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National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature The Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute of Ethics Box 571212, Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057-1212 http://bioethics.georgetown.edu The Max M. and Marjorie B. Kampelman Collection of Jewish Ethics December 2008 Through the generosity of Max M. and Marjorie B. Kampelman, a Collection of Jewish Ethics was established in 1983 at the library of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. We welcome interested readers to use the Collection, housed in the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRC) on the main campus of Georgetown University in Healy Hall 102 at 37th and O Streets, NW. The Collection now contains more than 1,500 books and audiovisual materials covering Jewish ethics and related subjects, including Holocaust studies. Although the items do not circulate, photocopiers are available. The Collection has a home page at: http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/nrc/collections/kampelman.htm, where you can update this bibliography and retrieve additional citations from the journal literature by 1) clicking on pre-formulated topics or 2) devising your own search strategies. (See the search tips for more information.) The NRC is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday. During the academic year extended hours are offered on Saturdays from 12 noon to 5 p.m. (Please call to confirm extended hours.) We welcome your suggestions for additions to the Collection. Doris Mueller Goldstein, M.L.S., M.A., Director National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature Tamar Joy Kahn, M.L.S., Curator Max M. and Marjorie B. Kampelman Collection of Jewish Ethics telephone: 1-202-687-3885; fax: 1-202-687-8089 toll-free telephone (U.S. & Canada): 1-888-BIO-ETHX e-mail: [email protected] http://bioethics.georgetown.edu Portrayals in Ancient Texts from the Tanach A Through the Bavli. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1998. 236 p. BS1199 .A25 Aarons, Victoria. What Happened to Abraham? A27 1998 Reinventing the Covenant in American Jewish Fiction. Newark: University of Delaware; Abramson, Glenda, ed. The Blackwell Distributed by: Associated University Presses, Companion to Jewish Culture: From the 2005. 181 p. PS647 .J4 A15 2005 Eighteenth Century to the Present. New York: Blackwell Reference, 1989. 853 p. DS102.8 Abel, Ernest L. Jewish Genetic Disorders: A .B46 1989 Layman's Guide. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001. 242 p. RB155.5 .A245 2001 Abravanel, Isaac. Principles of Faith (Rosh Amanah).(Translation, Introduction, and Notes Abraham, A.S. The Comprehensive Guide to by Menachem M. Kellner). East Brunswick, NJ: Medical Halachah. (Updated and expanded Associated Universities Presses, 1982. 271 p. edition of Medical Halachah for Everyone). BM550 .A19613 1982 New York: Feldheim, 1990. 248 p. BM538 .M4 A275 1990 Address, Richard F., ed. A Time to Prepare: A Practical Guide for Individuals and Families in Abraham, A.S. Lev Avraham: The Laws of Determining One’s Wishes for Extraordinary Medicine for a Sick Person and Those Who Medical Treatment and Financial Arrangements. Attend Him. Jerusalem, Israel: Sefraim Philadelphia: UAHC Press, 1994. 53 p. KF760 Feldheim, 1977 .R44 T56 1994 Abraham, A.S. Medical Halachah for Everyone: Adelsberger, Lucie. Auschwitz: A Doctor’s A Comprehensive Guide to Jewish Medical Law Story. (Translation from the German by Susan in Sickness and Health. New York: Feldheim, Ray of: Auschwitz: Ein Tatsachenbericht). 1984. 211 p. BM538 .M4 A27 Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995. 150 p. DS135 .G5 A33313 1995 Abraham, Abraham S. Medical Halachah for Everyone. (Based on the original Hebrew Adelson, Alan and Lapides, Robert, eds. Lodz edition published in two volumes under the title: Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege. New Lev Avraham.) Jerusalem/New York: Feldheim, York: Viking, 1989. 526 p. DS135 .P62 1980. 211 p. BM538 .M4 A27 1980 L6441354 1989 Abraham, Gary A. Max Weber and the Jewish Adler, Rachel. Engendering Judaism: An Question: A Study of the Social Outlook of His Inclusive Theology and Ethics. Philadelphia: Sociology. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, Jewish Publication Society, 1998. 269 p. BM729 1992. 319 p. HM22 .G3 W441393 1992 .W6 A29 1998 Abrahams, Israel and Fine, Lawrence. Hebrew Agamben, Giorgio. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Ethical Wills. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Witness and the Archive. (Translation from the Society, c1926, 2006. 363 p. BJ1286 .W59 T69 Italian by Daniel Heller-Roazen of: Quel che 2006 resta di Auschwitz). New York: Zone Books, 1999. 175 p. D804.195 .A53 1999 Abrahams, Israel, ed. Hebrew Ethical Wills. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1976. Agnon, S.Y. A Guest for the Night: A Novel. 348 p. BJ1286 .W59 T69 1976 (Translation from the Hebrew by Misha Louvish of: Oreah natah la-lun. Library of World Fiction Abrams, Judith Z. Judaism and Disability: series.) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1 [2004?]. 485 p. PJ5053 .A4 O713 2004 American Jewish Congress. Bio-Ethics Task Force. Decisions to Forgo Life-Sustaining Agus, Jacob B. The Jewish Quest: Essays on Treatment. New York: The Congress, Basic Concepts of Jewish Theology. New York: 1989. 13 p. Ktav, 1983. 264 p. BM601 .A38 1983 Amery, Jean. At the Mind’s Limits: Agus, Jacob B. The Vision and the Way: An Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Interpretation of Jewish Ethics. New York: It’s Realities. (Translation from the French by Frederick Ungar, 1966. 365 p. BJ1280 .A45 Sidney Rosenfeld and Stella P. Rosenfeld of: Jenseits von Schuld und Suhne). Bloomington: Alphen, Ernst van. Caught By History: Indiana University Press, 1980. 111 p. D804.3 Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, .A4913 1980 Literature and Theory. Stanford, CA; Stanford University Press, 1997. 233 p. NX650 .H57 A45 Amiel, Moshe Avigdor. Ethics and Legality in 1997 Jewish Law: Justice in the Jewish State According to the Torah. (Text in English and Alpern, Joil. No One Awaiting Me: Two Hebrew. Translated by Menachem and Bracha Brothers Defy Death During the Holocaust in Slae). Spring Valley, NY: Feldheim, 1992. Romania. (Legacies Shared Book Series; No. 5. 234 p. BJ1287 .A44 E8313 1992 ISSN 1498-2358.) Alberta: University of Calgary Press [and] New York: Jewish Heritage, Amnesty International [and] International 2001. 246 p. DS135 .R73 A47 2001 Secretariat. Israel and the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Authority: Killing the Altmann, Alexander. Essays in Jewish Future: Children in the Line of Fire. London: Intellectual History. Hanover, NH: Brandeis International Secretariat, 2002. 29 p. University Press/University Press of New England, 1981. 324 p. BM45 .A45 1981 Amsel, Nahum. The Jewish Encyclopedia of Moral and Ethical Issues. Northvale, NJ: Jason Altmann, Alexander. The Meaning of Jewish Aronson, 1994. 505 p. BJ1285 .A53 1994 Existence: Theological Essays 1930-1939. (Translation from the German by Edith Ehrlich Angier, Carole. The Double Bond: Primo Levi: and Leonard H. Ehrlich). Hanover, NH: A Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Brandeis University Press/University Press of Giroux, 2002. 898 p. PQ4872 .E8 Z55 2002 New England, 1991. 169 p. BM45 .A46 1991 Anissimov, Myriam. Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Aly, Gotz. Final Solution: Nazi Population Policy Optimist. (Translation from the French by Steve and the Murder of the European Jews. (Trans- Cox of : Primo Levi, ou, La Tragedi d’un lation from the German by Belinda Cooper and optimiste). Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Allison Brown of: Endlosung: Press; Distributed by Viking, c1998, 1999. Volkerverschiebung und der Mord an den 452 p. PQ4872 .E8 Z5613 1999 europaischen Juden). New York: Oxford Uni- versity Press, 1999. 305 p. D804.3 .A45813 Antonovsky, Aaron, ed. The Sociology of Health 1999 and Health Care in Israel. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1990. 378 p. RA418.3 .I8 S62 1990 Aly, Gotz and Heim, Susanne. Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Appel, Gersion. The Concise Code of Jewish Destruction. (Translation from the German by Law: Compiled from Kitzur Shulhan Aruch and A.G. Blunden of: Vordenker der Vernichtung.) Traditional Sources: A New Translation with Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. Introduction and Halachic Annotations Based on 378 p. D804.3 .A4613 2002 Contemporary Responsa. Volume One. New 2 York: Ktav, 1977. 358 p. BM520.9 .C66 v.1 Annihilation. New York: United Synagogue of America, 1988. 276 p. BM538 .P3 A78 1988 Appel, Gersion. The Concise Code of Jewish Law: Compiled from Kitzur Shulhan Aruch and Aschheim, Steven E. Culture and Catastrophe: Traditional Sources: A New Translation with German and Jewish Confrontations with Introduction and Halachic Annotations Based on National Socialism and Other Crises. Contemporary Responsa. Volume Two. New Washington Square, NY: New York University York: Ktav, 1989. 550 p. BM520.9 .C66 v.2 Press, 1996. 210 p. DS135 .G33 A765 1996 Appel, Gersion. Philosophy of Mizvot: Aschheim, Steven E. In Times of Crisis: Essays Religious-Ethical Concepts of Judaism, Their on European Culture, Germans, and Jews. Roots in Biblical Law and Oral Tradition. New Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. York: Ktav, 1975. 288 p. BM520.7 .A65 269 p. DS135 .G33 I4655 2001 Arad, Gulie Ne’eman. America, Its Jews, and the Aschheim, Steven E. Scholem, Arendt, Rise of Nazism. Bloomington: Indiana Klemperer: Intimate Chronicles in Turbulent University Press, 2000. 314 p. E184.36 .P64 Times. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, A73 2000 2001. 134 p. DS135 .G33 A7655 2001 Arad, Gulie Ne’eman, ed. Passing into History: Ashtor, Eliyahu. The Jews of Moslem Spain, Nazism and the Holocaust Beyond Memory. Volume 2/3. (Translation from the Hebrew by Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. Aaron Klein and Jenny Machlowitz Klein of: 435 p. D804.348 .P377 1997 Korot Ha-yehudim Bi-sefard Ha-muslemit; Kiryat Sepher Ltd., Jerusalem, 1973 and 1984.) Arad, Yitzhak. Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1992. Operation Reinhard Death Camps. Bloomington: [691 p.]. DS135 .S7 A8313 1992 Indiana University Press, c1987, 1999. 437 p. D805 .P7 A727 1987 Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists.
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