Books Received

Abstract

Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts. Edited by Barry W. Holtz. Summit Books, New York, 1984. pp. 448. $19.95.

The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto 1941-1944. Edited by Lucjan Dobroszycki. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1984. pp. 551. $35.00.

From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine by Joan Peters. Harper & Row, New York 1984. pp. 601. $24.95.

The World Guide for the Jewish Traveler by Warren Freedman. E. P. Dutton, New York, 1984. pp. 360. $8.95 (paper).

Jews, Turks and Infidels by Morton Borden. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1984. pp. 163. $17.95.

The Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939 by Kenneth W. Stein. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1984. pp. 314. $29.00.

The Jewish Family: Authority and Tradition in Modern Perspective by Norman Linzer. Human Sciences Press, New York, 1984. pp. 217. $I6.95 (paper).

Diaspora: Exile and the Jewish Condition Editied by Etan Levin. Jason Aronson, New York, 1983. pp. 337.

The Jerusalem Cathedra, Volume III Edited by Lee I. Levine. Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1984. pp. 361. $25.00.

The Roots of Anti-Semitism by Heiko A. Oberman. Translated by James I. Porter, Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1984. pp. 163.

Jewish Ethics and Halakhah for our Time: Sources and Commentary by Basil F. Herring. Ktav, Yeshiva Univesity Press, New York, 1984. pp. 243. $I5.00 cloth, $9.95 paper.

Jewish Life Under Islam: Jerusalem in the Sixteenth Century by Amnon Cohen. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1984. pp. 267. $30.00.

Israel in the Mind of America by Peter Grose. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984. pp. 361. $17.95.

Hitler, Germans and the “Jewish Question” by Sarah Gordon. Princeton Univerity Press, 1984, pp. 412. $40.00 cloth, $14.50 paper.

A Mediterranean Society, Volume IV: Daily Life by S. D. Goitein. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1984. pp. 492. $38.50.