Recent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: May 2016
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.
Anglo-American Diplomacy and the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1948-51 by Simon A. Waldman
Bringing Zion Home: Israel in American Jewish Culture, 1948-1967 by Emily Alice Katz.
Divine Scapegoats: Demonic Mimesis in Early Jewish Mysticism by Andrei A. Orlov.
Holocaust Versus Wehrmacht: How Hitler's "Final Solution" Undermined The German War Effort by Yaron Pasher (e-book available through Project MUSE)
In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel by Adam Rovner (e-book available through OverDrive and Project MUSE)
Israeli Feminist Scholarship: Gender, Zionism, and Difference by Esther Fuchs (ed.).
Jewish Anxiety and The Novels of Philip Roth by Brett Ashley Kaplan.
Jewish Resistance Against the Nazis Edited by Patrick Henry (e-book available through Project MUSE)
Le-vashel Be-ṭaʻam Ladino by Matilda Koén-sarano
Memorials in Berlin and Buenos Aires: Balancing Memory, Architecture, and Tourism by Brigitte Sion.
Patronage, Production, and Transmission of Texts in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Cultures Edited by Esperanza Alfonso (e-book available through Brepols Miscellanea Online)
Reading Maimonides' Mishneh Torah by David Gillis.
Scripture and Tradition: Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash by Azzan Yadin-israel (e-book available through Project MUSE)
Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts Edited by Marc Michael Epstein
Splintered Divine: A Study of Ishtar, Baal, and Yahweh Divine Names and Divine Multiplicity in The Ancient Near East by by Spencer L. Allen.
Wine and Thorns in Tokay Valley: Jewish Life in Hungary: The History of Abaújszántó by Zahava Szász Stessel.
With my Many Chariots I Have Gone up The Heights of Mountains: Historical and Literary Studies on Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel by Hayim Tadmor
Zionism in Damascus: Ideology and Activity in the Jewish Community at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century by Yaron Harel
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