New Acquisitions, Los Angeles
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
April 8 - 19, 2010
Brantschen, Niklaus, 1937-
Fasting : what, why, how / Niklaus Brantschen.
New York : Crossroad, 2010
xi, 110 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
QP 138.5 B7.313 1987
Chernow-Reader, Jordana.
An analysis of the daughters of Zelophehad, Deborah, and Hannah as wise Biblical women / Jordana Chernow-Reader.
2010
92 leaves ; 28 cm.
BS 575 C3.4 2010 & Thesis
Goitein, S. D., 1900-1985
יוסף אללבדי סוחר-הודו הגדול : תעודות מגניזת קהיר / שלמה דב גויטיין ומרדכי עקיבא פרידמן.
Yerushalayim : Mekhon Ben-Tsevi le-ḥeḳer ḳehilot Yiśraʼel ba-Mizraḥ : Ḳeren ha-rav Daṿid Mosheh
ṿe-ʻAmalyah Rozen, 2009.
400 p. : ill., maps, facsims. ; 25 cm.
HF 3785.15 G6.5 2009
IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy (28th : 2008 : Chicago, Ill.)
28th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy : Chicago, Illinois, August 17-22, 2008.
[New York, N.Y.] : Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc., c2008.
1 v. (various loose leaf pagings) : ill. ; 29 cm.
SC 2 I 3.5 2008
Katz, Noam.
Kibud av va-eim : redefining the parent-child relationship for modern liberal Jews / Noam Shalom Katz.
2010
111 leaves ; 28 cm.
BM 725.5 K3.8 & Thesis
Knohl, Israel
Messiahs and resurrection in The Gabriel revelation / by Israel Knohl.
London ; New York, NY : Continuum, c2009.
xv, 122 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
BR 129 K5.5 2009
Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
שערי בריאות הגוף והנפש לפי הרמב׳׳ם : יסודות לשמירת בריאות הגוף והנפש עפ׳׳י רבנו משה בן מימון הספרדי הרמב׳׳ם / מלוקט מספרי קודש ורפואה של הרמב׳׳ם ... על־ידי משה רבפוגל.
Yerushalayim : Hotsaʼat Mosad ha-rav Ḳuḳ, [c2007].
220 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
BM 538 H4.3 M3.4 2007
Mason, Erin Ellis.
Responding to the aging in our congregations / Erin Leah Ellis Mason.
2010
73 leaves ; 28 cm.
HQ 1061 M3.7 2010 & Thesis
Mason, Sara.
Rabbis in relationship : a feminist critique of The rabbi as a symbolic exemplar / Sara Michal Mason-Barkin.
2010
v, 184 leaves ; 28 cm.
BM 652 M3.7 2010 & Thesis
Medwin, Daniel Bloom.
Visual t'filah : historical antecedents and guide to best practices / Daniel Bloom Medwin.
2010
89 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM
BM 656 M4.3 2010 & Thesis
Medwin, Lydia Bloom.
Jewish service learning : relevance for the American synagogue / Lydia Bloom Medwin.
2010
130 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
HN 40 J5M4.3 2010 & Thesis
Miriam, Rivka
These mountains : selected poems of Rivka Miriam ; translated by Linda Stern Zisquit.
New Milford, CT : Toby Press, 2009.
xi, 244 p. ; 22 cm.
PJ 5054 R5.8A2 2009
Samuels, Joshua Marc.
The passage from life to death : gaining insights about this sacred transition from poetry, midrash, and ritual / by Joshua Marc Samuels.
2010
4, 129 leaves ; 28 cm.
BM 635.4 S2.6 2010 & Thesis
Singh, Maina Chawla.
Being Indian, being Israeli : migration, ethnicity, and gender in the Jewish homeland / Maina Chawla Singh.
New Delhi : Manohar Publishers & Distributors, c2009.
250 p., [7] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
DS 113.8 E2.6 S5.6 2009
Terlinchamp, Miriam Pauline.
Art as a Jewish spiritual practice / Miriam Pauline Terlinchamp.
2010
136 leaves ; : ill. ; 28 cm.
BM 538 A7 T4.7 2010 & Thesis
Zellman, Reuben.
Inyanei ha -mitzvot : the Tumtum and Androgynos in the Shulchan Aruch and the Mishneh Torah / Reuben Isadore Zellman.
2010
[219] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
HQ 77.9 Z4.5 2010 & Thesis
Zipora, Malka.
Rather laugh than cry : stories from a Hassidic household / Malka Zipora.
Montréal : Véhicule Press, c2007.
186 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
FC 2947.9 J4Z5.7 2007
Thursday, April 08, 2010
March 24 - April 7, 2010
Humanity before God : contemporary faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic ethics / edited by William Schweiker, Michael A. Johnson, and Kevin Jung.
Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, c2006.
x, 326 p. ; 23 cm.
BJ 1188 H8.4 2006
Where heaven and earth meet : Jerusalem's sacred esplanade / editors, Oleg Grabar and Benjamin Z. Kedar.
Jerusalem : Yad Ben-Zvi Press ; Austin : University of Texas Press, c2009.
411 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
DS 109.28 W5.4 2009
Burnett, Joel S., 1968-
Where is God? : divine absence in the Hebrew Bible / Joel S. Burnett.
Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2010.
xvi, 287 p. ; 24 cm.
BS 1171.3 B8.7 2010
Cohen-Kiener, Andrea
Claiming Earth as common ground : the ecological crisis through the lens of faith / Andrea Cohen-Kiener ; foreword by Sally Bingham.
Woodstock, Vt. : SkyLight Paths Pub., 2009.
xi, 176 p. ; 23 cm.
BT 695.5 C6.45 2009
Eshel, Ḥanan
Ein Gedi : [oasis and refuge] / Hanan Eshel ; [translated from the Hebrew by Paul King ; editor, Barbara Ball].
Jerusalem : Carta, 2009.
144 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
DS 110 E6.3 E8.4 2009
Lee, Nancy C.
Lyrics of lament : from tragedy to transformation / Nancy C. Lee.
Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2010.
xi, 256 p. ; 23 cm.
BL 560 L4.4 2010
Pietila, Antero, 1943-
Not in my neighborhood : how bigotry shaped a great American city / Antero Pietila.
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2010.
xiii, 320 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
F 189 B1.9 A2.85 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Mar. 8 - 23, 2010
Genesis / Athalya Brenner, Archie Chi-Chung Lee, and Gale A. Yee, editors.
Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2009.
xv, 344 p. ; 24 cm.
BS 1235.52 G4.7 2009
בדרך לא סלולה : היבטים משפטיים, קהילתיים והוריים של משפחות חד־מיניות / עורכים: עדיטל בן־ארי ויואב לביא.
[Haifah] : Universiṭat Ḥefah, Ha-Merkaz le-ḥeḳer u-limud ha-mishpaḥah, 2007.
96 p. ; 23 cm.
HQ 75.28 I 8 H4.3 2007
נשים ומגדר במזרח התיכון במאה העשרים / עורכות, רות רודד, נוגה אפרתי.
Yerushalayim : Hotsaʼat sefarim ʻa. sh. Y.L. Magnes, ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit, c769 [c2008 or c2009]
274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
HQ 1236.5 M6.5 N3.7 2008
קצת זכריה : לפי מנהג יהדות ארם-צובא (חלב) בנוסח המקורי / עורך, מנחם ידיד.
Tel-Aviv : Merkaz moreshet Ar. Ts, [2008]
31 p. : col. ill., col. facsims. ; 31 cm.
BS 580 Z3K4.7 2008
Ben-Dov, M.
The Golden age : synagogues of Spain in history and architecture / Meir Ben-Dov.
Jerusalem ; New York : Urim, c2009.
256 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
NA 5806 B4.613 2009
Hodge, Caroline E. Johnson.
If sons, then heirs : a study of kinship and ethnicity in the Letters of Paul / Caroline Johnson Hodge.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
viii, 246 p. ; 25 cm.
BS 2655 F3H6.3 2007
Homolka, Walter
Jesus von Nazareth : im Spiegel jüdischer Forschung / Walter Homolka.
Teetz : Hentrich & Hentrich ; Berlin : Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin, Centrum Judaicum, 2009.
88 p. ; 16 cm.
BM 620 H6.6 2009
Kotkin, Joel
The next hundred million : America in 2050 / Joel Kotkin.
New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
308 p. ; 25 cm.
HN 60 K6.8 2010
Stampfer, Shaul
Families, rabbis and education : traditional Jewish society in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe / Shaul Stampfer.
Oxford ; Portland, Or. : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2010.
xii, 414 p. ; 24 cm.
DS 135 E8S7.3 2010
Monday, March 08, 2010
Feb. 24 - March 7, 2010
Jewish education in transition : proceedings of the First International Conference on Jewish Education / edited by Zvi Grumet.
Teaneck, NJ : Ben Yehuda Press, 2006.
viii, 146 p. ; 23 cm.
LC 715 I 6.8 2006
Avital, Moshe, 1928-
The failure of man and the enigma of God's silence / by Moshe Avital.
Jerusalem : Mazo Publishers, 2010.
228 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
D 804.3 A8.5 2010
Safrian, Hans
Eichmann's men / Hans Safrian ; translated by Ute Stargardt.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
x, 317 p. ; 25 cm.
D 804.3 S2.4513 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Feb. 4-23, 2010
Devora in Exile Stories.
Daniel & Daniel Pub 2009.
p. 94 24cm.
PS 3553 H3.547 D4.8 2009
Immersed [sound recording]
[Newton, MA] : Mayyim Hayyim: Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education Center, c2007.
1 sound disc : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Disc CD
Koleinu [sound recording] : great performances of Jewish choral music.
New York : Transcontinental Music Publications, 2008.
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Disc CD
Strangely familiar : protofeminist interpretations of patriarchal biblical texts / edited by Nancy Calvert-Koyzis and Heather E. Weir.
Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2009.
xi, 291 p. ; 23 cm.
BS 1515.52 S7.7 2009
They were all together in one place? : toward minority biblical criticism / edited by Randall C. Bailey, Tat-siong Benny Liew, and Fernando F. Segovia.
Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2009.
xiv, 397 p. ; 23 cm.
BS 521.88 T4.4 2009b
Bardhi, Ismail.
Kriza e teologjisë Muslimane Shqiptare / Ismail Bardhi.
Prishtinë, Shkup : Logos-A, 2009.
327 : ill. ; 24 cm.
BP 65 A7.5 B3.7 2009
Black, Joe, 1959-
Eight nights of joy [sound recording] / Joe Black ; with the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band.
[S.l.] Sounds Write Productions, p2008.
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Disc CD
Johnson, Marilyn, 1954-
This book is overdue! : how librarians and cybrarians can save us all / Johnson, Marilyn.
New York : Harper, c2010.
xii, 272 p. ; 22 cm.
Z 682 J6.5 2009
Johnson, Timothy Jay.
Now my eye sees you : unveiling an apocalyptic Job / Timothy Jay Johnson.
Sheffield, [England] : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009.
x, 198 p. ; 25 cm.
BS 1415.52 J6.4 2009
Kaplan, Richard, vocalist
The hidden one [sound recording] = Jewish mystical songs / Richard Kaplan.
[San Francisco, Calif.] : Five Souls Music, c2009.
1 sound disc (75:42 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Disc CD
Katz, Madelyn Mishkin, 1955-
Defining leadership for the reform rabbinate / by Madelyn Mishkin Katz.
2009.
ix, 134 leaves ; 28 cm.
LD 791.9 E2.2 K3.8 2009
Levine, Michelle J., 1962-
Nahmanides on Genesis : the art of biblical portraiture / by Michelle J. Levine.
Providence, RI : Brown University, c2009.
xi, 482 p. ; 23 cm.
BS 1235 N1.783 L4.8 2009
Rutgers, Leonard Victor
Making myths : Jews in early Christian identity formation / Leonard V. Rutgers.
Leuven : Peeters, [2009]
151 p. ; 22 cm.
BM 535 R8.84 2009
Soulaviv (Musical group)
Soulaviv [sound recording]
[California : s.n., 2008]
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Disc CD
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Jan. 6 - Feb. 3, 2010
Charity and giving in monotheistic religions / edited by Miriam Frenkel and Yaacov Lev.
Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2009.
xvi, 413 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
BJ 1533 G4C4.3 2009
Concentration camps in Nazi Germany : the new histories / edited by Jane Caplan and Nikolaus Wachsmann.
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2009.
p.243 24 cm.
D 805 G3 C5.918 2009
Generation in waiting : the unfulfilled promise of young people in the Middle East / Navtej Dhillon, Tarik Yousef, editors.
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2009.
xiv, 267 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
HQ 799 M6.28 G4.6 2009
New directions in Jewish philosophy / edited by Aaron W. Hughes and Elliot R. Wolfson.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.
x, 362 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
B 154 N4.9 2010
Berry, Jan
Ritual making women : shaping rites for changing lives / Jan Berry.
London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2009.
vi, 254 p. ; 24 cm.
BV 178 B4.8 2009
Bronfman, Charles, 1931-
The art of giving : where the soul meets a business plan / Charles Bronfman, Jeffrey Solomon ; foreword by James Wolfensohn.
San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2010.
ix, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
HV 40 B8.67 2010
Cohen, Arnold.
An introduction to Jewish matrimonial law / Arnold Cohen.
Jerusalem ; New York : Feldheim, c2009.
xi, 436 p. ; 24 cm.
BM 713 C6.45 2009
Feiler, Bruce S.
America's prophet : Moses and the American story / Bruce Feiler.
New York : William Morrow, c2009.
352 p. : ill., ports.. ; 24 cm.
E 179 F3.3 2009
Goldstein, Rebecca, 1950-
36 arguments for the existence of God : a work of fiction / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein.
New York : Pantheon Books, c2010.
viii, 402 p. ; 25 cm.
PS 3557 O 3.98 A6.15 2010
Goldwater, Raymond.
Pioneers of religious Zionism : Rabbis Alkalai, Kalischer, Mohliver, Reines, Kook and Maimon / Raymond Goldwater.
Jerusalem ; New York : Urim, c2009.
158 p. : ports. ; 25 cm.
DS 150 R3.2 G6.3 2009
Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-
The Lazarus project / Aleksandar Hemon ; with photographs by Velibor Božović and from the Chicago Historical Society.
New York : Riverhead Books, 2008.
294 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
PS 3608 E4.8 L3.9 2008
Leifer, Carol
When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win Reflections on Looking in the Mirror.
Villard Books 2010.
p.188 23 cm.
PN 2287 L3.37A 2009
Miron, Dan
The prophetic mode in modern Hebrew poetry / Dan Miron.
New Milford, CT : Toby Press, 2009.
vii, 633 p. ; 22 cm.
PJ 5024 M5.7 2009
Nicholson, C. Bríd.
Emma Goldman, 1869-1940 : still dangerous / C. Brid Nicholson.
Montréal : Black Rose Books, 2009.
p.239 : 24 cm.
HX 843.7 G6.5 N4.3 2009
Scammell, Michael
Koestler : the literary and political odyssey of a twentieth-century skeptic / Michael Scammell.
New York : Random House, c2009.
xxi, 689 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports., geneal. table ; 25 cm.
PR 6021 O 4Z8.4 2009
Segal, Miryam
A new sound in Hebrew poetry : poetics, politics, accent / Miryam Segal.
Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2010.
p. 206 24 cm.
PJ 4579 S4.2 2010
Silverman, Melvin D.
Born Jewish -- becoming a Jew : living with sages : a memoir / Mel Silverman
[S.l.] : Xlibris Corp, 2008.
471 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
BM 755 S5.5 2008
