learned from the Holocaust? • On Oil and Antisemitism • Disraeli’s Boomerang Efforts to Combat Antisemi-tism: The Interplay of Ideas of Race, Religion, and Conspiracy Writing • The Landscape of Memory • Part 6 Zionism and Hebrew Studies • Hebrew Literature, Academic Politics, and Feminist Criticism: A Confessional Essay • The Folktales of Rabbi Yosef Hayyim • The Sha’ar Ha-Shamayim Synagogue (Keniset Ismā’īlīyah) in Cairo, Egypt • On Three Early Incidences of Hebrew Script in Western Art • The Literary Quest for National Revival: From Hazaz’s “The Sermon” (1942) to Yehoshua’s Mr. Mani (1990) • The Two-Bodied People, Their Cosmos, and the Origin of the Soul.

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This collection of academic essays written by friends and colleagues of Professor Zev Garber, is a long-overdue tribute to an outstanding scholar, teacher, and mentor. Each contribution was written especially for this volume; none have been previ-ously published.

Maven in Blue Jeans A Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber Steven Leonard Jacobs (ed.)(2009) • 978-1-557532-521-4 • Pb • $59.95

The contributions show that concerned and informed Jews and Christians together can assess dis/misinfor-mation, monitor dissent, alleviate community fears, and reassure that the solid rock of Jewish-Catholic-Protestant dialogue, though assailed, has not become chipped by this divisive movie.

Mel Gibson's PassionThe Film, the Controversy, and Its Implications Zev Garber (ed.)(2006) • 978-1-55753-405-7 • Pb • $14.95

The New York PublicIntellectuals and Beyond Exploring Liberal Humanism, Jewish Identity, and the American Protest Tradition


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Jewish History and Studies/Political Science

The book gathers a variety of distinguished scholars, from Eugene Good-heart to Peter Novick to Nathan Glazer, from Morris Dickstein to Suzanne

Klingenstein to Ilan Stavans, to revisit and rethink the legacy of the New York intellectuals. It shows how a small New York group, predominantly Jewish, moved from communist and socialist roots to become a primary voice of lib-eral humanism and, for a few, to launch a new conservative movement. Along the way, this group became exemplars of public intellectuals, who are charged with disseminating ideas from a rarified scholarly realm to a wider public, and of acting as social critics, speaking up against corruption and for idealism. Concentrating on Lionel Trilling as the paradigmatic liberal intellectual, the book also includes thoughtful reconsiderations of Irving Howe and Dwight MacDonald, and explores the roots of the neoconservative movement and its changing role today.

Having submerged their Jewish background, the New York intellectuals in-creasingly explored this part of their identity. However great Jewish academic and intellectual success, the suppression of religious, cultural, and historical expression made for an emotional and intellectual incompleteness. The si-multaneous expression of Jewish and American identity often developed in synchronicity with other forms of ethnic and multicultural expression, albeit a clamorous synchronicity, punctuated with conflict.

The final section explores how the New York intellectuals fit into a broader protest tradition, beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson and including figures from W.E.B. DuBois to Alice Walker. It shows how the New York intellectuals catalyzed a tradition of diasporic, cosmopolitan intellectuals, often interna-tional in outlook. It probes how public intellectuals can help an increasingly multicultural society become one of unity and not division. And it asks how, in a post-9/11 world, a new generation can take the best of the New York intel-lectuals and, in a radically altered context, restore the viability of the public intellectual.

This book gathers a variety of distinguished scholars to show how a small New York group, predominantly Jewish, moved from communist and socialist roots to become a primary voice of liberal humanism and, in the case of a few, to launch a new conservative movement.

The New York Public Intellectuals and Beyond Exploring Liberal Humanism, Jewish Identity, and the American Protest TraditionEthan Goffman, Daniel Morris (eds.)(2008) • 978-1-55753-481-1 • Pb • $32.95

This book tells the story of Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., a young treasury department lawyer who risked his career to alert the world to the Holocaust. DuBois exposed the inequities in America's refugee policy and forced the United States government to take action to rescue the displaced Jews.

Blowing the Whistle on GenocideJosiah E. DuBois, Jr. and the Struggle for a U.S. Response to the HolocaustRafael Medoff (ed.)(2008) • 978-1-55753-507-8 • Pb • $17.95

This fascinating autobiography is set against the back-drop of some of the most dramatic episodes of the twentieth century. It is the story of a stubborn struggle against unjust regimes, sustained by a deep belief in the strength of the human spirit and the transcenden-tal power of music.

Of Exile and MusicA Twentieth Century LifeEva Mayer Schay(2010) • 978-1-55753-541-2 • Pb • $22.95

Shofar, a quarterly, interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies, is the official journal of the Midwest and Western Jewish Stud-ies Associations. With a distinguished editorial board, Shofar ranges far and wide in a multidisciplinary world that spans four thousand years. The journal publishes scholarly articles, opinion pieces, readers’ forums, pedagogical essays, and book reviews.

Studies in American Jewish Literature (SAJL), the official journal of the Society for the Study of American Jewish Literature, publishes peer reviewed scholarly articles, book reviews, occasional poetry, and short stories dealing with aspects of the Jewish experience in literature.

Philip Roth Studies, a peer-reviewed semiannual journal published by Purdue University Press in cooperation with the Philip Roth Society, welcomes all writing pertaining to Philip Roth, his fiction, and his literary and cultural significance. Recently-published articles include "It Is Happening Here: The Plot Against America and the Political Movement," and "Impotence and the Futility of Liberation in Portnoy's Complaint."

Philip Roth StudiesEditor: Derek Parker Royal • ISSN: 1547-3929 • E-ISSN: 1940-5278 [Project Muse]

Since 1998, the USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life has been bringing new insight to bear upon the important role played by Jewish people in American Culture, particularly in the West. The Jewish Role in American Life is an Annual Review connected to the Institute. Since Volume 6, the editors have decided to focus each issue on a single topic and to present articles that largely consider aspects of that topic alone.

The Jewish Role in American LifeEditors: Bruce Zuckerman, Lisa Ansell • ISSN: 1934-7529

Studies in Jewish Civilization, based on the annual symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, examines Jewish history and culture around the world and throughout history. Recent volumes have taken a thematic approach, and are also made available as books. Volume 21 is the first published by Purdue University Press. Previous volumes in the series were pub-lished by Creighton University Press and distributed by University of Nebraska Press.

Studies in Jewish CivilizationEditor: Leonard Greenspoon • ISSN: 1070-8510

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ArticlesThe Wound of Memory: Uri Zevi Greenberg’s “From the Book of the Wars of the Gentiles”Glenda Abramson ...............................................................................1

Are You There God? Judaism and Jewishness in Judy Blume’s Adolescent Fiction Jonathan Krasner and Joellyn Wallen Zollman ................................22

German or Jewish, Humanity or Raison d’Etat: The German Scholars in Turkey, 1933–1952I. Izzet Bahar ....................................................................................48

An Inconvenient Past:Post-Communist Holocaust MemorializationJeffrey Blutinger ................................................................................73

A Reconsideration of Imam Yahya’s Attitude Toward Forced Conversion of Jewish Orphans in YemenAri Ariel .............................................................................................95

Ethnic Influence and American Foreign Policy: American Jewish Leaders and President Jimmy CarterArlene Lazarowitz ...........................................................................112

Review essay:A Little World in Transition: Jewish Culture and the Russian RevolutionAmelia Glaser .................................................................................137

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The aim of the collection of essays and studies in this volume is intended to stress the cultural aspects of the Jewish experience of coming to and living in the Golden State. While it looks at the Jewish experience in California in general, particular emphasis is placed on Southern California.

A Cultural History of Jews in California(JRAL 7)William Deverell (ed.)(2009) • 978-1-55753-564-1 • Pb • $25.00

This volume consider topics such as the immigrant experience in coming to America after the trauma of the Holocaust, how the Shoah has shaped more recent interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, and the role that survivors have fulfilled in educating American youth about the value of tolerance

The Impact of the Holocaust in America(JRAL 6)Zev Garber (ed.)(2008) • 978-1-553753-534-4 • Pb • $25.00

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A dozen Purdue University Jewish faculty members (10 men and 2 women) who were forced to flee their homes in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary during the Holocaust, tell their stories in a series of interviews conducted by Kleine-Ahlbrandt, a history professor at Purdue.

Bitter Prerequisites A Faculty for Survival from Nazi TerrorWm. Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt(2011) • 978-1-55753-600-6 • Pb • $24.95

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This volume offers new insights into rituals as old as the Hebrew Bible and as recent as the twenty-first century, in contexts as familiar as the American Midwest and as exotic as Karaism. It examines and frequently affirms some of the rituals that have traditionally been associated with these events, while inviting readers to cast a critical eye on the ways in which these customs have developed in recent years. The authors, who include congregational leaders as well as scholars, also affirm the need to enhance existing ceremo-nies to include groups whose needs have not traditionally been addressed.

Rites of PassageHow Today’s Jews Celebrate, Commemorate, and Commiserate

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Scholars tend to call them “rites of passage.” Most people prefer to

speak of them as life-cycle events or milestones. Jews like to speak

of simchas, when there is something (a birth, Bar or Bat Mitzvah, or a

wedding) to celebrate. These are key moments for individuals and for the

families and communities of which they are a part.

This volume offers new insights into rituals as old as the Hebrew

Bible and as recent as the twenty-first century, in contexts as familiar as the

American Midwest and as exotic as Karaism. It examines and frequently

affirms some of the rituals that have traditionally been associated with these

events, while inviting readers to cast a critical eye on the ways in which

these customs have developed in recent years.

The authors, who include congregational leaders as well as scholars,

also affirm the need to expand or enhance existing ceremonies to include

groups whose needs have not traditionally been addressed. They show

how rites of passage may be viewed as both conservative and dynamic—

connecting us with generations past as well as with our contemporaries.

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There is a general understanding within religious and academic circles that the incarnate Christ of Christian belief lived and died a faithful Jew. This volume addresses Jesus in the context of Judaism. By emphasizing his Jewishness, the authors challenge today’s Jews to reclaim the Nazarene as a proto-rebel rabbi and invite Christians to discover or rediscover the Church’s Jewish heritage. The essays in this volume cover historical, liter-ary, liturgical, philosophical, religious, theological, and contemporary issues related to the Jewish Jesus. Several of them were originally presented at a three-day symposium on “Jesus in the Context of Judaism and the Challenge to the Church,” hosted by the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies at Case Western Reserve University in 2009. In the context of pluralism, in the temper of growing interreligious dialogue, and in the spirit of reconciliation, encountering Jesus as living history for Christians and Jews is both necessary and proper. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of the New Testament and Early Church who are seek-ing new ways of understanding Jesus in his religious and cultural milieu, as well Jewish and Christian theologians and thinkers who are concerned with contemporary Jewish and Christian relationships.

The Jewish JesusRevelation, Reflection, ReclamationZev Garber (ed.)(February 2011) • ISBN: 978-1-55753-579-5 Paperback • $59.95

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Studies in American Jewish LiteratureIn Honor of Sarah Blacher Cohen

Carole Kessner, Ann Shapiro (eds.)(2010) • ISBN: 978-1-55753-589-4 • Paperback • $35.00

Scholar, teacher, playwright, and editor, Sarah Blacher Cohen was one of the earliest cham-pions of the study of American Jewish literature, a field of academic study that has been in existence for barely thirty-five years. Over the years until her premature death in 2008, she contributed to the discipline in a profusion of genres, from scholarly to popular, from essay to drama, writing or editing seven books of her own. She also wrote and produced several plays with her longtime collaborator, Joanne B. Koch. This special volume (29) of the an-nual, Studies in American Jewish Literature (ISSN 0271-9274), the journal edited by Daniel Walden, contains a range of tributes from her many friends and colleagues.

This volume of the Casden Institute's annual series introduces new scholarship on the long-standing relationship between Jewish-Americans and the worlds of American popular music. Edited by scholar and critic Josh Kun, the essays in the volume blend single-artist investigations with looks at the industry of music making as a whole. They range from Jewish sheet music to the risqué musical comedy of Belle Barth and Pearl Williams, from the role of music in the shaping of Henry Ford's anti-Semitism to Bob Dylan's Jewishness, from the hybridity of the contemporary "Radical Jewish Culture" scene to the Yiddish experiments of 1930s African-American artists.

The Song is not the SameJews and American Popular Music(JRAL 8)Josh Kun (ed.)(2010) • 978-1-55753-586-3 • Paperback • $25.00

A Knight at the Opera examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) Tannhäuser played in Jewish cultural life in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The book analyzes how three of the greatest Jewish thinkers of that era, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Herzl, and I. L. Peretz, used this central myth of Germany to strengthen Jewish culture and to at-tack antisemitism. In the original medieval myth, a Christian knight lives in sin with the seduc-tive pagan goddess Venus. He escapes her clutches and makes his way to Rome to seek absolu-tion from the Pope. The Pope does not pardon Tannhäuser and he returns to the Venusberg.

A Knight at the OperaHeine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz and the Legacy of Der TannhäuserLeah Garrett(August 2011) • ISBN: 978-155753-601-3 • $39.95

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