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Cted New Judaica Acquisitions, December 2014 SELECTED NEW JUDAICA ACQUISITIONS, DECEMBER 2014 - A - AGGADA -- HISTORY AND CRITICISM Reimagining the Bible: the storytelling of the rabbis / Howard Schwartz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. JUDAICA BM516.5 .S39 1998. - B - BAT MITZVAH Transitions: the Jewish woman emerges: a collection of thoughts, laws and essays tracing the growth of the Jewish woman/ by Yaakov Salomon [and] Yonah Weinrib; Illumination and calligraphy by Yonah Weinrib. New York: Artscroll Print. Corp., [c1992]. JUDAICA BM703.3 .S25 1992. - C - CABALA The four dimensions of paradise / by Samuel Penner; in collaboration with and edited by Sheba Penner. [Los Angeles?]: Cyrus Press, ©1993. JUDAICA BM723 .P45 1993. CABINET OFFICERS -- UNITED STATES -- BIOGRAPHY The Jew who defeated Hitler: Henry Morgenthau Jr., FDR, and how we won the war / Peter Moreira. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2014. JUDAICA E748.M73 M67 2014. CHILDBIRTH -- RELIGIOUS ASPECTS -- JUDAISM A time to be born: customs and folklore of Jewish birth / Michele Klein. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1998. JUDAICA BM538.H43 K58 1998. CHILDREN OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS -- FICTION The forgotten / by Elie Wiesel; translated by Stephen Becker. New York: Summit Books, c1992. JUDAICA PQ2683.I32 O9213 1992. - D - - E - ETHICS IN THE BIBLE Ethics of genesis. New York, NY: Kodesh Press, 2014. JUDAICA BS1235.6 .E84 E54 2014. - F - FAMILIES -- BIBLICAL TEACHING Self, struggle & change: family conflict stories in Genesis and their healing insights for our lives / Norman J. Cohen. Woodstock, Vt.: Jewish Lights Pub., ©1995. JUDAICA BS1238.F34 C64 1995. 1 FELLOWSHIP -- RELIGIOUS ASPECTS -- JUDAISM Relational Judaism: using the power of relationships to transform the Jewish community / Dr. Ron Wolfson. Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2013. JUDAICA BM720.F4 W65 2013. - G - GENEROSITY Rambam's ladder: a meditation on generosity and why it is necessary to give / Julie Salamon. New York: Workman Pub., c2003. JUDAICA BJ1533.G4 S25 2003. - H - HASIDIM -- BIOGRAPHY Somewhere a master: further Hasidic portraits and legends / Elie Wiesel; translated from the French by Marion Wiesel. 1st ed. New York: Summit Books, ©1982. JUDAICA BM750 .W54 1982. HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945) Accounting for genocide: national responses and Jewish victimization during the Holocaust / Helen Fein. New York: Free Press, ©1979. JUDAICA D810.J4 F376 1979. Dawn / by Elie Wiesel; translated from the French by Frances Frenaye. New York: Avon Books, c1970. JUDAICA PQ2683.I32 A9 1970. The Holocaust and its significance / by Yisrael Gutman and Chaim Schatzker; [translated from the Hebrew by Priscilla Fishman; illustrations and maps by Yitzchak Mais]. Rev. English version / edited by Yitzchak Mais and Irit Sivan. Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center: Historical Society of Israel, ©1984. JUDAICA D804.3 .G8713 1984. HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945) -- INFLUENCE The aftermath: living with the Holocaust / Aaron Hass. Cambridge; NY: Cambridge University Press, 1995. JUDAICA D804.3 .H373 1995. HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS -- CYPRUS Running the Palestine blockade: the last voyage of the Paducah / Rudolph W. Patzert. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, ©1994. JUDAICA DS126.4 .P355 1994. HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS -- FICTION Twilight / Elie Wiesel; translated from the French by Marion Wiesel. New York: Summit Books, ©1988. JUDAICA PQ2683.I32 C7413 1988. HUMAN RIGHTS -- ISRAEL The anatomy of human rights in Israel: constitutional rhetoric and state practice / Assaf Meydani. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014. JUDAICA JC599.I68 M49 2014. - I - - J - JEWISH CHILDREN IN THE HOLOCAUST -- BIOGRAPHY The boys: the untold story of 732 young concentration camp survivors / Martin Gilbert. 1st Owl Books ed. New York, NY: Henry Holt & Co., 1998. JUDAICA D804.48 .G55 1998. 2 Such good girls: the journey of the Holocaust's hidden child survivors / R.D. Rosen. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, ©2014. JUDAICA D804.48 .R87 2014. JEWISH ETHICS The foundations of Jewish ethics, being volume one of The teachings of Judaism. Authorized translation from the 2d, rev. and enl. German ed., by Armin Hajman Koller. New York, Macmillan, 1929. JUDAICA BJ1279 .B43 1929. Striving toward virtue: a contemporary guide for Jewish ethical behavior / by Kerry M. Olitzky and Rachel T. Sabath. Hoboken, N.J.: KTAV Pub. House, ©1996. JUDAICA BJ1287.O55 S87 1996. The Ten commandments of character: essential advice for living an honorable, ethical, honest life / Joseph Telushkin. 1st ed. New York, N.Y.: Bell Tower, 2003. JUDAICA BJ1285 .T44 2003. JEWISH LAW -- CODIFICATION The codification of Jewish law: and an introduction to the jurisprudence of the Mishna Berura / Michael J. Broyde and Ira Bedzow. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2014. JUDAICA BM521 .B76 2014. JEWISH LAW -- DICTIONARIES -- HEBREW Miḳropedyah Talmudit-hilkhatit: mevuseset ʻal ʻerkhe ha-Entsiḳlopedyah ha-Talmudit le-ʻinyene halakhah: otsar metumetset shel ʻerkhe ha-Entsiḳlopedyah ha-Talmudit, ʻim tiḳunim, hashlamot ṿe-ʻidkunim be-signon shoṭef u-varur / ʻorekh rashi ha-Rav Prof. Avraham Shṭeinberg; biḳoret ṿe-heʻarot, ha-Rav Zalman Neḥemyah Goldberg; ḥavre ha- maʻarekhet, ha-Rav Shelomoh Hirsh [ṿe-aḥerim]. Yerushalayim: EntsiḳlopedyahTalmudit, Yad ha-Rav Hertsog, 5774- [2013]-. JUDAICA REFERENCE BM500.5 .M54 2013. JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION -- PHILOSOPHY Tree of life, tree of knowledge: conversations with the Torah / Michael Rosenak. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. JUDAICA BM103 .R635 2001. JEWISH SOCIOLOGY Justice and Judaism: the work of social action / Albert Vorspan and Eugene J. Lipman; illustrated by Russell Roman. New York. NY: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, ©1956. JUDAICA HN40.J5 V6 1956. JEWISH WOMEN -- RELIGIOUS LIFE Bringing home the light: a Jewish woman's handbook of rituals / E. M. Broner. San Francisco, CA: Council Oak Books, 1999. JUDAICA BM726 .B78 1999. JEWS -- CIVILIZATION The Hebrew impact on Western civilization. New York, Philosophical Library [1951]. JUDAICA DS113 .R8 1951. JEWS -- FICTION A beggar in Jerusalem: a novel / by Elie Wiesel; translated from the French by Lily Edelman and the author. New York: Schocken Books, 1985, c1970. JUDAICA PQ2683.I32 M413 1985. The oath / Elie Wiesel; translated from the French by Marion Wiesel. New York: Schocken Books, 1986, ©1973. JUDAICA PQ2683.I32 S413 1986. 3 The town beyond the wall / Elie Wiesel; transl. from the French by Stephen Becker. New York etc.: Bergen Belsen Memorial Press, 1964. JUDAICA PQ2683.I32 V513 1964. JEWS -- HISTORY A short history of the Jewish people: from legendary times to modern statehood / Raymond P. Scheindlin. New York, NY: Macmillan, ©1998. JUDAICA DS117 .S45 1998. JEWS -- IRAQ -- MIGRATIONS Operation Babylon / Shlomo Hillel; translated by Ina Friedman. 1st ed. in the U.S.A. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987. JUDAICA JV8749.I8 H5513 1987. JEWS -- PERSECUTIONS -- POLAND Kiddush Hashem: Jewish religious and cultural life in Poland during the Holocaust / by Shimon Huberband; translated by David E. Fishman; edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock, Robert S. Hirt. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Pub. House; New York: Yeshiva University Press, 1987. JUDAICA DS135.P6 H8213 1987. JEWS -- PERSECUTIONS -- SOVIET UNION -- FICTION The testament: a novel / by Elie Wiesel; translated from the French by Marion Wiesel. New York: Summit Books, ©1981. JUDAICA PQ2683.I32 T413 1981. JEWS -- POLAND -- RADOM (WOJEWÓDZTWO MAZOWIECKIE) -- BIOGRAPHY Saving children: diary of a Buchenwald survivor and rescuer / Jack Werber with William B. Helmreich; with a new preface by William B. Helmreich and an afterword by Martin Werber. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Transaction Publishers, ©2014. JUDAICA DS134.72.W438 A3 2014. JUDAISM The concise guide to Judaism: history, practice, faith / Roy A. Rosenberg. New York, NY: NAL Books, ©1990. JUDAICA BM561 .R62 1990. - K - - L - - M - MAIMONIDES, MOSES, 1135-1204 -- MISHNEH TORAH -- COMMENTARIES Ḥidushe Maran Riz ha-Leṿi: ḥidushim u-veurim ʻal ha-Rambam. Yerushala[y]im: [?. mo. l.], 773 [2012 or 2013]. JUDAICA BM520.84 S624 2012. MISHNAH -- AVOT --COMMENTARIES Ethics of the fathers / translated and annotated by Hyman E. Goldin. New York: Hebrew Pub. Co., [1962]. JUDAICA BM506.A23 G59 1962. - N - NATIONAL SOCIALISM The official German report: Nazi penetration, 1924-1942; Pan-Arabism, 1939-today. New York, T. Yoseloff [1961]. JUDAICA E743.5 .R64 1961. 4 - O - ORTHODOX JUDAISM Return to the source = El ha-meḳorot: selected articles on Judaism and Teshuva/ [editor of the English edition: Dvora Kiel]. Bnei Brak: Moreshet Avot; Jerusalem; New York: Feldheim, 1984. JUDAICA BM40 .E6513 1984. - P - PALESTINE -- HISTORY -- 1929-1948 From diplomacy to resistance: a history of Jewish Palestine, 1939-1945 / Yehuda Bauer; translated from the Hebrew by Alton M. Winters. [1st Atheneum ed.]. New York: Atheneum, 1973, ©1970. JUDAICA DS126.3 .B363 1973. - Q - - R - RABBIS A rabbinic anthology / selected and arranged with comments and introductions by C.G. Montefiore and H. Loewe. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, [1938]. JUDAICA BM40 .M6 1938. RIGHTEOUS GENTILES IN THE HOLOCAUST Conscience & courage: rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust / Eva Fogelman. 1st ed. New York: Anchor Books, c1994. JUDAICA D804.3 .F64 1994. Saving the Jews: amazing stories of men and women who defied the final solution / Mordecai Paldiel. Rockville, MD: Schreiber, c2000. JUDAICA D804.65 .P35 2000. - S - - T - - U - - V - - W - WILLS, ETHICAL Ethical wills: a modern Jewish treasury / edited and annotated by Jack Riemer and Nathaniel Stampfer. New York: Schocken Books, 1983. JUDAICA BJ1286.W59 E87 1983. - X - - Y - - Z - ZIONISM -- HISTORY -- JUVENILE LITERATURE Bat Mitzvah book / [edited by Azriel Eisenberg]. New York: Jewish National Fund, [19--?]. JUDAICA DS149 .J4. 5 .
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