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Waitman Beorn, “Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus” (Harvard UP, 2013)

Waitman Beorn
Marching into Darkness
The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus
Harvard University Press, 2013

New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in German Studies New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies New Books Network January 10, 2014 Marshall Poe

The question of Wehrmacht complicity in the Holocaust is an old one. What might be called the “received view” until recently was that while a small number of German army units took part in anti-Jewish atrocities, the great bulk of… Read More

Leora Batnitzky, “How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought” (Princeton UP, 2011)

Leora Batnitzky
How Judaism Became a Religion
An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought
Princeton University Press, 2011

New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network January 8, 2014 Jonathan Judaken

From her first book about the Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig, Leora Batnitzky has been heralded as a rising star in contemporary Jewish thought and the philosophy of religion. Batnitzky, a professor of Jewish studies and chair of the Department of… Read More

Jeremy Dauber, “The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem” (Schocken, 2013)

Jeremy Dauber
The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem
The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye
Schocken, 2013

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Biography New Books in Eastern European Studies New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network November 8, 2013 Bernice Heilbrunn

The first comprehensive biography of famed Yiddish novelist, story writer and playwright Sholem Aleichem, Jeremy Dauber‘s welcome new book The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye (Schocken, 2013) offers readers… Read More

Elaine R. Glickman, “The Messiah and the Jews” (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2013)

Rabbi Elaine R. Glickman
The Messiah and the Jews
Three Thousand Years of Tradition, Belief and Hope
Jewish Lights Publishing, 2013

New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network October 30, 2013 Bernice Heilbrunn

“The conviction that the Messiah is coming is a promise of meaning. It is a source of consolation. It is a wellspring of creativity. It is reconciliation between what is and what should be. And it is perhaps our most … Read More

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, “The Devil That Never Dies” (Little, Brown and Co., 2013)

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
The Devil That Never Dies
The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism
LIttle, Brown and Company, 2013

New Books in European Studies New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Middle Eastern Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in World Affairs New Books Network October 22, 2013 Marshall Poe

There are 13 million Jews in the world today. There are also 13 million Senegalese, 13 million Zambians, 13 million Zimbabweans, and 13 million Chadians. These are tiny–a realist might say “insignificant”–nations. But here’s the funny–though that doesn’t seem like… Read More