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GS Treasures of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem / Sponsored by Caroline and Joseph S SELECTED NEW JUDAICA ACQUISITIONS, SEPTEMBER 2014 - A - ART -- JERUSALEM -- CATALOGS Treasures of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem / sponsored by Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss; photographs by Pierre-Alain Ferrazzini. Jerusalem: Israel Museum; [New York]: [Distributed by Macmillan], ©1985. JUDAICA N3750.J5 M89 1985. Click for full catalog record. - B - - C - - D - - E - ERUV It's a thin line: eruv from Talmudic to modern culture / edited by Adam Mintz. New York: The Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University; Yeshiva University Museum, ©2014. JUDAICA BM523.3.E7 I88 2014. Click for full catalog record. - F - FASTS AND FEASTS -- JUDAISM The birthday of the world / by Moshe Davis & Victor Ratner; etchings by Marc Chagall. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, ©1959. JUDAICA BM690 .D35 1959. Click for full catalog record. Festival days: a history of Jewish celebrations / Chaim Raphael. 1st American ed. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. JUDAICA BM690 .R39 1990. Click for full catalog record. The Jewish festivals and holy days: full colour reproductions of 12 original paintings / Michal Meron; with explanatory text by Neville Alexander. Old Jaffa, Israel: The Studio in Old Jaffa, c1995. JUDAICA BM690 .M47 1995. Click for full catalog record. What is the reason?: an anthology of questions and answers on the Jewish holidays. New York, Bloch Pub. Co., 1964-. JUDAICA BM690 .P7. Click for full catalog record. - G - - H - HADASSAH, THE WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA -- HISTORY It takes a dream --: the story of Hadassah / [Marlin Levin]. Jerusalem: Gefen Pub. House; Hewlett, NY: Gefen Books, c1997. JUDAICA DS150.H4 L49 1997. Click for full catalog record. HAGGADOT -- TEXTS Hagadat Erets Yiśraʼel: nusaḥ aḥid ṿe-shalem ʻim perushim ḳetsarim, ʻim ḳiṭʻe Miḳra u-fiyuṭ, ʻim shiron la-ḥag / tsiyurim ṿa-ʻarikhah grafit, Shemuʼel Kats; liḳeṭ Eliʼav Ben-Aharon. Yerushalayim: Keter, ©1979. JUDAICA BM675.P4 K382 1979. Click for full catalog record. 1 The Passover Haggadah / edited and translated by Philip Birnbaum. Large type edition. New York: JBI international, established as The Jewish Braille Institute of America, 5763 [2003]. JUDAICA BM674.643.B56 2003. Click for full catalog record. HANUKKAH -- LITURGY -- TEXTS Sefer Ner leha-Tsadiḳ: ṿe-hu Seder Hadlaḳat ner Ḥanukah: kolel dinim ṿe-hanhagot yesharot, derushim ṿe-śiḥot neḥmadot ṿi-yeḳarot, ʻinyanim noraʼim ṿe-niflaʼim mi-gedulat or yeme Ḥanukah ha-ḳedoshim / banui u-meyusad ʻa. p. divre Naḥman mi-Braslav ṿe-ʻa. p. divre Natan mi-Braslav; u-meshulav bi-fesuḳe Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim ... u- Midrashim ṿe-Zohar ha-ḳadosh. Brooklyn, NY: Metivta Hekhal ha-ḳadosh, 754 [1993 or 1994]. JUDAICA BM675.H33 Z627 1993. Click for full catalog record. HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945) -- CAUSES How could this happen: explaining the Holocaust / Dan McMillan. New York: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2014. JUDAICA D804.3 .M398 2014. Click for full catalog record. - I - - J - JEWISH CALENDAR The standard guide to the Jewish and civil calendars: a parallel Jewish and civil calendar from 1899 to 2050 with Parshiyyot and Haftarot and candle-lighting times for selected cities / Fred Reiss. West Orange, NJ: Behrman House, ©1986. JUDAICA CE35 .R4 1986. Click for full catalog record. JEWISH ILLUMINATION OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS Hebrew manuscript painting / Joseph Gutmann. 1st ed. New York: G. Braziller, 1978. JUDAICA ND2935 .G79. Click for full catalog record. JEWISH PHILOSOPHY From phenomenology to existentialism: the philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik / by Dov Schwartz; translated by Batya Stein. Leiden: Brill, <2013>-. JUDAICA BM755.S6144 S3813 2013. Click for full catalog record. JEWS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY The book of Jewish books: a reader's guide to Judaism / [edited by] Ruth S. Frank & William Wollheim. 1st ed. San Francisco: Harper & Row, ©1986. JUDAICA Z6366 .B66 1986. Click for full catalog record. JEWS -- HISTORY From Mesopotamia to modernity: ten introductions to Jewish history and literature / edited by Burton L. Visotzky and David E. Fishman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. JUDAICA DS117 .F77 1999. Click for full catalog record. Picture history of Jewish civilization / editor-in-chief, Bezalel Narkiss; co-editors, Samuel Abramsky [and others]. Secaucus: Chartwell, ©1978. JUDAICA DS118 .P5 1978. Click for full catalog record. JEWS -- HISTORY -- MISCELLANEA Great moments in Jewish history / by Elinor Slater & Robert Slater. Middle Village, NY: Jonathan David Publishers, 1998. JUDAICA DS118 .S57 1998. Click for full catalog record. 2 JEWS -- HISTORY -- PICTORIAL WORKS Pictorial history of the Jewish people, from Bible times to our own day throughout the world. New York: Crown Publishers [1953]. JUDAICA DS118 .A8 1953. Click for full catalog record. JEWS -- PALESTINE -- HISTORY The Jews in their land, conceived and edited by David Ben-Gurion / translated from the Hebrew by Mordechai Nurock [and] Misha Louvish. [New rev. ed.]. Garden City, NY, Doubleday [1974]. JUDAICA DS118 .B4213 1974. Click for full catalog record. JEWS -- UNITED STATES -- HISTORY Three centuries of Jewish life in America / Carl Lowe. New York: Mallard Press, c1992. JUDAICA E184.J5 L69 1992. Click for full catalog record. JUDAISM -- LITURGICAL OBJECTS -- CATALOGS The art of Passover / compiled and edited by Stephan O. Parnes; with essays by Bonni-Dara Michaels and Gabriel M. Goldstein. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates; distributed by Macmillan Pub. Co., c1994. JUDAICA NK1672 .A77 1994. Click for full catalog record. JUDAISM -- UNITED STATES -- 21ST CENTURY Jewish meaning in a world of choice: studies in tradition and modernity / David Ellenson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press; Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, ©2014. JUDAICA BM205 .E58 2014. Click for full catalog record. - K - - L - - M - - N - - O - - P - PASSOVER Thinking Passover: a rabbi's book of holiday values / Ben Kamin. New York: Dutton, c1997. JUDAICA BM695.P3 K26 1997. Click for full catalog record. - Q - - R - RABBIS -- IRAQ -- INTELLECTUAL LIFE Rabbinic creativity in the modern Middle East / Zvi Zohar. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013. JUDAICA BM750 .Z64 2013. Click for full catalog record. RESPONSA Guidance, not governance: Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof and Reform responsa / Joan S. Friedman. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, [2013]. JUDAICA BM755.F693 F75 2013. Click for full catalog record. - S - SABBATH A Shabbat Haggadah: for celebration and study / compiled by Michael Strassfeld. New York: Institute of Human Relations Press of the American Jewish Committee, ©1981. JUDAICA BM685 .S418. Click for full catalog record. 3 SUKKOT A guide to Succoth / by Rabbi Isaac N. Fabricant. London: Jewish Chronicle Publications, 1958. JUDAICA BM695.S8 F3. Click for full catalog record. The Sukkot and Simhat Torah anthology / [edited by] Philip Goodman. 1st ed. Philadelphia [Pa.]: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1973. JUDAICA BM695.S8 G66. Click for full catalog record. - T - TALMUD -- ENCYCLOPEDIAS Find it in the Talmud: an encyclopedia of Jewish ethics and proper conduct / Mordechai (Martin) Judovits. Brooklyn, NY; Jerusalem: Urim Publications, ©2014. JUDAICA REFERENCE BM500.5 .J83 2014. Click for full catalog record. - U - - V - - W - WAR CRIMINALS -- GERMANY -- BIOGRAPHY Eichmann before Jerusalem: the unexamined life of a mass murderer / Bettina Stangneth; translated from the German by Ruth Martin. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. JUDAICA DD247.E5 S7313 2014. Click for full catalog record. - X - - Y - - Z - 4 .
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