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• Miron, Dan _A Traveler Disguised: The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century_, reviewed by Magdalena Teter, Columbia University, (reprint, originally published by Schoken, 1973) Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art, eds. Ken Frieden and Harold Bloom, , Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996. xviii + 347 pp., notes, bibliography, index, illustrations. $16.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8156-0330-4

• Feingold, Henry L. _Lest Memory Cease: Finding Meaning in the American Jewish Past_, reviewed by Andrew Furman, Florida Atlantic University. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996. x + 226 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0815627106; $16.95 (paper), 0815604009.

• Ouaknin, Marc-Alain. _The Burnt Book: Reading the Talmud_, reviewed by Joseph Kanofsky, Boston University. Translated by Llewellyn Brown. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xxii+336pp. Notes, glossary, bibliography, illustrations, and index. $35.00 (cloth) ISBN 0-691-03729-9

• Beck, Evelyn Torton, ed. _Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology_, revised and updated edition; and Balka, Christie, and Andy Rose, eds. _Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian or Gay and Jewish_.reviewed by Aleisha Fishman, American University
  Boston: Beacon Press, 1989. xlix + 333 pp. Notes, bibliography, and illustrations. $16.00 (paper), ISBN 0-8070-7905-7. and Boston: Beacon Press, 1989. x + 305 pp. Bibliography. $16.00 (paper), 0-8070-7909-X.

• Zvi Rin and Shifra Rin. _`Alilot ha-'Elim: Kol Shirot 'Ugarit (Mahadura Xadasha, Beduqa u-Morxevet)_ [_Acts of the Gods: The Ugaritic Epic Poetry (A Revised and Expanded Edition)_]., reviewed by Gary Rendsburg, Cornell University. Philadelphia: Inbal Publishers, 1996. lxxxi (English) + 881 (Hebrew) pp. No ISBN. No price indicated. Orders through INBAL, P.O.B. 42, Narberth, PA 19072.

• Marrus, Michael. _The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945-46: A Documentary History_The Bedford Series In History and Culture. reviewed Jamie L. Wraight, University of Toledo. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997. xi + 276 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 (hardback), ISBN 0-312-16386-X; $9.99 (paper), 0-312-13691.

• Urofsky, Melvin I. _American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust_. reviewed by Peter Margolis, Hebrew University. Lincoln, Nebraska and London: Bison Books (University of Nebraska Press), 1995. xv + 538 pp. Notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $15.00 (paper), ISBN 0-8032-9559-0. Previously published: Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1975.

• Norman Kleeblatt, ed. _Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Jewish Identities_. reviewed by Adam Shear, University of Pennsylvania New York: The Jewish Museum, 1996. xx + 187 pp. Notes, bibliography, and illustrations. ISBN 0-8135-2326-5 (cloth), 0-8135-2327-3 (paper).

• Zuccotti, Susan. The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews. reviewed by Martin E. Vann, Florida Atlantic University New York, NY: BasicBooks (HarperCollins), 1993. xv +383 pp. Notes, illustrations, and index. $14.00 (paper), ISBN 0-465-03035-1.

• Cohen, Naomi G. _Philo Judaeus: His Universe of Discourse._ Beitraege zur erforschung des alten testaments und des antiken Judentums. reviewed by Dr. Tzvee Zahavy, Teaneck. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1995. xx + 381 pp. Bibliography and indexes. N.p. (paper). ISBN 3-820-41650-1.

• Havlin, Shlomo Zalman, ed., _Seder ha-kabalah le-rabenu Menahem ha-Meiri_ [English t.p.: History of the Oral Law and of Early Rabbinic Scholarship], reviewed by Henry Abramson, Florida Atlantic University. New updated edition, Jerusalem/Cleveland: Ofeq Institute, 1995. lvii + 286 pp. Appendices, indices, illustrations,bibliography. ISBN 1-881255-07-7.

• The Stories of David Bergelson: Yiddish Short Fiction from Russia_, reviewed by Stefan Gunther, Brandeis University. transl. and with an introd. by Golda Werman. Foreword by Aharon Appelfeld. Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art, eds. Ken Frieden and Harold Bloom. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996. xxxii + 157 pp. Bibliography. $ 34.95 (cloth), ISBN 0- 8156-2712-2; $ 14.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8156-0402-5.

• Marc A. Weiner. _Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination_. reviewed by Lisa Norris, Kutztown University. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. (Text and Context Series, Vol. 12). xv + 441 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 0-8032-4775-3 (cloth), $40.

• Goldberg, David Theo. _Racial Subjects: Writing on Race in America_. reviewed by Adam H. Stewart, Loyola University. New York: Routledge, 1997. xi + 259 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 0-415-91830-8, pbk.: 0-415-91831-6.

• Greenspoon, Leonard Jay and Le Beau, Bryan F., eds. _Representations of Jews Through the Ages_, Studies in Jewish Civilization - vol. 8. reviewed by Martin Vann, Florida Atlantic University. Omaha, Nebraska: Creighton University Press, 1996. xxi + 243 pp. Preface, introduction, notes, illustrations. ISBN 1-881871-22-3.

• Simcha Paull Raphael, _Jewish Views of the Afterlife_ reviewed by Reena Zeidman, Queen's University. New Jersey: Jason Aronson, 1994, xxxvi +474pp. Notes, bibliography, index.

• Benvenisti, Meron. City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem. reviewed by Marsha B. Cohen, Florida International University. Translated by Maxine Kaufman Nunn. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1996. 274 pp. Illustrations, maps and index. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-520-20521-9.

• Katz, Shmuel. _Lone Wolf: A Biography of Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky_, 2 vols. reviewed by Paul Radensky, Jewish Theological Seminary. New York: Barricade Books, 1996. 1855 pp. Illustrations, notes bibliography, and index. $100 (cloth), ISBN 1-56980-042-1.

• Sysling, Harry, _Tehiyyat Ha-Metim: The Resurrection of the Dead in the Palestinian Targums of the Pentateuch and Parallel Traditions in Classical Rabbinic Literature_, reviewed by Joseph Tabory, Bar-Ilan University. Texte und Studien zum antiken Judaism; 57, Tuebingen: JCBMohr, 1996, xx + 329 pp. Bibliography, indexes. ISBN 3-16-146583-0.

• Jeffrey S. Gurock and Jacob J. Schachter, _A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism_. reviewed by Theodore Weinberger, Florida International University. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. x + 161 pp. Notes and index. ISBN 0-231-10626-2 (cloth).