Recent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: November 2015
The following titles on our Recent Acquisitions Display are just a few of our new books, which are available at the reference desk in the Dorot Jewish Division. Catalog entries for the books can be found by clicking on their covers.
Becoming Un-Orthodox: Stories Of Ex-hasidic Jews by Lynn Davidman
Ben-Gurion: Father Of Modern Israel by Anita Shapira (also available as e-book)
Disappeared Science: Biographical Dictionary Of Jewish Scholars From Bohemia And Moravia by Michal V. Šimůne (ed.)
I Thought I'd Never Taste This Again by Mercedes Castiel
Jewish Culture In Early Modern Europe by Richard I. Cohen (ed.)
Jewish-Greek Tradition In Antiquity And The Byzantine Empire edited by James K. Aitken
Maimonides And The Shaping Of The Jewish Canon by James A. Diamond
Making Of Jewish Revolutionaries In The Pale Of Settlement by Inna Shtakser
Mame-loshn fun Naḥum Sṭuṭshḳoṿ: redaḳṭirṭ fun Leyzer Burḳo
Migrating Tales: The Talmud's Narratives And Their Historical Context by Richard Kalmin
Our City!: Jewish Vienna -- Then To Now by Werner Hanak-Lettner (published)
Poverty, Charity And The Image Of The Poor In Rabbinic Texts From The Land Of Israel by Yael Wilfand
Scots Jews: Identity, Belonging And The Future photographs by Judah Passow
Spanish Attitudes Toward Judaism by Adolfo Kuznitzk
Tales Of Three Cities: Urban Jewish Cultures In London, Berlin, And Paris (c. 1880-1940) by Tobias Metzler
Traditional Society In Transition: The Yemeni Jewish Experience by Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman
Urban Origins Of American Judaism by Deborah Dash Moore (also available as e-book through Project Muse)
Vocabulary Of Desire: The Song Of Songs In The Early Synagogue by Laura S. Lieber
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