Friday, December 01, 2006

the last journal review for 2006

Weekly Journal Review #10

This week I will be reviewing recent arrivals from and about Israel that seem very lonely on the shelves….

B’Or ha’Torah: Science, art and modern life in light of the Torah. No. 16, 5766/2006. (English)
Published by SHAMIR, the Israeli Association of Religious Professionals from the former USSR.
Articles on Jewish genetics, prayer and health, benefits of self-nullification and aging.

Dor Ledor: Studies in the history of Jewish education in Israel and the Diaspora. XXVI, 2006 (Hebrew with English abstract)
Monograph by Nili Aryeh-Sapir on: The Formation of Urban Culture and Education: Stories of and about Ceremonies and Celebrations in Tel-Aviv in its First Years.

Helikon: Anthological Journal of Contemporary Poetry. #73 (Hebrew)
Poetry and art on the subject: “Here in the Land”.
A unique and exquisite magazine publishing poems on current and thematic subjects.
Original Hebrew language as well as Arabic, Spanish, German and English poetry in translation.

Israel Affairs. Vol. 12, no. 3, July 2006. (English)
Articles on Security and politics, culture, social strength and territory. Also includes a section on military-media relations.

Israel Journal of Psychiatry. Vol. 43, no. 2, 2006. (English with Hebrew abstracts)
Includes a special section on impulse-control disorders; the results of a national survey in Israel about therapist-patient sexual relations, and an inter-ethnic study on suicidal attempts in the Western-Galilee.

Cathedra for the History of Eretz Israel and its Yishuv. 30th Year Anniversary issue, June 2006. (Hebrew with English abstracts)
Special issue on Tiberias and the Galilee. Visually rich journal covering geography, history, culture and archaeology. Published by Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.

Pe’amim: Studies in Oriental Jewry. No. 107, Spring 2006. (Hebrew with English abstracts)
Articles on Jews in Salonika and Turkey, as well as an article on the Montifiore Census in the Mediterranean Basin. Published by Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.
Enjoy,
Yaffa






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