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The popular Otzar HaHochma database of over 41,000 traditional Hebrew publications is once again available at Yeshiva University. The present version may be accessed on campus only, from University computers – YULIS computers in the Mendel Gottesman and Hedi Steinberg Libraries, as well as faculty…

Dr. Allan Barsky - Ethics and Values in Social Work: An Integrated Approach for a Comprehensive Curriculum, Oxford University Press, 2010. Sara Diament - Talking to Children About Intimacy: A Guide for Orthodox Jewish Parents. Xlibris Corporation, 2009. � Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Meir Goodman - Great ...

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Lana Schwebel Collection Her taste in literature– from Shakespeare to murder mysteries – showed a highly cultured and curious mind. Lana Schwebel had begun a promising career as Professor of English at Stern College for Women before her fatal accident two summers ago, during a bus tour through ...

Jewish Ethics as Dialogue: Using Spiritual Language to Re-imagine a Better World, by Moses L. Pava. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Jewish Ethics as Dialogue is an innovative discussion of the translation and adaptation of the core moral and ethical values of Judaism to the modern, secular culture of ...

ARABIAN TO AFRIKAN The economy sank. But our professors soared. This year Hedi Steinberg Library has seen new releases of three of our faculty members. Turkish courts, Boer Wars, British salons and imaginary realms – the following books take readers around the world. THE HUNGRY CLOTHES & OTHER…

Descriptions of 788,000 items from the National Library of Israel, most of them Hebrew books, are now included in WorldCat, and more descriptions are being added as new materials are cataloged. A convenient search box is provided on the YULIS catalog search page. Enter your search term in the “Find…

Did you know that Jacob de Cordova, a Jew born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1808, was a Texan pioneer? De Cordova settled in the Republic of Texas in 1837 and by 1848 ran one of the largest land agencies in Texas, which had become a state in 1845. A gift of rare Americana, recently donated to the…

Neo-Babylonian Court Procedure, by Shalom E. Holtz. Brill, 2009. In his new book, Neo-Babylonian Court Procedure, Professor Shalom Holtz has transformed his doctoral dissertation into a sophisticated monograph on the subject of legal procedure in one of the regions of ancient Mesopotamia. The book…

A couple of months ago Prof. Daniel Rynhold’s latest book, An introduction to medieval Jewish philosophy, came off the press. Rabbi Moshe Schapiro, Librarian at the Mendel Gottesman Library, had this to say about the new publication: Medieval Jewish philosophy is a difficult area of study to ...