New Acquisitions, Los Angeles
Thursday, July 31, 2008
July 11 - 30, 2008
Modernism and the Middle East : architecture and politics in the twentieth century / edited by Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar Rizvi.
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008.
x, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
NA 2543 S6 M5.8 2008
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
The essential Hitler : speeches and commentary / [edited with commentary by] Max Domarus ; [abridgment] edited by Patrick Romane ; foreword by Charles W. Sydnor, Jr.
Wauconda, Ill. : Bolchazy-Carducci Pub., c2007.
xvii, 862 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
DD 247 H5 A5.75132 2007
Lewy, Guenter, 1923-
If God is dead, everything is permitted? / Guenter Lewy.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2008.
x, 115 p. ; 24 cm.
BJ 47 L4.9 2008
Pérez Gay, José María, 1943-
The unfortunate passion of Hermann Broch / José María Pérez Gay ; translated from the Spanish by Eduardo Jiménez Mayo.
nez Mayo. Mountain View, CA : Floricanto
ss, 2007. xix, 14
PT 2603 R6.57 Z8 .1413 2007
Schneider, Tammi J. (Tammi Joy), 1962-
Mothers of promise : women in the book of Genesis / Tammi J. Schneider.
Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, c2008.
p. cm.
BS 575 S3.6 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
June 23 - July 10, 2008
B'nafshecha : the fifth direction / compiled, edited and written by Dannel I. Schwartz, Michael L. Moskowitz ; designed and illustrated by Laurie Blume.
[West Bloomfield, MI? : Temple Shir Shalom?], c2007.
83 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
BM 675 A3 S3.9 2007
A feminist commentary on the Babylonian Talmud : introduction and studies / edited by Tal Ilan ... [et al.].
Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, 200
x, 324 p. ; 24 c
BM 506 M7.3 F4.6 2007
Jewish society and culture : an economic perspective / edited by Carmel U. Chiswick, Tikva Lecker, Nava Kahana.
Ramat Gan : Bar-Ilan University Press, [2007].
206 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
BM 509 E2.7 J49 2007
Leadership in times of crisis / edited by Moises Orfali
Ramat-Gan : Bar Ilan University Press, 2007.
359 p. ; 25 cm.
HD 57.7 L4.34 2007
Sacred marriages : the divine-human sexual metaphor from Sumer to early Christianity / edited by Martti Nissinen and Risto Uro.
Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2008.
xii, 543 p. ; 24 cm.
BL 462 S3.3 2008
Seder stories : Passover thoughts on food, family & freedom / [compiled by] Nancy Rips.
Nashville, Tenn. : Cumberland House, c2008.
191 p. ; 18 cm.
BM 695 P3S4.4 2008
אנו מכריזים בזאת
[Tel Aviv?] : ʻEran Liṭṿin,
1 sound disc : digital, stereo. ; 4 3
CD Disc
Ashery, Asaf
סימנטוב \ אסף אשרי.
Or Yehuda : Zmora-Bitan, 200
245 p. ; 21 c
PJ 5055 .12 S5.35 S5 2008
Attias, Jean-Christophe
ha-Perush ke-diʼalog : Mordekhai Eliʻezer Komṭino ʻal ha-Torah, Ḳushṭa, 1460 / Z'an-Krisṭof Aṭiʼas.
taire biblique Yerushalayim : Hotsaʼat sefarim Ê»a. sh. Y.L. Magnes, ha-UniversitÌ
ha-ʻIvrit, c2007
BS 1225 C6.56 A7.715 2007
Beck, John A., 1956-
God as storyteller : seeking meaning in Biblical narrative / John A. Beck.
St. Louis, Mo. : Chalice Press, c2008.
201 p. ; 23 cm.
BT 83.78 B43 2008
Bush, Lawrence
Waiting for God : the spiritual explorations of a reluctant atheist / by Lawrence Bush.
Teaneck, N.J. : Ben Yehuda Press, 2007.
209 p. ; 23 cm.
BL 624 B8.85 2007
Codor, Dick
Richard Codor's joyous haggadah : the illuminated story of Passover / as told by Richard and Liora Codor.
[Cleveland Hgts., OH? : Published by Loose Line Productions], c2008.
48 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
BM 674.673 C6.7 2008
Eckman, Lester Samuel
History of yeshivot in Lithuania and White Russia from their beginnings until 1945 / by Lester Eckman.
Elizabeth N.J. : Judaic Research Institute, 2006.
343 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
BM 85 L5.7 E43 2006
Eisner, Will
A contract with God and other tenement stories : a graphic novel / by Will Eisner.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2006.
182 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
PN 6727 E4 C6 2006
Gelber, Yoav
The new post-zionist historians / Yoav Gelber.
[New York: : Dorothy and Julius Koppelman Institute on American Jewish-Israeli Relations ; American Jewish Committee, c 2008.
58 p. ; 22 cm.
DS 113.4 G4.5 2008
Goldman, Eric A. (Eric Arthur)
The American Jewish experience through the lens of cinema : film history as haggadah / Eric A. Goldman.
[New York ] : American Jewish Committee, c2008.
34 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
PN 1995.9 J4.6 G6.5 2008
Heinemann, Yiẓḥak, 1876-1957
The reasons for the commandments in Jewish thought : from the Bible to the Renaissance / by Isaac Heinemann ; translated by Leonard Levin.
nard Levin. Boston : Academic Studie
BM 520.7 H4.213 2008
Hirschland, Ellen B.
The Cone sisters of Baltimore : collecting at full tilt / Ellen B. Hirschland, Nancy Hirschland Ramage.
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2008.
xviii, 279 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
N 5220 C7.5 H57 2008
Ilan, Ṭal
Massekhet Taʻanit : text, translation, and commentary / Tal Ilan.
. TuÌbingen : Mohr Siebeck,
x, 340 p. ;
BM 506 T2.3 I 5.3 2008
Kapitolnik, Yael
Sipurim mitʻorerim le-ḥayim / Yaʻel Ḳapiṭolniḳ.
to life MevasÌeret Tsiyon : Tsiv
nim, [2008] 144 p. :
PJ 5055.26 A6.16 S46 2008
Kertész, Imre, 1929-
Detective story / Imre Kertész ; translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson.
an ed. New York : A.A. Kno
2008. 112 p.
PH 3281 K3.815 D4.813 2008
Kertész, Imre, 1929-
The pathseeker / Imre Kertész ; translated, with an afterword, by Tim Wilkinson.
n. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House,
129 p. ;
PH 3281 K3.815 N9.13 2008
Levenda, Peter
Stairway to heaven : Chinese alchemists, Jewish kabbalists, and the art of spiritual transformation / Peter Levenda.
New York : Continuum, 2008.
xv, 256 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
BF 1999 L3.395 2008
Levinson, Julian.
Exiles on main street : Jewish American writers and American literary culture / Julian Levinson.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.
x, 239 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
PS 153 J4 L48 2008
Magid, Shaul, 1958-
From metaphysics to midrash : myth, history, and the interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala / Shaul Magid.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.
xii, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
BM 525 L8.35 M34 2008
Martin, Dale B., 1954-
Pedagogy of the Bible : an analysis and proposal / Dale B. Martin.
Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2008.
xii, 130 p. ; 23 cm.
BS 600.3 M3.23 2008
Mills, Mary E.
Alterity, pain and suffering in Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel / Mary E. Mills.
New York ; London : T & T Clark, c2007.
viii, 174 p. ; 24 cm.
BS 1515.52 M5.5 2007
Mudge, Lewis Seymour
The gift of responsibility : the promise of dialogue among Christians, Jews, and Muslims / Lewis S. Mudge.
New York : Continuum, c2008.
xiii, 313 p. ; 23 cm.
BR 127 M8.3 2008
Nadelson, Reggie
Hot poppies / Reggie Nadelson.
London : Arrow Books, 2006, c1997.
360 p. ; 18 cm.
PS 3564 A2.87 H6 2006
Nes, Adi, 1966-
עדי נס
Tel Aviv : Muzeʼon Tel-Aviv le-omanut, 2
. 150 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 x 27
TR 647 N4.452 2007
Oxford Old Testament Seminar
Temple and worship in biblical Israel : proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar / edited by John Day.
London ; New York : T & T Clark, 2007.
559 p. ; 24 cm.
BM 655 O 9.45 2007
Price, Robert M., 1954-
Top secret : the truth behind today's pop mysticisms / Robert M. Price ; foreword by Julia Sweeney.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2008.
370 p. ; 24 cm.
BL 625 P7.3 2008
Rekhess, Eric
The Arab minority in Israel : an analysis of the "Future visions" documents / Elie Rekhess.
[New York] : American Jewish Committee, c2008.
39 p. ; 22 cm.
DS 113.7 R3.553 2008
Rose, Ernestine L. (Ernestine Louise), 1810-1892
Mistress of herself : speeches and letters of Ernestine Rose, early women's rights leader / edited and with an introduction by Paula Doress-Worters ; foreword by Ellen Carol DuBois.
New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2008.
xxix, 389 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
HQ 1413 R6 A34 2008
Sarid, Yossi, 1940-
לפיכך נתכנסנו / יוסי שריד.
ivit [Tel Aviv] : YediÊ»ot ahÌ£aronot, Sifre hÌ
ed, 2008. 20
PJ 5054 S2.235 L44 2008
Scholz, Susanne, 1966-
Introducing the women's Hebrew Bible / Susanne Scholz.
London ; New York : T & T Clark, c2007.
142 p. ; 24 cm.
BS 521.4 S3.4 2007
Shem, Samuel
The spirit of the place : a novel / Samuel Shem.
Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2008.
334 p. ; 25cm.
PS 3569 H3.9374 S6.6 2008
Sperber, Daniel
The Jewish life cycle : custom, lore and iconography : Jewish customs from the cradle to the grave / Daniel Sperber.Ram
Ramat Gan : Bar-Ilan University Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
676 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
BM 700 S6.47 2008
Tal, Judy
השד מברלין / ג'ודי טל.
Bene Beraḳ : ha-Ḳibuts ha-meʼuḥa
[2008] 232 p
PJ 5055.43 A3.93 S54 2008
Vermès, Géza, 1924-
The Resurrection / Geza Vermes.
. New York : Doubleday, c2
. xix, 171 p. ; 22
BT 482 V4.7 2008
Walters, Barbara, 1931-
Audition : a memoir / Barbara Walters.
New York : A.A. Knopf, 2008.
viii, 612 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
PN 4874 W2.85 A3 2008
Wilkinson, Paul Richard
For Zion's sake : Christian zionism and the role of John Nelson Darby / Paul Richard Wilkinson ; foreword by Thomas Ice.
Milton Keynes, [England] ; Colorado Springs, Colo. : Paternoster, 2007.
xviii, 308 ; 23 cm.
DS 150.5 W5.55 2007
Monday, June 23, 2008
June 10 - 22, 2008
Cities through the looking glass : essays on the history and archaeology of biblical urbanism / ed. by Rami Arav.
Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2008.
X, 134 p. : ill. krt., plgr. ; 24 cm.
BS 680 C5 C5.8 2008
Hebrew writers on writing / edited by Peter Cole.
San Antonio : Trinity University Press, c2008.
315p. 23cm.
PJ 5059 E1 H4.3 2008
Israel at the polls 2006 / edited by Shmuel Sandler, Manfred Gerstenfeld and Jonathan Rynhold.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
JQ 1830 A9.5 I 8 2008
Religious responses to political crisis in Jewish and Christian tradition / edited by Henning Graf Reventlow and Yair Hoffman.
New York : T & T Clark International, c2008.
175 p. 23 cm.
BS 680 P4.5 R45 2008
This I believe II : more personal philosophies of remarkable men and women / edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman with John Gregory and Viki Merrick ; additional editing by Emily Botein ... [et al.].
New York : Henry Holt, 2008.
253 p. 21cm.
BD 215 T4.9 2008
War in the Bible and terrorism in the twenty-first century / edited by Richard S. Hess and Elmer A. Martens.
Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2008.
xii, 155 p. ; 24 cm.
BS 680 W2 W3.7 2008
Assmann, Jan
Of God and gods : Egypt, Israel, and the rise of monotheism / Jan Assmann.
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008.
x, 196 p. ; 23 cm.
BL 221 A8.8 2008
Bobker, Joe.
Pirkei avos with a twist of humor / Joe Bobker.
Jerusalem : Gefen Publishing, 2008
xvi, 290 p. ; 25 cm.
BM 506 A2.3 B6.2 2008
Dalin, David G.
Icon of evil : Hitler's mufti and the rise of radical Islam / David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann.
New York : Random House, 2008.
p. cm.
DS 125.3 H7.9 D3.5 2008
Feder, Avraham H
Torah through a zionist vision / Avraham Feder.
Jerusalem : New York : Gefen Publishing, 2008
2 v. ; 25 cm.
BS1225 .53 F4.5 2008
Harel, Amos
34 days : Israel, Hezbollah, and the war in Lebanon / Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
xi, 288 p. ; 25 cm.
DS 87.65 H3.7 2008
Harmer, H. J. P.
Rosa Luxemburg / Harry Harmer.
London : Haus, 2008.
170 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
HX 274.7 L8.9 H3.7 2008
Reiter, Yitzhak
Jerusalem and its role in Islamic solidarity / Yitzhak Reiter.
New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
196 p. ; 22 cm.
BP 190.5 P3 R4.48 2008
Sabar, Ariel
My father's paradise : a son's search for his Jewish past in Kurdish Iraq / Ariel Sabar.
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008.
p.334 21cm.
DS 135 K8 S23 2008
Shapiro, Dani
Black & white / Dani Shapiro..
New York : Anchor Books, 2008.
255 p. ; 20 cm.
PS 3569 H3.387 B5 2008
Tegegne, Baruch.
Baruch's Odyssey : an Ethiopian Jew's struggle to save his people / Baruch Tegegne as told to Phyllis Schwartzman Pinchuk.
Jerusalem ; New York : Gefen Publishing House, 2008.
218 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
DS 113.8 F3.4 T4.4 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
May 28 - June 9, 2008
Cradle of Christianity : treasures from the Holy Land / [curators, David Mevorah and Yael Israeli].
Beachwood, Ohio : Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage ; Jerusalem : Israel Museum, c2006.
56 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
BR 133 I 7.5 C7.33 2006
The draft civil code for Israel in comparative perspective / edited by Kurt Siehr and Reinhard Zimmermann.
TuÌbingen : Mohr Siebeck, 200
xiv, 373 p. ; 24 c
KMK 479 D7.3 2008
Religious tolerance in world religions / edited by Jacob Neusner and Bruce Chilton.
West Conshohocken, Pa. : Templeton Foundation Press, c2008.
viii, 396 p. ; 23 cm.
BL 85 R3.897 2008
Rodef Shalom Congregation : 150 years of living by Jewish values.
Pittsburgh : Rodef Shalom Congregation, c2007
56 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
BM 225 P5.8 R6.3 2007
Bailey, F. G. (Frederick George)
God-botherers and other true believers : Gandhi, Hitler, and the religious right / F. G. Bailey.
New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2008.
xi, 229 p. ; 24 cm.
BL 65 P7 B3.5 2008
Daube, David
The deed and the doer in the Bible / David Daube ; compiled and edited by Calum Carmichael.
Philadelphia, PA : Templeton Foundation Press, 2008.
xii, 300 p. ; 23 cm.
BS 511.3 D3.65 2008
Fraenkel, Carlos, 1971-
מן הרמב׳׳ם לשמואל אבן תיבון : דרכו של דלאלה׳ אלחאירין למורה הנבוכים / קרלוס פרנקל.
Tibbon Yerushalayim : Hotsaʼat sefarim Ê»a. sh. Y.L. Magnes, ha-UniversitÌ£ah ha-Ê
rit, [c2007]. 12, 421
BM 545 D3.5 F7.2 2007
Goldberg, Steven, 1947-
Bleached faith : the tragic cost when religion is forced into the public square / Steven Goldberg.
Stanford, CA : Stanford Law Books, c2008.
ix, 161 p. ; 23 cm.
KF 4783 G6.5 2008
Grossman, David
אשה בורחת מבשורה / דויד גרוסמן.
nd Bene BerakÌ£ : ha-Ḳibuts ha-meʼuhÌ£ad : Sifre siman á¸
iʼah, [2008]
PJ 5054 G7.28 I 7.5 2008
Pinkus, Yirmi, 1966-
הקברט ההיסטורי של פרופסור פבריקנט / ירמי פינקוס ; עם ציורים מאת המחבר.
ical cabaret Tel-Aviv : Ê
ʻoved, 2008. 303
PJ 5055.37 I 5.5 K3.4 2008
Putnam, Hilary.
Jewish philosophy as a guide to life : Rosenzweig, Buber, Lévinas, Wittgenstein / Hilary Putnam.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c200
x, 121 p. ; 22 c
B 755 P8.8 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
May 16 - 27, 2008
איל פריזינטי : מחקרים בתרבות יהודי ספרד \ ערוכים תמר אלכסנדר ויעקב בן-טולילה.
rdic culture Beʼer Sheva : ha-Maḥlaḳah le-sifrut ʻIvrit, Hotsaʼat ha-sefarim shel Universṭat
-Guryon ba-Ne
PC 4813.6 P7.4
השפה העברית בעידן הגלובליזציה
balization Yerushalayim : Hotsaʼat sefarim ʻa. sh. Y.L. Magnes, ha- Universiṭah ha-ʻIvri
768 [2007 or 2008]
PJ 45.44.75 S2.4 2007
Bronznick, Shifra.
Leveling the playing field : advancing women in Jewish organizational life / Shifra Bronznick, Didi Goldenhar, Marty Linsky.
[United States] : Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Community ; Cambridge Leadership Associates, 2008.
128 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
HD 6058 B7.6 2008
Gibbs, Graham
Analyzing qualitative data / Graham R. Gibbs.
Los Angeles : Sage Publications, 2007.
xiii, 160 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
H 62 G5.3 2007
Kugler, Victor.
Victor Kugler : the man who hid Anne Frank / as told to and edited by Eda Shapiro ; compiled and edited by Rick Kardonne.
Jerusalem : Gefen Publishing, c2008.
136 p. ; 25 cm.
DS 135 N6K8.4 2008
Nadelson, Reggie
Disturbed earth / Reggie Nadelson.
New York : Walker & Company, 2007.
341p. ; 21 cm.
PS 3564 A2.8 D5.7 2007
Ozick, Cynthia
Dictation : a quartet / Cynthia Ozick.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
179 p. ; 22 cm.
PS 3565 Z5D5.3 2008
Rubin, Chana
Food for the soul : traditional Jewish wisdom for healthy eating / Chana Rubin.
Jerusalem : Gefen Publishing, 2008.
XI, 300 p. 22 cm.
TX 724 R8.3 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
The Soviet Union and the June 1967 Six Day War / edited by Yaacov Ro'i and Boris Morozov.
Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.
xxiv, 366 p. ; 24 cm.
DS 127 S6.8 2008
Bailey, Carol A., 1950-
A guide to qualitative field research / Carol A. Bailey.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, c2007.
xv, 214 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
H62 .B275 2007
Bar, Doron, 1965-
לקדש ארץ : המקומות הקדושים היהודיים במדינת ישראל, 1948־1968 / דורון בר.
a land Yerushalayim : Yad YitshÌ£akÌ£ Ben Tsevi ; [Beersheba] : Mekhon Ben-Guryon le-hÌ£ekÌ£er YisÌraʼel vÌ£eha-Tisyonut, UniversitÌ£at Ben-
on ba-Negev, [c2007].
DS 111.7 B3.7 2007
Barbour, Rosaline S.
Introducing qualitative research : a student's guide to the craft of qualitative research / Rosaline S. Barbour.
Los Angeles : Sage Publications Ltd, 2008.
viii, 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
H 62 B3.32 2008
Eager, Paige Whaley, 1973-
From freedom fighters to terrorists : women and political violence / Paige Whaley Eager.
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.
240 p. ; 24 cm.
HQ 1121 E2.4 2008
Gewirtz, Matthew D.
The gift of grief : finding peace, transformation, and renewed life after great sorrow / Matthew D. Gewirtz.
Berkeley, Calif. : Celestial Arts, c2008.
152 p. ; 19 cm.
BL 65 B4.7 G4.7 2008
Janssens, David, 1971-
Between Athens and Jerusalem : philosophy, prophecy, and politics in Leo Strauss's early thought / David Janssens.
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.
xiii, 258 p. ; 24 cm.
B 945 S8.4 J3.613 2008
Payton, Robert L.
Understanding philanthropy : its meaning and mission / Robert L. Payton and Michael P. Moody.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.
xiv, 205 p. ; 25 cm.
BJ 1533 P5 P3.9 2008
Schoolman, Leonard A.
The changing Christian world : a brief introduction for Jews / by Leonard A. Schoolman.
Woodstock, Vt. : Jewish Lights Pub., c2008.
viii, 163 p. ; 22 cm.
BR 121.3 S3.6 2008
Schweid, Eliezer
The philosophy of the Bible as foundation of Jewish culture. Philosophy of biblical law / Eliezer Schweid ; translated from Hebrew by Leonard Levin.
. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2
. viii, 216 p. ; 24
BS 645 S 3.9213 2008
Silverman, David.
Doing qualitative research : a comprehensive guide / David Silverman, Amir Marvasti.
Los Angeles : Sage Publications, c2008.
xviii, 555 p. ; 23 cm.
H 62 S4.72 2008
Tuan, Yi-fu, 1930-
Human goodness / Yi- fu Tuan.
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008.
xii, 232 p. ; 19 cm.
BJ 1531 T8.3 2008
Weiner, Hollace Ava, 1946-
Jewish "Junior League" : the rise and demise of the Fort Worth Council of Jewish Women / Hollace Ava Weiner.
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2008.
xix, 188 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
E 184.36 W6.4 W4.5 2008
