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
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