Financial problems at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS)? Conflict at the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School? Hillul Shabbat in the kosher chicken slaughter houses? These issues come to life in the Mendel Gottesman Library鈥檚 recent acquisition, a ledger of the Vaad HaRabanim of New York,鈥
Jewish Ethics in a Post-Madoff World: a Case for Optimism, by Moses Pava. Palgrave, Macmillan, 2011. Prof. Moses Pava's latest book brings a new, sophisticated perspective to the problem of ethical living. Recent headlines about misdeeds within the Jewish community have brought this critical issue鈥
Spies and Holy Wars: The Middle East in 20th Century Crime Fiction, by Reeva Spector Simon. University of Texas Press, 2010. Terrorist or sheik? In her new book, Reeva Spector Simon鈥擯rofessor of History, 黑料社 All--shows how the Middle Eastern villain evolved from malleable victim before鈥
War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914, by Cynthia Wachtell. Louisiana State University Press, 2010 Long before the twentieth century, the meaning of the battlefield was questioned. Exploring the span of American literature between the Civil War and World War I, Cynthia鈥
Two new research guides that focus on Jewish Studies were recently published by YU librarians. In 鈥淔inding an article for Jewish Studies,鈥 Moshe Schapiro explains how to use the catalog and databases to identify articles on a Jewish Studies topic and how to find the texts of the articles. Zvi鈥
Opening the Gates of Interpretation: Maimonides鈥 Biblical Hermeneutics in Light of His Geonic-Andlusian Heritage and Muslim Milieu, by Mordechai Z. Cohen. Brill, 2011. Prof. Mordechai Cohen's study of Maimonides' method of biblical interpretation has at its heart an exacting analysis of each鈥
Beyond Expulsion : Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg, by Debra Kaplan. Stanford University Press, 2011. This book represents a study of the Jewish influence in Strasbourg in the Middle Ages and the early modern era. All Jews were expelled from Strasbourg in 1390, and were only readmitted鈥
The marriage of twenty-first century technology, the Israel Museum, Google, and philanthropist George Blumenthal has enabled access to the two thousand year old Dead Sea Scrolls to anyone with an internet connection. Five of the scrolls are currently available at http://dss.collections.imj.org.il鈥
From Aharon Appelfeld to Natan Zach, Jewish Fiction.Net , the latest addition to YU鈥檚 e-journal collections, offers an A to Z of contemporary Jewish writers. Now in its fifth issue, this quarterly is dedicated to Jewish fiction published in the English language. Novel, short story, poem, novella ...