New & Noteworthy
New & Noteworthy American Reform Responsa Walter Jacob, editor IXAH. 1983 561 pp.. $20 00. paperback Contemporary American Reform Responsa Walter Jacob CCAft. 1987. 3?2 pp.. $15.00,...
...In Zagreb he presents the opening day of a Jewish kindergarten with seven children, in Katowice a dozen children singing and learning to play the guitar, in Budapest a Passover seder in the elegant banquet hall of the Central Board of Hungarian Jews...
...Both books are organized topically and conveniently indexed by issue...
...Dictionary of Jewish Biography Geoffrey Wigoder, editor Simon & Schuster, 1991...
...256 PC-, 549.95 Photojournalist Serotta shows that the Jewish communities in Eastern Europe are worth nurturing, not mourning, in this photographic essay documenting the vibrancy of Jewish life in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and the former German Democratic Republic...
...S45.Q0 This alphabetical reference spans Jewish history and includes writers, philosophers, politicians, Nobel Prize winners, sports figures—nearly 1,000 biographies of Jews who have left their mark on humankind...
...SJ0.0C, hardbound Visions, Images and Dreams: Yiddish Film Past and Present Eric A. Goldman Ergo, 1983...
...paperback The Museum of Modern Art in New York City is mounting an exhibition of Yiddish films from November 1991 through January 1992...
...May a norvJewish spouse be buried in a Jewish cemetery...
...Contemporary American Reform Responsa contains only responsa written by Rabbi Jacob, chairperson of the CCAR Responsa Committee from 1976 to 1990...
...Out of the Shadows: A Photographic Portrait of Jewish Life in Central Europe Since the Holocaust Edward Serotta Birch lane, 199...
...From its beginning, the Reform movement vigorously debated halachah [Jewish religious law...
...567 pp...
...An exhibit—filled with portraits of young and old, of unkempt cemeteries and restored synagogues, of decaying prayer books and bustling kosher restaurants, of old-age homes and children's choirs—will be traveling to museums in the U.S...
...Renewed emphasis on traditional practice within Reform recently sparked similar interest in halachah...
...The films chronicle the culture and lifestyle of ordinary Jews, drawing on biblical, historical and contemporary themes and showing their struggle with tradition and modernity...
...Only the living and Columbus (see p. 34) are excluded...
...iiAmi: SI4 95...
...Both are filled with photos from movies made in Eastern Europe and America, from the earliest silent movies to the recent rebirth of interest in producing new films and restoring and rereleasing old ones...
...358 BP...
...American Reform Responsa contains the complete text of all responsa issued by the Central Conference of American Rabbis until 1982...
...The dictionary is generously illustrated with portraits and photographs and includes boxed inserts that provide quotations and anecdotes about the subject of the biography, Wigoder is the editor of Encyclopedia of Judaism, Encyclopedia Judaica, Illustrated Dictionary and Concordance of the Bible and other reference books...
...Goldman's pioneering, scholarly introduction to Yiddish film and Hoberman's more comprehensive, popular volume make excellent companions to the show...
...15.00, papertack Is a physician ever justified on religious grounds in keeping the truth from patients...
...New and Noteworthy from previous page Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film between Two Worlds J. Hoberman Sclmckwi and M0MA, 1991...
...and Europe...
...What is the religious status of an adopted child...
Vol. 16 • December 1991 • No. 6
