Area Studies Collections @ Penn

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This image of Nagaj˛ and Nagavant˛ playing chaupar is perhaps the clearest native Indian illustration of this game.This is the Indian equivalent of, and original for, our game of Parcheesi.

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UPenn Library NewBookPlus for African Studies Jewish Studies Latin American Studies East Asian Studies Middle East Studies South Asian Studies for the week starting November 17, 2009

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India's northeast resurgent : ethnicity insurgency governance development / B.G. Verghese.

Li-heyot YisLreJ<eli = To be Israeli / LeJ<ah Brodersen.

Mural / Mahmoud Darwish ; translated by Rema Hammami and John Berger ; with an introduction by John Berger.

Once Jews : stories of Caribbean Sephardim / Josette Capriles Goldish.

Perspectives on the advancement of Arab society in Israel.

Phuket : pearl of the Orient / photographs by Bill Wassman & Alberto Cassio ; text by William Warren.

Scapegoat for all seasons : the DoLnmes or Crypto-Jews of Turkey / Rifat N Bali ; translated from Turkish by Paul Bessemer.

Small finds : studies of bone iron glass figurines and stone objects from Tell Hesban and vicinity / volume editor Paul J. Ray Jr. ; contributors Ghazi Bisheh ... [et al.].

Judaica Collection News

Encyclopaedia Judaica 2nd ed., 22v, 2007

Updated edition of this Judaic reference work features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists. It includes more than 2,600 brand-new entries, many focusing on gender issues and New World geographic areas of the United States, Canada and Latin America and updates of some 11,000 entries across all topics. The Holocaust segment alone features more than 50 entirely new articles.

Helpful navigational tools include extensive cross-referencing capabilities, a large subject index, and quick references, facilitated by place-name lists, a chronology, lists of newspapers and periodicals, and more than 600 maps, charts, tables, photographs, and illustrations. Among other features making this scholarly work accessible are entry-specific bibliographies to help guide further research.

The Penn Libraries have extensive multidisciplinary area studies collections, including materials in non-Western languages, that deal with specific geographic regions and their cultural manifestation in the broadest sense of the term. Developed in close coordination with programmatic and faculty research interests at Penn, each collection is administered by a bibliographer who can assist in locating materials and using these collections. Please contact us with any questions that you may have about library resources from any of these geo-cultural regions.