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| Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication |
Year |
Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salkin, Jeffrey K. | JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary. | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 7 | Bloomfield, Kathy | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Feinstein, John | Backfield Boys: A Football Mystery in Black and White | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 14 | Malen, Michal Hoschander | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Borovaya, Olga | Beginnings of Ladino Literature: Moses Almosnino and his Readers | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 22 | Belinfante, Randall C. | Book | Adult | |||
| Sussman, Jeffrey | Max Baer and Barney Ross: Jewish Heroes of Boxing | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 32 | Share, Ellen | Book | Adult | |||
| Aronson, Marc, Budhos, Marina | Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 8 | Quay, Alex | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Golabek, Mona , Cohen, Lee, Sher, Emil | Children of Willesden Lane: A True Story of Hope and Survival During World War II | 2017 | Young Readers Edition | M/J 2018 | 15 | Levitan, Rebecca | Book | Juvenile | ||
| Wasserman, Mira | Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud after the Humanities | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 32 | Sukenic, Harvey | Book | Adult | |||
| Halperin, Joan Arnay | My Sister’s Eyes: a Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 15 | Levine, Joyce | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Weinberger, Moshe, Wolf, Binyomin | Sparks from the fire : Shabbos Drashos Delivered at Keillas Aish Kodesh | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 32 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
| Appelbaum, Peter C. , Scott, James W | Broken Carousel: German Jewish Soldier-Poets of the Great War | 2017 | N/D 2018 | 36 | Smailes, Suzanne | Book | Adult | |||
| Leatherdale, Mary Beth, Shakespeare, Eleanor | Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 16 | Krasner, Barbara | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Goldscheider, Aaron | Light that Unites Us, The | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 25 | Freiband, Susan | Book | Adult | |||
| Marsico, Katie | Genius Physicist: Albert Einstein | 2017 | N/D 2019 | 11-12 | Issac, Fred | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Yehuda, Zvi | e New Babylonian Diaspora: the Rise and Fall of the Jewish Community in Iraq, 16th20th Centuries | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 33 | Simon, Rachel | Book | Adult | |||
| Liberman, Judith Weinshall, Davis, Gail | Expulsion | 2017 | N/D 2018 | 10-11 | Silver, Linda R. | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Mooney, Carla, Casteel, Tom | Holocaust: Racism and Genocide in World War II, The | 2017 | Inquire and Investigate | M/J 2018 | 16 | Isaac, Fred | Book | Juvenile | ||
| Brandes, Yochi, Libenson, Daniel | Orchard, The | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 35 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | Book | Adult | |||
| Glick, Shifra | Bentzi and the Magic Potion | 2017 | Bentzi | M/J 2018 | 10 | Colodny, Debbie | Book | Juvenile | ||
| Klagsbrun, Francine | Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 25 | Eltman, George S. | Book | Adult | |||
| Brandes, Yochi | Orchard, The | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 35 | Pinchuck, Chava | Book | Adult | |||
| Kushelevsky, Rella, Ruchie Avital, Chaya Naor, Elisheva Baumgarten | Tales in context: Sefer ha-Ma'sim in medieval Northern France | 2017 | Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Ms. Bodl, Or. 135 | N/D 2018 | 29-30 | Kohn, Roger S. | Book | Adult | ||
| Bentzi and the Magic Potion | 2017 | Bentzi | M/J 2018 | 10 | Pinchuck, Chava | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Shandler, Jeffrey | Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors' Stories and New Media Practices | 2017 | M/J 2019 | 35 | Cantor, Hallie | Book | Adult | |||
| Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker | War I Finally Won, The | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 10 | Colodny, Debbie | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Klepeis, Alicia Z. | Israel | 2017 | Exploring World Cultures | M/J 2018 | 18 | Rapp, Andrea | Book | Juvenile | ||
| Hart-Green, Sharon | Come Back for Me | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 35 | Gremillion, Yossi | Book | Adult | |||
| Burkhart, Kiersi, Keyser, Amber | Long Trail Home, The | 2017 | Quartz Creek Ranch | M/J 2018 | 11 | McMahon, Martha | Book | Juvenile | ||
| Liberman, Judith Weinshall, Davis, Gail | Wailing Wall | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 18 | Eskin, Marcie | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Mandel, Paul D. | Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to Text, The | 2017 | Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, vol. 180 | M/J 2018 | 26 | Levy, David B | Book | Adult | ||
| Karmon, Robert | Inspired by a True Story: Isaac | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 36 | Bibel, Barbara M. | Book | Adult | |||
| Linder, Chaim, Linder, Mark | Angels Always Come on Time | 2017 | N/D 2018 | 31 | Isaac, Fred | Book | Adult | |||
| Morgenstern, Mira | Reframing Politics in the Hebrew Bible: a New Introduction with Readings | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 27 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | Book | Adult | |||
| Keener, Jessica | Strangers in Budapest | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 36 | Gremillion, Yossi | Book | Adult | |||
| Zakon, Rabbi Nachman | The Montefiores: Champions of the Jewish People | 2018 | Great Jewish Lives | F/M 2020 | 43 | Isaac, Fred | Book | Juvenile | ||
| Pessin, Andrew | The Jewish God Questions: What Jewish Thinkers Have Said about God, the Book, the People, and the Land | 2018 | N/D 2019 | 28 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | Book | Adult | |||
| Himsel, Angela | A River Could be a Tree: A Memoir | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 29-30 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | Book | ||||
| Weiss, Judith | Ta'am HaTe'amim or Universal Oral Law: A Hebrew Renaissance Kabbalistic Mission Treatise by Guillaume Postel | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 37 | Levy, David B | Book | Adult | |||
| Perl, Erica | All Three Stooges | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 12 | Colodny, Debbie | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Friedman, Avraham Peretz | Setting a Table for Two: Enhancing Relationships, Achieving Intimacy | 2018 | S/O 2019 | 15-16 | Pinchuck, Chava | Book | Adult | |||
| Cohen, Abraham | One of the Thirty-Six Hidden Tzaddikim: HaGaon Rav Yitzchak Zilber zt"l- his life and legacy as told by his students and those close to him | 2018 | F/M 2019 | 3 | Levy, David B | Book | Adult | |||
| Koffsky, Ann D. | Avi for President | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 7 | Dublin, Anne | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Olitzky, Kerry M. | Welcome to the Seder: A Passover Haggadah for Everyone | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 27 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
| Blacher, Ariel Augenbraun, Koppel, Shana | Gila Makes Aliyah | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 14-15 | Pinchuck, Chava | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Roumani, Jacques, Meghnagi, David, Roumani, Judith | Jewish Libya: Memory & Identity in Text & Image | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 31 | Book | Adult | ||||
| Holmgren, Beth | Warsaw is My Country: The Story of Krstyna Bierzynska | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 30 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | Book | ||||
| Aronson, Peter | Bronislaw Huberman | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 7 | Barbara Krasner | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Sivan, Miryam | Make it Concrete | 2018 | N/D 2019 | 35-36 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | Book | Adult | |||
| Wright, Fiona | The Israeli Radical Left: An Ethics of Complicity | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 37 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | Book | Adult | |||
| Folman, Ari, Polonsky, David [nid:52283], illustrator | Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 1 | Levitan, Rebecca | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Press, Judy, Hall, Mary | Bubbe’s Got the Beat | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 19 | Tilman, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Hirsch, Samson Raphael | The Hirsch Siddur: Revised Edition | 2018 | S/O 2019 | 16 | Levy, David B | Book | Adult | |||
| Adler, David A., Ackerman, Dena | A Pizza Contest for Jelly Eli Z. | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 8 | Bloomfield, Kathy | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Schreiber, Mordecai | Three Founders of Israel | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 32 | Isaac, Fred | Book | Adult | |||
| Jarausch, Konrad H. | Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 30 | Wolfe, Nira | Book | ||||
| Goddu, Krystyna Poray, Cosei Kawa | An Unlikely Ballerina | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 7-8 | Dublin, Anne | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Horowitz, Shayna R. | Penina Pinkowitz and the Summer Situation | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 12 | Pinchuck, Chava | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Wolas, Cherise | The Family Tabor: A Novel | 2018 | N/D 2019 | 36 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | Book | Adult | |||
| Zerubavel, Yael | Desert in the Promised Land | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 37 | Kohn, Roger S. | Book | Adult | |||
| Kerner, Alex | Lost in Translation, Found in Transliteration: Books, Censorship, and the Evolution of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation of London as a Linguistic Community, 1663-1810 | 2018 | Studies in Jewish History and culture | S/O 2019 | 16 | Chesner, Michelle | Book | Adult | ||
| Fine, Gary M. | The Art of Yannai | 2018 | F/M 2019 | 3-4 | Wolfe, Nira | Book | Adult | |||
| Adler, David A., Ackerman, Dena | Teacher Troubles for Jelly Eli Z. | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 8 | Bloomfield, Kathy | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Benedict, Devorah | I Want a Friend! Stories for Learning Essential Social Skills | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 15 | Glasser, Rachel | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Shai, Nachman | Hearts and Minds: Israel and the Battle for Public Opinion | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 32 | Isaac, Fred | Book | Adult | |||
| Smallwood, Carol, Gubnitskaia, Vera | Genealogy and the Librarian: Perspectives on Research, Instruction, Outreach, and Management | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 33 | Dwoskin, Beth | Book | Adult | |||
| Jorisch, Avi | Thou Shalt Innovate: How Israeli Ingenuity Repairs The World | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 31 | Stein, Marion | Book | Adult | |||
| Kimmel, Eric A., Stevanovic, Ivica | Scarlett and Sam Search for the Shamir | 2018 | Scarlett and Same | M/J 2018 | 13 | Tilman, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | ||
| Zipperstein, Steven J. | Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 38 | Cantor, Hallie | Book | Adult | |||
| Fishbaum, Silvia, Coddington, Andrea | Dirty Jewess: A Woman's Courageous Journey to Religious and Political Freedom | 2018 | F/M 2019 | 4 | Amir, Michlean | Book | Adult | |||
| Bauman, Reuven | Yanky's Amazing Discovery | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 8 | Citrin, Rena | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Sarason, Richard S. | Divrei Mishkan T’filah: Delving into the Siddur | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 28 | Smailes, Suzanne | Book | Adult | |||
| Benenfeld, Rikki | I Go to Sleep | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 16 | Levine, Joyce | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Fine, Jonathan David, Cohen, Tamar L., Hochstein, Fray | A State is Born: The Establishment of the Israeli System of Government, 1947-1951 | 2018 | N/D 2019 | 23 | Cantor, Hallie | Book | Adult | |||
| Sullam, Simon Levis, trans. Smyth, Oona, Patane, Claudia | The Italian Executioners: the Genocide of the Jews of Italy | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 33 | Simon, Rachel | Book | Adult | |||
| Julius, Lyn | Uprooted: How 3,000 of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 31 | Dwoskin, Beth | Book | Adult | |||
| Amsel, Nachum | Encyclopedia of Jewish Values: Between Man and Man | 2018 | S/O 2019 | 9 | Belinfante, Randall C. & Anne Marie | Book | Adult | |||
| Alexander, V.S. | The Taster:A Novel | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 38 | Bibel, Barbara M. | Book | Adult | |||
| Brill, Marlene Targ | Picture Girl | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 9 | Malen, Michal Hoschander | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Lipton,Diana | From Forbidden Fruit to Milk and Honey: A Commentary on Food in the Torah | 2018 | F/M 2020 | 27-28 | Gottschalk, Haim | Book | Adult | |||
| Rosenfeld, Dina H., Wummer, Amy | We Can Find A Way: A Hachnosas Orchim Inclusion Story | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 16 | Levitan, Rebecca | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Tamir, Dan | Hebrew Fascism in Palestine, 1922-1942 | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 33-34 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | Book | Adult | |||
| Klein, Reuven Chaim | God versus Gods: Judaism in the Age of Idolatry | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 31-32 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | Book | Adult | |||
| Metsellar, Menno, Scarry, Harry | All About Anne | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 8-9 | Flax, Shoshana | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Gabin, Jean S. | The Paris Photo: A Novel | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 38-39 | Bibel, Barbara M. | Book | Adult | |||
| Olizky, Kerry, Tompkins, Abigail | Where's the Potty on this Ark? | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 3-4 | Tilman, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Hazony, Yoram | The Virtue of Nationalism | 2018 | F/M 2019 | 4-5 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | Book | Adult | |||
| Greenwald, Lisa | 12 Before 13 | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 9 | Flax, Shoshana | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Meyerson, Israela | Miracle Nation: Seventy Stories about the Spirit of Israel: A Tribute to Rebirth in the Land of our Ancestors | 2018 | N/D 2019 | 17 | Isaac, Fred | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Taylor, Derek | Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler: The Forgotten Founder. | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 34 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
| Konig, Nanette Blitz | Holocaust Memoirs of A Bergen-Belsen Survivor: Classmate of Anne Frank | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 32 | Share, Ellen | Book | Adult | |||
| Zakon, Rabbi Nachman, Zakon, Miriam | The Story of Rebbetzin Henny Machlis: Her Amazing Home and Family | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 9 | Pinchuk, Chava | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Leviant, Curt | Katz or Cats of How Jesus Became My Rival in Love | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 39 | Gordon, Ilka | Book | Adult | |||
| Baron, Clementine, Wennagal, Bruno, Nolan, Catherine | Anne Frank | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 4 | Silverman, Lisa | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Kosinski, Colleen Rowan | A Promise Stitched in Time | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 10 | Dublin, Anne | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Newberg, Andrew, Halpern, David | The Rabbi's Brain: Mystics, Moderns, and the Science of Jewish Thinking | 2018 | F/M 2020 | 29 | Cantor, Hallie | Book | Adult | |||
| Henkin, Yehuda | Equality Lost:Essays in Torah Commentary, Halacha, and Jewish Thought | 2018 | Second Issue | N/D 2018 | 28 | Levy, David B | Book | Adult | ||
| Ben-Tekoa, Sha'i | Phantom Nation: Inventing the "Palestinians" as the Obstacle to Peace | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 24 | Isaac, Fred | Book | ||||
| Bessner, Ellin | Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 24 | Smith, Sonia | Book | ||||
| Trachtenberg, Eliezer A. | Thought and the Perception of Evil: Aristotle, Plato, the Hebrew Bible, and the Babylonian Talmud | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 34-35 | Randall C. Belinfante [nid:51578] and Anne-Marie Belinfante | Book | Adult | |||
| Dublin, Anne | A Cage Without Bars | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 9-10 | Levine, Joyce | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Bos, Gerrit | Maimonides On Coitus, A New Parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation | 2018 | S/O 2019 | 11 | Tesler, David | Book | Adult |
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