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New York — The Jewish
Book Council has released its
annual book gift list compil-
ed by the staff of the Jewish
Book Council, which is spon-
sored by the Jewish communi-
ty Centers Association of
North America.
Several new reference books
have been published. The En-
cyclopedia of Judaism, edited
by Geoffrey Wigoder, focuses
on religious aspects of Jewish
life and history (Macmillan
Publishing). Evyatar Friesel's
Atlas of Modern Jewish
History covers Jewish history,
geographic distribution,
demography, and intellectual
developments from the 17th
century to the 1980s (Oxford
University Press). The
Blackwell Companion to
Jewish Culture: From the
Eighteenth Century to the Pre-
sent, edited by Glenda
Abramson, contains articles
covering Jews prominent in
the arts, literature, language,
philosophy, and some social
sciences. It also covers such
topics as theater, the relation-
ship of Judaism with Chris-
tianity and Islam, the
Holocaust, Judaism and
modern feminism, Judaism
and psychoanalysis, and
Jewish humor (Basil Black-
well, Inc.). Macmillan's En-
cyclopedia of the Holocaust,
edited by Israel Gutman, is a
four volume set, authoritative
and comprehensive.
Jewish women are the sub-
ject of several new books:
America and I: Short Stories
by American Jewish Writers,
edited by Joyce Antler, is a
collection of 23 short stories
written in English by
American Jewish women
writers from 1900 to the pre-
sent. The authors include
Mary Antin, Edna Ferber,
Gloria Goldreich, Joanne
Greenberg, Fannie Hurst,
Johanna Kaplan, Tillie
Olson, Cynthia Ozick, Jo
Sinclair, and Anzia Yezierska
(Beacon Press). The Global
Anthology of Jewish Women
Writers, edited by Robert and
Roberta Kalechofsky, con-
tains fiction, poetry, and non-
fiction by Jewish women
writers, from the Enlighten-
ment era to the present. The
writers come from Europe,
Israel, Latin America, South
Africa, and the United States
(Micha Publications).
An updated edition of Writ-
ten Out of History: Our Jewish
Foremothers has been releas-
ed. Using historical reports,
letters, memoirs, and other
documents, the authors, Son-
dra Henry and Emily Taitz,
trace the role of Jewish
women from biblical times to
the 20th century (Biblio
Press).
Two gift books cover very
different aspects of Israel:
High Hills and Wild Goats:
Life Among the Animals of
the Hai-Bar Wildlife Refuge is
the account of life at the Hai-
Bar wildlife refuge in Israel,
written by its former curator,
Bill Clark. Hai-Bar is
dedicated to restoring en-
dangered species to the wild,
many of them animals writ-
ten about in the Bible (Little,
Brown). Taste of Israel: A
Mediterranean Feast, by Ron
Maiberg, is an illustrated col-
lection of Israeli recipes,
drawing on Yemenite, Moroc-
can, Arabic, East European,
and other tradition. Not
all of the recipes are ko-
sher (Rizzoli International
Publications).
Diverse approaches to
Jewish religion appear in
three new books. A Treasury
The list of
recommended
books includes
new reference
works, volumes on
Jewish women,
Israel, Judaism
and other topics.
of Jewish Anecdotes, by
Lawrence J. Epstein, is a col-
lection of anecdotes about
Jewish personalities from
biblical times to the present.
The anecdotes were chosen
for the ability to provoke
laughter or tears, illuminate
a character or time in history,
or teach a moral lesson (Jason
Aronson Inc.). In Insights: A
Talmudic Treasury, Saul
Weiss offers a collection of 500
maxims and sayings from the
Babylonian and Jerusalem
Talmuds and from midrashic
writings. They are presented
with commentaries in
English drawn from both
traditional and modern
sources (Philipp Feldheim
Inc.).
The Book of J is a controver-
sial translation by David
Rosenberg of the portions of
the Torah said to derive from
the so-called J Document,
with an introduction and
commentary by Harold
Bloom. Mr. Bloom argues
that J is a writer comparable
to Homer, Shakespeare, and
Tolstoy, and was most likely a