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Neta Stahl’s new book takes its place alongside recent work by Matthew Hoffman and Daniel Boyarin exploring reflections on Jesus as a historical and symbolic figure in Jewish thought and culture. Her study offers an erudite and generally accessible analysis of key texts and authors, many of which are unavailable in English translation. The claim that “the figure of Jesus embodied an internal Jewish attempt to redefine Jewish selfhood by reclaiming Jesus for Jewish nationalism” (p. 10) is borne out of close readings of 19 th -century Hebrew texts in Eastern Europe, early 20 th -century Yiddish writing in Europe and the United States, and Hebrew literature in the pre-state and post-1948 periods. Stahl draws briefly on psychoanalytic and postcolonial models of Self and Other in her introductory pages, but the imported theoretical frame seems largely unnecessary, even redundant, given the razor-sharp insight brought to the topic by her literary interlocutors. It may come as a surprise to contemporary readers that Jesus played such a lively and central role in the modernist literary Jewish imagination, but, indeed, his appearance is ubiquitous across a wide variety of cultural discourses. Different aspects of his life, especially his suffering, persecution and personal geography, provided important touchstones for Jewish belle lettres. Stahl’s study persuasively argues that the historical Jesus is key for the modern Jewish psyche.

Neta Stahl. Other and Brother: Jesus in the 20th Century Jewish Literary Landscape