Library News for Jewish Studies

New Books from Sepember 2011 - February 2012

JQ1830.A92 C66 2011	The contradictions of Israeli citizenship : land, religion, and state / edited by Guy Ben-Porat and Bryan S. Turner.
BL51 .F54 2011	Divine teaching and the way of the world : a defense of revealed religion / Samuel Fleischacker.
DS110.J78 J83 2011	Judah between East and West : the transition from Persian to Greek rule (ca. 400-200 BCE) : a conference held at Tel Aviv University, 17-19 April 2007 sponsored by the ASG (the Academic Study Group for Israel and the Middle East) and Tel Aviv University/ edited by Lester L. Grabbe and Oded Lipschits.
PR9199.3.S51175 M9 2010	My father's hands spoke in Yiddish / Karen Shenfeld.
DS135.P6 P67 2011	Portraits in Literature : the Jews of Poland : an anthology / compiled, edited and with an introduction by Hava Bromberg Ben-Zvi.
PJ5129.K27 V513 2011	Vidervuks. English;"Regrowth
GV885.52.P455 S73 2011	The SPHAS : the life and times of basketball's greatest Jewish team / Douglas Stark   foreword by Lynn Sherr.
PS3576.I464 W37 2011	The Warsaw anagrams : a novel / Richard Zimler.
DS135.E42 A43364 2009	The Alexandrian riots of 38 C.E. and the persecution of the Jews : a historical reconstruction / by Sandra Gambetti.
BM487 .A1 2010	880-01 Dead Sea scrolls. 2010.;"880-02
PQ95 .C35 2011	Post-war Jewish women's writing in French / Lucille Cairns.
BM620 .J49 2011	The Jewish Jesus : revelation, reflection, reclamation / edited by Zev Garber.
E184.36.M54 R44 2011	The wandering Jew in America / Uzi Rebhun.
DS87.65 .I83 2011	A prophetic peace : Judaism, religion, and politics / Alick Isaacs.
BM755.J8 P38 2009 4o	Path of life : Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, ca. 1525-1609   [an exhibition organized by the Prague Castle Administration and the Jewish Museum in Prague for the 400th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Imperial Stables at Prague Castle, 5/8-8/11/2009] / exhibition conceived and catalogue edited by Alexander Putik   essays by Peter Demetz ... [et al.]   [translated by Robin Cassling ... [et al.]].
BM508.2 .L53 1999	880-02 Tosefet rishonim : perush : meyusad ʻal kitve yad ha-Tosefta ṿe-sifre Rishonim u-midrashim be-khitve yad u-defusim yeshanim / me-et Shaʼul Liberman.
BM103 .G73 2008	And you shall teach them diligently  : a concise history of Jewish education in the United States, 1776-2000 / Gil Graff.
BM517.S87 L5 1968	Sifre zuta (Midrashah shel Lod)   Talmudah shel Ḳesarin / Shaʼul Liberman.
BM720.T4 R67 2003	Na sayeʻeni le-ʻaśer elekha = Please help me tithe unto you : the Maʻasar Kesafim (income tithe) ledger of Mordecai Zeev Ehrenpreis of Lvov : with an examination of the practice, and its meaning for the donor / by Jay Rovner.
BS1193 .H55 2003	Textual knowledge: teaching the Bible in theory and in practice / Barry W. Holtz.
	Abôt de-Rabbî Natan.;"Avot
BM90.J4 T83 1997	Tradition renewed : a history of the Jewish Theological Seminary / edited by Jack Wertheimer.
BM755.F7 S52 1985	Practical dreamer : Israel Friedlaender and the shaping of American Judaism / Baila Round Shargel.
BM520.2 .T544 2010	880-01 Tifʼeret le-Yiśraʼel = Tiferet leYisrael : jubilee volume in honor of Israel Francus / edited by Joel Roth, Menahem Schmelzer, Yaacov Francus.
PJ5005.A2 H65 2003	Meḥḳarim be-sifrut Yiśraʼel mugashim le-Avraham Holts / ba-ʻarikhat Tseviyah Ben-Yosef Ginor.
BS1199.L3 M84 1992	Love & joy : law, language, and religion in ancient Israel / Yochanan Muffs.
LA41 .K57 2011	Education in early 2nd millennium BC Babylonia : the Sumerian epistolary miscellany / by Alexandra Kleinerman.
BM520.3 .K635 2011	Law, power, and justice in ancient Israel / Douglas A. Knight.
PJ5120 .C37 2011	How strange the change : language, temporality, and narrative form in peripheral modernisms / Marc Caplan.
PN6727.G64 H68 2010	How to understand Israel in 60 days or less / writer & artist, Sarah Glidden   letterer Clem Robins.
BM157 .B38 2011	How Judaism became a religion : an introduction to modern Jewish thought / Leora Batnitzky.
PJ4911 .P4713 1999	Lengua de los sabios. English;"An
DS126.5 .A694 2011	What does a Jew want? : on binationalism and other specters / Udi Aloni   conversations and comments by Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, and Slavoj Žižek.
G277 .H49 2011	Jewish travel in antiquity / Catherine Hezser.
BM103 .A97 2011	The Azrieli papers : dimensions of orthodox day school education / edited by David J. Schnall and Moshe Sokolow.
DS101.5 .I58 2011	Borders and boundaries in and around Dutch Jewish history / Judith Frishman ... [et al.], editors.
BS709.4 .F54 2011	The Targums : a critical introduction / Paul V.M. Flesher, Bruce Chilton.
BM526 .J49 2011	Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah : new insights and scholarship / edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn.
BM525.A52 M37 2004	Zohar. English.;"The
DS134.24 .G462	Germania Judaica
KBM639 .A43 1994	880-02 Yesodot be-dine ha-mamonot ba-Talmud / me-et Shalom Albeḳ.
PJ5020 .S33 2011	Diasporic modernisms : Hebrew and Yiddish litreature in the twentieth century / Allison Schachter.
DS113.7 .F75 2011	Israel's security and its Arab citizens / Hillel Frisch.
BM545.D35 D38 2011	Method and metaphysics in Maimonides' Guide for the perplexed / Daniel Davies.
DS134.26 .M46 2011	Shattered spaces : encountering Jewish ruins in postwar Germany and Poland / Michael Meng.
DS119.76 .P44 2011	Violence, nonviolence, and the Palestinian national movement / Wendy Pearlman.
BS1238.S24 F45 2010	Glory and agony : Isaac's sacrifice and national narrative / Yael S. Feldman.
D805.5.A96 R44 2005	Auschwitz : a new history / Laurence Rees.
GT1430.I8 H45 2011	A coat of many colors : dress culture in the young state of Israel / Anat Helman.
B5800 .H47 2011	Abraham Joshua Heschel : essential writings / selected with an Introduction by Susannah Heschel.
BM670.K6 A77 2011	All these vows : Kol Nidre / edited by Lawrence A. Hoffman.
DS119.7 .G6439 2011	The anatomy of Israel's survival / Hirsh Goodman.
BM729.W6 F44 2011	Citizenship, faith, & feminism : Jewish and Muslim women reclaim their rights / Jan Feldman.
KB200 .F735 2011	Compiling the Collatio legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum in late antiquity / Robert M. Frakes.
PJ3882 .C67 2011	The correspondence of the kings of Ur : an epistolary history of an ancient Mesopotamian kingdom / [edited by] Piotr Michalowski.
BS1375.52 .G76 2011	Esther : the outer narrative and the hidden reading / Jonathan Grossman.
HV6431 .M655 2012	Ethics in an age of terror and genocide : identity and moral choice / Kristen Renwick Monroe.
DS109.925 .J33 2011	From empire to empire : Jerusalem between Ottoman and British rule / Abigail Jacobson.
BM520.73 .N68 2011	The image of the non-Jew in Judaism : the idea of Noahide Law  / David Novak   edited by Matthew Lagrone.
NA4690 .K34 2011	The synagogues of Britain and Ireland : an architectural and social history / Sharman Kadish.
BS1136 .T6813 2012	Biḳoret nusaḥ ha-Miḳra. English. Textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible / Emanuel Tov.
PJ5053.B7 Z78513 2011	Li-heyot Yehudi. English;To be a Jew : Joseph Chayim Brenner as a Jewish existentialist / Avi Sagi ; translated by Batya Stein.
BM707 .T63 2012	Today I am a woman : stories of bat mitzvah around the world / edited by Barbara Vinick & Shulamit Reinharz.
WestC Cataloging	The two Kassels: Same time, another space = Die beiden Kassels: gleiche Zeit, anderer Ort / Péter György.
BM674.63 .W3713 2011	Haggadah (Ms. Washington Haggadah). English & Hebrew.;"The
DS135.I65 J47 2011	Jewish communities of Iran : entries on Judeo-Persian communities published by the Encyclopedia Iranica / edited by Houman M. Sarshar.
BS1186 .N54 2011	Jewish exegesis and Homeric scholarship in Alexandria / Maren R. Niehoff.
F1054.5.M89 J57 2011	Jewish roots, Canadian soil : Yiddish culture in Montreal, 1905-1945 / Rebecca Margolis.
BM535 .R635 2011	Judaism despite Christianity : the 1916 wartime correspondence between Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig / edited by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy   with a new foreword by Paul Mendes-Flohr   a new preface by Harold Stahmer   and a new chronology by Michael Gormann-Thelen.
DS149 .N49813 2011	Teshuḳat ha-ḥalutsim. English;Land and desire in early Zionism / Boaz Neumann ; translated by Haim Watzman
B755 .D38 2011	Maimonides the rationalist / Herbert A. Davidson.
D804.195 .M46 2011	Memorial books of Eastern European Jewry : essays on the history and meanings of Yizker volumes / edited by Rosemary Horowitz.
B5800 .G74 2011	Modern Jewish thinkers : from Mendelssohn to Rosenzweig / Gershon Greenberg.
BM225.N52 S733 2011	Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul : a summer on the Lower East Side / Jonathan Boyarin.
BM674.643 .S585 2011	Haggadah. English & Hebrew;A Passover Haggadah : go forth and learn / David Silber with Rachel Furst.
BM700 .R375 2011	Revisioning ritual : Jewish traditions in transition / edited by Simon J. Bronner.
BM526 .D84 2011	The scandal of Kabbalah : Leon Modena, Jewish mysticism, early modern Venice / Yaacob Dweck.
PJ5129.R3 Z58 2011	The Jewish dark continent : life and death in the Russian pale of settlement / Nathaniel Deutsch.
DS69.5 .T33 2011	With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains  : historical and literary studies on ancient Mesopotamia and Israel / Hayim Tadmor   edited by Mordechai Cogan.
DS135.U42 O358 2011	City of rogues and schnorrers : Russia's Jews and the myth of old Odessa / Jarrod Tanny.
BM100 .K73 2011	The greening of American orthodox Judaism : Yavneh in the nineteen sixties / Benny Kraut   foreword by Jonathan D. Sarna.
DS111.1 .S53 2011	Shaping the Middle East : Jews, Christians, and Muslims in an age of transition, 400-800 C.E. / edited by Kenneth G. Holum and Hayim Lapin.
DS110.T34 T45 2012	Tel-Aviv, the first century : visions, designs, actualities / edited by Maoz Azaryahu and S. Ilan Troen.
DS134.25 .M57 2011	The waning of emancipation : Jewish history, memory, and the rise of fascism in Germany, France, and Hungary / Guy Miron.
BM508.2 .L5	880-02 Tosefta ki-feshuṭah : beʼur arokh la-Tosefta / me-et Shaʼul b. ha-r. R. Mosheh Liberman.
DS135.T8 B68 2012	Modern Ladino culture : press, belles lettres, and theatre in the late Ottoman Empire / Olga Borovaya.
PJ5024 .M46 2012	Sanctuary in the wilderness : a critical introduction to American Hebrew poetry / Alan Mintz.
BS1186 .L476 2011	The making of the modern Jewish Bible : how scholars in Germany, Israel, and America transformed an ancient text / Alan T. Levenson.
BS1171.3 .L48 2011	Selections. 2011;In pursuit of meaning : collected studies of Baruch A. Levine / edited by Andrew D. Gross
BS2545.H94 G673 2011	Teaching through song in Antiquity : didactic hymnody among Greeks, Romans, Jews, and Christians / Matthew E. Gordley.
BS1225.52 .R67 2011	The wilderness itineraries : genre, geography, and the growth of Torah / Angela R. Roskop.
BS1238.D42 A53 2011	Jacob and the divine trickster : a theology of deception and YHWH's fidelity to the ancestral promise in the Jacob cycle / John E. Anderson.
BS1199.E84 J83 2011	Judah and the Judeans in the Achaemenid period : negotiating identity in an international context / edited by Oded Lipschits, Gary N. Knoppers, and Manfred Oeming.
BS1199.P26 F73 2011	The land of Canaan and the destiny of Israel : theologies of territory in the Hebrew Bible / David Frankel.
PJ4707 .C66 2011	Oath formulas in biblical Hebrew / Blane Conklin.
PN6149.J4 K58 2009	Jews and humor / editor, Leonard J. Greenspoon.
BS1192.5 .S94 2012	Tanak : a theological and critical introduction to the Jewish Bible / Marvin A. Sweeney.
PS3604.R44 Q54 2011	Quiet Americans : stories / by Erika Dreifus.
DS109.9 .S37 2011	Jerusalem : the biography / Simon Sebag Montefiore.
DS110.H28 W4613 2011	á¹¾adi Salib. English;"A
	ISAIAH 40-66.
DS135.T8 B75 2012	Jewish life in 21st-century Turkey : the other side of tolerance / Marcy Brink-Danan.
	PINNACLE OF HATRED : THE BLODDY LIBEL AND THE JEWS.
DS135.L4 B49 2012	Beyond religious borders : interaction and intellectual exchange in the medieval Islamic world / edited by David M. Freidenreich and Miriam Goldstein.
BM516.E433 L44 2012	The En Yaaqov : Jacob ibn  Ḥabib's search for faith in the talmudic corpus / Marjorie Lehman.

Israel Broadcasting Authority: Large Portions Digitized and Freely Available

Large portions of the archives of the Israel Broadcasting Authority are now open to listening on the web, after digitization at the National Sound Archive [part of the National Library of Israel]. The materials include mostly Hebrew songs, but also Yiddish songs, religious materials and a limited portion of Israeli concert music. Searching is in Hebrew only.

 There are currently two available databases, that differ in the original format of the recordings.

1. Recordings from the 1950s [originally recorded on internal non-commercial records] at the Israeli Broadcasting Authority website http://www.iba.org.il/zemerivri/

The complete details of the items appear in the catalog of the National Sound Archives [shelf number begins with K]

 2. Recordings from the 1960s and early 1970s [originally on tapes], available directly from the website of the National Sound Archives. This link gets you to the searchable sound catalog. [Main menu is also available in English, but details in Hebrew only].

Brisman Collection Cataloging Update

As you many of you know in 2011 we received a $25,000 grant from the Littauer foundation to hire a cataloger to work on the Brisman collection. Below is an update from Will Soll, the Judaica cataloger,who began working with these rare Brishman books in September. Will has been doing a great job working with the Brisman books for which we are all deeply appreciative.

The majority of the 40 or so titles we’ve cataloged so far are rare Hebrew books whose dates range from 1574-1811.  They attest to a widespread phenomenon of Jewish publishing from places such as Venice, Livorno, Metz, Prague, Jessnitz, Furth, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.   Many of the books in the collection are commentaries on the Torah or Talmud, such as Moses ben Israel’s Shomer Emunim (Guardian of the Faith).   It was published in 1723 in Offenbach, Germany by Bonaventura de Launoy[1], a Christian pietist, who had been encouraged by Jewish printer Israel ben Moses to obtain the requisite set of Hebrew letters and ornamentation and add Hebrew books to his catalogue.

 Other books fill other needs of the Jewish community.   One volume, Gemilut ḥasadim (Deeds of Kindness) contains the rules and bylaws of a hevra kaddisha, a Jewish burial society.  It was published in Amsterdam in 1810 by Jacob Proops, son of Samuel Proops, who founded the publishing house in 1730. Proops and his sons were the primary publisher of Ashkenazi Jewish books in Amsterdam for more than a century.  On the title page are images of a skull, an hourglass, a candle, and gravedigging paraphernalia, along with the text from Ecclesiastes “to everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.”    The rules themselves alternate between Hebrew and Yiddish.

 We also have a 1793 reprint of the first Hebrew geography, Iggeret Orḥot 'Olam (Letter on the Ways of the World), written by Abraham Farissol c. 1524.  It contains the first mention of America in a Hebrew book.  In this reprinted edition, it is supplemented by two short religious works by Maimonides and Ibn Ezra respectively.  One surmises that the book was created as a textbook that served a Jewish educational curriculum combining both secular and religious subjects. -- Will Soll

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[1]   In Hebrew the place name is rendered “Ofi Bakh” (אפי באך) and the publisher “Bona Fentura de Lanay”

  (באנא פענטורא דע לנאיי)

First Hundred Issues of Katedra & Pe'amim Digitized

The first 100 numbers of Katedra and of Pe'amim have been put online and searchable, by Yad Yitzhak ben Zvi. (Thank you, Hillel, for bringing this to my attention).

. קתדרה ופעמים – מאה החוברות הראשונות עכשיו באינטרנט!

אנשי יד יצחק בן צבי העלו לאינטרנט סריקה איכותית של מאה החוברותהראשונותשל 'קתדרה' ו'פעמים', כולל אפשרויות חיפוש.

      

Jewish Telegraphic Agency (1923 - 2008)

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, “writing the first draft of Jewish history since 1917″ has opened its digital archive containing 250,000 articles covering Jewish news around the world from 1923 to the present. http://archive.jta.org/ . This is an essential resource for students of modern Jewish history. The agency tracked antisemitism around the world and covered the Holocaust as it was happening. It also covered events behind the Iron Curtain and maintained correspondents in Israel. It provides coverage of American Jewish history as well. --Barbara Bibel 

What is the Jewish Telegraphic Agency?

Four New Titles in JSTOR: Tarbiz, Zion, Horizons in Geography, & Megamot

The Hebrew Journals Pilot Project is the result of an extensive collaboration with the University of Haifa Library and the National Library of Israel to digitize, test and make available the complete back runs of four core journals published in Hebrew. This Pilot represents an effort to preserve and expose these critical materials to a broader audience. --   JSTOR description of Project

Tarbiz and Zion and Horizons in Geography and Megamot

 

                           

New Films for Jewish Studies

               
Human resources manager [videorecording] / produced with the suppport of The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts-Cinema Project, The Jerusalem Film and Television Fund ... [et al.] 

A film unfinished [videorecording] / a production of Belfilms ; coproduced with Mittle Deutsche Rundfunk, MDR; Südwestfunk, SWR; Yes.docu ; in cooperation with Arte ; a film by Yael Hersonski ; producers, Itay Ken-Tor & Noemi Schory ; written and directed by Yael Hersonski.

Levanon Lebanon [videorecording] = a Sony Pictures Classics Release ; Metro Communications, Paralite Productions, Ariel Films, Arsam International & United King Films present ; produced by Uri Sabag, Einat Bikel ... [et al.] ; written & directed by Samuel Maoz

ʻEnayim peḳuḥot Eyes wide open = A production of Pimpa Film Productions, A Rafael Katz company, in coproduction with Riva Filmproduktion and ToTally prod., Das Kleine Fernsehspiel [and others]; directed by Haim Tabakman ; produced by Rafael Katz ... [et al.] ; original story and screenplay, Merav Doster. 

Ajami [videorecording] / Inosan Productions Ltd. and Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion present ; written, directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani ; producers, Mosh Danon and Thanassis Karathanos. 

ha-Miḳlaṭ The shelter [videorecording] = United King Films ; Cloudshapes Entertainment and Relbu Media Productions present a film by Roy Hornshtein ; produced by Noa Levi and Ariel Butnaru ; screenplay, Roy Hornshtein.

ʻAvodah ʻArvit (Television program) Arab labor. The complete first season [videorecording] / Keshet ; Link TV ; Alive Mind ; executive producer, Daniel Paran ; writer, Sayed Kashua ; directors, Roni Ninio, Yaakov (Yankul) Goldwasser.

Salonica [videorecording] / Rose-Marie Schneider presents a film by Paolo Poloni Los Angeles, CA : Seventh Art Releasing, 2009.

In Heaven Underground | videorecording - on order

Leaving the fold [videorecording] / Bunbury Films/Ontic Media Production ; written and directed by Eric R. Scott ; produced by Frederic Bohbot [and] Evan Beloff.

WU Joins HathiTrust: Alternative to Google Books Project

The HathiTrust is a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. Established in 2008 by 13 universities, it has grown to over 60 partners.

Here is a link to a WU guide on how to use the HathiTrust.

Let me know if you have any questions on how to use HathiTrust.

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*There are 10 million items in the HT of which 2.7 million are in the public domain.

*As a member of the trust, the WU community can download these public domain works

*The HT links to many of the fulltext works in the Google Book Project

*Over time, many titles unique to the HT partners will be digitized& not available in the GBP

*Records in HT are fully cataloged and superior to those in the GBP

*The HT catalog allows you to create & save Collections, bringing together books on a topic specific to your research

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Here is a simple search. Note that limiting to "Full view only" means fulltext.

These are just the initial records retrieved from my search.