English

Judaism

Origins of Judaism. Volume 1. Part 3. Normative Judaism. / Edited with a preface by Jacob Neusner. - New York - London: Garland, 1999.
(gift from Library of Congress)

Origins of Judaism. Volume 1. Part 2. Normative Judaism. / Edited with a preface by Jacob Neusner. - New York - London: Garland, 1990.
(gift from Library of Congress)

Giller, Pinchas
Reading the Zohar: The Sacred Text of the Kabbalah. - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001
(Gift from Library of Congress)

Isaacs, Ronald H., Olitzky, Kerry M/
Sacred Celebrations: A Jewish Holiday Handbook. - Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1994
(Gift from Library of Congress)

Bonder, Nilton
Yiddishe Kop: Creative Problem Solving in Jewish Learning, Lore and Humor. - Boston-London: Shambala, 1999/
(Gift from Library of Congress)

Lipsitz, Gail Josephson
Practical Parenting: A Jewish Perspective. - Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1997
(Gift from Library of Congress)

Gefen, Nan Fink
Discovering Jewish Meditation: Instruction & Guidance for Learning an Ancient Spiritual Practice. - Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights, 1999/
(Gift from Library of Congress)

Diamant, Anita
Choosing a Jewish Life: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for their Family and Friends/ -New York: Schocken books, 1997
(Gift from Library of Congress)

Hartman, David:
A Heart of Many Rooms: Celebrating the Many Voices within Judaism.
Woodstock, Vermont:Jewish Lights, 1999.
(Gift from Library of Congress)

Slobin, Mark
Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World. -
Oxford - New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. (CD-ROM included).
(Gift from Library of Congress)

Fisher-Roller, Alyse.
The Literary imagination of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women: An Assessment of a Writing Community.
-Jefferson, North Carolina:McFarland & Company, 1999.
(Gift from Library of Congress)

Holocaust

Ottenheimer, Fritz
Escape and Return: Memories of Nazi Germany. -
Kearney, NE: Fritz Ottenheimer, 2000. 167 p. ill.
(Gift from Library of Congress)

Under this Blazing Light: Holocaust Survivors in Israel: The First Decade - Catalog to exhibition. / Yablonka, Hannah. - Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1998.

Yad Vashem Studies XXIX./ edited by David Silberklanng. - Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2001.

Yad Vashem Studies XXX./ edited by David Silberklanng. - Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2002.

The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life: Before and During the Holocaust./ by Shmuel Spector (Editor), Geoffrey Wigoder (Editor), Elie Wiesel . - - Jerusalem: Yad Vashem' 2001

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
This majestic three-volume encyclopedia, abridged from a 30-volume set in Hebrew and with a foreword by Elie Wiesel, chronicles Jewish life before and during the Holocaust. Arranged alphabetically by town, thousands of entries explore centuries of Jewish life. Some entries, particularly for large cities, provide information on Jewish residents as early as the Middle Ages and discuss the fate of Jews during the Black Death persecutions (1348-1349) and various pogroms from the 17th to 20th centuries. Each entry provides vital information on the town's Jewish inhabitants on the eve of German occupation gives the dates of Jewish roundups and mass executions and estimates how many Jews from that community survived the war. Except in very rare cases (as with Copenhagen), the survival statistics are horrifying. But the encyclopedia offers more than statistics: the numbers come to life through more than 600 black-and-white photographs, most of which are from the archives of Israel's Yad Vashem museum. Here we see the vibrancy of Jewish life before the war, kolkhoz theater groups and swing bands, weddings and riotous Purim parties, shops and synagogues. Several of the photographs depict Jewish military units from WWI; others show Jewish young people looking bored in chemistry class or diligently trying to master the violin during orchestra practice. A final 56-page section entitled "In Memoriam" provides unforgettable, haunting photographs of the Holocaust itself. This three-volume set is a required acquisition for libraries and anyone interested in Jewish studies.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc..

Roberts, Jeremy
Oskar Schindler: Righteous Gentile.
-New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, 2000/ (Holocaust Biographies)
(Gift from Library of Congress)

Jewish Philosophy

COHEN, JACK
Major philosophers of Jewish Prayer in the twentieth century. -
New York: Fordham University press, 2000.

Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Arguing that for many people prayer is not a relevant activity, Cohen (Guide for an Age of Confusion) presents nine Jewish philosophers who sought an intellectual base for prayer. Their thinking includes rationalism, moral action, and prayers' function. The philosophers born earlier in the century are more aligned with the orthodox movement than those born later, who are here tied to more liberal movements. Still, Elie Munk's and Abraham Kook's philosophies are as unique as those of their liberal colleagues Eugene Borowitz and Lawrence Hoffman. One chapter discusses feminists' views of prayer, and the last chapter poses the question of prayer's relevance. Cohen shows that prayer is neither a recent concern nor a greater concern for one movement's philosophers than it is for another's. Rather, philosophers from each movement confront it as a part of their thinking. This thoughtful, general summary is concerned with stimulating readers to think about prayer. Readers interested in philosophy and theology, as well as those wishing to learn more about spirituality, will enjoy this book. Recommended for public and undergraduate libraries.
Naomi Hafter, Broward Cty. P.L., Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Israel

The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization/ Edited by Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peled/ - Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2000

Rabinovich, Itamar
Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs at the End of the Century/ -
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999

Israel and a Palestinian State: Zero sum Game / Edited by Arye Stav - 2001. 530 p. ill, index

Editorial Review
This collection of articles, appendices and documents deals with different aspects of the establishment of a Palestinian state in the Western Land of Israel, thus reducing Israel to the borders of June 4, 1967. This initiative, known as "the peace process", involves a paradox where a minuscule democracy is being forced to provide to its totalitarian enemies - scores of times its size - the only thing that it lacks: territory. In exchange, these dictatorial regimes promise to provide the one and only thing that they lack: peace.

The essence of the current process is the establishment of an Arab-Palestinian state in addition to the on that already exists in Jordan, this time in Eretz Israel, beginning with Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem, the cradle of the Hebrew nation and the raison d'etre of Judaism and Zionism.

Contents
Introduction: "Palestine Will Rise Upon the Ruins of Israel": Yitzhak Rabin - Arieh Stav

A DISASTER FORETOLD
Two and a Half Palestinian States - Raphael Israeli
A Disaster Foretold: The Strategic Dangers of a Palestinian State - Aharon Levran
Israel: The West Bank and Modern Arms - Edward Saar
Arafat's Independent Palestine: Defense/Military Impact on Israel - Yoash Tsiddon-Chatto
A Worst Case Scenario: A Palestinian Guerilla Offensive on the Outskirts of Tel Aviv - Yuval Steinitz
Fighting Terror and Winning - Binyamin Netanyahu
Palestinian Expectancy in the Image of Zionism - Aharon Ben-Ami
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict In International Law - Elon Jarden

RHETORIC OF HATRED
Religious, Cultural and Rhetorical Aspects in Palestinian Strategy - Mordechai Nisan
Educating Palestinian Children in the Post Oslo Era... - Raphael Israeli
Palestinian Ideology and Practice 5 Years after Oslo - Moshe Sharon
Israel and the Jews in the Schoolbooks of the Palestinian Authority - Shlomo Sharan
The Hydro-Political Implications of the Oslo Agreements: An Israeli Perspective - Martin Sherman
The Geographic Aspect of a Palestinian State - Arnon Soffer
The Palestinian Refugee Issue and the Demographic Aspect - Atalia Ben-Meir
Israeli Arabs: The Development of Irredentism - Haggai Huberman
Why Demilitarization is Not the Remedy: Israel, Palestine and International Law - Louis René Beres

US AND EUROPE
A Palestinian State in American Policy - Ezra Sohar
The EU View of a Palestinian State - Christopher Barder
Should America Guarantee Israel's Safety - Irving Moskowitz
A Palestinian State and American Interests (Reprinted from: A Palestinian State: Implications for Security and American Policy, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, 1999) - Rudy Boschwitz
Czechoslovakia 1938 - Israel Today - Arieh Stav

DEMORALIZATION
The Beginning of the End? - Yosef Ben-Shlomo
A Palestinian State and the Israeli Public Opinion - Sarit Yalov
The Promise of Post-Oslo Peace and Prosperity: Fantasy in the Guise of Vision - Martin Sherman

OTHER PERSPECTIVES
Israel, A Palestinian State and the Middle East Plus Sum Potentials - Yehezkel Dror
Bi-National Realities versus National Mythologies: The Death of the "Two States" Solution - Ilan Pappe

APPENDICES:
Territorial Corridors between Gaza and Judea and Samaria - Arnon Soffer
Why Military Limitations on a "Palestinian" State Will Fail: A Legal Assessment - Howard Grief
A Palestinian State, Katyusha Range and Strategic Enforcement - Editorial
Shoulder Missile Capabilities with the 1967 Borders Ben-Gurion Airport as an Example - Editorial
The Joint Chiefs of Staff Map for Defensible Israeli Borders - Editorial
We Will Kill, We Will be Killed: Statements by Arafat since the Peace Process Began - Editorial
We Have Made a Covenant with Death and a Contract with Hell - Editorial

DOCUMENTS (Chronological order)
UN Resolution 181
Resolution 194
PLO Charter
PLO Phased Plan
Hamas Charter
Fateh Constitution
Camp David Agreement
Oslo I Accord
Oslo II Accord
Israel-Jordan Agreement
Wye Memorandum

Stone I.F.
Underground to Palestine. -
New York: Pantheon books, 1978
(Gift from Library of Congress)

Said, Edward W.
The end of the Peace Process: Oslo and after. -
Updated edition / - New York: Vintage Books, 2001. -389 p.

Israel & Diaspora

Tye, Larry.
Home Lands: Portraits of the New Jewish Diaspora. -
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2001. 336 p.

From Publishers Weekly
The new Jewish Diaspora of a "heterogeneous people who thrive in secular societies" is here to stay, asserts Boston Globe journalist Tye (The Father of Spin). As these diverse Jewish communities have become not merely way stations but enduring homes, they have begun to remake Judaism itself. Tye tells this intriguing story through sketches of people and of life in seven cities. In Dsseldorf, he finds an Orthodox rabbi invoking a more pluralistic Judaism to educate Russian refugees. In Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, a fervent Lubavitcher Hasidic rabbi has energized a dormant community. In Buenos Aires, a Jewish polity fragmented by economic setbacks and anti-Semitic attacks has begun to revive with new models of worship and organization. In Paris, Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews have forged ties that could serve as a model for their fractious brethren in Israel. Tye's chapter on Dublin, where the Jewish community is dying, may at first seem anomalous, but, he argues, their determination to reestablish their "Gaelic brand of Judaism" elsewhere is a testament to the ability of Jews to survive wherever they may be. His two American chapters focus on Boston, where the Jewish community has fused learning, spirituality and social justice, and Atlanta, where rival denominations work with considerable amity. Yet Tye's optimism might have been better contextualized by a broader survey. Though the author understandably had to winnow his examples from many compelling possibilities, readers may wonder about Jewish communities in such places as Melbourne, Montreal and Johannesburg. While not a breakout book, Tye's presentation of a new Diaspora may intrigue a broad Jewish audience. Agent, Jill Kneerim.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Rosenthal, Steven T.
Irreconcilable Differences?: The Waning of the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel. -
Hanover and London: Brandeis University Press , 2001. 231 p.

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Until the 1970s, American Jews and American-Jewish groups avidly supported Israel, via political lobbying of the U.S. government and financial contributions to the Israeli government and other institutions. Yet in most cases, explains Rosenthal, who teaches history at the University of Hartford, "the Jewish state has had relatively little effect on the religious and cultural life of American Jews"; rather, it served as a comforting source of identity for those in the Diaspora. With balance and clarity, Rosenthal charts the gradual erosion of the "black-and-white morality" that characterized Middle East politics (and the outlook of American Jews) through the Six-Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Israelis were becoming more divided on both political and religious issues, and, he argues, the country's halo slipped with its 1982 invasion of Lebanon, its embrace of American-Jewish spy Jonathan Pollard, its militaristic response to the Palestinian intifada and its acceptance of only Orthodox conversions. Rosenthal is sympathetic, for example, to the mission of the group Breira, which in the 1970s strived "to legitimize public dissent within the American Jewish community," though he is also critical of its "self-righteousness and lack of empathy" for the fears of many Jews. While Rosenthal sees a gulf between liberal Americans and nationalist Israelis, he also believes that Americans can and should support pluralism and tolerance in Israel. More firsthand accounts would have enlivened the book, which draws almost exclusively on secondary sources, though it remains a thoughtful, accessible study.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Each of the ten chapters in Rosenthal's (history, Univ. of Hartford; The Politics of Dependency) study touch on key issues, such as the Pollard affair, the intifada, and the "Who Is a Jew?" controversy, in the relationship between American Jews and Israel. The author examines the evolution of the relationship over the decades, arguing that the unquestioning support American Jews once had for Israel has eroded and that crucial tensions exist today. Israel, now a modern power rather than a fledging nation, is no longer dependent upon the unblinking support of American Jews, who are consumed with immediate concerns (such as the issues raised by the high degree of intermarriage) at home. Many readers might nevertheless argue that the American Jewish community still plays a powerful role, however, and its support, while evolving, remains essential. This clearly written, if controversial, book, will best be appreciated by informed readers who have background knowledge of the subject. Recommended for libraries with strong Jewish studies collections. Paul Kaplan, Lake Villa Dist. Lib., IL
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Levin, Dov
The Litvaks: A Short History of the Jews in Lithuania. -
Jerusalem: Yad Vashem' 2000. (Includes bibliographical references, list of communities and index).

Blady, Ken
Jewish Communities in Exotic Places. -
Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 2000.

Rann, Kenneth L.
Comrades and chicken Ranchers: The Story of a California Jewish Community/ -
Ithaca - London: Cornell University Press, 1993

Raiz, Carmela
Blue Star over Red Square. / Emended and translated from the Russian by Ann K.Brodsky - Jerusalem: Feldheim, 1994

Poetry

Scheindlin, Raymond P.
The Gazelle: Medieval Hebrew Poems on God, Israel and the Soul -
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991
Bashevis Singer, Isaac. More Stories From My Father's Court ./ Translated from the Yiddish by Curt Leviant/ - New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
215 p.

Oz, Amos.
The same sea. /
Translated from Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange in collaboration with the author. - London: Vintage, 2002. 200 p.

Amichai, Yehuda/
Open Closed Open: Poems
New York: Harcourt, 2000. 184 p.

Marks, Gil
The World of Jewish Cooking: More than 500 traditional recipes from Alsace to Yemen. -
New York: Fireside, 1996

Antisemitism

Salkin, Jeffrey
Searching for my brothers: Jewish Men in a Gentile World. -
New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons,1999.

Rubin, Miri
Gentile Tales: the Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews. -
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999

Theories of Myth: From Ancient Israel and Greece to Freud, Jung, Campbell and Levi-Strauss.
Vol. 1.: Psychology and Myth. /Edited with introductions by Robert A.Segal. - New York - London: Garland Publishing, 1996

Freud's Models of the Mind./ Joseph Sandler, Alex Holder, Christopher Dare, Anna Ursula Dreher -
London: Karnac Books, 1997. (Psychoanalytic Monographs #1)

Rutter, Peter
Understanding and Preventing Sexual Harassment: The Complete Guide. -
New York: Bantam Books, 1997

Debartolo Carmack, Sharon
The Genealogy Sourcebook. -
Los Angeles: Lowell House, 1997

Sex, Race, and Merit: Debating Affirmative Action in Education and Employment.
/Faye J/Crosby and Cheryl VanDeVeer, editors. -
Ann Arbor - The University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Markowith, Fran
Coming of age in Post-Soviet Russia. -
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Leudar, Ivan
Thomas, Philip
Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity: Studies of verbal hallucinations. -
London - Philadelphia: Routledge, 2000.

Ostrower, Gary B.
The United Nations and the United States. -
New York:Twayne, 1998.

McCollum, James
Is Communism dead Forever? -
New York: University Press of America, 1998

Sternberg, Patricia ; Garcia, Antonina
Sociodrama: Who's in Your Shoes? / Second Edition/ -
Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2000.

The Couch and the Tree: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism. /
Edited by Anthony Molino. -
New York: North Point Press, 1998.