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The Envelope,Please

Weekly Review #?

I, too, lost track of the weeks that passed since the last review. And no, it wasn’t the sound of your anxious pleas to renew this wonderful service that got me going again…just my own guilt at the sight of the mountain of periodicals growing on Sally’s desk. And I couldn’t let it grow any more for the following reason: the library staff and I have this tacit agreement- they don’t interfere with the mess on my desk, and I don’t interfere with their impeccably ordered and neat desks. Therefore I moved the mountain to my disaster zone, and decided that rather than run through another list of newly arrived journals, I would pick one article in each. And rather than use my keen academic skills to do the picking, I would use a different criterion: I would highlight one article that I wished I had the time to read. So, in the spirit of this particular weekend in Los Angeles – the envelope, please…

The nature of Goliath’s visual disorder and the actual role of his personal bodyguard/Vladimir M. Berginer and Chiam Cohen. In: Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Vol. XLIII, 2006. p.27-44.

Changing conceptions of leisure among the Jews of Western Belarus at the end of the 19th century / Volha A. Sabaleuskaya. In: East European Jewish Affairs. Vol. 36:2, December 2006. p.127-140.

Some Jewish Scholars in Rome/ Joseph Geiger. (German-Jewish scholars buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome) In: Italia. Vol. XVII, 2006. p.65-92.

a tie between two articles in Modern Judaism. Vol. 27:1, February 2007:

Loving the neighbor: some reflections on Narcissism/ Michael Oppenheim. p.47-71.

Pulsa De-Nura: the innovation of modern magic and ritual/ Zion Zohar. p. 72-99.

Making a mother appear out of thin air/ Steve Stein. In: Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy. Vol. XXII:4, Winter 2006. p. 44-46.

A moment with Dov Krulwich, author of Harry Potter and the Torah. In: Moment. Vol. 32:1. p. 98-101.

Israeli-Ugandan relations in the time of Idi Amin/ Arye Oded. In: Jewish Political Studies Review. Vo. 18:3&4. p. 65-80.

My mother taught Kafka Hebrew/ Ehud Netzer. In: The Jerusalem Review. No. 5&6. p. 117-128.

And finally, in Alpayim: a Multidisciplinary Publication for Contemporary Thought and Literature. No. 30, 2006. A recording (CD) of: Shai Agnon's 70th Birthday Party, with Gershom Scholem, Gershon Schoken, Ben Zion Dinur, Baruch Kurzweil, SHoshanah Persitz, S. Yizhar and Shai Agnon.


Stay tuned for the next installment: the articles I wouldn’t dream of reading….

yaffa

Tales from the Teche

A few online resources for studying the Near/Middle East

The Digital Library for International Research has a project to digitize important rare journals on Near Eastern studies. This includes the Yedi‘ot ha-Hevrah la-hakirat Erets-Yis'ra’el ve-‘atikoteha
of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society. So far, the first 8 volumes (from the 1930's) are available in pdf format.

Another project of the Digital Library is Mapping Mediterranean Lands -- MedMaps Project "Traders and Travelers, Scholars, Soldiers, and Sailors: Charting in War and Peace" Thanks to Cincy faculty Steve Kaufman for pointing out this resource.

Another resource is the ETANA site. ETANA, or Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives, has links to online books, archives, bibliographies, archeology sites,and databases dealing with the Ancient Near East.

More information about doing research on the Ancient Near East is available on the Library Subject page.

If you have a favorite resource that you think your classmates or colleagues would like, let me know!