KOH New Arrivals - January

The Sistern Secrets Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of Vatican by Benjamin Blech and Ray Doliner

Gretel's Story: A Young Woman's Secret War Against the Nazis by Gretel Wachtel

The False Friend by Myla Goldberg

The Novel in the Viola by Natasha Solomons

The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman

All Our Wordly Goods by Irene Nemirovosky

The Scattered Tribe: Traveling The Diaspora From Cuba To India To Tahiti & Beyond by Ben Frank

Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Summer on the Lower East Side by Jonathan Boyarin

Brothers at War: Israel and the Tragedy of the Altalena by Jerold Auerbach

Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt To Bring A Cold War Assassin To Justice by Fred Burton

Einstein Before Israel: Zionist Icon or Iconoclast by Ze'ev Rosenkranz

Sinner on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege After The Reformation by Magida Teter

Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe By Elisheva Carlebach

The People of the Book: Philosemitism in England, From Cromwell to Churchill by Gertrude Himmelfarb

The God Who Hates Lies: Confronting & Rethinking Jewish Tradition by David Hartman

The Anatomy of Israel's Survival by Hirsh Goodman

The Synagogue in America: A Short History by Marc Lee Raphael

The Greening of American Orothodox Judaism: Yavneh in the 1960s by Benny Kraut

One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life: A Century of Crises and Reinvention by Michael Palgi

Beyond The Facade: A Synagogue - Museum at Eldridge Street

KOH NEW ARRIVALS - NOVEMBER

Come and check out/reserve our great collection of new books!

The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

Next to Love by Ellen Feldman

Children and Fire by Ursula Hegi

The List by Martin Fletcher

By Fire Possessed: Dona Gracia Nasi by Sandra Toro

The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas

Stations West by Allison Amend

The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg

Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life by Vivian Gornick

Sweet Like Sugar by Wayne Hoffman

The Little Bride by Anna Solomon

Jerusalem Maiden by Talia Garner

When We Danced on Water by Even Fallenberg

The Things We Cherished by Pam Jenoff

Girl Unwrapped by Gabriella Goliger

Black Elephants: a memoir by Karol Nielsen

In the Knight's Arms by Sonia Taitz

The Torah Codes by Ezra Barany

New Arrivals - October

Come and check out the following new arrivals:

BOOKS:

Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World by James Caroll

The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance That Undermines America's Interests in the Middle East by Mitchell Bard

The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election by Todd Gitlin and Liel Leibovitz

The Lampshade by Mark Jacobson

Far From Zion: In Search of a Global Jewish Community by Charles London

Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp by Christopher Browning

The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn by Lucette Lagnado

Jews and the Civil War - a Reader by Jonathan Sarna and Adam Mendelsohn

DVD:

Left Luggage

KOH NEW ARRIVALS!

Books:

This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman
Maimonides as a Biblical Interpretor (Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah) by Sara Klein-Braslavy
Strictly Kosher: Popular Literature and the Condition of Contemporary Orthodoxy (Jewish Identity in Post Modern Society) by Yoel Finkelman

DVD's:

Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
Keeping Up With the Steins

Donated by the Sacramento Jewish Federation:

Genocide
Eagles Over Auschwitz "The Triumph of the Return"
Liberation
The Road to Jenin
One Survivor Remembers
Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century
Beautiful Music

KOH NEW BOOK ARRIVALS!

Come and check out our new books:

1. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: a memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin
2. Odessa: Genius and death in a city of dreams by Charles King
3. Frumkiss Family Business by Michael Wex
4. The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah
5. The Blue Mountain by Meir Shalev
6. Seven Blessings by Ruchama King
7. The Glass Room by Simon Mawer

AMAZING BOOK COLLECTION DONATED TO KOH LIBRARY!

Pictured (left to right): Taliah Berger, Jolie Baron, Allison Coudert (Dr. Weiner's widow), Daniel Khazzoom

We are pleased to have been chosen to house the collection of 2,000 books that belonged to the late Dr. Gordon Weiner, retired director of Jewish studies at Arizona State University. We now have a premiere Jewish library equipped with books on every aspect of Jewish studies for anyone wanting to do research on any area of Jewish studies for school or pleasure. Come in and learn about the history of Jews in most countries around the world, the history (past and present) of anti-semitism, and read commentaries on all religious texts....just to name a few possibilities. Look for an upcoming article in the September Jewish Voice to read more about Dr. Weiner and our special collection.

KOH NEW ARRIVALS - JULY

Come and check out the latest new books available now for your reading pleasure: **


In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks

The Wizard of Lies by Diana Henriques

The White Space Between by Ami Sands Brodoff

Home in the Morning by Mary Glickman

Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York by Ariel Sabar


**Remember, no matter how hot the weather is outside, the KOH Library is always a cool place to be:-)

New Arrivals - June!

Books:

The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies

Jewcentricity by Adam Garfinkle

Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV by Ben Shapiro

A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism by Daniel Byman

The End of the Holocaust by Alvin Rosenfeld

Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Adina Hoffman

The Eichmann Trial (Jewish Encounters) by Deborah Lipstadt

DVD's:

Newland
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
The Flying Camel

May New Arrivals

Books:

Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
by Jan Gross

The Perfect Nazi; Uncovering my Grandfather's Secret Past
by Martin Davidson


For the Soul of France; Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus
by Frederick Brown

A Jewish Feminine Mystique?
Edited by Hasia Dinar, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson

Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphanies Changed Our World
by Norman Lebrecht

Operation Exodus: From the Nazi Death Camps to the Promised Land: A Perilous Journey That Shaped Israel's Fate
by Gordon Thomas

Confronting Scandal - How Jews Can Respond When Jews Do Bad Things
by Dr. Erica Brown

Vision and Valor - An Illustrated History of the Talmud
by Rabbi Berel Wein

We are Coming Unafraid: The Jewish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World War
by Michael Keren and Shulomit Keren

The Sabbath Word: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
by Judith Shulevititz

DVDs:

The Flying Camel
Partisans of Vilna
Newland
Decoding the Past: Secrets of Kabbalah

April New Arrivals

BOOKS:

A Promise at Sobibor-A Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland by Philip Bialowitz

The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, edited by John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow

Hope Will Find You: My Search for the Wisdom to Stop Waiting and Start Living by Naomi Levy

Hush: a novel by Eishes Chayil

The Instructions: a novel by Adam Levin


DVD'S:

A Film Unfinished

Rape of Europa

Bob Alper: Rabbi/Stand-Up Comic

Guaranteed Funny: 101 Totally Clean Jokes by Bob Alper

MORE NEW ARRIVALS!

Come and check out our most recent acquisitions available for checkout:

Twentieth Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land by Monty Noam Penkower

An Italian Renaissance: Choosing Life in Canada

The Morning Star: A Novel by Andre Schwarze-Bart

The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Jonathan Schneer

I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections by Nora Ephron

A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--and a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History
of the Great Depression by Ted Gup

The Alhambra Decree by David Raphael

The Cavalier of Malaga by David Raphael

The Infidel: DVD
A Cantor's Tale: DVD

KOH Library New Arrivals

New Books (available for checkout) received in February.

Memories of Eden; A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad - by Violette Shamash

Jewish Carpets - by Anton Felton

Esther's Children; A Portrait of Iranian Jews - edited by Houman Sarshar

The Torah; A Women's Commentary - edited by Eskenazi and Weiss

The Women's Torah Commentary;
New Insights From Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions -
edited by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein

New Arrivals - February, 2011

Come and check out our newest books:

Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century by Ruth Harris

Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation by Martin Fletcher

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis by Kai Bird

Rich Boy by Sharon Pomerantz

K-O-H Library New Arrivals

New books (available for checkout) for January:

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Peep Show by Joshua Braff
Siegfried Follies by Richard Alther
The Escape by Adam Thirlwell
My Race: A Jewish Girl Growing Up Under Apartheid in South Africa by Lorraine Abramson
Helluva Town: The Story of New York City During World War II by Richard Goldstein
The Marriage Artist by Andrew Winer
Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons
Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America's Food Answers to a Higher Authority by Sue Fishkoff
A Hidden Affair by Pam Jenoff
Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind by Binnie Klein
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund De Waal

KOH New Arrivals!

Come and check out our new books:

Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
Palestine Betrayed by Efraim Karsh
Refugees and Reforms: Turkey's Journey by Arnold Reisman
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick
Comedy in a minor key by Hans Keilson
The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership by Yehuda Avner
When They Come For Us We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry by Gal Beckerman
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg

All books are now available for checking during regular library hours.

KOH New Arrivals!

Come check out our latest books and DVD's:

Books:

Rhyming Life & Death by Amos Oz
To The End of the Land by David Grossman
The Puzzle King by Betsy Carter
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement by Jane Ziegelman
A Curable Romantic by Joseph Skibell
Conquering Fear: Living Boldly in an Uncertain World by Harold Kushner
My Mother's Sabbath Days by Chaim Grade
The Measure of His Grief by Lisa Moss
Prisoner of his Mind by Ruth Rapaport
Great House by Nicole Krauss

DVD's:

Waltz With Bashir
Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
O Jerusalem
Among The Righteous: Lost Stories From the Holocaust in Arab Lands

KOH Library New Arrivals

The following books and DVD's have arrived and are available for check out during library hours:

BOOKS:

With Strength and Splender: Jewish Women as Agents of Change by Lisa Kogen
The Trials of Zion by Alan Dershowitz
If We Could Hear Them Now: Encounters With Legendary Jewish Heroines by Alice Becker Lehrer
Sarah/Sara by Jacob Paul
Nemesis by Philip Roth
Wherever You Go by Joan Leegant

DVD'S:

Off and Running
Autism: The Musical
The Sephardic Jews and the Pike Place Market

KOH New Arrivals

KOH New Arrivals!

We are pleased to share some of our newest book and DVD arrivals with you. All of the following titles are available for check out during our regular library hours.

DVDs:

The Jewish People...a Story of Survival
Visions of Israel
A Yiddish World Remembered
Rafting to Bombay
The Darien Dilemma

Books:

Now I see the Moon: A Mother, a Son, a Miracle by Elaine Hall
Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: War and National Security
Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Social Justice
The Violin of Auschwitz by Maria Angels Anglada
Dreams of Nationhood by Henry Srebenik

KOH New Arrivals!

For your reading and listening pleasure, I am proud to list below some new arrivals in books and DVD's. They are available for checkout during regular library hours:

DVD's: A Secret
Sixty Six
The First Basket

BOOKS: The Frozen Rabbi by Steve Stern
Torah In The Observatory: Gersonides, Maimonides, Songs of Songs by
Menachem Kellner
Something Red by Jennifer Gilmore
The Servants' Quarters by Lynn Freed
The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
Nechama Leibowitz: Teacher and Bible Scholar by Yael Unterman
God's Water by Berel Arrow
When Money Was In Fashion: Henry Goldman, Goldman Sachs, and the Founding of
Wall Street by June Breton Fisher
Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan
Project, 1924-1951 by Henry Felix Srebrnik