Originally published in Chayenu 23.1 (1954), p. 14. The Great Sanhedrin - A Study of the Origin, Development, Composition and Functions of the Bet Din ha-Gadol during the Second Jewish Commonwealth. Sidney B. Hoenig, The Dropsie College for Hebrew ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in JJSO 36:2 (1994), pp. 141-3. Norman Solomon, The Analytic Movement: Hayyim Soloveitchik and his Circle (University of South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism series), xv + 268pp., Scholars Press, Atlanta, Georgia, ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in JJSO 35:2 (1993), pp. 154-6. Moshe Z. Sokol, ed., Rabbinic Authority and Personal Autonomy (the Orthodox Forum Series), xiv + 250 pp., Jason Aronson, Northvale, N.J., 1992, n.p. The two main questions to which this ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in JJSO 14:2 (1972), p. 259. Nathan Rotenstreich, Tradition and Reality, The Impact of History on Modem Jewish Thought, xii + 145 pp., Contemporary Jewish Civilization Series, Moshe Davis, ed., Random House, New York, 1972, ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in JJSO 27:2 (1985), pp. 149-51. Eliezer Schweid, The Land of Israel: National Home or Land of Destiny, translated from the Hebrew by Deborah Greniman, 225 pp., Associated University Presses, London and Toronto, 1985, ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in JJSO 13:2 (1971), pp. 223-4. Max Brod, Paganism—Christianity—Judaism, A Confession of Faith, translated by William Wolf from the second German edition (1921), as revised by the author in 1968, x + 276 pp., University of ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in JJSO 12:1 (1970), pp. 108-9. Emile Marmorstein, Heaven at Bay: The Jewish Kulturkampf in the Holy Land, ix + 215 pp., Oxford University Press, London, 1969, 45s. The problem of Judaism as a religious faith versus a ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in JJSO 11:1 (1969), p. 99. David Martin, The Religious and the Secular—Studies in Secularization, xi + 164 pp., Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1969, 30s. We have by now become accustomed to being told—not least by some ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in The Tablet (1987), p. 461. The genius of God’s chosen people A History of the Jews Paul Johnson Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £16.95 Paul Johnson, in what he calls a personal interpretation of Jewish history, ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in JJSO 34:1 (1992), pp. 61-3. Norman Solomon, Judaism and World Religion (Library of Philosophy and Religion series), xv + 295pp., Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, 1991, £40.00. At one level, this is yet another ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in JJSO 34:1 (1992), pp. 51-2. Gary A. Anderson, A Time to Mourn, A Time to Dance: The Expression of Grief and Joy in Israelite Religion, xvii +139 pp., Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1991, ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in JJSO 32:2 (1990), pp. 125-6. Joseph Dan, ed., BINAH, Studies in Jewish History, Thought, and Culture, Volume I (publication of the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, Jerusalem, and of the ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in JJSO 30:2 (1988), pp. 138-9. Gershon Weiler, Jewish Theocracy, xiv + 332 pp., E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1988, 70 guilders (or $35.00). After examining, with philosophical acumen, the idea of a Jewish theocracy from Josephus ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in JJSO 30:2 (1988), p. 133. David Kranzler, Thy Brother’s Blood: The Orthodox Jewish Response During the Holocaust, with a Foreword by Isaac Lewin, (Artscroll Judaiscope Series), xii + 338 pp., Mesorah Publications, Brooklyn, ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in JJSO 30:1 (1988), pp. 65-6. Mordecai Rotenberg, Re-Biographing and Deviance: Psychotherapeutic Narrativism and the Midrash, x+ 221 pp., Praeger, New York, Westport, and London, 1987, £30.95. This book is ... Continue Reading ➨