Recent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: June 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-book

50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission Into the Heart of Nazi Germany
Steven Pressman

Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict
John B. Judis

In Paradise: A Novel
Peter Matthiessen

Jerusalem Unbound: Geography, History, and the Future of the Holy City
Michael Dumper

Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust
Götz Aly

Through Project Muse

The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
Introduction by Samuel D. Kassow. Translated and edited by Samuel Schalkowsky. Anonymous members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police

Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century
Iris Idelson-Shein

Jewish Interpretation of the Bible: Ancient and Contemporary
Karin Hedner Zetterholm

Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World: A Social and Architectural History
Barry L. Stiefel

Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story
Maxim D. Shrayer