Joseph Morrison Skelly on Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Sowing Historical Fallacies
Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict edited by Philip Carl Salzman and Donna Robinson Divine. Routledge, 2008, 256 pp.
Reviewed by Joseph Morrison Skelly
Mordechai Nisan on A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War
The Political Paradigm of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and its Flaws
A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Mark Tessler, second edition, Indiana University Press, 2009, 1018 pp.
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War by James L. Gelvin, new edition, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 296 pp.
Reviewed by Mordechai Nisan
Toby Greene on Londonistan by Melanie Phillips
The Challenge of Radical Islam in Britain
Londonistan by Melanie Phillips. Encounter Books, 2008, 352pp.
Reviewed by Toby Greene
Wolfgang G. Schwanitz on Nazism in Syria and Lebanon. The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933-1945
Hitler in the Levant: How Arabs Reacted to the Third Reich in Syria and Lebanon
Nazism in Syria and Lebanon. The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933-1945 by Götz Nordbruch, Routledge, 2009, 209 pp.
Reviewed by Wolfgang G. Schwanitz
Michelle Mazel on Un nom imperissable. Israel, le sionisme et la destruction des Juifs d’Europe
A Dangerous Obsession
Un nom imperissable. Israel, le sionisme et la destruction des Juifs d’Europe (A name that cannot die: Israel, Zionism and the destruction of the Jews of Europe), by Georges Bensoussan. Editions du Seuil, 2008, 300pp. [French.]
Reviewed by Michelle Mazel
Elisabeth Kuebler on The Discursive Construction of History. Remembering the Wehrmacht’s War of Annihilation
Deconstructing the Myth of the Untainted Wehrmacht
The Discursive Construction of History. Remembering the Wehrmacht’s War of Annihilation edited by Hannes Heer, Walter Manoschek, Alexander Pollak, and Ruth Wodak, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008, 331 pp.
Reviewed by Elisabeth Kuebler
Rivkah Fishman-Duker on The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany
Nazis for Jesus/Jesus for Nazis
The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany by Susannah Heschel. Princeton University Press, 2008, 339 pp.
Reviewed by Rivkah Fishman-Duker
Lawrence Kohn on Why We Watched: Europe, America, and The Holocaust
Spectators to a Civilization’s Destruction
Why We Watched: Europe, America, and The Holocaust, by Theodore S. Hamerow. WW Norton, 2008, 520 pp.
Reviewed by Lawrence Kohn
Michelle Mazel on 1940-1945 : Années érotiques, tome I: Vichy ou les Infortunes de la vertu
An Unsavory Tale
1940-1945 : Années érotiques, tome I: Vichy ou les Infortunes de la vertu [1940-1945: Erotic years, vol. 1: Vichy or the misfortunes of virtue], by Patrick Buisson, Paris: Albin Michel, 2008, 570 pp. [French]
Reviewed by Michelle Mazel
Manfred Gerstenfeld on Ajax, Holland vehamilhama [Ajax, Holland, and the war]
Interested in Football, Reading about the Holocaust
Ajax, Holland vehamilhama [Ajax, Holland, and the war], by Simon Kuper, Tel Aviv: Maariv, 2008, 240 pp. [Hebrew]
Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld
Robert P. Barnidge, Jr. on Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy by Natan Sharansky
Identity as Indispensable for Democracy
Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy by Natan Sharansky, PublicAffairs, 2008, 259 pp.
Reviewed by Robert P. Barnidge, Jr._
Gabriel A. Sivan on Faith against Reason: Religious Reform and the British Chief Rabbinate 1840-1990
Religious Unity – A Vain Pursuit?
Faith against Reason: Religious Reform and the British Chief Rabbinate 1840-1990, by Meir Persoff. Vallentine Mitchell, 2008, xxxi + 476 pp.
Reviewed by Gabriel A. Sivan
Howard M. Weisband on Created Equal, How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought
Creatively Presented
Created Equal, How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought, by Joshua A. Berman. Oxford University Press, 2008, 249 pp.
Reviewed by Howard M. Weisband
Michelle Mazel on Histoire des Americains juifs [A history of American Jewry], by Françoise S. Ouzan
Not Quite the Mayflower Generation – But Close
Histoire des Americains juifs [A history of American Jewry], by Françoise S. Ouzan, Brussels: Andre Versailles, 2008, 262 pp. [French]
Reviewed by Michelle Mazel
Michelle Mazel on La Judéophobie des temps modernes, des Lumières au jihad mondial [Judeophobia of modern times, from the Enlightenment to world jihad], by Pierre-André Taguieff
Turning to the Past to Understand the Future
La Judéophobie des temps modernes, des Lumières au jihad mondial [Judeophobia of modern times, from the Enlightenment to world jihad], by Pierre-André Taguieff, Paris: Editions Odile Jacob, 2008, 683 pp. [French]
Reviewed by Michelle Mazel
