Reviewing Book Reviews
Revisit the many book reviews published in TRADITION and on TraditionOnline in the last half-year…
TRADITION’s 2021 Editorial Board Book Endorsements
Eric Lawee, Rashi’s Commentary on the Torah: Canonization and Resistance in the Reception of a Jewish Classic (Oxford University Press), reviewed by David Berger
Yitzhak (Isadore) Twersky, Law and Spirit in Medieval Jewish Thought [Hebrew], edited by Carmi Horowitz (Merkaz Zalman Shazar), reviewed by Jeffrey R. Woolf
Moshe Koppel, Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures (Maggid Books), reviewed by Chaim Strauchler
Zev Eleff, Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life (Wayne State University Press), reviewed by Yaakov Bieler
Yitz Greenberg and Modern Orthodoxy: The Road Not Taken, edited by Adam Ferziger, Miri Freud-Kandel, and Steven Bayme (Academic Studies Press), reviewed by David Wolkenfeld
Avigail Rock, Parshanei HaMikra (Maggid Publications), reviewed by Yosefa Wruble
Mitchell First, Roots & Rituals: Insights into Hebrew, Holidays, and History and Links to Our Legacy: Insights into Hebrew, History, and Liturgy (Kodesh Press), reviewed by David Curwin
Emmanuel Navon, The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel (Jewish Publication Society), reviewed by Sruli Fruchter.
Adin Even-Yisrael Steinsaltz, Pirkei Avot [A Hebrew Commentary on Avot] (Merkaz Steinsaltz & Koren Publishers), reviewed by Marina Zilbergerts
Moshe Sokol, The Snake at The Mouth of the Cave: Exploring Talmudic Narratives (Touro College), reviewed by Yitzchak Blau
Idan Dershowitz, The Valediction of Moses: A Proto-Biblical Book (Mohr Siebeck), reviewed by Yoel Bin-Nun
Avraham (Rami) Reiner, Rabbenu Tam: Parshanut, Halakha, Pulmus [Hebrew] (Bar-Ilan University Press), reviewed by Pinchas Roth
Arthur Arnheim and Chava Turniansky, Yiddish Letters from the Seventeenth-Century World of Glikl Hamel (Magnes Press), reviewed by Rivkah Blau
Shayna Goldberg, What Do You Really Want?: Trust and Fear in Decision Making at Life’s Crossroads and in Everyday Living (Maggid Books), reviewed by Yitzchak Blau
Yehuda Herzl Henkin, Mahalakhim ba-Mikra: Sugyot ba-Torah mi-Beriat HaOlam ve-ad Matan Torah [Hebrew] (Maggid Books), reviewed by Yaakov Bieler
Bound in the Bond of Life: Pittsburgh Writers Reflect on the Tree of Life Tragedy, edited by Beth Kissileff and Eric Lidji (Univerity of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), reviewed by Sarah Rudolph
New & Noteworthy Books: Summer 2021 | Fall 2021