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Reviews and Review Essays

• Jews and the Left, Arthur Liebman, National Review, August 31, 1979.

• From Reform Judaism to Ethical Culture: The Religious Evolution of Felix Adler, by Benny Kraut, The American Israelite, November 15, 1979.

• Merchant Princes by Leon Harris, Commentary, 69 (March 1980); reprinted in Jewish Book News (July 1981).

• The Jews of Toronto by Stephen A. Speisman, Present Tense, 7 (Spring 1980).

• From Generation to Generation, by Arthur Kurzweil, Commentary, 70 (August 1980); reprinted in Jewish Book News (Spring 1981).

• Perspectives on Jews and Judaism, edited by Arthur A. Chiel, Conservative Judaism 34:4 (Summer 1980).

• The Recovery of Spirit in Higher Education: Christian and Jewish Ministries in Campus Life, ed. by Robert Rankin, AJS Newsletter 31 (March 1982).

• Evangelizing the American Jew, by David Max Eichhorn and The Incident at Massena, by Saul S. Freidman, Midstream, 28:2 (February 1982).

• The King of Fifth Avenue: The Fortunes of August Belmont, by David Black, Commentary 73 (April 1982).

• The Attitude of American Jewry Towards East European Jewish Immigration, 1981-1914, by Myron Berman and American Jewry and United States Immigration Policy, 1881-1953, by Sheldon M. Neuringer, American Jewish History 71 (March 1982).

• American Ethnic Groups: The European Heritage, by Francesco Cordasco and David N. Alloway, Journal of American Ethnic History, 2 (Fall 1982).

• Architects of Reform: Congregational and Community Leadership, Emanu-El of San Francisco, 1849-1980, by Fred Rosenbaum, Pacific Northwest Quarterly 73:1 (January 1982).

• The Book of Mordechai: A Study of the Jews of Libya, ed. and transl. by Harvey E. Goldberg, Explorations in Sights and Sounds (Summer 1982).

• The Dreyfus Affair and the American Conscience, 1895-1906, by Egal Feldman, Studies in Contemporary Jewry (forthcoming).

• Jews Without Mercy: A Lament, by Earl Shorris, and The Sociology of American Jews: A Critical Anthology by Jack N. Porter, Modern Judaism 3:2 (May 1983).

• Jewish Life in Philadelphia, ed. by Murray Friedman, Commentary (October 1984).

• The Chosen People in America, by Arnold Eisen, Judaism (Spring 1985).

• Encounter With Emancipation by Naomi W. Cohen, Commentary (September 1985).

• Jews, Turks and Infidels, by Morton Borden, Journal of American History 71:4 (March 1985).

• "Jewish Community Histories: Recent Non-Academic Contributions," Journal of American Ethnic History 6:1 (Fall 1986).

• Cyrus Adler: Selected Letters, by Ira Robinson, Commentary (February, 1986).

• Sacred Survival, by Jonathan Woocher, Commentary (December 1987).

• A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson, Moment (September 1987).

• "New Light on the Pittsburgh Platform of 1885" American Jewish History 76:3 (March 1987), 358-68.

• Back to the Soil by Robert A. Goldberg, Journal of American History 74 (March 1988).

• Lo-Tziyonim BeAmerika by Menahem Kaufman, Studies in Contemporary Jewry 4 (1988).

• The Liberty Lobby and the American Right by Frank P. Mintz, Patterns of Prejudice 22:3 (1988).

• The Seminary at 100, ed. Nina B. Cardin and David W. Silverman, Conservative Judaism 40 (Summer 1988), pp 81-84.

• The Mayer Sulzberger-Alexander Marx Correspondence, ed Herman Dicker, Jewish Quarterly Review 82:1-2 (1992), 262-263.

• Mostly Morgenthaus, by Henry Morgenthau III. Commentary 93 (March 1992), pp. 57-59.

• Adapting to Abundance by Andrew R. Heinze, AJS Review 17:2 (Fall 1992).

• The Politics of Ethnic Pressure by Judith S. Goldstein, Jewish Quarterly Review 83:3-4 (1993), pp. 450-451.

• Jews Against Zionism: The American Council for Judaism, 1942-1948, by Thomas A. Kolsky Studies in Contemporary Jewry 10 (1994), pp. 333-334.

• Historyah U-Politiqah by Yehoshua Arieli, Journal of American History 81 (June 1994), p. 228.

• The Warburgs, by Ron Chernow, Commentary 97:2 (February 1994), pp. 61-64.

• The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State, by Benjamin Ginsberg, Contemporary Sociology, September 1994, pp.653-654.

• The Power and Passion of M.Carey Thomas, by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, The Forward, December 23, 1994, p.1.

• A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness: The Origins and Rise of Anti-Semitism in America, by Frederic Cople Jaher and Anti-Semitism in America, by Leonard Dinnerstein, Journal of American History (June 1995), pp. 171-173.

• A Corner of the Tapestry: A History of the Jewish Experience in Arkansas 1820s - 1990s, by Carolyn Gray LeMaster, Studies in Contemporary Jewry 12 (1996), pp. 318-319.

• Jewish Responses to Modernity, by Eli Lederhendler, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 64 (Summer 1996), pp.137-138.

• Jews and the New American Scene, by Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Rabb, Journal of American Ethnic History 17 (Fall 1997), pp. 97-98.

• Jewish Power, by J.J.Goldberg, The Jerusalem Report, January 9, 1997, pp.46-47.

• Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward A History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States, eds. Jack Salzman and Cornell West CommonQuest 3 (Winter 1998) , 50-53.

• Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the 20th Century, by Samuel C. Heilman, Journal of American Ethnic History 17 (Spring 1998), 121-122.

• Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939, by Daniel Soyer, Journal of American History 85:1 (June 1998), 255-256.

• Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry, by Samuel G. Freedman, The Boston Globe, August 27, 2000, p.C1.

• The Messiah Comes Tomorrow: Tales From the American Shtetl, by Alan Lupo, The Boston Globe, July 13, 2001.

• Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate, by Neil Baldwin, Commentary 112 (December 2001), 74-76.

• The Jewish Confederates, by Robert Rosen, American Jewish History 89 (September 2001), 335-337.

• Building the Future: Jewish Immigrant Intellectuals and the Making of Tsukunft, ed. & translated by Steven Cassedy, Journal of American Ethnic History 21 (Winter 2002), 110-111.

• Catholics and Jews in Twentieth-Century America by Egal Feldman, American Historical Review 108 (April 2003), 546-547.

• Jazz Age Jews, by Michael Alexander, The Historian 65 (Fall 2003), 1176-1177.

• The Family Letters of Louis D. Brandeis, eds. Melvin I. Urofsky and David W. Levy, Modern Judaism 25 (February 2005), 99-101

• The Jews of the United States 1654 to 2000, by Hasia Diner, Journal of American History 58 (September 2005), 578.

• An Uneasy Relationship: American Jewish Leadership and Israel 1948-1957, by Zvi Ganin; The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics, by Fred Lazin; and From Exodus to Freedom: A History of the Soviet Jewry Movement, by Stuart Altshuler, [review-essay in] Israel Studies 11:3 (Fall 2006), 168-172.

• Hebrew Printing in America 1735-1926: A History and Annotated Bibliography, by Yosef Goldman. Research and editing by Ari Kinsberg. American Jewish History 92:4 (December 2004), 509-512 [published May 1, 2007]

• Speaking of Jews, by Lila C. Berman.  Journal of American History  96 (December 2009), 888-889.

• American and British Jews in the Age of the Great Migration, by Lloyd P. Gartner.  Studies in Contemporary Jewry 25 (2011), 162-163.

• Review of Plaut, Rise & Growth of Reform Judaism (2nd ed) in AJH, Volume 100, Number 3 (July 2016), 453-455.