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Book Review: Cyrus The Great: Life And Lore Ed. By M. Rahim Shayegan, David B. Levy Jul 2020

Book Review: Cyrus The Great: Life And Lore Ed. By M. Rahim Shayegan, David B. Levy

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Book Review: Monsters And Monstrosity In Jewish History: From The Middle Ages To Modernity Edited By Iris Idelson-Shein And Christian Wiese, David B. Levy Jan 2020

Book Review: Monsters And Monstrosity In Jewish History: From The Middle Ages To Modernity Edited By Iris Idelson-Shein And Christian Wiese, David B. Levy

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Reviewed by:

  • David B. Levy

Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History: From the Middle Ages to ModernityEdited by Iris Idelson-Shein and Christian Wiese. Oxford: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. xiv + 269 pp.

The past two decades have witnessed a surge of interest in monsters and the monstrous, but none from the perspective of Jewish studies except for some of the work of David Ruderman, who in a number of pioneering articles in the 1970s and 1980s analyzed early modern Jewish representations of conjoined twins, unicorns, and child …


Bibliography: Prepared For “The Commentary Of Rashi On The Humash: The First Dated Hebrew Edition Published In Reggio Di Calabria In 1475 By Rabbi Abraham Ben Garton", David B. Levy Jan 2020

Bibliography: Prepared For “The Commentary Of Rashi On The Humash: The First Dated Hebrew Edition Published In Reggio Di Calabria In 1475 By Rabbi Abraham Ben Garton", David B. Levy

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Bibliography prepared for a permanent exhibit at Museo Castello Aragonese, Piazza Castello - 89125 Reggio Di Calabria (RC) Italy

Citation for exhibit: Penchassi Debora (Scrittrice e ricercatrice storia Ebraica Italiana). Esibizione permanente della copia anastatica “Il Commentario di Rashi al Pentateuco” Il primo libro ebraico datato, stampato in Reggio di Calabria in 1475. Lo stampatore Abraham ben Garton, il commentatore Rabbi Shlomo YItzhaki, De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo ebraista e bibliografo.


Book Review: Equality Lost: Essays In Torah Commentary, Halacha, And Jewish Thought, David B. Levy Jan 2018

Book Review: Equality Lost: Essays In Torah Commentary, Halacha, And Jewish Thought, David B. Levy

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Film Review: Haredim-Religion.Com, David B. Levy Jan 2017

Film Review: Haredim-Religion.Com, David B. Levy

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The author presents a review of the documentary Haredim-Religion.com.


Book Review: The Menorah: From The Bible To Modern Israel, David B. Levy Jan 2017

Book Review: The Menorah: From The Bible To Modern Israel, David B. Levy

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The author reviews the book The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel.


Book Review: The Grammar Of Messianism: An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom And Its Users, David B. Levy Jan 2017

Book Review: The Grammar Of Messianism: An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom And Its Users, David B. Levy

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The author reviews the book The Grammar of Messianism: An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom and Its Users.


Book Review: Spoiling The Stories: The Rise Of Israeli Women’S Fiction, David B. Levy Jan 2017

Book Review: Spoiling The Stories: The Rise Of Israeli Women’S Fiction, David B. Levy

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The author reviews the book Spoiling the Stories: The Rise of Israeli Women’s Fiction.


Book Review: In Those Nightmarish Days: The Ghetto Reportage Of Peretz Opoczynski And Josef Zelkowicz, David B. Levy Jan 2016

Book Review: In Those Nightmarish Days: The Ghetto Reportage Of Peretz Opoczynski And Josef Zelkowicz, David B. Levy

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The author presents a review of the book In Those Nightmarish Days: The Ghetto Reportage of Peretz Opoczynski and Josef Zelkowicz.


Book Review: A Jewish Life On Three Continents: The Memoir Of Menachem Mendel Frieden, David B. Levy Jan 2016

Book Review: A Jewish Life On Three Continents: The Memoir Of Menachem Mendel Frieden, David B. Levy

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The author reviews the book A Jewish Life on Three Continents: The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden.


Book Review: Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, And Postwar German Culture, David B. Levy Jan 2015

Book Review: Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, And Postwar German Culture, David B. Levy

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The author reviews the book Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture.


Book Review: New Heavens And A New Earth: The Jewish Reception Of Copernican Thought, David B. Levy Jan 2015

Book Review: New Heavens And A New Earth: The Jewish Reception Of Copernican Thought, David B. Levy

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The author reviews the book New Heavens and a New Earth: The Jewish Reception of Copernican Thought.


Book Review: On Goldman's The American Jewish Story Through Cinema, David B. Levy Jan 2015

Book Review: On Goldman's The American Jewish Story Through Cinema, David B. Levy

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The author provides a review of the book The American Jewish Story through Cinema, written by Eric Goldman.


Book Review: Rav Hisda's Daughter, Book 1: Apprentice: A Novel Of Love, The Talmud, And Sorcery, David B. Levy Jan 2015

Book Review: Rav Hisda's Daughter, Book 1: Apprentice: A Novel Of Love, The Talmud, And Sorcery, David B. Levy

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The author presents a review of Rav Hisda's Daughter, Book 1: Apprentice: A Novel of Love, the Talmud, and Sorcery.


Book Review: The Most Tenacious Of Minorities: The Jews Of Italy, David B. Levy Jan 2014

Book Review: The Most Tenacious Of Minorities: The Jews Of Italy, David B. Levy

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The author reviews the book The Most Tenacious of Minorities: The Jews of Italy.


Film Review: The Rabbi's Daughter And The Midwife, David B. Levy Jan 2014

Film Review: The Rabbi's Daughter And The Midwife, David B. Levy

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The author presents a review of the film The Rabbi's Daughter and the Midwife.


Book Review: Maimonides: Life And Thought, David B. Levy Jan 2014

Book Review: Maimonides: Life And Thought, David B. Levy

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The author reviews the book Maimonides: Life and Thought.