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Michael A. Meyer, Rabbi Leo Baeck: Living a Religious Imperative, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, 48.00 [pounds sterling] This review focuses on two outstanding Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century: [...]

Keith Kahn-Harris, Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism, and the Limits of Diversity, Repeater Books, 2019, [pounds sterling]10.99 On my home bookshelf I have ten books with titles beginning with the word [...]

Jeremy Cohen, A Historian in Exile: Solomon ibn Verga, Shevet Yehudah, and the Jewish-Christian Encounter, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017, 248 pp., $65.00/[pounds sterling]56.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4858-6 Hardback; Ebook, $65.00/[pounds [...]

The Beginnings of Ladino Literature: Moses Almosnino and His Readers, by Olga Borovaya, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2017, ISBN: 978-0-253-02552-4 (hardback), 317 pp., $60.00 Moses Almosnino came from a family [...]

Sara Lipton, Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography, New York, Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2014, xxi + 390 pp., ISBN 978-0-8050-7910-4 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8050-960109 (electronic book), [...]

Baumgarten, Elisheva, Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, 334 pp., ISBN 978-0-8122-4640-7 (hbk) Many treatments of medieval Jewish history [...]

Abstract Joseph Krauskopf immigrated from his native Prussia to the United States at the age of fourteen, and was ordained with the first class of students at the newly established [...]

Abstract A graduate of Jews' College, Morris Joseph became the leading spokesman for British Reform Judaism as spiritual leader of the West London Synagogue. Though not a pacifist, he was [...]

Levie Bernfeld, Tirtsah, Poverty and Welfare among the Portuguese Jews in Early Modern Amsterdam, Oxford, Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2012, xvii + 590 pp., ISBN 978-1-904113-57-7 (hb). The Portuguese [...]

Grossman, Avraham, Rashi, transl. Joel Linsider, Oxford, Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2012, 327 pp., ISBN 978-1-90411-89-8 I first met Avraham Grossman in September of 1969, when I entered the [...]

Abstract: The following broad--and admittedly rather superficial--survey of Jewish leadership types spans several millennia, from the biblical period to the present. A wide variety of positions with varying claims to [...]

Abstract Rabbi Hugo Gryn was both the leading rabbinic figure of British Reform Judaism for several decades and one of the best-known and highly admired rabbis in British society. The [...]

Abstract John Rayner certainly believed that delivering regularly a carefully prepared sermon was an integral and important component of the rabbi's role. The evidence is in his more than 1,000 [...]

Brenner, Michael, A Short History of the Jews, translated by Jeremiah Riemer, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2010, xiv + 421 pp., ISBN 978-0-691-14351-4 (German original, Kleine Judische Geschichte, [...]

Abstract As illuminated by the contemporary Jewish press and the texts of Jewish sermons, many British Jews were initially deeply ambivalent about going to war on the side of Czarist [...]

This address and subsequent responses were delivered on 30 June 2008 at a gathering of LBC rabbinic graduates who had been serving as rabbis for 25 years or more. A. [...]

This paper is divided into three sections illustrating uses of the Book of Leviticus in three different contexts: Internal Jewish Issues, Jewish-Christian Relations and Social Justice. Internal Jewish Issues 1. [...]

The thesis I would submit to you this morning may be somewhat surprising: it is that the task of the rabbinic programme at Leo Baeck College is impossible. We have [...]

The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice, Yaacob Dweck, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011,280 pp. [pounds sterling]?? ISBN 978-0-691-14508-2. Despite the disdain for Kabbalistic texts and [...]

Robin Judd, Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843-1933, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007), 24.95 [pounds sterling], 283 pp., ISBN 978-0-8014-4545-3. No medieval government would [...]

Menachem Kellner, Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism, Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2006. 343 pp., ISBN 978-1-904113-29-4. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Another book on Maimonides! Can anything new really be [...]

David J. Halperin, Sabbatai Zevi: Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah. Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007. 235 pp. 35.00 £/$49.50. ISBN 978-1-904113-25-6 Having established himself as a distinguished scholar of [...]

Michael Meyer has, as always, given us an elegant, learned, thoughtprovoking and beautifully delivered presentation. There are certainly qualities of Leo Baeck that remain extremely appealing to us today. Speaking [...]

I first met Martin Gilbert in May 2000, when he was given an honorary degree at the graduation ceremonies of The George Washington University, where I was Professor of History [...]