Hunter College Libraries Blog

Here are some of the most recent acquisitions in Jewish Social Studies recently purchased by the Hunter College Libraries listed alphabetically by title:

Autobiographical Jews : essays in Jewish self-fashioning by Michael Stanislawski
Hunter Main – Library Stacks - PN842 .S73 2004

Becoming Eichmann : rethinking the life, crimes, and trial of a “desk murderer” by David Cesarani
Hunter Main - Library Stacks - DD247 .E5 C47 2006

Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen by Jeremy Cohen
Hunter Main – Library Stacks BT431.5 .C64 2007

Creating Judaism : history, tradition, practice by Michael L. Satlow
Hunter Main - Library Stacks - BM45 .S226 2006

From the Maccabees to the Mishnah / by Shaye J.D. Cohen
Hunter Main – Library Stacks - BM176 .C615 2006

Jews and Arabs: A Concise History of Their Social and Cultural Relations by S. D. Goitein, and Mark R. Cohen
Hunter Main – Library Stacks - DS135 .T8 G57 2005

Jews and Judaism in the 21st century : human responsibility, the presence of God and the future of the covenant
Hunter Main – Library Stacks - BM42 .J54 2007

The Lonely Man of Faith by Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Hunter Main – Library Stacks - BM729 .F3 S614

Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco
by Peter Schafer (Editor), Mark R. Cohen (Editor),
Hunter Main - Library Stacks - BL475 .T68 1998

Exhibitions at the Center for Jewish History , 15 West 16th St., NY, NY

The following are two exhibitions (of several) currently showing at the Center for Jewish History:

YIVO presents: The Family Singer on view through May 9, 2008 This exhibition chronicles the lives and works of three Singer siblings : the brothers Israel Joshua (1893-1944) and Isaac Bashevis (1904-1991), and their elder sister Esther (1891-1954), all acclaimed and famed figures in Yiddish Literature.

YIVO presents: Bigger than Life: The Boundless Genius of Yiddish Theater on view through April 27, 2008 A special exhibition made up of posters, playbills, photographs, theater plans, advertisements and correspondence relating to the Yiddish Theater.