Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 31:2. Arthur Green, Tormented Master: A Life of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav (Judaic Studies Series). University of Alabama Press, 1979. viii, 395 pp. $27.50. Nahman of Bratslav, the eponymous hero ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 31:2. Z. Dimitrovsky (ed.), Mehkarim u-Mekorot (‘Texts and Studies’, Analecta Judaica, Vol. I), Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Ktav. New York, 1977. 510pp. This is the first volume ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 31:2. Bernard S. Jackson (ed.), Modern Research in Jewish Law (The Jewish Law Annual; Supplement One). Brill, Leiden, 1980. vii, 157 pp. Fl. 56. Professor Izhak Englard published some years ago ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 30:2. Leon D. Stitskin, Jewish Philosophy: A Study in Personalism, Yeshiva University Press, New York, 1976, 587 pp. $12.50. Dr Stitskin makes a valiant attempt at formulating a comprehensive ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 30:1. Bernard S. Jackson, ed., The Jewish Law Annual, Volume I, Brill, Leiden, 1978, x, 274 pp. Fl. 84. This first volume of an exciting new venture in Jewish studies consists of: Part I, ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 25:2. Eugene B. Borowitz, The Mask Jews Wear: The Self-Deceptions of American Jewry, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1973, 222 pp., $7.95. Professor Borowitz believes that many American Jews wish ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 25:2. Jeannette Meisel Baron (ed.), Steeled by Adversity: Essays and Addresses on American Jewish Life by Salo Wittmayer Baron, Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1971, xi, 729 ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 25:2. Eliezer Berkovits, Faith after the Holocaust, Ktav, New York, 1973,180 pp., $7.50. Professor Berkovits makes an honest attempt not exactly to solve the problem of evil but to show how a ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 25:2. Jacob Neusner (ed.), Understanding Jewish Theology, Ktav, New York, 1973, x, 280 pp., paperback $3.95; cloth $7.95. This anthology, comprising in the main recent essays on the three ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 25:2. Seymour J. Cohen (ed. and trans.), Sefer Ha-Yashar: The Book of the Righteous, Ktav, New York, 1973, xx, 298 pp., $12.50. Presented here is the Hebrew text of the Sefer Ha-Yashar with ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 25:2. Roy A. Rosenberg, The Anatomy of God, Ktav, New York, 1973, vii, 196 pp., $8.50. This book contains an English translation of the four sections of the Zohar dealing with The Holy Ancient ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 23:2. Samuel S. Cohon, Jewish Theology: A historical and systematic interpretation of Judaism and its Foundations, Royal Vangorcum, Assen, The Netherlands, 1971, xiii, 481 pp. Fl. 53 ($14). Of ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 25:2. Jacob Neusner (ed.), Soviet Views of Talmudic Judaism: Five Papers by Yu. A. Solodukho in English Translation, Leiden, Brill, 1973, xii, 110 pp. The writings of the Russian Talmudic ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Sociology 23:2. Alan Unterman, Jews. Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, xiii + 272 pp., Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices (General Editor, John R. Honnells), Routledge & Kegan Paul, ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Sociology 23:2. Solomon B. Freehof, New Reform Responsa, x + 282 pp., Alumni Series of the Hebrew Union College Press, distributed by Ktav Publishing House, New York, 1980, $12.50. This is yet another ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Sociology 19:1. Irving J. Rosenbaum, The Holocaust and Halakhah, x + 177 pp., The Library of Jewish Law and Ethics (Norman Lamm, ed.), Ktav Publishing House, New York, 1976, $12.50. Halakhah, from the ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Sociology 19:2 (1977), pp. 205-7. David Bleich, Contemporary Halakhic Problems, xviii + 403 pp., The Library of Jewish Law and Ethics (Norman Lamm, ed.), vol. IV, Ktav Publishing House and Yeshiva Univ. ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Sociology 20:1 Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger, Censorship and Freedom of Expression in Jewish History, vii+295 pp., Sepher-Hermon Press with Yeshiva Univ. Press, New York, 1977, $12.50. This pioneering ... Continue Reading ➨