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Brian Hillman Brian Hillman is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Towson University. Reviews Visual Arts The History of Jerusalem: An Illustrated Story of 4,000 Years Vincent Lemire; Christophe Gaultier, illus. Nonfiction The Jew Who Would Be King: A True Story of Shipwreck, Survival, and Scandal in Victorian Africa Adam Rovner Fiction A Fool’s Kabbalah Steve Stern Nonfiction The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century Dagmar Herzog Nonfiction How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800‑1500 Ivan G. Marcus Nonfiction Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century Miriam Eve Mora Nonfiction Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals Ronnie A. Grinberg Nonfiction The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust Glenn Dynner Nonfiction Tears of History: The Rise of Political Antisemitism in the United States Pierre Birnbaum; Karen Santos Da Silva, trans. Nonfiction Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe Alan Verskin Nonfiction The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean Jessica M. Marglin Nonfiction Maimonides: Faith in Reason Alberto Manguel Nonfiction Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace John D. Hosler Nonfiction Ruth: A Migrant’s Tale Ilana Pardes
Visual Arts The History of Jerusalem: An Illustrated Story of 4,000 Years Vincent Lemire; Christophe Gaultier, illus.
Nonfiction The Jew Who Would Be King: A True Story of Shipwreck, Survival, and Scandal in Victorian Africa Adam Rovner
Nonfiction The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century Dagmar Herzog
Nonfiction How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800‑1500 Ivan G. Marcus
Nonfiction Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century Miriam Eve Mora
Nonfiction Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals Ronnie A. Grinberg
Nonfiction Tears of History: The Rise of Political Antisemitism in the United States Pierre Birnbaum; Karen Santos Da Silva, trans.
Nonfiction Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe Alan Verskin
Nonfiction The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean Jessica M. Marglin
