Books Received Jewish Quarterly Review, Volume 99, Number 4, Fall 2009, (Article) Published by University of Pennsylvania Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.0.0070 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/363505 [ This content has been declared free to read by the pubisher during the COVID-19 pandemic. ] T HE J EWISH Q UARTERLY R EVIEW, Vol. 99, No. 4 (Fall 2009) H AGNON,S.Y.A Book That Was Lost: Thirty-Five Stories. Expanded edi- tion including all stories from Twenty-One Stories. New Milford, Conn.: Toby Press, 2008. A LBERT,ELISA. How This Night Is Different. New York: Free Press, 2008. A LEXANDER,PHILIP S. The Targum of Lamentations. Translated with a critical introduction, apparatus, and notes. The Aramaic Bible 17B. Col- legeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2007. A LTSHULER,MORDECHAI. Judaism in the Soviet Vise: Between Religion and Jewish Identity in the Soviet Union, 1941–1964. (Hebrew). 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