New books May 2015

By Vanessa Freedman, on 10 June 2015

Antisemitism and the constitution of sociology / edited and with an introduction by Marcel Stoetzler. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
HEBREW A 110 STO

Edelheit, Abraham J. and Hershel Edelheit. Bibliography on Holocaust literature. Boulder : Westview Press, 1986.
HEBREW A 131 EDE

Milch, Baruch. Can heaven be void? Jerusalem : Yad Vashem, 2003.
HEBREW A 134 MIL

Ba-arets uva-tefutsot bi-yeme Bayit sheni uvi-teḳufat ha-Mishnah : sefer zikaron le-Aryeh Kasher / ʻorekh Yuval Shaḥar ; be-shituf ʻim Aharon Openhaimer, Raz Musṭigman. [Tel Aviv] : Universiṭat Tel Aviv, 2012.
HEBREW A 6 CAS

Sachar, Howard Morley. A history of the Jews in the modern world. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
HEBREW A 80 SAC

Abramsky, Sasha. The house of twenty thousand books. London : Halban, 2014.
HEBREW B 20 ABR

Holocaust poetry / compiled and introduced by Hilda Schiff. London : Fount, 1995.
HEBREW Q 19 SCH

Goldingay, John. A critical and exegetical commentary on Isaiah 56-66. London : Bloomsbury, 2014.
HEBREW QM 3 ICC

The Oxford handbook of the Psalms / edited by William P. Brown. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
HEBREW QM 42 BRO

Erlich, Avi. Ancient Zionism : the Biblical origins of the national idea. New York ; London : Free Press, c1995.
HEBREW QM 7 ERL

Korpel, Marjo C. A. and Johannes C. de Moor. Adam, Eve, and the Devil : a new beginning. Sheffield, England : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014.
HEBREW QM 7 KOR

Ganzfried, Solomon ben Joseph. Code of Jewish law : (Kitzur Shulḥan Aruḥ) : a compilation of Jewish laws and customs. New York : Hebrew Publishing Company, [1961]
HEBREW RH 123 GAN

Theological dictionary of the Old Testament / edited by G. Johannes Botterweck and Helmer Ringgren. Grand Rapids, MI : William B. Eerdman, 1977- .
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Der puṭṭerner eyṿen = Tanur shel ḥemah. Pieṭrḳov : Bene Maʻarava ʻa.y. Netanʼel, 1904.
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Greenberg, Raphael and Yonathan Mizrachi. From Shiloah to Silwan : visitor’s guide to ancient Jerusalem (City of David) and the village of Silwan. Jerusalem : Emek Shaveh, 2011.
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Gertner, Yeoshua. Der Untergang von Kosow und Zabie : zwei Augenzeugenberichte einer Katastrophe. Himberg bei Wien : Weiner Verlag, c1998.
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Facsimile of Joseph ben David, of Leipnik “Birkat Hamazon” : Grace after meals and other blessings : Darmstadt, 1732. Philadelphia : Rosenbach Museum & Library, c2007.
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L’ affaire Dreyfus : vérités et mensonges. Paris : Société d’Éditions Scientifiques, 1994.
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Goldfaden, Abraham. Der fanaṭiḳ, oder, Di beyde Ḳuni-Lemil : opereṭa in 4 aḳṭen un in 8 bilder. Ṿarsha : Boymriṭṭer va-ḥatano Gonshor, 647 [1886 or 1887]
YIDDISH BOXED PAMPHLETS C 200 GOL

New books April 2015

By Vanessa Freedman, on 14 May 2015

Celebrate her for the fruit of her hands : essays in honor of Carol L. Meyers / edited by Susan Ackerman, Charles E. Carter, and Beth Alpert Nakhai ; with Karla G. Bohmbach and Franz Volker Greifenhagen. Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2015.
HEBREW A 6 MEY

L’histoire et la mémoire de l’histoire : hommage à Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi / sous la direction de Sylvie Anne Goldberg. Paris : Albin Michel, [2012]
HEBREW A 6 YER

The homilies of Aphraates, the Persian sage / edited from Syriac manuscripts of the fifth and sixth centuries in the British Museum ; edited with an introduction by William Wright. Piscataway, NJ : G&C Kiraz, 2013.
HEBREW A 65 APH

Tyrmand, Leopold. Diary 1954 / translated from the Polish by Anita Shelton and A. J. Wrobel. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
HEBREW B 20 TYR

Wein, Susanne. Antisemitismus im Reichstag : judenfeindliche Sprache in Politik und Gesellschaft der Weimarer Republik. Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang Edition, [2014]
HEBREW DD 14 WEI

Juden in Deutschland, Deutschland in den Juden : neue Perspektiven / herausgegeben von Y. Michal Bodemann und Micha Brumlik. Göttingen : Wallstein, c2010.
HEBREW DD 16 BOD

Friedman, Thomas L. From Beirut to Jerusalem. London : Fontana, 1990.
HEBREW FC 16 FRI

Laqueur, Walter. Confrontation : the Middle-East war and world politics. London : Wildwood House, [1974]
HEBREW FC 16 LAQ

Shokeid, Moshe. The dual heritage : immigrants from the Atlas mountains in an Israeli village / foreword by Max Gluckman. New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Books, [1985]
HEBREW FC 29 ROM

My shadow in Dachau : poems by victims and survivors of the concentration camp / compiled and annotated by Dorothea Heiser ; with a foreword by Walter Jens ; English translation edited and with a foreword by Stuart Taberner. Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2014.
HEBREW Q 19 HEI

Baden, Joel S. The composition of the Pentateuch : renewing the documentary hypothesis. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2012]
HEBREW QM 10 BAD

Textbook of Aramaic ostraca from Idumea / [compiled, edited, and translated into English by] Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni ; with the assistance of Matt Kletzing and Eugen Han. Volume 1, Dossiers 1-10: 401 commodity chits. Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2014.
HEBREW QUARTOS A 54 POR

Talmuda de-Eretz Israel : archaeology and the rabbis in late antique Palestine / edited by Steven Fine and Aaron Koller. Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2014]
HEBREW R 6 FIN

Jassen, Alex P. Scripture and law in the Dead Sea scrolls. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
HEBREW W 142 JAS

Sagiv, Gad. ha-Shoshelet : Bet Ts’ernobil u-meḳomo be-toldot ha-Ḥasidut. Yerushalayim : Merkaz Zalman Shazar le-ḥeḳer toldot ha-ʻam ha-Yehudi, c774 [2014]
HEBREW W 250 SAG

Mani Leib. Kinder-Lider / ilusṭriṭ fun Z. Moud. Gazlonim ; Di noyṭ ; Ingel tsingel khṿat ; In a ṿinṭerdige nakhṭ ; Der fremder ; Der shlof ; Dos liedel fun broyṭ, dray malokhim, un andere.  [New York?] : Ferlag Inzel, [1918?]
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Ber Borokhoṿs lebn. Ṿarshe : Naye-ḳulṭur, 1927.
STORE

Schechter, Joel. Radical Yiddish : essays & comic strips / illustrated by Spain. Accord, NY : Published by Jewish Currents Magazine, [2013]
YIDDISH A 6 SCH

Nakhimovsky, Alice S., & Roberta Newman. Dear Mendl, dear Reyzl : Yiddish letter manuals from Russia and America. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]
YIDDISH B 10 NAK

Shayḳeṿiṭsh, N. M. Der ḳugel : eyne humorisṭishe ertsehlung fun Rebe Yudḳe Shmerḳes. Ṿilna : [o. fg.], 1890.
YIDDISH BOXED PAMPHLETS C 200 SHA

Tolkachev, Zinoviĭ. Dos shṭeṭl. Ṿarshe : Dos naye lebn, 1946.
YIDDISH BOXED PAMPHLETS C 200 SHO:TOL

Di rikhṭungen in der profesyoneler baṿegung. Palesṭine : aroysgegebn fun Tsentral-roṭ fun der Arbeṭer-fraḳtsye, 1925.
YIDDISH BOXED PAMPHLETS D 50 TSE

Birnbaum, Uriel. Uriel Birnboym album : tseykhnungen tsu Yitsḥaḳ Leyb Perets, Yaʻaḳov Dinezohn, Mendele Moykher Sforim, Sholem Aleykhem, Shimon Shemuʼel Frug. Ṿin : Ḳṿal Farlag, 5681 [1920 or 1921]
YIDDISH BOXED PAMPHLETS F 200 BIR

Early Yiddish epic / edited and translated by Jerold C. Frakes. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2014]
YIDDISH C 10 FRA

Norich, Anita. Writing in tongues : translating Yiddish in the twentieth century. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]
YIDDISH C 5 NOR

Anglo-Jews, Christian Zionists and more

By Vanessa Freedman, on 1 May 2015

We are holding an event showcasing some items from the Jewish Pamphlet project with a talk from Professor Colin Shindler of SOAS, University of London. This will take place on Thursday 14 May 2015 from 5:30 – 7pm in the UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department Seminar Room, Foster Court Room 331. Admission is free but you need to book a place by emailing Tabitha Tuckett
(or telephone 020 7679 7827).

Uncovering UCL’s Jewish Pamphlet Collections: an update

By Vanessa Freedman, on 29 April 2015

The first phase of the project to catalogue the Jewish pamphlets at UCL Special Collections is now nearing completion, with over 3,000 pamphlets catalogued. There are now detailed records in Explore for each pamphlet, making this rich collection available for use by scholars and the general public.

The pamphlets catalogued so far date from the 17th century onwards, the greater part from the 19th century, approximately 150 from the 18th century, a handful from the 17th century, and the rest from the 20th century.

‘The Author listening to the speech of Baron Lionel de Rothschild …’. Frontispiece of Advocacy of Jewish freedom / by “William Thornborrow”. London, 1848. From the collection of the Guildhall Library. Ref: SR MOCATTA PAMPHLETS BOX 9

The pamphlets come from the collections of various individuals and organisations including philanthropist, historian and bibliophile Frederic David Mocatta (1828-1905); Canadian rabbi Aaron David Meldola de Sola (1853-1918); Asher Myers, editor of the Jewish Chronicle (1848-1902); historian Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1875-1954); scholar and founder of British Liberal Judaism Claude Goldsmid Montefiore (1858-1938); the Guildhall Library; the Jewish Museum of London; Jews’ College Library; and the Offenbach am Main Archival Depot (located in the American Sector of postwar Germany, its objective was to collect books, manuscripts and archival materials taken by the Nazis and return them to their country of origin).

The pamphlets catalogued so far relate to a wide range of subjects including: the Jewish community in the United Kingdom and the colonies, its legal status, economic and social conditions and educational and religious institutions; anti-semitism; missionary activities focused on the Jews; and Zionism. There is some interesting liturgical material, such as special services marking the dedication of particular synagogues and events of major national interest, such as the safe recovery from childbirth of Queen Victoria. There are also several 18th century celebratory Hebrew poems from Italy and the Netherlands.

‘Esther’s suit for the Jews’. Frontispiece of Esther’s suit to King Ahasuerus in behalf of the Jews. In a letter to a member of Parliament. London, 1753. Ref: SR MOCATTA PAMPHLETS BOX 8

On Thursday the 14th of May, there will be an evening pop-up event at UCL to present some of the most interesting items from the collection: details to follow.

Anyone wishing to consult the collection should make an appointment with UCL Special Collections at least two weeks in advance.

New books March 2015

By Vanessa Freedman, on 23 April 2015

Exchange and transmission across cultural boundaries : philosophy, mysticism and science in the Mediterranean world / edited by Haggai Ben-Shammai, Shaul Shaked, Sarah Stroumsa. Jerusalem : The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2013.
HEBREW A 6 BEN

Freud-Kandel, Miri. Orthodox Judaism in Britain since 1913 : an ideology forsaken. London : Vallentine Mitchell, 2006.
HEBREW BA 52 FRE

Mandel, Maud. Muslims and Jews in France : history of a conflict. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
HEBREW CF 16 MAN

Linhard, Tabea Alexa. Jewish Spain : a Mediterranean memory. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
HEBREW CG 15 LIN

Shavit, Ari. My promised land : the triumph and tragedy of Israel. Melbourne : Scribe, 2014.
HEBREW FC 16 SHA

Stevenson, William. 90 minutes at Entebbe. Toronto : Bantam Books, 1976.
HEBREW FC 34 STE

Reymond, Eric D. Qumran Hebrew : an overview of orthography, phonology, and morphology. Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2014]
HEBREW P 8 REY

Ideology and Jewish identity in Israeli and American literature / edited by Emily Miller Budick. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001]
HEBREW Q 6 BUD

Müller, Reinhard, Juha Pakkala, and Bas ter Haar Romeny. Evidence of editing : growth and change of texts in the Hebrew Bible. Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2014]
HEBREW QM 10 MUL

Chilton, Bruce. A Galilean rabbi and his Bible : Jesus’ own interpretation of Isaiah. London : SPCK, 1984.
HEBREW QM 11 CHI

Schoenfeld, Devorah. Isaac on Jewish and Christian altars : polemic and exegesis in Rashi and the Glossa ordinaria. New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
HEBREW QM 13 SCH

The Oxford handbook of biblical studies / edited by J.W. Rogerson and Judith M. Lieu. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2006]
HEBREW QM 5 ROG

Herring, Stephen L. Divine substitution : humanity as the manifestation of deity in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East. Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2013]
HEBREW QM 7 HER

Maimonides, Moses. Teshuvot ha-Rambam : yotsʼot la-or ba-paʻam ha-rishonah bi-meḳoran ha-ʻArvi mekhunasot mi-tokh kiṭʻe genizah, kitve yad ṿe-sifre defus, mugahot u-meturgamot be-tosefet heʻarot / me-et Yehoshuʻa Blaʼu ; she-histayeaʻ be-ʻizvon B. Ts. Halper ṿe-Y.N. Śimḥoni ; uve-hotsaʼat A.Ḥ. Fraiman. Yerushalayim : Reʼuven Mas, 2014.
HEBREW RH 520 BLA

Rosenthal, Erwin Isak Jakob. Judaism and Islam. London : Thomas Yoseloff, [1961]
HEBREW W 70 ROS

Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr. Abraham Ibn Ezra on nativities and continuous horoscopy : a parallel Hebrew-English critical edition of the Book of nativities and the Book of revolution / edited, translated, and annotated by Shlomo Sela. Leiden : Brill, 2013.
HEBREW X 110 ABR

Der Lusṭiger hoyz-fraynd : a zamlung fun 450 fershiedene ṿiṭtsen, saṭiren un frehlikhe ertsehlungen … / gezamelṭ un fermerṭ fun Yiśraʼel Izbits. [Rochester, N.Y.? : o. fg.], 679 [1918 or 1919]
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Zunser, Eliakum. Shire ʻam : folḳs lider : dray naye lider tsum zingen miṭ molodien. Ṿilna : [o. fg.], 1874.
YIDDISH BOXED PAMPHLETS C 200 ZUN

Gordon, Judah Leib. Iber a pinṭele : di berihmṭe Hebraishe poeme “Ḳotso shel yud”. Odessa : Heylperin eṭ Shṿeytser, 1904.
YIDDISH BOXED PAMPHLETS C 220 GOR:LIN

Feigenbaum, Benjamin, 1860-1932. Ṿi azoy ṿerṭ men poṭer fun der hefḳer ṿelṭ. Ṿarsha : Ferlag “Progres”, [date of publication not identified]
YIDDISH BOXED PAMPHLETS D 50 FEI

Shṭrigleriana : bibliografyah shimushit le-ḥeḳer ḥayaṿ u-yetsirato shel Mordekhai Mordekhai Shṭrigler / ba-ʻarikhat Yeḥiel Shaynṭukh u-Miryam Ṭrin = Strigleriana : a selected bibliography for the study of Mordechai Strigler’s life and work / edited by Miriam Trinh and Yechiel Szeintuch. Yerushalayim : Mifʻal Dov Sadan, ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit, 2013.
YIDDISH C 1 STR

Lieberman, Ḥayim. The Christianity of Sholem Asch : an appraisal from the Jewish viewpoint. New York : Philosophical Library, c1953.
YIDDISH C 200 ASC:LIE

Asch, Sholem. East river : a novel / translation by A.H. Gross. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, [1946]
YIDDISH C 200 ASC

New books January/February 2015

By Vanessa Freedman, on 9 March 2015

A history of Jewish-Muslim relations : from the origins to the present day / edited by Abdelwahab Meddeb and Benjamin Stora ; translated by Jane Marie Todd and Michael B. Smith. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
HEBREW A 2 MED

Asupah le-Yosef : ḳovets meḥḳarim shai le-Yosef Haḳer = Studies in Jewish history presented to Joseph Hacker / ʻorkhim Yaron Ben-Naʼeh, Mosheh Idel, G’eremi Kohen, Yosef Ḳaplan. Yerushalayim : Merkaz Zalman Shazar le-ḥeḳer toldot ha-ʻam ha-Yehudi, [2014]
HEBREW A 6 HAC

The image and its prohibition in Jewish antiquity / edited by Sarah Pearce. Oxford : Journal Of Jewish Studies, 2013.
HEBREW A 6 PEA

Selected papers from the fifteenth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies (29-31 July 2008) / edited by Hilary Pomeroy, Christopher J. Pountain, Elena Romero. London : Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, 2012.
HEBREW A 6 POM

Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim. The faith of fallen Jews : Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the writing of Jewish history / edited by David N. Myers and Alexander Kaye. Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2014]
HEBREW A 6 YER

Seder ʻolam : mahadurah madaʻit, perush u-mavo / Ḥayim Miliḳovsḳi. Yerushalayim : Yad Yitsḥaḳ Ben-Tsevi : Ḳeren ha-Rav Daṿid Mosheh ṿe-ʻAmalyah Rozen, 2013.
HEBREW QUARTOS A 12 SED

The Jew in the modern world : a documentary history / compiled and edited by Paul Mendes-Flohr, , Jehuda Reinharz. 3rd ed. New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
HEBREW A 80 MEN

Postwar Jewish displacement and rebirth, 1945-1967 / edited by Francoise S. Ouzan and Manfred Gerstenfeld. Leiden : Brill, [2014]
HEBREW A 95 OUZ

Puschner, Marco. Antisemitismus im Kontext der politischen Romantik : Konstruktionen des “Deutschen” und des “Jüdischen” bei Arnim, Brentano und Saul Ascher. Tübingen : Niemeyer, 2008.
HEBREW A 120 PUS

Holocaust education in a global context / edited by Karel Fracapane and Matthias Haß in collaboration with the Topography of Terror Foundation, Berlin. Paris : United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2014.
HEBREW A 138 FRA

Marrus, Michael Robert. The Holocaust in history. Toronto : Key Porter Books, [2000]
HEBREW A 138 MAR

Davies, Helen M. Emile and Isaac Pereire : bankers, socialists and Sephardic Jews in nineteenth-century France. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
HEBREW B 20 PER

Lowney, Chris. A vanished world : Muslims, Christians, and Jews in medieval Spain. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
HEBREW CG 5 LOW

Sounds of silence : traces of Jewish life in Lithuania / [project, Isaac Zibuts ; photos, Raimondas Paknys ; editor, Audra Kairienė]. Vilnius : R. Paknio Leidykla, c2009.
HEBREW EL 20 ZIB

Belenky, Robert. Collective memories of a lost paradise : Jewish agricultural settlements in Ukraine during the 1920s and 1930s. Hanover, NH : Maddoggerel Publications, 2012.
HEBREW ER 14 BEL

The Arab-Israeli conflict : the 1967 campaign / [written by the editorial staff of ‘s Keesing’s contemporary archives]. Bristol : Keesing’s Publications Limited, c1968.
HEBREW FC 16 KEE

Taïeb-Carlen, Sarah. The Jews of North Africa : from Dido to de Gaulle / translated by Amos Carlen. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2010]
HEBREW GA 5 TAI

Kublin, Hyman. Studies of the Chinese Jews : selections from journals East and West. New York : Paragon Book Reprint Corp., 1971.
HEBREW HC 6 KUB

Hurvitz, Avi. A concise lexicon of late biblical Hebrew : linguistic innovations in the writings of the Second Temple period. Leiden: Brill, [2014]
HEBREW P 2 HUR

Schuele, Andreas. An introduction to Biblical Aramaic. Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, [2012]
HEBREW QUARTOS PR 305 SCH

Schwartz, Howard. Reimagining the Bible : the storytelling of the rabbis. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
HEBREW Q 5 SCH

The Song of songs : a new translation with an introduction and commentary / Ariel Bloch and Chana Bloch. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995.
HEBREW QB 46.4 BLO

Wazana, Nili. All the boundaries of the land : the Promised Land in Biblical thought in light of the ancient Near East / translated by Liat Qeren. Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2013.
HEBREW QM 7 WAZ

Visscher, Eva De. Reading the rabbis : Christian Hebraism in the works of Herbert of Bosham. Leiden : Brill, 2014.
HEBREW QM 42 HER:VIS

Segal, Michael. The Book of Jubilees : rewritten Bible, redaction, ideology, and theology. Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2007]
HEBREW QM 69

Halivni, Daṿid. Meḳorot u-masorot : beʼurim be-Talmud le-Seder Nashim. Ṭoronṭo, Ḳanadah : Hotsaʼat Otsarenu, [not before 1963]
HEBREW RD 210 HAL

Hai ben Sherira. Sefer Mishpeṭe shevuʻot /  ha-maḳor ha-ʻAravi ṿe-targum ʻIvri mi-yeme ha-benayim be-tseruf mavo, heʻarot ṿe-nispaḥim me-et Sheraga b. ha-r. R. Ḳalman Abramson, zal ; heviʼu li-defus Yeraḥmiʼel Brodi, Daṿid Sḳlir. Yerushalayim : Mekhon Ben-Tsevi le-ḥeḳer ḳehilot Yiśraʼel ba-Mizraḥ, 2012.
HEBREW RH 20 HAI

Meir ben Baruch. Teshuvot Maharam me-Roṭenburg ṿe-ḥaveraṿ / hehedir ṿe-hosif mavo ṿe-heʻarot, Śimḥah ʻImanuʼel. Yerushalayim : ha-Igud ha-ʻOlami le-madaʻe ha-Yahadut, Ḳeren ha-Rav Daṿid Mosheh ṿe-ʻAmalyah Rozen, 2012.
HEBREW RH 520 MEI

Reiser, Daniel. ha-Marʼeh ka-marʼah : ṭekhniḳat ha-dimyun ba-misṭiḳah ha-Yehudit ba-meʼah ha-ʻeśrim. Los Ang’eles : Hotsaʼat Keruv, 774 = 2014.
HEBREW RS 5 REI

Labi, Simeon. Sefer Ketem paz : ʻal Zohar Be-reshit /  [ʻorekh rashi Menaḥem Maḳover]. Bat Yam : Mishpaḥat ha-meḥaber ṿe-Amutat “Or shalom”, 5774- [2014-
HEBREW QUARTOS RS 58 LAB

Levinger, Jacob S. ha-Rambam ke-filosof ukhe-foseḳ. Yerushalayim : Mosad Byaliḳ, c1989.
HEBREW RT 109 LEV

Yeshaya, Joachim J. M. S. Poetry and memory in Karaite prayer : the liturgical poetry of the Karaite poet Moses ben Abraham Darʻī. Leiden : Brill, 2014.
HEBREW SA 99 DAR:YES

Agnon, Shmuel Yosef. The parable and its lesson : a novella / translated and annotated by James S. Diamond ; with an introduction and critical essay by Alan Mintz. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
HEBREW SE 225 AGN

Schlink, Bernhard. The reader /  translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway. London : Phoenix, 1998.
HEBREW TG 400 SCH

Judeo-Spanish ballads from Bosnia / edited by Samuel G. Armistead, Joseph H. Silverman ; with the collaboration of Biljana Šljivic-Šimsić. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971.
HEBREW TN 40 ARM

Guri, I. Fun Yidishn ḳṿal : Yidisher frazeologisher ṿerṭerbukh = Otsar ha-nivim shel ha-Yidish = Dictionary of Yiddish idioms = Frazeologicheskiĭ slovarʹ Idisha. Yerusholaim : Hebreyisher Uniṿersiṭeṭ in Yerusholaim, Opṭeyl far Germanishe, Rusishe, un Mizreḥ-Eyropeyishe limudim, 2012.
YIDDISH B 2 GUR

Mendelson, Shloyme. The battle of the Warsaw ghetto. New York, Yiddish Scientific Institute–Yivo, 1944.
YIDDISH D 300 MEN

New books December 2014

By Vanessa Freedman, on 16 January 2015

Black, Edwin. IBM and the Holocaust : the strategic alliance between Nazi Germany and America’s most powerful corporation. London : Little, Brown, 2001.
HEBREW A 149 BLA

Jews and Muslims in the Islamic world / edited by Bernard Dov Cooperman and Zvi Zohar. Bethesda, Md. : University Press of Maryland, 2013.
HEBREW A 6 COO

An der Zeiten Ränder : Czernowitz und die Bukowina : Geschichte, Literatur, Verfolgung, Exil / herausgegeben von Cécile Cordon und Helmut Kusdat. Wien : Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, c2002.
HEBREW A 6 COR

Meḥḳarim ba-ʻIvrit ha-ḥadashah uvi-leshonot ha-Yehudim : mugashim le-Orah (Rodrig) Shṿartsṿald / ʻorkhim, Malkah Muts’niḳ u-Tsevi Sadan (Tsuguyah Sasaḳi) = Studies in modern Hebrew and Jewish languages : presented to Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald / editors, Malka Muchnik & Tsvi Sadan (Tsuguya Sasaki). Yerushalayim : Karmel, 773 = 2012.
HEBREW A 6 SCH

Ferrara degli Uberti, Carlotta. Fare gli ebrei italiani : autorappresentazioni di una minoranza (1861-1918). Bologna : Il mulino, c2011.
HEBREW CK 14 FER

Ferrara degli Uberti, Carlotta. La “nazione ebrea” di Livorno dai privilegi all’emancipazione (1814-1860). [Florence, Italy] : Fondazione Spadolini-Nuova antologia : Le Monnier, [2007]
HEBREW CK 29 LIV

Kiraz, George Anton. The new Syriac primer. Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2013. Third revised edition, second printing with corrections.
HEBREW P R 505 KIR

Bar-Asher Siegal, Elitzur A. Introduction to the grammar of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic. Münster : Ugarit-Verlag, 2013.
HEBREW PR 305 BAR

Idelson-Shein, Iris. Difference of a different kind : Jewish constructions of race during the long eighteenth century. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2014.
HEBREW Q 5 IDE

Treitl, Eliezer. Pirḳe de-Rabi Eliʻezer : nusaḥ, ʻarikhah ṿe-dugmat sinopsis shel kitve ha-yad. Yerushalayim : ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit, ha-Ḥug le-Talmud ṿe-halakhah, 773 = 2012.
HEBREW RM 50 TRE

Goetschel, Willi. The discipline of philosophy and the invention of modern Jewish thought. New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
HEBREW RT 5 GOE

Gotfryd, Bernard. Anton the dove fancier : and other tales of the Holocaust. Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
HEBREW TE 202 GOT

Meir, Jonatan. Ḥasidut medumah : ʻiyunim bi-khetavaṿ ha-saṭiriyim shel Yosef Perl. Yerushalayim : Mosad Byaliḳ, 774 = 2013.
HEBREW W 250 PER:MEI

Perl, Joseph. Megaleh ṭemirin / hehedir ʻal-pi defus rishon ṿe-khitve-yad ṿe-hosif mavo u-veʼurim, Yonatan Meʼir ; aḥarit davar, Dan Miron. Yerushalayim : Mosad Byaliḳ, 774 = 2013.
HEBREW W 250 PER

Grade, Chaim. Bezmuzhni͡ai͡a : roman. (ʻAgune. Russian) Moskva : Tekst ; Knizhniki, 2013.
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Sutzkever, Abraham. Iz Vilenskogo getto : vospominanii͡a / [per. O.L. Khaĭkinoĭ i N.A. Shvart͡smana] (Fun Ṿilner geṭo. Russian) Moskva : Kholokost : MIK, 2008.
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Weiss, Karin, Dorothea Greve, Smadar Raveh-Klemke. Der alef-beys, trit bay trit : Jiddisch lesen und schreiben lernen = Der alef-beys̀, ṭriṭ bay ṭriṭ. Bremen : Hempen Verlag, 2013
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Fox, Chaim Leib. 100 yor Yidishe un Hebreishe liṭeraṭur in Ḳanade. Monṭreol : Ḥ.L. Fuḳs bukh fond ḳomiṭeṭ, 1980, c1979.
YIDDISH C 2 FUK

Tsesler, Shemuʼel. Ilusṭrirṭe lider far ḳinder : af Yidish un Hebreish / redagirṭ un nokhṿorṭ, Dr. ʻAdinah Bar-El ; ilusṭratsies, Deyṿid Hol ; iberzetsung, Ruti Zaḳoṿiṭsh (Berezin) = Shirim meʼuyarim li-yeladim : be-Yidish uve-ʻIvrit. Yerushalayim : Dov Sadan-Proyeḳṭ, 771 [2011]
YIDDISH C 200 TSE

Stutchkoff, Nahum. Mame-loshn /  miṭ an araynfir un arumnemiḳer bibliografye fun Leyzer Burḳo un Miryem-Ḥayeh Segel. Nyu-Yorḳ : Forṿerṭs oysgabe, 2014.
YIDDISH QUARTOS B 2 STU

New books November 2014

By Vanessa Freedman, on 8 December 2014

Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. A concise encyclopedia of Judaism.  Oxford : Oneworld,  1998
HEBREW A 2 COH

Steinberg, Michael P. Judaism musical and unmusical. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
HEBREW A 6 STE

Behar, Ruth. Traveling heavy : a memoir in between journeys. Durham : Duke University Press,  2013.
HEBREW B 20 BEH

Sephardi lives : a documentary history, 1700-1950 / edited by Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
HEBREW CG 4 COH

Naimark-Goldberg, Natalie. Jewish women in Enlightenment Berlin. Oxford : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2013.
HEBREW DD 13 NAI

Cooper, Alanna E. Bukharan Jews and the dynamics of global Judaism. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.
HEBREW ER 5 COO

Smith, Mark S. Untold stories : the Bible and Ugaritic studies in the twentieth century. Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers, c2001.
HEBREW QM 8 SMI

Why study Talmud in the twenty-first century? : the relevance of the ancient Jewish text to our world / [edited by] Paul Socken. Lanham ; Plymouth : Lexington Books, c2009.
HEBREW RD 8 SOC

La Baraïta de-Niddah = Baraita di-nidah : un texte juif pseudo-talmudique sur les lois religieuses relatives à la menstruation / étude et traduction française par Evyatar Marienberg. Turnhout : Brepols, 2012.
HEBREW RH 580 BAR

Albeck, Shalom. Introduction to Jewish law in Talmudic times. Ramat Gan : Bar-Ilan University Press, 2013.
HEBREW RH 600 ALB

Levin, Leonard. Seeing with both eyes : Ephraim Luntshitz and the Polish-Jewish renaissance. Leiden : Brill, c2008.
HEBREW RT 5 LEV

Jewish philosophy : perspectives and retrospectives / edited by Raphael Jospe and Dov Schwartz. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012.
HEBREW RT 6 JOS

Kaniuk, Yoram. 708. Tel-Aviv : Yediʻot aḥaronot, 2010.
HEBREW SE 249 KAN

Jewish musical modernism, old and new / edited by Philip V. Bohlman ; with a foreword by Sander L. Gilman. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
HEBREW X 6 BOH

Ṿarshaṿsḳi, ʻOzer, 1898-1944. Marc Chagall : le shtetl et le magicien. Paris : Lachenal & Ritter, c1995.
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Cygan, Jacek. Der letzte Klezmer : das Leben des Leopold Kozlowski-Kleinman / Jacek Cygan ; herausgegeben von Angela Henkel im Auftrag des Wilhelm-Fraenger-Instituts Berlin ; aus dem Polnischen übertragen von Paulina Schulz. Berlin : Metropol, c2012.
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Steinbarg, Eliezer. Jak ptaszki studiowały Tore / Eliezer Sztejnbarg ; z jidysz przełożyła Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota. Kraków : Austeria, 2012.
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Segalowitch, Zusman. Noce krymskie : nowele / Zusman Segałowicz ; przełożyła Rachela Auerbach ; posłowie: Karolina Szymaniak. Kraków : Wydawnictwo “Austeria”, 2010.
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New books September/October 2014

By Vanessa Freedman, on 13 November 2014

Jews in early Christian law : Byzantium and the Latin West, 6th-11th centuries / edited by John Tolan … [et al.]. Turnhout : Brepols c2014.
HEBREW A 105 TOL

HaCohen, Ruth. The music libel against the Jews. New Haven : Yale University Press,  2011.
HEBREW A 119 HAC

Mack, Michael. German idealism and the Jew : the inner anti-semitism of philosophy and German Jewish responses. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
HEBREW A 120 MAC

Brenner, Henny. The song is over : survival of a Jewish girl in Dresden / translated from the German with an introduction by Barbara Fischer. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2010.
HEBREW A 134 BRE

Hillesum, Etty. Etty : a diary 1941-43 / introduced by J.G. Gaarlandt ; translated by Arnold J. Pomerans. London : Triad, 1985, c1983.
HEBREW A 134 HIL

Gordon, Robert S. C.  The Holocaust in Italian culture, 1944-2010. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,  2012.
HEBREW A 138 GOR.

Clementi, Federica K. Holocaust mothers & daughters : family, history, and trauma. Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, 2013.
HEBREW A 149 CLE

Ben Rafael, Eliezer. Confronting allosemitism in Europe : the case of Belgian Jews. Leiden : Brill, 2014
HEBREW CD 5 BEN

Karski, Jan. Story of a secret state : my report to the world. London : Penguin, 2012.
HEBREW EP 14 KAR

Vilnay, Zev. Ariʼel : entsiḳlopedyah li-yediʻat Erets Yiśraʼel. Tel-Aviv : ʻAm ʻOved – tarbut ve-ḥinukh, [736-745 = 1976-1984]
HEBREW QUARTOS FC 2 VIL

Mahler, Gregory S. Politics and government in Israel : the maturation of a modern state. 2nd ed. Lanham ; Plymouth : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011.
HEBREW FC 30 MAH

Hakohen, Devorah. Immigrants in turmoil : mass immigration to Israel and its repercussions in the 1950s and after. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, c2003.
HEBREW FC 41 HAK

Kessler-Mesguich, S. La langue des sages : matériaux pour une étude linguistique de l’hébreu de la Mishna. Paris : Peeters, 2002.
HEBREW P 8 KES

Approaches to literary readings of ancient Jewish writings / edited by Klaas Smelik and Karolien Vermeulen. Leiden : Brill, 2014.
HEBREW Q 6 SME

Torah Neviʼim Ketuvim simanim : Tanakh shimushi li-ḳeriʼah nekhonah … Yerushalayim : Hotsaʼat Sefarim Feldhaim, 765 [2004 or 2005]
HEBREW QB 10 SIM

Dyk, Janet Wilma and P. S. F. van Keulen. Language system, translation technique, and textual tradition in the Peshitta of Kings. Leiden : Brill, 2013.
HEBREW QM 11 DYK

Friedman, Shamma. Le-toratam shel tanaʼim : asupat meḥḳarim metodologiyim ṿe-ʻiyuniyim. Yerushalayim : Mosad Byaliḳ, 773 = 2013.
HEBREW R 10 FRI

Mendelssohn, Moses. Last works / translated, with an introduction and commentary by Bruce Rosenstock. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.
HEBREW RT 210

Pelli, Moshe. Mi-kitve ha-ʻitim : ʻitonut ha-Haśkalah me-1820 ʻad 1845 : mafteḥot muʻarim le-khitve-ha-ʻet ha-ʻIvriyim shel ha-Haśkalah be-Holand, Galitsyah, Germanyah ṿe-Liṭa, 580-606. Yerushalayim : Hotsaʼat sefarim ʻa. sh. Y.L. Magnes, ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit, c2013.
HEBREW QUARTOS SE 2 PEL

Pelli, Moshe. Bikure ha-ʻitim, bikure ha-Haśkalah : mafteaḥ muʼar le-Vikure ha-ʻitim :  ketav ha-ʼet ha-ʻIvri shel ha-Haśkalah be-Galitsyah (581-592). Yerushalayim : Magnes, c2005.
HEBREW QUARTOS SE 2 PEL

Kimchi, Alona, 1966- author. Ani Anasṭasyah = I, Anastasia. Yerushalayim : Keter hotsaʼah la-or, 1996.
HEBREW SE 249 KIM

Bernstein, Richard J. Freud and the legacy of Moses. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
HEBREW W 75 BER

Finck, Liana. A bintel brief : love and longing in old New York. New York, NY : Ecco, 2014.
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Welcome back

By Vanessa Freedman, on 22 September 2014

Welcome back to all returning students. You might notice a few changes in the library:

What is happening on the first floor?

• The rooms which previously contained the Issue Desk, print/copy/scan machines and computer cluster are currently being refurbished, to make them ready for the installation of new self-service equipment.
• The Issue Desk is currently in the Reference Room, which is opposite the former Issue Desk room.
• There are 4 Desktop@UCL PCs in the Reference Room, along with 4 Explore terminals.
• There are also 3 print/copy/scan machines  in the Reference Room, with a 4th in the Art section.
• The DVD collection is now in the Literature corridor.
• The Audio-Visual room is currently closed. Please ask at the Issue Desk if you need to alternative facilities.
• More information about the new self-service facilities is available.

Where have all the journals gone?

All journals dating from before 2000 (with a few exceptions) have been moved out of the library and need to be ordered in advance using our Stores service.

The remaining journals in the HEBREW section have been moved onto one set of shelves to make space for new books.

New website

We have a new website and subject guide, which should be much more informative and easy to use. Please have a look and let us know what you think.