FSU students making contact and establishing links: London 2000 postgraduate student conference in Jewish studies

Shifting Czech Jewish identities. Hillel J. Kieval, Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 2000. XIV + 311pp. ISBN 0–520–21410–2

The First Zionist Congress: The East European perspective. Heiko Haumann (ed.), Der Traum von Israel. Die Ursprünge des modernen Zionismus. Weinheim: Beltz Athenäum, 1998. 329pp. ISBN: 3–89547–115–1

Comfortable lies and deceptions. Andrei Oisteanu, Imagined evreului în cultura român. Studiu de imagologie în context est‐central european (The Image of the Jew in Romanian Culture: A Study of Imagology in the East‐Central European Context). Bucharest: Humanitas Publishing House, 2001. 470pp. Illustrations

Pavel Florensky's ‘dark side’. Michael Hagemeister and Torsten Metelka (eds.), Appendix 2. Materialien zu Pavel Florenskij. Berlin and Zepernick: KONTEXTverlag, 2001. 216pp. 18 euro. ISBN 3–931337–35–9     

Reviews

The Jewish Anti‐Fascist Committee Revisited. Alexander M. Borschtschagowski, Orden für einen Mord: Die Judenverfolgung unter Stalin. Berlin: Propyläen, 1997. Notes. Ind. Glossary. 472pp. ISBN 3–549–05605–2 (hbk)

Arno Lustiger, Rotbuch: Stalin und die Juden. Die tragische Geschichte des Jüdischen Antifaschistischen Komitees und der sowjetischen Juden. With a foreword by Efim Etkind. Berlin: Aufbau‐Verlag, 1998. Bibl. Notes. Ind. Photographs. 429pp. ISBN 3–351–02478–9 (hbk)

A Chicken‐and‐Egg Situation. Charles King and Neil J. Melvin (eds.), Nations Abroad: Diaspora Politics and International Relations in the Former Soviet Union. Boulder, CO/Oxford: Westview Press, 1998. 240 pp. Index. ISBN 0–8133–9015‐X

A Greek Tragedy. Gennady Estraikh, Soviet Yiddish: Language Planning and Linguistic Development. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. x + 217pp. Bibliography. Index. £40. ISBN: 0–19818479–0

Freeze‐Frame Picture. Susanne Marten‐Finnis and Heather Valencia. Sprachinseln. Jiddische Publizistik in London, Wilna und Berlin 1880–1930. Cologne/Weimar/Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1999. 144pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. ISBN: 3–412–02998‐X     

Slavery in eighteenth‐century Rhode Island: Evidence from the census of 1774

Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery. Stephan Palmié (ed.). Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press. 1995. xlvii, 283pp. $35.00. ISBN 087049–903–3.

Carnival. Canboulay and Calypso Traditions in the Making. John Cowley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1996. xv, 293pp. £35.00. ISBN 0–521–48138–4.

West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan. Roderick a. McDonald (ed.). Kingston, Jamaica: The Press, University of the West Indies. 1996. xvi, 388pp. £14.00 (paperback). ISBN 976–640–022–9.

L'Engrenage de la Liberté: Caraïbes ‐ XIXe siècle, Nelly Schmidt. Aix‐en‐Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence. 1995. 360pp. 250FF. ISBN 2–85399–359–0.

Slave Captain: The Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade. Suzanne Schwarz (ed.). Wrexham: Bridge Books. 1995. 164pp. £8.95. ISBN 1–872424–42–2. The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth‐Century Lancaster. Melinda Elder. Halifax: Ryburn Publishing. 1992. 232pp. £25. ISBN 1–85331–030–1.

Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps. William Dusinberre. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. xiv, 556pp. £40.00.

The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: The narrative of Peter and Vina Still after forty years of slavery, Kate E.R. Pickard. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 1995. xv, 103, 409 pp. £14.00. ISBN 0–8032–9233–3.

The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America. Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. van Horne (eds.). Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, in co‐operation with the Library Company of Philadelphia. 1994. xviii, 363pp.

’what nature suffers to groe’: Life, labor and landscape on the Georgia coast, 1680–1920. Mart A. Stewart. Athens &; London: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xix, 370pp. $45. ISBN 0–8203–1808–6.

Abolitionism in the United States and Brazil: A Comparative Perspective, Celia M. Azevedo. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.1995. xxvi, 200pp. ISBN 0–8153–2332–8.     

Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and The Radical Enlightenment

The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry. Joan R. Sherman (ed.).Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. 158pp. $29.95 and $12.95. ISBN 0–8078–2341–4.

Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and The Politics of Representative Identity. Robert S. Levine. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. x, 314pp. $45.00 and $18.95. ISBN 0–8078–2323–6.

Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner. Barbara Ladd. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1997. xxi, 197pp. $30.00. ISBN 0–8071–2065–0.

Passing and the Fictions of Identity. Elaine K. Ginsberg (ed.). Durham: Duke University Press. 1996. £43.95 and £15.95. ISBN 0–8223–1755–9.     

Book reviews

’Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction’: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782–1865. Midori Takagi. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia. 1999. xi, 187 pp. $37.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–8139–1834–0.

Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. Barbara J. Heath. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press. 1999. x, 81 pp. $12.50 (paper). ISBN 0–8139–1867–7.

Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and ‘Race’ in New England, 1780–1860. Joannk Pope Melish. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1998. xvii, 296 pp. £26.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–8014–3413–0.

American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture. Audrey A. Fisch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. x, 139pp. £35.00/$59.95. (cloth). ISBN 0–521–66026–2.

Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1618–1782. Virginia Bernhard. Columbia. Missouri: University of Missouri Press. 1999. xviii, 316pp. £29.95. ISBN 0–8262–1227–1.

Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean Slave Society. Hilary McD. Becklks. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers; Princeton: Marcus Weiner Publishers; Oxford: James Currey Publishers. 1999. xxv, 211 pp. £15.95 (paper). ISBN: 976–8123–78–8.

Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833–1874. Christopher Schmidt‐Nowara. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1999. xiii, 239 pp. $50.00(cloth). ISBN 0–8229–4089–2; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0–8229–5690 X.

Shaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and Its Wards in Nineteenth‐Century San Juan, Puerto Rico. Teresita MartíNez‐Vergne. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1999. xv, 235 pp. $32.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–292–75220–2; $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–75221–0.

The Colonial Caribbean in Transition: Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History. Edited by Bridget Brereton and Kevin Yelvington. Kingston and Gainesville: The Press, University of the West Indies and the University Press of Florida. 1999. xxiii, 319 pp. $49.95 (cloth) ISBN 0–8130–1696–7; $30.00 (paper) ISBN 976–640–030‐X.     

Jabotinsky and Ukrainian nationalism: A reinterpretation

Israel Kleiner, From Nationalism to Universalism: Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky and the Ukrainian Question (Edmonton and Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2000). 199pp. Foreword by Wolf Moskovich. Bibliography. Index. ISBN 1–895571–33–2 (paper)     

Pinpointing Holocaust Sites in Belarus

Marat Botvinnik, Pamiatniki genotsida evreev Belorussi (Monuments to the Genocide of the Jews of Belorussia) (Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, 2000), 326pp. ISBN 085–08–0416–5     

The Oxford Handbook's Capacious Atlantic

Questioning Slavery. James Walvin. London and New York: Routledge. 1996. xi, 202pp. £45.00 (cloth); £14.99 (paper). ISBN 0–415–15356–5; 0–415–15357–3.

A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997. xiii, 262pp. £29.50; £00.00. ISBN 0–253–33247–8; 0–253–21086–0.

Portrait of an Abolitionist: A Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809–1867. Charles E. Heller. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press. 1996. xii, 248 pp. £47.95. ISBN 0–3132–9863–7.

Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth Century Egalitarian. Hans L. Trefousse. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. xiii, 312 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0–8078–2335‐X.

Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. Michael A. Morrison. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xii, 396pp. $49.95. ISBN 0–8078–2319–8.

Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South. Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. 330pp. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8078–2326–0.

Fifty Years Later: Antislavery, Capitalism and Modernity in the Dutch Orbit. Edited by Gert Oostindie. Leiden: Kitlv Press. 1995. viii, 272pp. £45.00. ISBN 90–6718–096–3.

’There Are No Slaves In France’: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime. Sue Peabody. New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. x, 210pp. £30.00. ISBN 0–19–510198–7.     

Reviews

‘Mirror Opposites’. Steven E. Aschheim, Brothers and Strangers: The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness, 1800–1923. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. xxxi + 331pp. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0–299–09110–4

Hoping to Live in Harmony. Henry Abramson, A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917–1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute and Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, 1999, xxi + 255pp. Bibl. Index. Illus. $34.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper)

A Jewish‐Russian Hybrid. Dovid Knut, Sobranniye sochineniia (Collected Works) (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Vol. 1. 1997, 417pp.; Vol. 2, 1998, 719pp. Compiled by Vladimir Khazan. Appendices. Index

Russian Jewish Intellectuals in America. Steven Cassedy, To the Other Shore: The Russian Jewish Intellectuals Who Came to America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. xxiii + 197 pp. Illus. Index. ISBN: 0691–02975‐X.     

Prisons,workhouses, and the control of slave labour in low country Georgia, 1763–1815

Engendering History. Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective. Edited by VERENE SHEPHERD, BRIDGET BRERETON, BARBARA BAILEY. London: James Currey, Kingston: Ian Randle. 1995. xxii, 406pp. £35.00 and £12.50.

Haiti, History and the Gods. JOAN DAYAN. Los Angeles; University of California Press. 1995. xxiii, 339pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–520–08900–6.

From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas. Edited by MARY TURNER. Kingston, Bloomington and Indianapolis, and London: Ian Randle Publishers, Indiana University Press, and James Currey. 1995. x, 309pp. £35.00 (cloth); £12.95 (paper). ISBN 0–253–32972–8; 0–253–21001–1.

The Black Loyalist Directory. African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution. Edited and with an Introduction by GRAHAM RUSSELL HODGES. New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1996. li. 318pp. $37.00. ISBN 0–8153–2172–4.

The Abolitionists and the South, 1831–1861. STANLEY HARROLD. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press ofKentucky, 1995. x, 245 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0–8131–1906–5.

The Salmon P. Chase Papers. Volume 2: Correspondence, 1823–1857. Edited by JOHN NIVEN. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1994. xxv, 489 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–87338–508‐X.

The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War. JAMES G. HOLLANDSWORTH, Jr. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press. 1995. xiv, 140pp. £23.95. ISBN 0–8071–1939–3.

The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns. JOSEPH T. GLATTHAAR. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1995 (orig. pub. 1985). xvi, 318pp. £13.95. ISBN 0–80712028–6.

Caste &; Class: The Black Experience in Arkansas, 1880–1920. FON LOUISE GORDON. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1995. xvi, 179pp. £31.50. ISBN 0–8203–1711‐X.

African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina. AMELIA WALLACE VERNON. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 1995. xiii, 309pp. $16.95.

Agentes de su propia libertad: Los esclavos de Lima y la desintegración de la esclavitud, 1821–1854. CARLOS AGU1RRE. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Cató1ica del Perú, Fondo Editorial. 1993. 335pp. ISBN 84–89309–63–9.

Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800–1854. CHRISTINE HÜNEFELDT. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1994. xi, 269pp. ISBN 0–520–08235–4 (cloth); 0–520–08292–3 (paper).

Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change along the Western Sahel. 1600–1850. JAMES L.A. WEBB, Jr. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xxvi, 227pp. £40.95 (cloth); £17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–299–14330–9.

From Slave Trade to ‘legitimate’ Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth‐Century West Africa. Edited by ROBIN LAW. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, African Studies Series 86. xi, 278pp. £35.00.

Slavery and Slaving in World History. A Bibliography. 1900–1991. JOSEPH C. MILLER. Millwood, NY. 1993. xvii, 556pp. $90.00. ISBN 0–527–63660–6.     

Baaskap and black biography

Archibald Grimké: Portrait of a Black Independent. Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. 1993. xv+269pp. $24.95, ISBN 0–8071–1796‐X.

Carter G. Woodson: a Life in Black History. Jacqueline Goggin. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. xix+ 217pp. $24.95, ISBN 0–8071–1793–5.     

JEWISH STUDIES IN LITHUANIA

A Massive Cover‐up

Frank Ellis, Vasiliy Grossman: The Genesis and Evolution of a Russian Heretic, Oxford/Providence, USA, Berg 1994. xiv+239pp. Index. Bibliography. £34.95. ISBN 0 85496 830 X

John Garrard and Carol Garrard, The Bones of Berdichev: The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman, New York, The Free Press 1996. xxvi+437pp. Illustrations. Index. Bibliography. ISBN 0–684–82295–4

Living with an Open Wound

Thomas Wood and Stanislaw M. Jankowski, Karski. How One Man Tried To Stop The Holocaust. New York/ Chichester/ Brisbane/Toronto/Singapore: John Wiley and Sons 1994, xvi+316pp. Glossary of names. Bibl. Notes. Ind. Illus.

Cultural Politics of Inter‐war Romania

Irina Livezeanu, Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building and Ethnic Struggle, 1918–1930 (Cornell University Press: Ithaca and London 1995), 340pp. Bibliographies. Index. ISBN 0–8014–2445–3. Cloth £35.50

Files from the ‘Soviet Ministry of Truth’

Arlen V. Blum, Evreysky vopros pod sovetskoy tsenzuroy, 1917–1991 (The Jewish Question under Soviet Censorship, 1917–1991). St Petersburg: St Petersburg Jewish University 1996. 185pp.

Failure of an Ideal

Antony Polonsky, Israel Bartal, Gershon Hundert, Magdalena Opalski and Jerzy Tomaszewski (eds.), Jews, Poles, Socialists. The Failure of an Ideal. Studies in Polish Jewry. Polin, Volume Nine. London: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization 1996. 346 pp.     

Slavery and liberty: The case of the Scottish Colliers

Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians. Peter Hunt. Cambridge: Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xiv, 246pp. £37.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–521–58429–9.

The English in West Africa, 1681–1683: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699, Part 1. Edited by Robin Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy. 1997. xix, 363pp. £45.00. ISBN 0–19–726176–0.

Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil. Anthony W. Marx. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xvi, 390pp. £22.50/US$29.95. ISBN 0–521–58455–8.

Liberating the Family. Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823–1853. Pamela Scully. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Oxford: James Currey. xiii, 210, index, map. £40 (cloth); £15.95 (paper). ISBN 0–85255–678–0; 0–85255–628–4.

The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion. Edited by Robert Paquette and Stanley L. Engerman. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 1996. xii, 383pp. £39.95. ISBN 0–8130–1428‐X.

Dictionary of Afro‐American Slavery. Updated with a New Introduction and Bibliography. Edited by Randall M. Miller and John David Smith. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. xix, 892pp. £27.95 (paper). ISBN 0–275–95799–3.

Masters, Slaves, &; Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740–1790. Robert Olwell. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1998. xvi, 294pp. £38.95 (cloth); £13.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8014–3488–3; 0–8014–8491‐X.

Slavery, Freedom and Culture among Early American Workers. Graham Russell Hodges. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1998. xi, 185pp. $55.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). ISBN 0–7656–0112–5; 0–7656–0113–3.

Designs against Charleston: The Trial Records of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822. Edward A. Pearson. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiii, 387pp. £31.50. ISBN: 0–8078–2446–1.

Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. Paul Goodman. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1998. xxi, 303pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–520–20794–7.

Race, Place, and the Law, 1836–1948. David Delaney. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1998. x, 229pp. $35.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–7–1596‐X; 0–292–71597–8.     

Book reviews

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Ira Berlin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1998. x, 497pp. $29.95. ISBN 0–674–81092–9.

More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. xi, 341 pp. £14.99 (paper). ISBN 0–253–21043–7.

From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery. Seymour drescher. Foreword by Stanley L. Engerman. London: Macmillan. 1999. xxv, 454pp. £55.00. ISBN 0–333–73748–2.

Stylin’: African American Expressive Culture from its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. Shane White and Graham White. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1998. xv. 301pp. £23.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–80143179–4.

Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop. W. T. Lhamon, Jr. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press. 1998. 269pp. $25.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–674–74711–9.

Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. John W. Quist. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1998. xi, 562pp. £45.90. ISBN 0–8071–2133–9.

Frccdpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860–1900. Jeffrey R. Kerr‐Ritchie. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina press. 1999. xv, 345 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8078–2460–7; 0–8078–4763–1.

The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans. Barry A. Crouch. Austin: University of Texas at Austin Press. 1999. xix, 187pp. $12.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–71219–7.

Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, 1739–1912. B.W. Higman. Kingston: The Press University of the West Indies. 1998. xv, 384pp. £20.00/$35.00. ISBN 976–640–039–3.

In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname. Rosemarijn Hoefte. Gainsville: University of Florida Press. 1998. xii, 275pp. $49.95. ISBN 0–8130–1625–8.

Writing West Indian Histories. B.W. Higman. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Education. 1999. xiv, 289 pp. £15.50 (paper). ISBN 0–333–73296–0.

Free and Unfree Labour: The Debate Continues. Edited by Tom Brass and Marcel Van Der Linden. Bern/Berlin/Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang. 1997 (International and Comparative Social History 5). 602 pp. £52.00. ISBN 3–906756–87–4.

Servicing the Master. Slavery and Society in Nineteenth Century Morocco. Mohammed Ennaji. Translated by Seth Graebner. London: Macmillan, 1999. xix, 166pp. £35.00. ISBN 0–333–75477–8.

Servants of Allah. Sylviane A. Diouf. New York: New York University Press. 1998. vii, 254 pp. $18.50. ISBN 0–8147–1905–8     

Politics and linguistics in the standardization of soviet yiddish

Russian Conservatives and the Jews, 1890–1917

Heinz‐Dietrich Löwe, Antisemitismus und reaktionäre Utopie. Rus‐sischer Konservátismus im Kampf gegen den Wandel von Staat und Gesellschaft, 1890–1917. Hamburg: Hoffman und Campe, 1978. 303 pp. (Historische Perspektiven 13). DM 45.00.

Soviet Nationalities Problems Old and New

Jeremy R. Azrael (ed.), Soviet Nationality Policies and Practices. New York, Eastbourne: Praeger, 1978. 393pp., tables, £17.50

Romanian Antisemitism — Popular or Manipulated?

Carol Iancu, Les Juifs en Roumanie (1866–1919): de l'exclusion à l'émancipation. Aix‐en‐Provence: Editions de l'Université de Provence, 1978. 382pp. (Etudes historiques 4). F.120.00.

China and the Middle East

Yitzhak Shichor, The Middle East in China's Foreign Policy 1949–1977. London: Cambridge University Press, 1979. 268pp. £12.00.     

Book reviews

Abstract

Building community: a history of the Port Adelaide Central Mission Brian Dickey and Elaine Martin (1999), Port Adelaide Central Mission Inc: Adelaide

Dogs, kids & homeswest: The story of Tkalka Boorda Aboriginal community John Scougall and Ricky Osborne (1998), Curtin Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Perth

Social work as community development: A management model for social change (2nd edition) Stephen Clarke (2000), Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 0 7546 1111 60

Multicultural queer: Australian narrativesPeter A. Jackson and Gerard Sullivan (eds) (1999), Haworth Press, New York 233 pp.

Towards poverty alleviation in Australia: A first step Manohar Pawar and John McClinton (2000), Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 70pp. $22.00 (paperback)

Working with involuntary clients: A guide to practice C. Trotter (1999), Allen & Unwin, Sydney ISBN 1 86448 498 5 162 pp. $29.95 (paperback)

Learning to Love Lorraine Rose (2000), Acer Press, Victoria, $24.95 (paperback)

The task planner: An intervention resource for human service professionals William J. Reid (2000), Columbia University Press, New York ISBN 0 231 10647 5 $22.50 (paperback)

Deeper dimensions: culture, youth and mental health Marie Bashir and David Bennett (eds) (2000), Transcultural Mental Health Centre, Parramatta 181pp. $20.00 (paperback)

The many-sided triangle: Adoption in Australia Audrey Marshall and Margaret McDonald (2001), Melbourne University Press ISBN 0 522 84943 1 300pp. $32.95 (paperback)

Working with men in the human services Bob Pearse and Peter Camilleri (eds), Allen & Unwin, Sydney ISBN 1 86508 480 8 248 pp. $29.95 (paperback)

Professional expertise: Practice theory and education for working in uncertainty Jan Fook, Martin Ryan and Linette Hawkins (2000), Whiting and Brich, London ISBN 1 86177 029 4 £35.00 (hardback)

Social policy in the post-welfare state: Australians on the threshold of the 21st century Adam Jamrozik (2001), Psarson Education, Sydney ISBN 0 7339 9905 0 $44.95 (paperback)

Promoting Resilience… A resource guide on working with children in the care system Robbie Gilligan (2001), British Agencies for Adoption & Fostering, London ISBN 1 873868 92 8 69pp. (paperback)     

‘My Judaic Pride Sang’: Eduard Bagritskii and the Making of Soviet Jewish Identity

Maxim D. Shrayer, Russian Poet/Soviet Jew. The Legacy of Eduard Bagritskii. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. XV + 163pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. ISBN 0–7425–0780–7     

The domination of the national category: A review of some recent studies on (im)migration and nation‐building

Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1992). Pp.270. ISBN 0 674 13177 0

Gérard Noiriel, Le creuset français. Histoire de l'immigration XIXe‐XXe siècles (Paris: Seuil, 1988). Pp.437. ISBN 2 02 010104 7

Gérard Noiriel, La tyrannie du national. Le droit d'asile en Europe 1793–1993 (Paris: Calmann‐Levy, 1991). Pp.355. ISBN 2 7021 1980 8

Leslie Page Moch, Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe since 1650 (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1992). Pp.257. ISBN 0253 33859 X     

The history and culture of the Jews as reflected in post‐Communist Polish historiography and related activities

A Jewish European Modern Intellectual. Moses Gaster: Memorii, Corespondenta (Moses Gaster: Memoirs and Correspondence). Edited and annotated by Victor Eskenasy. Bucharest: Hasefer Publishing House 1998. xxxv+467pp. (Romanian with English and German summaries)

A Very Selective Reading. Cecil D. Edy, Hungary at War (Pennsylvania State University Press 1998), xx+318pp., price unknown

’Setting the Record Straight‘. The Story of Two Shtetls, Bransk and Ejszyszki. An Overview of Polish‐Jewish Relations in Northeastern Poland during World War II. A Collective Work, Toronto/Chicago: The Polish Educational Foundation in North America 1998. Part 1 190pp., part 2 240pp.

A Symbol of the ‘Story‘. Michael Moshe Checinski, My Father's Watch, New York and Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House 1994, 248pp. Glossary. Hard/softcover, US$30; $14.95

A Curious Experiment. Robert Weinberg, Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland. An Illustrated History, 1928–1996. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998 ix + 105pp. Biblio. Illus. Notes. Index     

Slavery: Annual bibliographical supplement (1993)

Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters. Edited by Reyahn King. London: National Portrait Gallery. 1997. 126pp. (paper). £10.95. ISBN 1–85514–192–2.

Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English‐speaking World of the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Vincent Carretta. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. 1996. xi, 385pp. $42.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8131–1976–6; 0–8131–0884–5.