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Zion, shall you not beseech

A review of The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel by Benjamin Sommer. Simon Schama reviews The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand. Was Paul a Jew?: A new generation of scholars argues that the apostle long considered the progenitor of anti-Semitism never left his religion. Zion, shall you not beseech: A review of books on Judah Halevi's legacy. The first chapter from Maimonides in His World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker by Sarah Stroumsa. A review of The Other Within: The Marranos, Split Identity, and Emerging Modernity by Yirmiyahu Yovel. An excerpt from Michael Goldfarb's Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance (and part 2 and part 3 and part 4). A review of The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics: Bundism and Zionism in Eastern Europe. More on Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters by Louis Begley. A review of Kristallnacht 1938 by Alan Steinweis (and more). The introduction to From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and After by Ruth Leys. A review of Varieties of Antisemitism: History, Ideology, Discourse; and an article on the Internet as the Hatred Super-Highway. In praise of anti-Semites: An excerpt from Is It Good for the Jews? More Stories from the Old Country and the New by Adam Biro. David Goldman on Jewish survival in a gentile world. Birthright: Is giving young Jews a taste of the homeland the best way to save Judaism? Is Judaism Zionism?: Judith Butler on religious sources for the critique of violence (and more). Defender of the People: There’s nothing like a few days in Eastern Europe to bring out the Jew in you.