TY - JOUR AB - BOOKS RECEIVED* Abend-David, Dror, "Scorned My Nation": A Comparison of Translations of the Merchant of Venice into German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Peter Lang (New York, 2003); 247 pp. Arbell, Mordechai, The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean: The Spanish­Portuguese Jewish Settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas. Gefen (Jerusalem, 2002); 384 pp. Baumel, Judith Tydor, and Tova Cohen (eds.), Gender, Place and Memory in the Modern Jewish Experience: Replacing Ourselves. Vallentine-Mitchell (London, 2003); 297 pp. Bernard-Donals, Michael, Witnessing the Disaster. University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, 2003); 317 pp. Bloom, James D., Gravit Fails: The Comic Jewish Shaping of Modern America. Praeger (Westport, CT, 2003); 192 pp. Brague, Remi, The Wisdom of the World: The Human Experience of the Universe in Western Thought. University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 2003); 297 pp. Brann, Ross, and Adam Sutcliffe, Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture, from Al-Andalus to Haskalah. University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, 2004); 248 pp. Chajes, J. H., Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism. University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, 2003); 278 pp. Cohen, Zafrira Lidovsky, "Loosen the Fetters of Thy Tongue, Woman": The Poetry and Poetics of Yona Wallach. Hebrew Union College Press (Cincinnati, OH, 2003); 264 pp. Courtine-Denamy, TI - Books Received Listing here does not preclude future review. JF - Modern Judaism: A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience DO - 10.1093/mj/kjh016 DA - 2004-05-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/books-received-listing-here-does-not-preclude-future-review-3JwOx9YSb0 SP - 183 EP - 185 VL - 24 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -