Steven Weitzman, The Origins of the Jews. The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. ix + 394 p

Articles in the same Issue

1. Masthead
2. Table of Contents
3. ESSAYS
4. Sociological and Anthropological Approaches to the Study of the Evidence of the Mishnah: A Call to Scholarly Action and a Programmatic Introduction
5. Family Structure, Kinship, and Life Course Transitions: Social Science Explorations of the Mishnah
6. Religious Holidays, Values, and Rituals: Mishnaic Perspectives
7. The Poor and Their Relief in the Mishnah: An Economic Analysis
8. Rabbinic Prayer in Dialogue with Priestly Ritual: Palestinian Talmudic Aggada
9. Mihnag in The Haye Adam—The Case of Kitniyot on Passover
10. The Evolution of the Orthodox Jewish Community in Cleveland, Ohio, 1940 to the Present
11. An 1899 Postal Card Offers a Unique Insight Into American Jewish History
12. Nine Men Waiting for One More: The Psychology of the Minyan
13. Consumption, Wastefulness, and Simplicity in Ultra-Orthodox Communities
14. תיתכלהה תונשרפה יללכב חיש ינמסו הקיטמגרפ :'םירמוא שי' 'יכאלמ די' רפס לש
15. תינויצ תידומיל תושדחתה—הנבי דעו הנבימ רדסהה תובישיב תיתד
16. BOOK REVIEWS
17. Mordecai Paldiel, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers during the Holocaust. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 2017. 636 p
18. Derek Taylor, Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler, The Forgotten Founder. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2018. xii + 260 p
19. David Raab, The Democratic Evolution of Halakhah, A Political Science Perspective. Aspen, CO: Aspen Center for Social Values, 2018. 106 p
20. Steven Weitzman, The Origins of the Jews. The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. ix + 394 p
21. Sándor Bacskai, One Step Toward Jerusalem: Oral Histories of Orthodox Jews in Stalinist Hungary. Translated by Eva Maria Thury. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2018. xxiv. + 235 p
22. Wodzinski, Marcin, with cartography by Waldemar Spallek, Historical Atlas of Hasidism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. 280 p
23. Jessica Roda, Se réinventer au présent: Les Judéo-espagnols de France; Famille, communauté et patrimoine musical. Preface by Edwin Seroussi. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2018. 268 p