Princeton Jewish Studies 2009

Jews, christians, and muslims from the ancient to the modern world Michael Cook, William Chester Jordan & Peter Schäfer, Series Editors Princeton Jewish Studies 2009

New New Paperback Living Together, Living Apart One of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006 Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations The Religious Enlightenment Runner-up, 2006 National Jewish Book Award in Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from History, Jewish Book Council in the Middle Ages Forthcoming New Forthcoming London to Vienna Reckless Rites Jonathan Elukin The Aryan Jesus Jewish Questions God Interrupted David Sorkin Christian Theologians and the Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Heresy and the European Purim and the Legacy of Jewish “Instead of emphasizing the conflicts between Bible in Nazi Germany Early Modern Period Imagination Between the World Wars “Powerfully cogent. Sorkin seeks to show that Violence Christians and Jews, Elukin shows how deeply the ‘religious Enlightenment’ was not a contra- Elliott Horowitz interconnected the two groups were in their Susannah Heschel Matt Goldish Benjamin Lazier diction in terms but was an integral and central everyday lives.” “Elliott Horowitz’s learned, humane, and exciting “Susannah Heschel’s The Aryan Jesus is a brilliant “This is a wonderful book. The introduction is “God Interrupted is a work of an unusual talent. part of the Enlightenment.” —Jewish Book World book will rattle many platitudes and disturb many and erudite investigation of the convergence excellent and well-written, and the texts are The analysis is brilliant; virtually each page —Tim Blanning, University of Cambridge 2007. 208 pages. between major trends in German Protestantism absolutely fascinating—in some cases even sparkles with novel insights.” pieties. Purim will never be quite the same; and Cl: 978-0-691-11487-3 $25.95 | £14.95 In intellectual and political culture today, the the complications that Horowitz introduces into and Nazi racial anti-Semitism. By concentrating delightful and funny to read. Goldish has really —Paul Mendes-Flohr, University of Chicago Enlightenment is routinely celebrated as the the history of Jewish self-representation will be on the history of the Institute for the Study and hit the mark with this book.” Divinity School starting point of modernity and secular rational- ferociously debated for many years to come. Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Reli- —Mark Cohen, Princeton University Resisting History Could the best thing about religion be the her- ism, or demonized as the source of a godless Horowitz’s lack of interest in edification is itself gious Life, Heschel describes in forceful detail the Historicism and Its Discontents in In Jewish Questions, Matt Goldish introduces esies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar liberalism in conflict with religious faith. In The edifying; his love of truth is fully the match of his Nazification of all aspects of Protestant theology, German-Jewish Thought English readers to the history and culture of the Europe thought so. They believed that they lived Religious Enlightenment, David Sorkin alters our love of tradition. Reckless Rites is a model of the including the Aryanization of Jesus himself. This David N. Myers Sephardic dispersion through an exploration of in a world made derelict by God’s absence and understanding by showing that the Enlighten- lost art of troublemaking scholarship.” is a highly original and important contribution to forty-three responsa—questions about Jewish the interruption of his call. In response, they ment, at its heart, was religious in nature. —Leon Wieseltier 2004. 280 pages. 5 halftones. our understanding of the Third Reich.” Cl: 978-0-691-11593-1 $39.95 | £23.95 —Saul Friedlander, University of California, law that Jews asked leading rabbis, and the helped resurrect gnosticism and pantheism, the Sorkin examines the lives and ideas of influential Elliott Horowitz is associate professor of Jewish Los Angeles rabbis’ responses. The questions along with two most potent challenges to the monotheistic Protestant, Jewish, and Catholic theologians of history at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. their rabbinical decisions examine all aspects of tradition. In God Interrupted, Benjamin Lazier Winner of the 2002 Award for Best Professional/ Was Jesus a Nazi? During the Third Reich, Jewish life, including business, family, religious tracks the ensuing debates about the divine the Enlightenment. He demonstrates that, in the Scholarly Book in Religion, Association of American 2008. 360 pages. 17 halftones. German Protestant theologians, motivated by issues, and relations between Jews and non- across confessions and disciplines. He also century before the French Revolution, the major Pa: 978-0-691-13824-4 $24.95 | £14.95 Publishers religions of Europe gave rise to movements Cl: 978-0-691-12491-9 $39.95 | £23.95 racism and tapping into traditional Christian Jews. Taken together, the responsa constitute an traces the surprising afterlives of these debates Mirror of His Beauty anti-Semitism, redefined Jesus as an Aryan and extremely rich source of information about the in postwar arguments about the environment, of renewal and reform that championed such Feminine Images of God from the hallmark Enlightenment ideas as reasonableness Christianity as a religion at war with Judaism. In everyday lives of Sephardic Jews. neoconservative politics, and heretical forms of Bible to the Early Kabbalah and natural religion, toleration and natural law. Winner of the 2005 Koret Jewish Book Award in 1939, these theologians established the Institute Jewish identity. In lively, elegant prose, the book History, Koret Foundation Peter Schäfer for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence Matt Goldish is the Samuel M. and Esther Melton reorients the intellectual history of the era. David Sorkin is the Frances and Laurence Wein- Runner-up, 2005 National Jewish Book Award in on German Religious Life. In The Aryan Jesus, Professor of Jewish History and director of the Women’s Studies, Jewish Book Council 2004. 328 pages. 15 halftones. 1 line illus. Melton Center for Jewish Studies at Ohio State Benjamin Lazier is assistant professor of history stein Professor of Jewish Studies and professor of Pa: 978-0-691-11980-9 $23.95 | £13.95 Susannah Heschel shows that during the Third history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Mothers and Children Reich, the Institute became the most important University. and humanities at Reed College. He is a recipient of the 2008 John Templeton Award for Theologi- propaganda organ of German Protestantism, 2008. 248 pages. 2008. 360 pages. 12 line illus. Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe Pa: 978-0-691-12265-6 $22.95 | £13.50 cal Promise. Cl: 978-0-691-13502-1 $35.00 | £19.95 exerting a widespread influence and producing Elisheva Baumgarten Winner of the 2001 National Jewish Book Award, Cl: 978-0-691-12264-9 $60.00 | £35.00 Scholarly Category, Jewish Book Council a nazified Christianity that placed anti-Semitism February 2009. 256 pages. 2007. 296 pages. 9 halftones. at its theological center. 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The story of Greek and impassioned response to the Professional/Scholarly Book in —Library Journal Spain and Portugal, and their later Jewry has found its historian.” annihilation from memory of the theorists of culture and politics is thorough.” Humanities, Association of American descendents. Despite economic “With an arresting topic, great welcome and timely.” —Debra Higgs Strickland, Publishers 2007. 232 pages. 1 halftone. —David Myers, UCLA Center for last traces of the Jews who lived for storytelling, superb scholarship, Cl: 978-0-691-12926-6 $25.95 | £14.95 —John Gray, University of London and some political advancement, University of Glasgow Winner of the 2007 Award for Best Jewish Studies generations in the Ukraine. 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In this unconventional the Bible’s best-known villains— Wiener Library to preserve memory into the future.” and scientific puzzle.” German-Jewish philosopher Ernst history, Yirmiyahu Yovel tells their but up until the tenth century, The Dream of the —Jewish Book World Cassirer (1874–1945), a leading fascinating story and reflects on —Adrienne Mayor, author of Greek artistic imagery appears to have Jews, Germans, Poem A Murder in 2007. 256 pages. 60 halftones. 6 maps. figure on the Weimar intel- what it means for modern forms of Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion consistently portrayed him as a Hebrew Poetry from and Allies Cl: 978-0-691-13121-4 $26.95 | £15.95 lectual scene and one of the last identity. Bombs: Biological and Chemical benevolent Christian and holy sym- Close Encounters in Lemberg Warfare in the Ancient World Muslim and Christian and finest representatives of the bol of baptism. For the first time, Occupied Germany Politics, Religion, and liberal-idealist tradition. 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2007. 208 pages. 16 halftones. Cl: 978-0-691-12223-6 $28.95 | £16.95 To receive notices about new books, subscribe for email at: press.princeton.edu/subscribe press.princeton.edu New Forthcoming Paperback New Paperback National Jewish Honor Book in Jewish History A History of Palestine One of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 With a new introduction and From the Ottoman Conquest to the The Ladder of Jacob afterword by the author Founding of the State of Israel Ancient Interpretations of the Biblical Gudrun Krämer Story of Jacob and His Children Under Crescent and Cross The Jews in the Middle Ages Translated by Graham Harman & James L. Kugel Gudrun Krämer Mark R. Cohen “The Ladder of Jacob is one of the most readable “The 400 years before the founding of the and attractive introductions to the general style “[A]n important . . . book. . . . Cohen’s argument is Jewish state is a historiographical minefield, but of traditional Jewish reasoning from Scripture. It buttressed with an impressive range of evidence Krämer, a professor of Islamic studies at Free captures the strange combination of playfulness drawn from both Jewish and non-Jewish sources University Berlin, manages to produce an illumi- with deadly seriousness that characterizes this in the Islamic and Christian worlds.” nating survey of the terrain. . . . Krämer’s fluent exegetical tradition.” —David Wasserstein, Times Literary Supplement narrative pairs a much-needed focus on facts— —John Baron, Times Literary Supplement “Mark R. Cohen has crafted a work that is fasci- including useful data on contentious issues of nating in detail and provocative in analysis.” population growth and land ownership—with “Whether discussing Reuben’s sin with Bilhah —Frederic Krome, Speculum an evenhanded avoidance of partisanship.” or the priesthood of Levi or Judah and Tamar, Mr. Kugel moves easily from moral dilemmas to —Publishers Weekly Mark R. Cohen is professor of Near Eastern stud- textual enigmas.” ies at Princeton University. It is impossible to understand Palestine today —Eric Ormsby, New York Sun without a careful reading of its distant and 2008. 320 pages. Pa: 978-0-691-13931-9 $24.95 | £14.95 recent past. But until now there has been no “Biblical scholar Kugel offers an in-depth study single volume in English that tells the history of of some of the more difficult stories of Jacob the events—from the Ottoman Empire to the and Jacob’s family. . . . [A]ny biblical researcher Also by Mark R. Cohen mid-twentieth century—that shaped modern can profit from understanding the questions Palestine. The first book of its kind, A History of raised by these texts and analyzing the answers Runner-up, 2005 National Jewish Book Award in History, Jewish Book Council Palestine offers a richly detailed interpretation of they provide.” this critical region’s evolution. —Library Journal Poverty and Charity in

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To receive notices about new books, subscribe for email at: press.princeton.edu/subscribe Forthcoming Forthcoming The Other Within Pontius Pilate, The Marranos: Split Identity Anti-Semitism, and Emerging Modernity and the Passion Yirmiyahu Yovel in Medieval Art Forthcoming “This extremely rich and very Forthcoming Colum Hourihane Winner of the 2007 National Jewish important book is a crucial docu- Book Award in Poetry, Jewish Book Jesus in the Talmud Greece—a Jewish Erased Ernst Cassirer ment in our attempt to understand The Parting of “This is a major contribution to Council Peter Schäfer History Vanishing Traces of Jewish The Last Philosopher ourselves.” the growing examinations of anti- Finalist, 2007 National Jewish Book Galicia in Present-Day the Sea Award in Sephardic Culture, Jewish “Meticulously researched and K. E. Fleming of Culture —Charles Taylor, author of Jewish representations in medieval Ukraine How Volcanoes, Book Council argued as well as clearly and acces- Multiculturalism and early modern art and literature. “Greece—a Jewish History is a Omer Bartov Edward Skidelsky Earthquakes, and Plagues Winner of the 2007 R. R. Hawkins sibly written, this most intriguing— The author’s lively and engaging Award, Association of American superb book. . . . It is a masterful Shaped the Story of Exodus albeit radical—book is sure to spark “Skidelsky’s study of one of the The Marranos were former Jews consideration of the sources, both Publishers piece of research and historical “This book is an often brilliant interest, debate, and controversy.” great neglected twentieth-century forced to convert to Christianity in Barbara J. Sivertsen pictorial and literary, is careful and Winner of the 2007 Award for Best craftsmanship. The story of Greek and impassioned response to the Professional/Scholarly Book in —Library Journal Spain and Portugal, and their later Jewry has found its historian.” annihilation from memory of the theorists of culture and politics is thorough.” Humanities, Association of American descendents. Despite economic “With an arresting topic, great welcome and timely.” —Debra Higgs Strickland, Publishers 2007. 232 pages. 1 halftone. —David Myers, UCLA Center for last traces of the Jews who lived for storytelling, superb scholarship, Cl: 978-0-691-12926-6 $25.95 | £14.95 —John Gray, University of London and some political advancement, University of Glasgow Winner of the 2007 Award for Best Jewish Studies generations in the Ukraine. It is a and a command of diverse sources, these “Conversos” suffered social Professional/Scholarly Book in valuable book both about the de- This is the first English-language stigma and were persecuted by the Sivertsen makes an important Pontius Pilate is considered one of Literature, Language and Linguistics, 2008. 288 pages. 19 halftones. 1 map. Cl: 978-0-691-10272-6 $35.00 | £19.95 struction of the past and an attempt contribution to a significant historic Association of American Publishers Winner of the 2006 Fraenkel Prize, intellectual biography of the Inquisition. In this unconventional the Bible’s best-known villains— Wiener Library to preserve memory into the future.” and scientific puzzle.” German-Jewish philosopher Ernst history, Yirmiyahu Yovel tells their but up until the tenth century, The Dream of the —Jewish Book World Cassirer (1874–1945), a leading fascinating story and reflects on —Adrienne Mayor, author of Greek artistic imagery appears to have Jews, Germans, Poem A Murder in 2007. 256 pages. 60 halftones. 6 maps. figure on the Weimar intel- what it means for modern forms of Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion consistently portrayed him as a Hebrew Poetry from and Allies Cl: 978-0-691-13121-4 $26.95 | £15.95 lectual scene and one of the last identity. Bombs: Biological and Chemical benevolent Christian and holy sym- Close Encounters in Lemberg Warfare in the Ancient World Muslim and Christian and finest representatives of the bol of baptism. For the first time, Occupied Germany Politics, Religion, and liberal-idealist tradition. Edward Drawing on historical studies, Pontius Pilate, Anti-Semitism, and Spain, 950–1492 Violence in Modern For over four decades, biblical Atina Grossmann How to Cure a Skidelsky traces the develop- Inquisition records, and contempo- the Passion in Medieval Art provides Translated, Edited, and Jewish History rary poems, novels, treatises, and experts have tried placing the Fanatic ment of Cassirer’s thought in its a complete look at the shifting Introduced by Peter Cole “The grim statistics that Ms. other writings, this engaging criti- story of Exodus into a historical Michael Stanislawski historical and intellectual setting. visual and textual representations Grossmann presents in her carefully Amos Oz cal history of the Marrano experi- context—without success. What “The book is a treasure trove, a He presents Cassirer, the author of Pilate throughout early Christian researched and well-organized “Stanislawski tell his story with a ence is also a profound meditation could explain the Nile turning to labour of love and exceptional “This small book embodies so of The Philosophy of Symbolic and medieval art. Colum Hourihane book carry evidence of the terrible sharp eye for detail and plot, with on dual identities and the birth of blood, insects swarming the land, erudition, which will open up to much realism and optimism.” Forms, as a defender of the liberal examines neglected and some- truth. But the testimony of the sur- the historical context and analysis modernity. and the sky falling to darkness? —Library Journal ideal of culture in an increasingly times sympathetic portrayals, and the reader a world of poetry and that students of Jewish history will Integrating biblical accounts with vivors she quotes contains the final, fragmented world, and as someone shows that negative characteriza- culture as rich as anything in hu- appreciate.” 2006. 104 pages. Yirmiyahu Yovel is the Hans Jonas substantive archaeological evi- ineradicable facts of history.” who grappled with the opposing tions of Pilate developed for politi- man civilization.” —Publishers Weekly Cl: 978-0-691-12669-2 $12.95 | £7.95 Professor of Philosophy at the New dence, The Parting of the Sea looks —Hilma Wolitzer, East Hampton Star Not for sale in the Commonwealth (except forces of scientific positivism and cal and religious purposes, turning —Times Literary Supplement Canada) School for Social Research and at how natural phenomena shaped 2007. 160 pages. 11 halftones. romantic vitalism. him into a symbol of anti-Semitism 2007. 416 pages. 28 halftones. chairman of the Jerusalem Spinoza the stories of Exodus, the Sojourn Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Cl: 978-0-691-08971-3 $35.00 | £19.95 Cl: 978-0-691-12843-6 $22.95 | £13.50 in the medieval period. Institute. in the Wilderness, and the Israelite 2007. 576 pages. Edward Skidelsky is lecturer in Pa: 978-0-691-12195-6 $19.95 | £11.95 Beyond the Border philosophy at the University of conquest of Canaan. Colum Hourihane is director of the February 2009. 488 pages. Enlightenment in The German-Jewish Exeter, and a regular contributor to Cl: 978-0-691-13571-7 $35.00 | £19.95 Index of Christian Art in the Depart- Concealment and Barbara J. Sivertsen has been the British national press, including ment of Art and Archaeology at the Colony Legacy Abroad managing editor of the Journal of Revelation the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, Princeton University. In Spite of Partition The Jewish Question and Steven E. Aschheim Geology for over twenty-five years. Esotericism in Jewish and the New Statesman. Jews, Arabs, and the Limits the Crisis of Postcolonial June 2009. 432 pages. 8 color illus. 187 halftones. Thought and its “This volume of essays is vintage March 2009. 256 pages. 2 halftones. 3 line illus. 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2007. 208 pages. 16 halftones. Cl: 978-0-691-12223-6 $28.95 | £16.95 To receive notices about new books, subscribe for email at: press.princeton.edu/subscribe press.princeton.edu Jews, christians, and muslims from the ancient to the modern world Michael Cook, William Chester Jordan & Peter Schäfer, Series Editors Princeton Jewish Studies 2009

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