2007

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EDITOR
ROS COLLINS
JULY 2007
Memory Guide My Hand, vol. 4 features the stories of 32 Jewish
migrants from the fomer Soviet Union. The map below illustrates
the many different towns and regions of their birth. Over 300 people
attended the book launch at the Library on May 27th. Memory Guide
my Hand (2 vols.) is available for purchase from Makor, and will also
be featured at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival in September.
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new
acquisitions
MORE FILMS FROM ISRAEL!
Additions to our
extensive collection
of modern Hebrew
language films.
They all have
sub-titles in English.
SOMEONE TO
RUN WITH
AVIVA MY LOVE
YEAR ZERO
TIME OUT
THE JEWISH CENTURY
~ Yuri Slezkine
‘This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a
bold declaration: The Modern Age is the Jewish Age – and
we are all, to varying degrees, Jews.’ ‘One of the most
innovative and intellectually stimulating books in Jewish
studies in years…[An] idiosyncratic, fascinating and at
times marvellously infuriating study of the evolution of
Jewish cultural and political sensibility in the 20th
century.’ Publishers Weekly. Winner of the 2005 National
Jewish Book Award of the Jewish Book Council.
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JEWISH ROOTS IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY
~ Mendel Kaplan
‘Although there is literature about other immigrant groups
who have contributed to the whole that is South Africa,
little has been published about the Jews. Starting the story
in the 17th century, Mendel Kaplan concentrates on those
who pioneered a particular sector of industry or
commerce or who made a unique contribution in some
field in which other South Africans were engaged,
including mining and life insurance.’
39 POUNDS OF LOVE
THE PERSISTENCE OF FAITH :
religion, morality and society in a secular age
~ Jonathan Sacks
‘…the 1990 Reith Lectures appear prophetic now. Since
that time, the resurgence of religion has caught us by
surprise. The influence of the moral majority in the USA,
the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the prevalence of religious
parties in Israel, the renewed vigour of Catholicism….all
run contrary to the notion that modernity and secularisation
inevitably go hand in hand. Instead, religion has resurfaced
and often appears to be not only powerful but menacing
and threatening.’
BETRAYAL : France, the Arabs and the Jews
~ David Pryce-Jones
MULTICULTURALISM AND THE JEWS
~ Sander L. Gilman
‘David Pryce-Jones has long been an indispensable
guide to the realities of the Arab world, and now, with
the chilling story he so brilliantly tells in “Betrayal”, he
broadens the focus to encompass the role played by
French perfidy in helping to create the threat to us all
of political Islam.” Norman Podhoretz, editor-at-large
of Commentary
‘Can the experience of diaspora Judaism serve as a useful
model for Islam in today’s multicultural Europe? What is a
multicultural ethnic? Other chapters look at specific
figures…Albert Einstein, Franz Kafka, Israel Zangwill,
Phillip Roth…to explore issues within Jewish identity.
Throughout, Gilman pays keen attention to the ways in
which contemporary literature – Chabon, Ozick, Zadie
Smith, Jonathan Safran Foer, Gary Shteyngart – is taking the
idea of Jewishness and multiculturalism into new arenas.’
OBSESSION : Radical Islam’s war against the West
~ DVD, US
KLEZMER! : Jewish music from Old World to Our World
~ Henry Sapoznik [book and CD]
’A film abut the threat of Radical Islam to Western
civilization. Using unique footage from Arab television,
it reveals an “insider’s view” of the hatred the Radicals
are teaching, their incitement of global jihad, and their
goal of world domination. The film also traces the
parallels between the Nazi movement of World War II,
the Radicals of today, and the Western world’s response
to both threats.’
‘A fascinating story of survival against all odds, of a musical
legacy so potent it can still be heard, despite assimilation
and near annihilation. The scratchy, distant sound of early
recordings bursts forth with such power that it has formed
the soundtrack for an entirely new generation of
performers, Jew and non-Jew alike, who have embraced
and expanded the klezmer tradition.’
LION’S HONEY : the myth of Samson
~ David Grossman
IM YESH GAN EDEN (BEAUFORT)
~ Ron Leshem [Hebrew]
‘…award-winning writer David Grossman takes on one of
the most vivid and controversial characters in the Bible.
Revisiting Samson’s famous battle with the lion, his many
women and his betrayal by them all – including the only
one he ever loved – Grossman gives us a provocative new
take on the story and its climax…’ Available in both
Hebrew and English.
A story about the months before the IDF’s withdrawal from
Lebanon in 2000 and winner of the 2006 Sapir Prize for
literature. It focuses on the final weeks of the Israeli
occupation of Beaufort Castle, a hilltop fortress dating back
to the Crusades. A new movie based on this book has won
the Berlin Film Festival.
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