cover image Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America

Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America

David Biale. HarperOne, $14 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-465-02034-8

Critiquing a body of texts that runs a wide gamut from the Bible to Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint , this fine, authoritative history of Jewish sexuality may well become a standard reference. (Oct.)