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New Books in the Library:
Abraham’s Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People, by Jon Entine Emma Lazarus, by Esther Schor
Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure, by Michael Chabon
The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America (recent PBS series), by Beth S. Wenger
Shimon Peres: The Biography, by Michael Bar-Zohar
New DVDs in the Library:
Rambam--The Story of Maimonides
Another Road Home
Virtual Chanukah
Chutzpak-Chutzpak
Ushpizin
Image Before My Eyes--A History of Jewish Life in Poland
Everything is Illuminated
Dreyfus Affair (History Channel)
Hoffman Book Donation
Tom and Mitzi Hoffman recently donated 65 books they purchased at bob & bob bookstore in honor of Dick and Caroline Hoffman. Dick and Caroline started the Beth Am library some 50 years ago and both are still very much involved in directing and running the library, volunteering together for 20 hours every week. Here are some of the books:
Jeffrey Shandler, Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland Before the Holocaust.
Benjamine Blech, Eyewitness to Jewish History
Anne Roiphe, Water from the Well: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel and Leah
Sylviah Barack Fishman, The Way into Varieties of Jewishness.
Books from bob & bob:
When bob and bob closed their Palo Alto shop, they call the Beth Am library to donate some of their b ooks. We thankfully accepted their donation of books, valued over $3,000. Some titles included in their generous donation are:
Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of my Chilean Jewish Father, by Marjorie Agosin.
Barrier: The Seam of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, by Isabel Kershner
Bible Dreams: The Spiritual Quest: How the Dreams in the Bible Speak to Us Today, by Seymour rossel.
The Holocaust Encyclopedia
, Edited by Walter Laqueur
The Inner Circle: Seven Gates to Marriage, by Shayna Ostrov.
Holocaust Books, Videos and DVDs for Reference and Borrowing:
The Holocaust in Lithuania 1941-45: A Book of Remembrance (2002) by Rose Lerer Cohen & Saul Issroff.
How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust (1995) by Gary Mokotoff.
Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust (Rev) (2002) by Gary Mokotoff.
Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II (2003) by Stuart E. Eizenstat.
A Conspiracy of Indifference, The Raoul Wallenberg Story (2001) by Alan Gersten.
A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair (2002) by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.
In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith After the Holocaust (2002) by Eugene L. Pogany.
Tolerance, Pluralism & Diversity Booklist - Asilomar, 2005
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