Translating Holocaust Literature by Peter Arnds
In his testimony on his survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi said “our language lacks words to express this offense, the demolition of a man.” If language, if any language, lacks the words to express...
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Bovo d’Antona by Elye Bokher. A Yiddish Romance by Claudia Rosenzweig
Bovo d’Antona by Elye Bokher (Elyiahu ben Asher haLevi Ashkenazi, 1469-1549) is a chivalry poem written in Yiddish in Padoa, in the year 1507, and printed under the author’s supervision in Isny (Germany) in...
Arthur Green: Hasidism for Tomorrow
Edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes Introduction by Ariel Evan Mayse Arthur Green is Rector of the post-denominational Rabbinical School and Irving Brudnick Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Religion at Hebrew College...
The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, edited by Robert Alter
The largest English-language collection to date from Israel’s finest poet Few poets have demonstrated as persuasively as Yehuda Amichai why poetry matters. One of the major poets of the twentieth century, Amichai created remarkably...
Jews and Muslims in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
Edited by Franziska Davies, Michael Brenner and Martin Schulze Wessel The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union were multiethnic and multireligious empires, which ruled over a large number of Jews and Muslims. In many...
Conservation of rare books in the Stanford Libraries
From Stanford University’s Digital Library Blog Conservation Services is delighted to announce our new collection in the SDR, Stanford University Libraries Conservation Services treatment documentation. Beginning this past summer, we began depositing treatment reports,...
The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion by Bryan K. Roby
Israel’s Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966 During the postwar period of 1948-56, over 400,000 Jews from the Middle East and Asia immigrated to the newly established state of Israel. By the end of the...
The Latke in the Library & Other Mystery Stories for Chanukah by Libi Astaire
Oy vey! When elderly mystery writer Agatha Krinsky falls for the fifth time, her nephew Sheldon insists she move into an assisted living facility. True to form, on her first day in her new...
History, Memory, and Jewish Identity
Edited by Ira Robinson, Naftali S. Cohn and Lorenzo DiTommaso This volume takes a fresh view of the role representations of the past play in the construction of Jewish identity. Its central theme is...
Recently digitized Hebrew Manuscripts at the Library of Congress
The Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, is pleased to announce a new digital resource. Fifty of our Hebrew manuscripts have been digitized, with indices and metadata. This project is a work-in-progress, eventually...
