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SELECTED NEW JUDAICA ACQUISITIONS, OCTOBER 2014 - A - AGGADA Rabbinic wisdom and Jewish values / William B. Silverman. Rev. ed. New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, ©1971. JUDAICA BM516.5 .S55 1971. Click for full catalog record. - B - BIBLE -- HAGIOGRAPHA -- CRITICISM, INTERPRETATION, ETC. The story of the writings. Edited by Eugene B. Borowitz. Illus. by Stephen Kraft. New York, Behrman House [1970]. JUDAICA BS1308 .R67 1970. Click for full catalog record. BIBLE -- PENTATEUCH -- COMMENTARIES Ḥidushe Maran Riz ha-Leṿi: ʻal ha-Torah. Yerushalayim: Bene ha-meḥaber, 763, [2002 or 2003]. JUDAICA BS1225 .S62 2003. Click for full catalog record. Rashi, commentaries on the Pentateuch. Selected and translated by Chaim Pearl. [1st ed.]. New York, Norton [1970]. JUDAICA BS1225 .S6 1970. Click for full catalog record. BIBLE -- PENTATEUCH -- CRITICISM, INTERPRETATION, ETC. Torah insights / Nehama Leibowitz; translated from the Hebrew by Alan Smith. Jerusalem: Eliner Library, Joint Authority for Jewish Zionist Education, Dept. for Torah and Culture in the Diaspora, 1995. JUDAICA BS1225.2 .L45 1995. Click for full catalog record. BIBLE -- PROPHETS -- COMMENTARIES Commentary on the prophets / by Emil G. Kraeling. Camden, NJ: T. Nelson, 1966. JUDAICA BS1198 .K7 1966. Click for full catalog record. BIBLE -- PSALMS -- COMMENTARIES The Psalms: Hebrew text & English translation with an introduction and commentary / by A. Cohen. 1st ed. London: Soncino Press, 1945. JUDAICA BS1430 .C64 1945. Click for full catalog record. - C - CONSTITUTIONAL LAW -- ISRAEL The constitution of Israel: a contextual analysis / Suzie Navot. Oxford, United Kingdom; Portland, OR: Hart Publishing 2014. JUDAICA KMK1750 .N383 2014. Click for full catalog record. - D - DONATION OF ORGANS, TISSUES, ETC. (JEWISH LAW) Organ donation and the divine lien in Talmudic law: a pound of flesh / Madeline Kochen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. JUDAICA KBM3116 .K63 2014. Click for full catalog record. 1 - E - EDUCATION, HIGHER -- ISRAEL Yiʻudah shel universiṭah datit / ʻorkhim, Yaʻaḳov ʻIram, Yehudah Fridlander, Shimʻon Oḥayon. Ramat Gan: Universiṭat Bar-Ilan, ©2013. JUDAICA LC321 .Y58 2013. Click for full catalog record. - F - - G - - H - HANUKKAH -- UNITED STATES Hanukkah in America: a history / Dianne Ashton. New York: New York University Press, [2013]. JUDAICA BM695.H3 A84 2013. Click for full catalog record. HOLOCAUST (JEWISH THEOLOGY) In the beginning there was the Holocaust: a spiritual journey back into the abysses of Jewish history / Mosheh Shner. Yerushalayim: Hotsaʼat sefarim ʻa. sh. Y.L. Magnes, ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit, 2013. JUDAICA BM645.H6 S56 2013. Click for full catalog record. HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945), IN MOTION PICTURES Testimony: the legacy of Schindler's List and the USC Shoah Foundation / USC Shoah Foundation; introduction by Steven Spielberg; preface by Stephen D. Smith. First edition. New York: Newmarket Press for It Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, ©2014. JUDAICA PN1997.S3133 T47 2014. Click for full catalog record. - I - INTERNET -- RELIGIOUS ASPECTS The Talmud and the Internet: a journey between worlds / Jonathan Rosen. New York: Picador USA, 2001. JUDAICA BM504 .R657 2001. Click for full catalog record. - J - JEWISH LAW -- HISTORY Introduction to Jewish law in Talmudic times / Shalom Albeck. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, ©2013. JUDAICA BM520.52 .A4313 2013. Click for full catalog record. JEWISH WOMEN -- BIOGRAPHY -- JUVENILE LITERATURE Remarkable Jewish women: rebels, rabbis, and other women from biblical times to the present / by Emily Taitz and Sondra Henry. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, c1996. JUDAICA DS115.2 .T34 1996. Click for full catalog record. JEWISH WOMEN -- PRAYER-BOOKS AND DEVOTIONS -- HEBREW Out of the depths I call to you: a book of prayers for the married Jewish woman / edited and translated by Nina Beth Cardin. 1st softcover ed. Northvale, NJ: J. Aronson, 1995. JUDAICA BM667.W6 S413 1992. Click for full catalog record. JEWS -- CHINA -- HISTORY -- 20TH CENTURY Pepper, silk & ivory: amazing stories about Jews and the Far East / by Rabbi Marvin Tokayer and Ellen Rodman. Springfield, NJ: Gefen Publishing House, [2014]. JUDAICA DS135.J3 T65 2014. Click for full catalog record. 2 JEWS -- HISTORY -- JUVENILE LITERATURE Chronicle of Jewish history: from the patriarchs to the 21st century / Sol Scharfstein; design & graphics by Dorcas Gelabert. Hoboken, NJ: KTAV Pub. House, c1997. JUDAICA DS118 .S3176 1997. Click for full catalog record. The promised land: the birth of the Jewish people / Neil Waldman. 1st ed. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 2002. JUDAICA DS118 .W35 2002. Click for full catalog record. JUDAISM The Talmudic anthology: tales and teachings of the rabbis: a collection of parables, folk-tales, fables, aphorism, epigrams, sayings, anecdotes, proverbs and exegetical interpretations / selected and edited by Louis I. Newman, in collaboration with Samuel Spitz. New York: Behrman House, 1945. JUDAICA BM502 .N4 1945. Click for full catalog record. JUDAISM -- HISTORY -- ANCIENT PERIOD -- SOURCES The rest is commentary: a source book of Judaic antiquity / edited and introduced by Nahum Norbert Glatzer. Boston: Beacon Press, [1961]. JUDAICA BM480 .G55 1961. Click for full catalog record. JUDAISM -- SACRED BOOKS The seventy faces of Torah: the Jewish way of reading the Sacred Scriptures / Stephen M. Wylen. New York; Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, ©2005. JUDAICA BS1225.52 .W95 2005. Click for full catalog record. JUDAISM -- SEPHARDIC RITE -- STUDY AND TEACHING You are the historian / Robert Sugar; Richard Wagner, series editor. 1st ed. New York: CAJE, Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education, 5751, c1991. JUDAICA DS135.S7 O812 1991. Click for full catalog record. - K - - L - - M - MAIMONIDES, MOSES, 1135-1204 -- MISHNEH TORAH -- COMMENTARIES Ḥidushe Maran Riz ha-Leṿi: ḥidushim u-veurim ʻal ha-Rambam. Yerushala[y]im: [ḥ. mo. l.], 773 [2012 or 2013]. JUDAICA BM520.84 .S624 1997. Click for full catalog record. MIDRASH Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash. New York, Meridian Books [1959, ©1931]. JUDAICA BM503.5 .S73 1931. Click for full catalog record. The world of the Midrash. London, T. Yoseloff [1961]. JUDAICA BM514 .L38 1961. Click for full catalog record. MISHNAH -- AVOT -- COMMENTARIES The living Talmud; the wisdom of the Fathers and its classical commentaries, selected and translated with an essay by Judah Goldin. [Chicago] University of Chicago Press [©1957]. JUDAICA BM506 .A23 G6. Click for full catalog record. Torah from our sages: a new American translation and explanation = Pirke Avot / by Jacob Neusner; illustrated by Mordechai Rosenstein. 1st ed. Chappaqua, NY: Rossel Books, ©1984. JUDAICA BM506.A2 E5 1984. Click for full catalog record. 3 - N - NEW MOON -- RELIGIOUS ASPECTS -- JUDAISM Ḳunṭres mi-ḥidushe Maran Riz ha-Leṿi: ʻal ʻinyene ḳ. ha-ḥ., Yoma ṿe-Sukah. Yerushala[y]im; [ḥ. mo. l.], 761 [1999 or 2000]. JUDAICA BM506.25 .Y83 S6394 2000. Click for full catalog record. - O - ORTHODOX JUDAISM -- UNITED STATES Synagogue life: a study in symbolic interaction / Samuel C. Heilman; with a new introduction and afterword by the author. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, c1998. JUDAICA BM205 .H44 1998. Click for full catalog record. - P - PROVERBS, HEBREW Light from the Talmud / by Charles L. Russell. New York: Bloch, 1942. JUDAICA PN6519.H5 T35 1942. Click for full catalog record. PUBLIC PROSECUTORS -- GERMANY -- BIOGRAPHY Hitler's first victims: the quest for justice / Timothy W. Ryback. First edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. JUDAICA KK185.H33 R93 2014. Click for full catalog record. - Q - - R - RABBINICAL LITERATURE -- HISTORY AND CRITICISM Understanding the Talmud / selected with introductions by Alan Corré. New York: Ktav Pub. House, 1975. JUDAICA BM496.5 .U52 1975. Click for full catalog record. - S - SABBATH Sabbath, the day of delight, by Abraham E. Millgram. Philadelphia, The Jewish publication Society of America, [5705-1944]. JUDAICA BM685 .M47 1944. Click for full catalog record. SABBATH -- MEDITATIONS The Jewish Sabbath: a renewed encounter / by Pinchas H. Peli. New York: Schocken Books, 1991. JUDAICA BM685 .P36 1991. Click for full catalog record. SYNAGOGUES -- UNITED STATES -- HISTORY The American synagogue: a sanctuary transformed: a centennial project of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America / Jack Wertheimer, editor. 1st pbk. ed. Hanover: Published by University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press, 1995. JUDAICA BM655 .A48 1995. Click for full catalog record. - T - TALMUD Invitation to the Talmud; a teaching book. [1st ed.]. New York, Harper & Row [1973]. JUDAICA BM503.5 .N48 1973. Click for full catalog record. TALMUD -- INTRODUCTIONS The Talmud: selected writings / translated by Ben Zion Bokser; introduced by Ben Zion Bokser and Baruch M. Bokser; preface by Robert Goldenberg. New York: Paulist Press, [1989]. JUDAICA BM499.5.E5 B65 1989. Click for full catalog record. 4 TEN COMMANDMENTS Broken tablets: restoring the Ten Commandments and ourselves / edited by Rachel S. Mikva. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Pub., c1999. JUDAICA BM520.75 .B75 1999. Click for full catalog record. - U - - V - - W - WAR CRIME TRIALS -- HISTORY -- 20TH CENTURY Forgotten trials of the Holocaust / Michael J. Bazyler and Frank M. Tuerkheimer. New York: New York University Press, [2014]. JUDAICA KZ1174.5 .B39 2014. Click for full catalog record. WOMEN IN JUDAISM The status of women in Jewish law: responsa / by David Golinkin. Jerusalem: The Center for Women in Jewish Law at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, 2012. JUDAICA BM729.W6 G6713 2012. Click for full catalog record. WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 -- JEWISH RESISTANCE Jewish resistance against the Nazis / edited by Patrick Henry. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, ©2014. JUDAICA D810.J4 J49 2014. Click for full catalog record. - X - - Y - - Z - 5 .
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    The Controversy Between R. Yosef Caro and R. Moses Di Trani Concerning the Common Giant Fennel

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  • Rav Shach Vs. Lubavitcher Rebbe Great Rivalries

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