Idel, Moshe. Messianic Mystics. [BM615.I34x 1998]
Hibbert, Christopher. George III. [DA506.A2 H53x]
Kershaw, Ian. Hitler. [DD237.H5 K462x]
Rohl, John C. G. Young Wilhelm: the Kaiser's Early Life. [+DO 229.R6412813x 1998]
Hispanic Network Magazine [E 184 S75 H5795]
Henry, Charles P. Ralph Bunche, Model Negro or American Other?. [ E748.B885 H46x. 1999]
Marcos, subcomandante. The History of Colors [F1435.3 F6 M3713 1999x]
Baker, Colin and Sylvia Prys Jones (eds). Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education. [+ LC 3707 E53x 1998]
United Nations. General Assembly. Official records. [++ JX1977 .A41]
Research Guide for Cornell and Ithaca College Model UN Programs.[ONLINE JZ4935 .R48a
<http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/modelun.html>]
Limonov, Eduard. Sobranie sochinenii v trekh tomakh. [PG 3483 .I435 A6 1998]
White, Nicholas. The Family in Crisis: Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction. [PQ653.W45 19999]
Maurensig, Paolo. Canone. [PQ4873.A8947 C3613]
Cunningham, Michael. Hours. [PS3553.U484 H68]
Aisenberg, Andrew. Contagion: Disease, Government, and the "Social Question" in Nineteenth-Century France. [RA643. F8 A37x]
Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums. [Olin, Microforms Film 7071]

Idel, Moshe. Messianic mystics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Location: Olin BM 615.I34x 1998 From the pen of our generation's leading scholar of Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism comes this analytic survey of the long tradition of Jewish mysticism. Exploring the interplay of Jewish messianism and mysticism from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries, the book looks closely at pivotal figures and movements, including Sabbatai Sevi and hasidism. One innovative conclusion is that far from arising typically as a response to calamities, messianism often gained popularity during times of political tranquillity. Because of the author's wide and deep erudition, likely to become a standard work in the field of Jewish thought and history. (Yoram Szekely, ybs1@cornell.edu)

Hibbert, Christopher. George III: A Personal History. New York: Basic Books, 1998. Location: Olin, DA 506 .A2 H53x 1998 To Most Americans King George III is remembered as "the King who lost America," a tyrant who tried to trample the "rights of Englishmen" which the Colonists believed to be their birthright. Or, he is seen as the absurdly bumbling "Farmer George" who was so out of touch with reality that he did not understand what was happening across the Atlantic until it was too late. This impression has been re-enforced recently by the popularity of the play and movie "The Madness of George III." In this "elegantly written and cleverly constructed" biography Christopher Hibbert puts both of these misconceptions to rest. George III, placed in the "tumultuous, rambunctious, revolutionary 18th century," with all its colorful and intriguing characters, is shown to be an affectionate father and husband, an involved and effective administrator concerned with all the activities of state, and a person of great intellectual curiosity interested in music, literature, art, agriculture, astronomy, architecture, and mechanics. Hibbert's biography, both rollicking and scholarly, is sure to alter our understanding of this fascinating, complex, and very human King who so strongly shaped our own destiny. (G. David Brumberg, gdb1@cornell.edu)

Kershaw, Ian. Hitler, 1889-1936: hubris. New York: Norton, 1999. Location: Olin DD 247 H5 K462x 1999 In this biography of Hitler, Kershaw set out to discover how Hitler was possible -- how a bizarre misfit could ascend to uncontested rule over Germany. The aim of his study was to examine German society, to search out the social and political motivations which went into the making of Hitler, and to fuse them with Hitler's personal contribution to the attainment and expansion of his power. This volume, the first of two, ends with the promulgation of the Nuremberg laws that pushed German Jews to the outer fringes of society, and with the march of the German army into the Rhineland. Martha Hsu (mrh2@cornell.edu)

Rohl, John C.G. Young Wilhelm: the Kaiser's Early Life, 1859-1888. Translated by Jeremy Gaines and Rebecca Wallach. Cambridge, U.K.; New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Location: Olin DD 229 R6412813x 1998   This rich and compelling volume describes the life of Kaiser Wilhelm II from his birth in 1859 to his accession to the Prusso-German throne in 1888. Based largely on documents such as letters and diaries, some from previously closed archives, the book gives voice to the young Wilhelm's parents and relations, his nursemaids and governesses, his military and civilian educators, friends and advisors and informed onlookers, and to the handicapped Prince himself. The central theme is the bitter conflict with his liberal parents, particularly with his English mother, and the failure of an educational experiment intended to turn the young Prince into a liberal Anglophile. Interested readers may want to continue Wilhelm's story with the same author's book: The Kaiser and his Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany. Cambridge University Press, 1994. (Location: Olin DD 229 R64x 1994) Martha Hsu (mrh2@cornell.edu)

Hispanic Network Magazine, Yorba Linda, CA: Olive Tree Publishing, v.10, 1998- Location: Olin, E 184 S75 H5795 This periodical is in many ways typical of a wave of Hispanic popular journals launched in the 1990s. It features articles written by and about U.S. Latinos, predominately in sports and entertainent. Olin and other campus libraries hold a number of Latino-centered journals, the now canonical Hispanic (1988- ), Anuario hispano (1992- ), Ithaca's own La Voz (1991- ) and National Hispanic News (1995?- ) among them. (David Block, db10@cornell.edu)

Henry, Charles P. Ralph Bunche: Model Negro or American Other? New York: New York University Press, 1999. Location: Olin, E 748 .B885 H46x 1999 Uris, E 748 .B885 H46x 1999 From the 1940s into the 1960s Ralph Bunche was the most celebrated African American in this country and in the world. Beginning as the Chief of the African Section of the Office of Strategic Services during W.W.II, he moved to the State Department where he worked with the group responsible for helping establish the United Nations. Moving to the UN, Bunche became the Director of Trusteeship and, in 1950, he became the first black Noble Laureate. He concluded his diplomatic career as the Undersecretary of the UN. Despite this outstanding career, today Bunche is virtually unknown. Charles P. Henry's biography restores him to his rightful place while, at the same time, illuminating the constant struggle which blacks must go through to overcome the racial dynamic so deeply embedded in American culture. (G. David Brumberg, gdb1@cornell.edu)

Marcos, subcomandnate. The Story of Colors= La historia de los colores. El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 1999. Location: Olin, F1435.3 F6 M3713 1999x 14 DAY Cause célèbre. This is the book whose publication subsidy the National Endowment for the Arts pulled after a newspaper revealed that its author is none other than the Chiapas leader, Subcomandante Marcos. Look closely; it's a children's book, with lovely illustrations done by the indigenous Mexican artist, Domitila Domínguez, and tells how the world changed from black and white to color. This first printing of 500 copies has an acknowledgment of assistance from NEA, a misprinting corrected by an erratum , sent by the publisher. (David Block, db10@cornell.edu)

United Nations. General Assembly. Official records. 1st Session - (Jan. 10, 1946 - ) Lake Success, N.Y. : United Nations, 1946- Location: Olin ++ JX1977 .A41 Research Guide for Cornell and Ithaca College Model UN Programs. Ithaca, NY : Reference Services Division; Olin, Kroch and Uris Libraries, 1998- Location:ONLINE JZ4935 .R48a <http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/modelun.html> On April 25, 1945, delegates of 50 nations met in San Francisco for the United Nations Conference on International Organization. The delegates drew up an 111-article Charter, which was adopted unanimously that spring. Four years later in New York City in 1949, the cornerstone was laid for their UN Headquarters. Fifty years after that, this April is an appropriate month to feature the United Nations resource collection at Cornell. Olin Library's depository collection encompasses a comprehensive range of UN resources, from the Official Records of the Principal Organs to the proceedings of UN sponsored conferences. This semester, campus researchers are utilizing the documents of the General Assemby and Security Council including the weapons inspection messages from UNSCOM. Complementing Olin's depository holdings are the publications sold by the UN as well as the extensive secondary analytical resources produced by research institutes and scholarly publishers. These are located in the Olin stacks or in the appropriate subject collections of other campus library units. The complex organizational structure of the UN is reflected in the complicated classification system of its depository collection. Document identification and retrieval can be a challenge for the novice. For decades, the Olin Reference Division has provided expert support for users of UN materials. Reference Librarian Lance Heidig is the current expert, and he has created a web-based user's guide for students in the Model UN Program who work with the official documents. Lance's site describes the UN material available in Olin and identifies finding aids and reference sources. Increasingly, networked electronic access is available to both full text UN documentation and various indices. Lance's site provides linked access to the most useful of these online resources. Comprehensive holdings and expert assistance for researchers needing UN materials have been an Olin priority since 1945. This support continues for those using historic documents from the UN's past and those needing the electronic resources of the present. Olin's longstanding commitment deserves this month's special notice. (Janie Harris, jlh4@cornell.edu)

Baker, Colin and Sylvia Prys Jones (eds). Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 1998. Location: Olin + LC 3707 E53x 1998 The international community of linguists has received a new, pioneering publication that will find a permanent place in their reference collections. The Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education will be consulted, for years to come, for facts, definitions, and references. It has breadth and depth, and presents a high level of scholarship. While being a comprehensive, authoritative resource on the increasingly important topic of bilingualism, it is at the same time quite interesting reading for the general public. What are language suicide and language murder? What, on the other hand, are language vitality factors? How many languages are spoken in the world, in Africa, in the UK, in Bhutan? These are, among hundreds of others, topics discussed in this work. The Encyclopedia explores bilingualism on both social and individual levels. It includes new areas of interest such as bilingualism on the Internet, bilingualism and the economy, religion and bilingualism, and language marketing. Maps, graphs, and photos greatly enhance the text. An extensive (over 2000 references) and up-to-date bibliography make this book invaluable to scholars and students. (Wanda Wawro, wtw3@cornell.edu)

Limonov, Eduard. Sobranie sochinenii v trekh tomakh. Moskva: Vagrius, 1998. Location: Olin: PG 3483 .I435 A6 1998 Eduard Limonov (Eduard Savenko) is a prose writer and poet belonging to the third wave of Russian emigration, the main flood of which occurred between 1973 and 1981. The exiled Russian writers of the third wave, without the constraints of censorship, found a strong voice abroad. Limonov, often called the "enfante terrible" of Russian literature, holds a special place among his contemporaries. Limonov's writings as well as he himself are the targets of extremely contrasting opinions and impassioned polemics for a variety of reasons. On the one hand, his writings shock with explicit eroticism and his obscene language shatters all linguistic taboos. Moreover, his outrages and often offensive declarations concerning his political convictions and his views of all Russian emigre literature and emigre writers have wreaked havoc among many Russian literati while perhaps titillating an international reading public. The basis of the controversy seems to be the cyclical generation conflicts in the annales of art. Limonov firmly rejects the depressing ghetto of Russian emigre literature,refusing to be a "citizen writer." Nevertheless, his popularity appears to thrive on the controversy that surrounds him, his novels being translated throughout the Western world. Until the advent of "glasnost" in the Soviet Union, Limonov's name was only mentioned in the Soviet Union as an example of how low emigre literature had fallen in content and style. Since 1989, the Soviet press began covering him quite sympathetically, and for the first time in 1992, Limonov's novel "Istoriia ego slugi" ("The Butlers Story") was published in Moscow. Russian readers have just recently received his "Collected Works" to create their own opinion and then either embrace or reject their most recently adopted "enfante terrible." (Wanda Wawro, wtw3@cornell.edu)

White, Nicholas. The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. PQ653 W45 1999 The Family In Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Novel focuses on a key moment in the construction of the modern view of the family in France. Nicholas White's analysis of novels by Zola, Maupassant, Huysmans, Hennique, Bourget and Armand Charpentier is fashioned by perspectives on a wide cultural field, including legal, popular and academic discourses on the family and its discontents. His account encourages a close rereading of canonical as well as hitherto overlooked texts from fin-de-siècle France. What emerges between the death of Flaubert in 1880 and the publication of Bourget's Un divorce in 1904 is a series of Naturalist and post-Naturalist representations of transgressive behaviour in which tales of adultery, illegitimacy, consanguinity, incest and divorce serve to exemplify and to offer a range of nuances on the Third Republic's crisis in what might now be termed 'family values'. (Flaminia Cervesi-McCobb, fcm4@cornell.edu)

Maurensig, Paolo. Canone Inverso. Translated by Jenny McPhee. New York: Henry Holt, 1998. PQ4876 A8947 C3613 1998 Paolo Maurensig's first novel, The Lüneburg Variation, was hailed worldwide as a brilliant and original classic. Now, with his second book -the age-old tale of the doppelgänger reimagined- Maurensig confirms his reputation as a modern master. In an isolated Austrian music school in the 1930s, two boys, each struggling with the burden of talent, the curse of obsession, and the forces of history ranged against them, become locked in a complex friendship. One is a Hungarian bastard peasant boy touched by brilliance, the other the sole heir to an Austrian aristocratic family desperately clinging to the prerogatives of noble birth. The key to their bond lies hidden in the secret of a beautiful, strangely carved violin. As their lives unfold through the most violent decades of our century, the two become companions, rivals, and, inevitably, lethal enemies. Their stories intertwine in a magical, enigmatic fugue in which music is at once threat and consolation. With Canone Inverso, Paolo Maurensig delivers a forceful, sensuous masterpiece, leading us to a devastating finale. (Flaminia Cervesi-McCobb, fcm4@cornell.edu)

Cunningham, Michael. The Hours. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1998. Location: Olin, PS 3553.U484 H68x 1998 14-DAY Major Authors on CD-ROM: Virginia Woolf. Research Edition. Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Media, 1997. Location: Olin, Electronic Text Center Cunningham evokes Virginia Woolf's life and work, and its deep connection to contemporary lives exemplified by a young California housewife and a professional women in New York City. This beautifully written, somewhat precious novel was a 1998 National Book Award finalist. Major Authors on CD-ROM: Virginia Woolf contains almost all Woolf's published works, including variant and scarce editions, in a fully searchable format, as well as an archival recording of Woolf's talk "Craftsmanship" recorded for the BBC in 1937. General Editor Mark Hussey has provided an introduction for this disc, as well as the complete text of his Virginia Woolf A to Z (Facts on File, 1995) with more than 2,000 entries hyperlinked to the disc's content. The only significant omission from this disc may be some of the early reviews and essays included in Andrew McNeillie's projected six-volume edition of the Essays. A wonderful resource for students of Woolf, or of modernism or fiction influenced by Woolf, such as The Hours.

Aisenberg, Andrew R. Contagion: Disease, government, and the social question in nineteenth-century France. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999.   Location: Olin, RA 643.7.F8 A37x 1999 In nineteenth century France, from the cholera epidemic of 1832 to the Public Health Law of 1902, contagion was a persistent concern. Scientists, government officials, and politicians associated contagion with poverty; efforts and techniques to prevent and contain contagion developed into new ways of thinking about urban and industrial social problems. This work draws on the approaches of intellectual and social history and the work of Michel Foucault to chart the development in France of the modern notion of contagion and the growth of the role of science as a form of state social power. (Sarah How, seh4@cornell.edu)

Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums. Leipzig: Baumgartners Buchhandlung, 1837-1922. Location: Olin, Microforms Film 7071. Holdings: 1837-1922, but lacks some issues from: 1890, 1896, April 1917 through 1919. A nearly complete file on microfilm of a leading general German-Jewish periodical which for nearly a century documented the life and activities of German Jewry during what is generally considered to be the heart of its cultural and economic golden age. It was then that German Jews built up their record of outstanding contributions to Judaism, to German life and to world civilization. Indispensible for any serious research in German-Jewish history, and complements the Cornell Library's rich holdings of German Judaica, including those acquired as part of the Kisch Collection. Purchased along with about a dozen similar periodicals published by the Jewish communities in Germany and France (list available upon request) . (Yoram Szekely, ybs1@cornell.edu)

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