New on the book shelf:

Ethiopia (Kehilot israel ba-mizrah)
The history of the Jews of Ethiopia
 Item No. 38139. Ben Zvi, 2008, (in Hebrew)
Price: $44.00

Katz, Haya
Erets dagan ve-tirosh …
The economy in the Kingdom of Judah in the first temple period
 Item No. 38138. Ben Zvi, 2008, (in Hebrew)
Price: $35.00

Nashim ba-shulayim
The social life of Tel Aviv in the period of the British Mandate. Tel Aviv was a urban center and a resort town for British soldiers. This book deals with female leaders who helped women with financial problems and dealt with problems such as prostitution
 Item No. 38137. Ben Zvi, 2008, (in Hebrew)
Price: $35.00

Safrai, Hana
Nashim ba-huts nashim bi-fnim
The place of women in the midrash
 Item No. 38134. Yediot, 2008,188 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $27.20

Shir israeli. Erets-israel be-tslil ve-tseva
(Illustrations: Nahum Gutman Editor: Yoram Taharlev) Israeli songs and illustrations by Nahum Gutman. Book accompanied by CD
 Item No. 38129. MOD, 2005(8), Hardcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $44.00

Zeman iran
(Editor: Uzi Rabi) A collection of essays on Iran: Iranian society, the powers in Iran. Iran's impact on its surroundings: Syria, Lebanon. The relationship with the US and more
 Item No. 38107. Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2008,200 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $26.20

Yehoshua, A.B.
Ahizat moledet
Essays on Israeli and Jewish identity, Israel as multi-cultural state, on literary subject and on the author's own novels. Some essays appear here for the first time and others are reprints from other publications
 Item No. 38102. Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2008, (in Hebrew)
Price: $27.50

Kirszenblat, Avraham
The little warrior. The story of an orphan child in the holocaust
Item No. 38091. Moreshet, 2008,281 pp, Softcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $21.00

Lieberman, Shaul
Hayerushalmi kipshuto. A commentary. 3rd edition Shabbath Erubin Pesahim - Ha-yerushalmi ki-peshuto
(Ed. And supplemented by Menachem Katz) This edition contains addenda and corrigenda which were not included in previous edition, as well as photocopies with handwritten remarks
 Item No. 38088. JTSA, 2008,574 pp, Hardcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $39.00

Ambivalent Jew. Charles Liebman in memorian
(Edited by Stuart cohen and Bernard Susser) A collection of essays on Charles Liebman, The Diaspora Jewry and Israel
 Item No. 38087. JTSA, 2007,208 pp, Softcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $35.00

Zilberman, Shimon
The new comprehensive English-Hebrew Dictionary (89,000 entries)
Includes new words, idioms, slang. 89,000 entries
 Item No. 38086. Zilberman, 2008,576, 288 pp, Softcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $19.50

Gafni, Reuven
Beit tefilah. Hidden synagoguges in the hart of Jerusalem - Beit tefilah
The stories of synagogues in Jerusalem's first neighborhoods
 Item No. 38068. Ben Zvi, 2008, (in Hebrew)
Price: $39.00

Sperber, Daniel
Ways of Pesika. Methods and approaches for proper halakhic decision making - Netivot pesikah
(Editor: Yoav Sorek)
Item No. 38051. Mass, 2008,207 pp, Hardcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $27.50

Along the Lamed He Route … - Ba-netiv ha-lamed-heh
(Editor: Uri Kushnir)
Item No. 38019. MOD, 207, Hardcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $21.00

Sabbato, Chaim
Come o spirit - Boi ha-ruah
Novel. The story of two immigrant boys in the early days of the state
 Item No. 38017. Yediot, 2008, Softcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $27.50

Magen, Mira
Time will tell - Yamim yagidu anah
Item No. 38016. Keter, 2008, Softcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $27.80

Oren, Ram
Koah elyon
Item No. 38015. Keshet Publishers, 2008, (in Hebrew)
Price: $29.90

Cohen, Yehonatan
I did not reach the Litany - Lo higati le-litani
A personal diary. Lebanon 2006
 Item No. 38011. Maariv, 2007,184 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $23.40

Laquyer, Walter
Generation Exodus - Dor eksodos
A collection of interviews, memories and personal stories of young Jews who fled from Hitler and came to Israel
 Item No. 38009. Dvir, 2007, (in Hebrew)
Price: $27.50

Leksikon le-tikshoret
Hebrew-Hebrew lexicon on the media
 Item No. 38008. Yediot, 2007, (in Hebrew)
Price: $56.00

Bar-On, Mordechai
Et milhamah ve-shalom
The history of the State of Israel 1948-1967
 Item No. 38007. Keter, (in Hebrew)
Price: $27.50

Shavit, Uzi
Not all is vanity. Life on the last stand according to Alterman - Lo ha-kol hevelim
Literary criticism on Alterman
 Item No. 37991. Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2007, (in Hebrew)
Price: $28.60

Haye Yosef
(New translation by Daniel Schwartz) The autobiography the most important Jewish historian during the 2nd Temple period: Flavius Josephus
 Item No. 37986. Ben Zvi, 2007, (in Hebrew)
Price: $40.70

Historiography reappraised. New views of Jacob Katz's Oeuvre - Historia ba-mivhan. Iyun me-hudash be-mishnato shel Yaacov Katz
(Editors: Israel Bartal & Shmuel Feiner) A collection of essays dealing with the work of Prof. Katz, one of the great Jewish historians of the 20th century
 Item No. 37985. Shazar, 2008,208 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $24.80

Coben, Harlan
Drop shot - Makat mahats
(Translted from English) Mystery novel
 Item No. 37982. Yediot, 2007,368 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $24.50

Shoham-Steiner, Ephraim
Involuntary marginals. Marginal idividuals in medieval northern european Jewish society - Harigah baal korham
Crazy people, lepers, and disabled people in the medieval Jewish society
 Item No. 37975. Shazar, 2007,304 pp, Hardcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $31.90

Band, Avraham (Arniold)
Weighty questions - Sheelot nikhbadot
A collection of essays which deal with Franz Kafka, Ahad Haam, Berdiczevsky, Bialik, Agnon, Amos Oz and AB Yehoshua
 Item No. 37965. Dvir, 2007,298 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $26.80

Lapid, Shulamit
Sof onat ha-limonim
The sixth novel in the series. This time Lisi investigates the death of Morris Dehan. A mystery novel
 Item No. 37957. Keter, 2007,231 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $25.60

Seferis, George
A levant journal
(Translated, edited and introduced by Roderick Beaton) The author is winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, a Greek poet, essayist and diplomat. This book offers selections from his notebooks he kept during his diplomatic posting in the Region (1941-41, 1953-56): Cairo, Jerusalem, Beirut, Damascus, Amman. and various other sites
 Item No. 37953. IBIS, 2007,193 pp, (in English)
Price: $24.40

Somekh, Sasson
Baghdad, yesterday. The making of an Arab Jew
(Originally published in Hebrew) The memoir of an Israeli poet who writes in Arabic. Somekh was born in Baghdad and immigrated to Israel in the 1950s. A description of Jewish Baghdad
 Item No. 37952. IBIS, 2007,187 pp, Softcover (in English)
Price: $24.40

Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Item No. 37937. Yediot, 2007, Softcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $39.40

Pomrock, Zvi Abraham
Chelouche. The first Tel-Avivan - Shlush. Ha-tel-avivi ha-rishon
The story of Aharon Shlsuh. In the middle of the 19th century Shlush started to buy landwhich was became the first neighborhood outside Jaffa. This is the story bof four generations of the first Tel Aviv residents
 Item No. 37919. Carmel, 2007, Softcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $27.30

Bezalel, Itzhak
You were born Zionists. The Sephardim in Eretz Israel and the Hebrew revival during the Ottoman Period - Noladetem tsionim
The Sephardim in Eretz Israel during the Ottoman Empire
 Item No. 37909. Ben Zvi, 2007, Hardcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $46.20

Libya - Luv
(Editor: Haim Saadoun) The history of the Jews of Libya
 Item No. 37908. Ben Zvi, 2007, Hardcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $46.20

Bareli, Avi
Mapai in Israel's early independence 1948-1953 - Mapai be-reshit ha-atsmaut
Mapai 1948-1953
 Item No. 37907. Ben Zvi, 2007, Hardcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $37.20

Tessler, Shmulik
Songs in Uniform. The military entertainment troupes of the Israel Defence Forces - Shirim ba-madim
The history of Israeli army bands. Very heavy book
 Item No. 37906. Ben Zvi, 2007, Hardcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $64.90

Weitz, Yechiam
The first step to power. The Herut Movementm 1949-1955 - Ha-tsaad ha-rishon
The history of the Herut Movement 1949-1955
 Item No. 37905. Ben Zvi, 2007,246 pp, Hardcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $34.90

To turn sand into gold. The story of Holon - Lahafokh hol le-zahav
(Editor: Eyal Meiron) The history of the town of Holon. Large book with many photos and English introduction
 Item No. 37904. Ben Zvi, 2007, Hardcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $48.40

Rom, Ruthy
Stings of the Acanthus - Akitsat ha-akantos
Historical novel on the background of 1717 Amsterdam and the early 2000s
 Item No. 37900. Yediot, 2007, Softcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $26.80

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Rom, Ruthy
Stings of the Acanthus - Akitsat ha-akantos
Historical novel on the background of 1717 Amsterdam and the early 2000s
 Item No. 37900. Yediot, 2007, Softcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $26.80

Berkovitz, Rivka
Ha-kol ha-pnimi shel hatan pras novel saul bellow
An analysis of Saul Bellow who received the Nobel Price in 1976. From the contents: His search for Jewish identity, the impact of existentialism on Bellow, is his work post-modern? Etc.
 Item No. 37888. Pardes, 2007,140 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $23.80

Bartal, Israel
Cossack and Beduin. Land and people in Jewish nationalism - Kosak
Essays on Jewish nationalism. From the contents: Jews of eastern Europe and higher education; myth, science; messianism and nationalism; liberal optimism and ultra-orthodoxy
 Item No. 37860. Am Oved, 2007,287 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $26.80

Rosenthal, Ruvik
The lexicon of life. Israeli sociolects and jargon - Ha-leksikon shel ha-hayim
The author shows dozens of languages which have developed in Israel: the language of soldiers, ultra-orthodox, web surfers, Jerusalemites, kibbutznikim etc.
 Item No. 37852. Keter, 2007, (in Hebrew)
Price: $26.80

Beer, Haim
Upon a certain place - Lifne ha-makom
Novel. A writer deals with a crisis in writing
 Item No. 37850. Am Oved, 2007, (in Hebrew)
Price: $27.20

Eshkol, Nevo
World cup wishes - Mashalah ahat yamenu
Item No. 37846. Zmora-Bitan, 2007, Softcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $25.60

Halperin, Hagit
The color of life. The life and works of Alexander Pen - Tseva ha-hayim. Hayav ve-yetsirato shel alexander pen
Life and work of the poet Alexander Pen (1906-1972)., his work, his Zionism his love or hatred for women, his political views
 Item No. 37808. Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2007,248 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $25.60

Liebes, Yehuda
On Sabbateaism and its kabblah - Sod ha-emunah h-shabtaut
New corrected edition
 Item No. 37797. Bialik, 2007,474 pp, Hardcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $41.60

Buber, Martin
The dialogue on man and being (Philosophical writings, vol. 1)
New printing (1959)
 Item No. 37796. Bialik, 2007,261 pp, Hardcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $18.70

Wolf, Ephraim
In the years of war. About my permanence in ghetto Zhmerinka and in ghetto Jurin - Bi-shnot ha-milhamah
Item No. 37795. Moreshet, 2007,141 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $14.50

Coben, Harlan
Mishak mesukan
Suspense novel. The first one of Coben's books in the Bolitar series
 Item No. 37794. Yediot, 2007,404 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $23.80

Gal, Amir
Ha-mitmaheh
Suspense novel. Rivka looses everything she ever had in her life: family, husband, money and loving husband. The police accuses her of a murder …. By the author of the bestseller "Afula"
 Item No. 37793. Zmora-Bitan, 2007,156 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $23.80

Shakin, Shimon
Yom rishon ba-horef
Novel. We already know the identity of the killer and the way of death. All is left to understand is what is or are the motives
 Item No. 37791. Yediot, 2007,175 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $26.80

Misgav, Tal
The story of Latrun internal camp in the Mandate period - Yame latrun
Item No. 37787. ariav, 2007,240 pp, Hardcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $33.90

Anbar, Moshe
Prophecy, treaty-making and tribes in the Mari documents (Biblical Encyclopedia - Encyclopedia Muqrait, 23)
Item No. 37786. Bialik, 2007, Softcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $32.50

Shilo, Varda
Kurdistani cooking - Ha-bishul ha-kurdi
Kurdish recipes. With images
 Item No. 37785. Kana, 2007 (1986, Hardcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $41.80

Tsedaka, Pnina
Ha-mitbah ha-shomroni ha-tov. Matkonim metubalim be-sipurim
Recipes from the Shomroni tradition. The recipes are accompanied by explanation on the Samaritans and their customs as well as stories and personal stories of the author
 Item No. 37783. Lita, 2007,157 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $40.70

Granot, Moshe
Karantinah be-konstantsiah
Ten short stories
 Item No. 37781. Safrai, 2007,144 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $20.90

Ben-Ner, Itshak
Nobody ever died walking - Af-ehad od lo met ba-hilkhah
Stories. Itzik is the central character in the five stories which deal with love and hatred, adventures and more
 Item No. 37780. Yediot, 2007,263 pp, Softcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $26.80

Religious radicalism - Kinaut datit
(Editors: Meir Litvak & Ora Limor) Religious extremism and zealotism, mostly Jewish, includes also some chapters on Christianity and Islam. From ancient times until post-modernism. Radical Jewish orthodoxy, R. Hayim Sofer, A.M. Lapidot, Haredization of Jewish orthodoxy, Hoffnungsthal, Anti-religious in Germany and England 19th c, Catholic Spain, Wahhabiyya, Palest. Ethos of death
 Item No. 37776. Shazar, 2007,463 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $31.70

Avineri, Shlomo
Herzl (Series: Gedole ha-ruah ve-ha-yetsirah ba-am ha-yehudi)
Herzl's thought and his historical background
 Item No. 37775. Shazar, 2007, (in Hebrew)
Price: $19.60

Neeman, Yuval
Yehudim, Israel ve-sugyat ha-garinit. Asufat maamarim pri ito shel prof. Yuval neeman
Essays written by Prof. Yuval Neeman
 Item No. 37759. Michlelet ariel, 2007,245 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $20.70

Kaniuk, Yoram
Of life and death - Al ha-hayim ve-al ha-mavet
Novel
 Item No. 37753. Yediot, 2007,206 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $26.80

Klein, Halevi Yossi
At the entrance to the garden of eden. A jew's search for god with christians and muslims in the holy land - Bi-fetah gan eden
Series: Judaism and Israel
 Item No. 37752. Keter, 2007, Hardcover (in Hebrew)
Price: $25.60

Lau, Benyamin
Sages - Volume 2: From Yavne to the Bar-Kokhba Revolt - Hakhamim bet: bi-me yavneh ad mered bar-kokhba
Item No. 37751. WZO, 2007,383 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $29.70

Kabalo, Paula
Shurat hamidnadvim. The Story of a Civic Association - Shurat Hamitnadvim
The history of the organization in the 1950s
 Item No. 37750. Am Oved, 2007,303 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $27.20

Kronzon, Itzhak
Long Day`s Journey into the Heart - Masa arokh el tokh ha-sev
Item No. 37745. Am Oved, 2007,151 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $22.60

Ben Simon, Daniel
Fraternite gone? French Jews reflect on their future
Item No. 37744. Am Oved, 2007,225 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $24.10

Neuman, Boaz
Being in the Weimar Republic - Liheyot bi-republikat weimar
This book deals with the appearance of the Weimar Republic: advertising, cosmetics, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, sport, fashion, culture, radio, cinema etc.
 Item No. 37743. Am Oved, 2007,397 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $28.60

Shezaf, Zur
Dead End - Sof derekh
Item No. 37742. Am Oved, 2007,314 pp, (in Hebrew)
Price: $24.10

Levi, Primo
Sihot ve-rayonot 1963-1987
Translation of Conversazioni e interviste 163-1987
 Item No. 37741. Am Oved, 2007, (in Hebrew)
Price: $25.60

Brian Herbert \ Kevin J. Anderson
Hunters of Dune - Tsayde hulyot
(Translated into Hebrew) Science fiction novel
 Item No. 37739. Am Oved, 2007, (in Hebrew)
Price: $28.10