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Several new reference books have been published. The En- cyclopedia of Judaism, edited by Geoffrey Wigoder, focuses on religious aspects of Jewish life and history (Macmillan Publishing). Evyatar Friesel's Atlas of Modern Jewish History covers Jewish history, geographic distribution, demography, and intellectual developments from the 17th century to the 1980s (Oxford University Press). The Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture: From the Eighteenth Century to the Pre- sent, edited by Glenda Abramson, contains articles covering Jews prominent in the arts, literature, language, philosophy, and some social sciences. It also covers such topics as theater, the relation- ship of Judaism with Chris- tianity and Islam, the Holocaust, Judaism and modern feminism, Judaism and psychoanalysis, and Jewish humor (Basil Black- well, Inc.). Macmillan's En- cyclopedia of the Holocaust, edited by Israel Gutman, is a four volume set, authoritative and comprehensive. Jewish women are the sub- ject of several new books: America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Writers, edited by Joyce Antler, is a collection of 23 short stories written in English by American Jewish women writers from 1900 to the pre- sent. The authors include Mary Antin, Edna Ferber, Gloria Goldreich, Joanne Greenberg, Fannie Hurst, Johanna Kaplan, Tillie Olson, Cynthia Ozick, Jo Sinclair, and Anzia Yezierska (Beacon Press). The Global Anthology of Jewish Women Writers, edited by Robert and Roberta Kalechofsky, con- tains fiction, poetry, and non- fiction by Jewish women writers, from the Enlighten- ment era to the present. The writers come from Europe, Israel, Latin America, South Africa, and the United States (Micha Publications). An updated edition of Writ- ten Out of History: Our Jewish Foremothers has been releas- ed. Using historical reports, letters, memoirs, and other documents, the authors, Son- dra Henry and Emily Taitz, trace the role of Jewish women from biblical times to the 20th century (Biblio Press). Two gift books cover very different aspects of Israel: High Hills and Wild Goats: Life Among the Animals of the Hai-Bar Wildlife Refuge is the account of life at the Hai- Bar wildlife refuge in Israel, written by its former curator, Bill Clark. Hai-Bar is dedicated to restoring en- dangered species to the wild, many of them animals writ- ten about in the Bible (Little, Brown). Taste of Israel: A Mediterranean Feast, by Ron Maiberg, is an illustrated col- lection of Israeli recipes, drawing on Yemenite, Moroc- can, Arabic, East European, and other tradition. Not all of the recipes are ko- sher (Rizzoli International Publications). Diverse approaches to Jewish religion appear in three new books. A Treasury The list of recommended books includes new reference works, volumes on Jewish women, Israel, Judaism and other topics. of Jewish Anecdotes, by Lawrence J. Epstein, is a col- lection of anecdotes about Jewish personalities from biblical times to the present. The anecdotes were chosen for the ability to provoke laughter or tears, illuminate a character or time in history, or teach a moral lesson (Jason Aronson Inc.). In Insights: A Talmudic Treasury, Saul Weiss offers a collection of 500 maxims and sayings from the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds and from midrashic writings. They are presented with commentaries in English drawn from both traditional and modern sources (Philipp Feldheim Inc.). The Book of J is a controver- sial translation by David Rosenberg of the portions of the Torah said to derive from the so-called J Document, with an introduction and commentary by Harold Bloom. Mr. Bloom argues that J is a writer comparable to Homer, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy, and was most likely a