Recent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: July 2015
The following titles on our Recent Acquisitions Display are just a few of our new books, which are available at the reference desk in the Dorot Jewish Division. Catalog entries for the books can be found by clicking on their covers.
The following new acquisitions are also available to read online by authenticating with your library card number.
E-books
Between Friends by Amos Oz
Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart
Rav Kook: Mystic in A Time of Revolution by Yehudah Mirsky
Through Project Muse
Aesthetics of Sorrow: The Wailing Culture of Yemenite-Jewish Women
Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals From Russia and America
Jerusalem: Conflict & Cooperation in A Contested City
The New Life: Jewish Students of Postwar Germany
Through University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO)
Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory
Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-century Reform
Through Oxford Scholarship Online
Pétain's Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime, 1940-1942
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