Tuesday, August 07, 2007

New books, books on cd, dvds in the library August, 2007

City of oranges : an intimate
LeBor, Adam.


The gravedigger's daughter :
Oates, Joyce Ca


Dry bones rattling : community
Warren, Mark R.

The Septembers of Shiraz /
Sofer, Dalia.


The Ministry of Special Cases
Englander, Nath


The Yiddish policemen's union
Chabon, Michael


O Jerusalem : a Mary Russell novel. Paperback.
King, Laurie R.


Sefer otiyot = The book of letters, 15th anniversary edition.
Kushner, Lawrence.


Folktales of the Jews /European and Sephardic, 2 volumes


When the grey beetles took over Baghdad
Yahia, Mona,


Paper kisses : a true love story
Kaiser, Reinhar


The family flamboyant :
ace politics, queer families, Jewish lives
Brettschneider,


The cave of reconciliation /
Witonsky, Pecki


Hanukkah lights :
stories of the season : from NPR's (National Public Radio) annual holiday special
Melcher Media,


All whom I have loved /
Appelfeld, Aron


The Jewish book of days : a companion for the season
Hammer, Jill.


The Yiddish policeman's union (LARGE PRINT)
Chabon, Michael


The Ethiopian Jews of Israel :
personal stories of life in the Promised Land
Lyons, Leonard.


A tranquil star : unpublished stories
Levi, Primo.


Homeland : the illustrated history of the state of Israel
Wolfman, Marv.


Marc Chagall /
Wilson, Jonatha


The Yiddish policemen's union
Chabon, Michael


Fiorello's sister : Gemma La Guardia Gluck's story.
Gluck, Gemma LaGuardia Gluck


The sculpture of Louise Nevelson
Nevelson, Louis


The collaborator of Bethlehem
Rees, Matt,


The Polish woman : a novel /
Mekler, Eva.


Shakespeare's kitchen : stories
Segal, Lore


American Jewish history / Norman Finkelstein (children's book)

The contemporary Torah :
a gender-sensitive adaptation of the JPS translation


Writing in an age of silence /Memoir
Paretsky, Sara.


1967 : Israel, the war,
and the year that transformed the Middle East
Segev, Tom,

Friday, July 20, 2007

New materials in the Temple Israel Library. July, 2007.

BM155.3.F57 2007
Fishman, Sylvia Barack. The way into the varieties of Jewishness. Woodstock, Vt:
Jewish Lights Pub, [2007].

BM504.3 .H4713 2005
Heschel, Abraham Joshua and Tucker, Gordon. Heavenly Torah : as refracted
through the generations. New York: Continuum, [2007].

BM653 .W65
Wolfson, Ron. The spirituality of welcoming : how to transform your congregation
into a sacred community. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, [2007].
Note: The Synagogue 2000 theory of Synagogue transformation -- Welcoming
ambience -- Welcoming worship -- Welcoming membership.

BM723 .M665
Morinis, E. Alan. Everyday holiness : the Jewish spiritual path of mussar. 1st
ed. Boston, Mass: Trumpeter Books, [2007].

BS580 .J6S4
Segal, Jerome M. Joseph's bones : understanding the struggle between God and
mankind in the Bible. New York: Riverhead Books, [2007].

DS135 .H93
Gur, David. Brothers for resistance and rescue : the underground Zionist youth
movement in Hungary during World War II. Jerusalem: Gefen, [2007].

E184.36 .E84
Shay, Scott A. Getting our groove back : how to energize American Jewry.
Jerusalem: Devora Publishing, [2007].

f. Etz
Etzioni-Halevy, Eva. The garden of Ruth. New York: Plume, [2007].

f. Ros
Rosnay, Tatiana de. Sarah's key. 1st ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, [2007].

HQ1172 .A58
Antler, Joyce. You never call! you never write! : a history of the Jewish
mother. Oxford: Oxford University Press, [2007].

HQ769.3 .D59
Doades, Joanne. Parenting Jewish teens : a guide for the perplexed. Woodstock,
VT: Jewish Lights Pub, [2007].

X DIEN
Coben, Lawrence A. Anna's shtetl. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press,
[2007].

X FRANKS
Franks, Lucinda. My father's secret war : a memoir. New York: Hyperion, [2007].

X GORDIN
Kaplan, Beth. Finding the Jewish Shakespeare : the life and legacy of Jacob
Gordin. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, [2007].

X GRUBER
Gruber, Ruth. Witness : adventurer and foreign correspondent, friend and
emissary of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt, maker of--and witness to--history,
tells her extraordinary story with 200 of her own photographs. New York:
Schocken Books, [2007].

Books for kids

Young Adult
YA Ros
Rosenbloom, Fiona. We are so crashing your Bar Mitzvah! 1st ed. New York:
Hyperion, [2007]. Eighth-grader Stacy Friedman will do anything to be accepted into the cool
clique, even crashing the biggest Bar Mitzvah of the year.


j. BM707 .C6
Cohen, Shari and Gindlin, Marcelo. Alfie's bark mitzvah. Chandler, AZ: Five Star
Publications, Inc, [2007]. In a small synagogue, surrounded by his loving family, Alfie completes the ceremony that marks his passage from being a puppy to a dog.

MUSIC - CDS

CD MUSIC Rua
Ruach 5767 : new Jewish tunes. N.Y: Transcontinental Music, [2007].
Note: Jewish folk/rock, in Hebrew and English, sung by singer/songwriters of the
Reform movement.