Hevre, I hope you all had a meaningful Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. It was pretty rough remembering what happened last year at that time.
I had a question come to me about the new RBMS genre term "Anti-Jewish works<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/rbmscv/cv00114.html__;!!KGKeukY!1map94X23H5rBrTwKX0t_-T_IBb4N6S1Tl-L15N2VJHgrMuVoJjz9UKEja8an2L7AmUJyA6fM9pbthUQWixFsZ6tAQSr4g$ >." Are any of you using this term? If so, for what type of materials? Our Alma/Primo system lets us use any authoritative controlled vocabulary terms. We got a copy of the Mecca Bible (OCLC #1428496967). Here is the Amazon description<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.amazon.com/Mecca-Bible-Treasured-History-Ancient/dp/B0CSZ6YQFR__;!!KGKeukY!1map94X23H5rBrTwKX0t_-T_IBb4N6S1Tl-L15N2VJHgrMuVoJjz9UKEja8an2L7AmUJyA6fM9pbthUQWixFsZ64Vte3-A$ >. I reviewed the book with my copy cataloger to come up with the 630 0 0 Bible. $p Old Testament $ Controversial Literature and left it at that. He later decided it needed the RBMS genre term "Anti-Jewish works" and added it to the record. The book considers itself an "academic" book documenting that the Israelites weren't even in the place they claimed to be at the time of the Bible and that they were dispersed and Hebrew fell out of use. It was offensive to me personally when I read it but I'm not sure it constitutes an anti-Jewish work based on the scope note of the term. I would appreciate your thoughts. Thanks. Caroline Caroline R. Miller Team Leader, Discovery Team Hebraica/Judaica Catalog Librarian UCLA Library Resource Acquisitions and Metadata Services 2400 Life Sciences Building 621 Charles E Young Drive South Box 957230 Los Angeles, CA 90095-7230
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