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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication |
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Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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The Eighth Menorah | 2013 | F/M14 | 15 | |||||||
Curthoy, Ned | Legacy of Liberal Judaism: Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt’s Hidden Conversation, The | 2013 | N/D 14 | 15 | Merowitz, Morton J. | |||||
Kedar, Nurit, Shani, Yaron | Life Sentences | 2013 | M/J 15 | 46 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
Beecham, Naomi | This Is Israel: Pictorial Guiden and Souvenir | 2013 | S/O14 | 4 | Share, Ellen | |||||
Goldscheider, Jeremy, Goldgewicht, Richard | Lost Town | 2013 | N/D 14 | 42 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
Abbag, Galia | Shira at teh Temple - A Yom Kippur Story | 2013 | S/O14 | 51-52 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |||||
Hammer, Shalom | Derash Yehonatan: Around the Year with Rav Yehonatan Eybeshitz | 2013 | S/O14 | 14 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
Orlander, Toby | Who By Fire, Who By Sword: The Journals of Four Courageous Jewish Women in Turbulent Times | 2013 | F/M14 | 7-8 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
Tepper, Aryeh | Progressive Minds, Conservative Politics: Leo Strauss's Later Writing son Maimonides | 2013 | S/O14 | 22 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
Steinbarg, Eliezer | A Collection of Poems for Children in Yiddish | 2013 | F/M14 | 15-16 | Dublin, Anne | |||||
Densmore, Dana | Reb Zalman Gathers Figs: A Study of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s Reading of Biblical Text to Re-Vision Judaism for the Present Day. | 2013 | N/D 14 | 16 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
Rosen, Alan | Literature of the Holocaust | 2013 | N/D 2015 | 29 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Gold, Jennifer | Soldier Doll | 2013 | S/O14 | 31 | Siskind, Leda | |||||
Kushner, Yosef | Commerce and Shabbos: The Laws of Shabbos as They Apply to Today’s Hi-Tech Business World. | 2013 | N/D 14 | 25 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Shalev, Eran | Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War, The | 2013 | N/D 14 | 33 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
Verzov, Ella, Oirechman, Chana | Tamar of Venice | 2013 | Young Lanplighters Series | S/O14 | 46-47 | Citrin, Rena | ||||
Ben-David, Shiloh | Shalom Aleichem: A Collection of Halachos, Aggados and Anecdots about Greeting People | 2013 | S/O14 | 6 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
Sanders, Shelly | Rachel’s Promise | 2013 | F/M14 | 8 | Heather Lenson | |||||
Broll, Michael, Chelma, David | Free at Last: From Mud to Mirth–A Pesach Tale | 2013 | N/D 14 | 7 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |||||
Veidlinger, Jeffrey | In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in the Soviet Ukraine | 2013 | S/O14 | 23 | Seigel, Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) | |||||
Alter, Robert | Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings | 2013 | F/M14 | 23 | Share, Ellen | |||||
Yasgur, Benjamin S. | Torah Conversations with Nechama Leibowitz | 2013 | S/O13 | 46-47 | ||||||
Tidhar, Lavie | Martian Sands | 2013 | M/J 2014 | 48 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Landau, David | Life of Ariel Sharon, The | 2013 | N/D 14 | 25 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
Gold, Shefa | Magic of Hebrew Chanting: Healing the Spirit, Transforming the Mind, Deepening Love, The | 2013 | N/D13 | 27 | ||||||
Zadoff, Allen | I Am the Weapon | 2013 | The Unknown Assassin: Book One | S/O14 | 39 | Punchuck, Kath | ||||
Cohen, Eli | Hora 79 (DVD) | 2013 | N/D 2016 | 26 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Verzov, Ella, Oirechman, Chana | Moshe of Jaoan | 2013 | Young Lamplighters Series | S/O14 | 46-47 | Citirin, Rena | ||||
Besser, Yisroel | Like the Seeds of a Pomegranate: A Journalist's Encounters with Greatness | 2013 | S/O14 | 6 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
Vidro, Nadia | Medieval Karaite Pedagogical Grammar of Hebrew: A Critical Edition and English Translation of Kitab al- 'Uqud fiTasarif al-Luga al-'Ibraniyya | 2013 | S/O14 | 23 | ||||||
Behar, Moshe, Benite, Zvi Ben-Dor | Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics & Culture, 1893-1958 | 2013 | Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought | F/M14 | 23 | Simon, Rachel | ||||
Lawson, Michaela | Spark Ignited: The Difficult Journey to Orthodox Judaism—The Process & the Perils | 2013 | N/D 14 | 26 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
Joffo, Joseph | A Bag of Marbles | 2013 | F/M14 | 2 | ||||||
Kacer, Kathy | Shanghai Escape | 2013 | F/M14 | 9 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Wagner, Stanley M. and Israel Drazin | What's Beyond the Bible Text: Thought Provoking Comments on the Bible that Stimulate and Stretch the Imagination | 2013 | S/O14 | 25 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Bennett, Roger | Unscrolled: 54 Writers and Artists Wrestle with the Torah | 2013 | F/M14 | 24 | Stein, Marion | |||||
Golick, Margie | Let There Be light: Stories from Genesis in Verse | 2013 | S/O14 | 33 | Stein, Marion M | |||||
Sax, Aline | The War Within These Walls | 2013 | F/M14 | 2 | Dublin, Anne | |||||
Kokotlin, David and Joey Allaham | Prime Grill Cookbook, The | 2013 | S/O14 | 16 | Feder, Debbie | |||||
Osborne, William | Hitler’s Secret | 2013 | F/M14 | 10 | Dubin, Susan | |||||
Weisz, George Yitshak | Theodor Herzl: A New Reading | 2013 | S/O14 | 25 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
Bierman, Michael A. | Memories of a Giant: Reflections on Rabbi Dr. Joseph B Soloveitchik zt”l | 2013 | F/M14 | 24 | Stein, Marion | |||||
Berne, Jennifer | On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein | 2013 | S/O14 | 33 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Goldlist, Marcia | Enjoying Genesis: The Bible in Rhyme | 2013 | The Bible in Rhyme series | M/J 15 | 5 | Pinchuck, Kathe | ||||
Lundbom, Jack R. | Deuteronomy: A Commentary | 2013 | N/D 14 | 27 | ||||||
Smith, Brendan Powell | David and Goliath | 2013 | Brick Bible for Kids | F/M 2020 | 39-40 | Bloomfield, Kathy | Book | Juvenile | ||
Chernofsky, Phil | And Every Single One Was Someone | 2013 | S/O14 | 7 | Cutrone, John | |||||
Ehrlich, Amy | With a Mighty Hand: The Story in the Torah | 2013 | F/M14 | 3 | Malen, Michal Hoschander | |||||
Watts, Irene N. | Escape from Berlin | 2013 | F/M14 | 10-11 | Lenson, Heather | |||||
Willig, Mordechai | Laws of Cooking and Warming Food on Shabbat, The | 2013 | S/O14 | 25-26 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Borman, Joseph B. | Open Hearts: Memoirs of a Cardiac Surgeon | 2013 | F/M14 | 24-25 | Wolfe, Nira | |||||
Fishof, Iris | Jewelry in Israel: Multicultural Diversity 1948 to the Present | 2013 | N/D 14 | 18 | Share, Ellen | |||||
Goldlist, Marcia | Enjoying Exodus: The Bible in Rhyme | 2013 | The Bible in Rhyme series | M/J 15 | 5 | Pinchuck, Kathe | ||||
Glickman, Elaine Rose | Messiah and the Jews: Three Thousand Years of Tradition, Belief and Hope | 2013 | N/D13 | 27 | ||||||
Cooper, Lsa | Forgotten Land, Growing Up in the Jewish Pale: Based on the Recollections of Pearl Unikow Cooer, A | 2013 | S/O14 | 7 | Freiband, Susan | |||||
Afro-Semitic Experience | Jazz Souls on Fire | 2013 | S/O 2015 | 27 | Feder, Debbie | |||||
Heiligman, Deborah | The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos | 2013 | F/M14 | 3 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Jajer, Diemut, Hill, Peter Thomas, Edward Vance Humphrey and Brian Levin, trans. | "Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich: The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in German and Occupied Eastern Europe, with Special Regard to Occupied Poland, 1939-1945 | 2013 | S/O14 | 16 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
Wein, Elizabeth | Rose Under Fire . | 2013 | F/M14 | 11 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
Ra'anan, Boustan, Himmelfarb, Matha, Schaefer, Peter | Hekhalot Literature in Context: Between Byzantium and Babylonia | 2013 | Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism | F/M14 | 25-26 | Roth, Pinchas | ||||
Fontaine, Resianne, Freudenthal, Gad | Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies | 2013 | Studies in Jewish History and Culture; 39-40 | N/D 14 | 18 | |||||
Yisraeli, Oded | פתחי היכל: עיוני אגדה ומדרש בספר חזוהר (Temple portals: Studies in Aggadah and Midrash in the Zohar) | 2013 | N/D 14 | 36 | Roth, Pinchas | |||||
Brown, Barbara | Hanukkkah in Alaska | 2013 | S/O14 | 49 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Dynner, Glenn | Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland | 2013 | S/O14 | 9 | Tesler, David | |||||
Rouss, Sylvia A., Kahn, Katherine Janus | Sammy Spider's First Book of Jewish Holidays | 2013 | N/D13 | 3 | ||||||
Englander, Yakir and Avi Sagi | The New Religious-Zionist Discourse on Body and Sexuality | 2013 | S/O14 | 9-10 | Roth, Pinchas | |||||
Goldblatt, Mark | Twerp | 2013 | F/M14 | 4-5 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
Cognet, Christophe | Because I was a painter | 2013 | F/M 2016 | 29 | Wolfe, Nira | |||||
Manzione, Lisa | Let’s Visit Jerusalem! | 2013 | The Adventures of Bella & Harry Series | F/M14 | 12 | Pastcan, Ben | ||||
Yudin, Benjamin | Rabbi Benjamin Yudin on the Parsha | 2013 | S/O14 | 26 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
Brody, Robert, Rosenberg, Betsy | Sa’adyah Gaon | 2013 | F/M14 | 26 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
Brown, Barbara | Hanukah in Alaaska | 2013 | S/O14 | 49 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Goldman, Karen | Jordan and the Dreadful Golem | 2013 | F/M14 | 5 | Lenson, Heather | |||||
Bascomb, Neal | The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi | 2013 | F/M14 | 12 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Friedberg, Albert D. | Crafting the 613 Commandments: Maimonides on the enumeration, classification and formulation of the scriptural commandments | 2013 | N/D 14 | 20 | Belinfante, Randall C. | |||||
Diamond, Shani | Mish and Mush Series | 2013 | S/O14 | 49 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Feld, Edward | Joy, Despair, and Hope: Reading Psalms | 2013 | S/O14 | 10 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
Steinkellner, Teddy | Trash Can Days: A Middle School Saga | 2013 | F/M14 | 5 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Reszke, Katka | Return of the Jew: Identity Narratives of the Third Post-Holocaust Generation of Jews in Poland | 2013 | S/O14 | 17 | Smith, Sonia | |||||
Needle, Larry | Homecourt: The True Story of the Best Basketball Team You’ve Never Heard Of | 2013 | F/M14 | 12-13 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Herzog, Pearl, Bodel, Itai | Amazing Fishing Rod, The | 2013 | N/D 14 | 12 | Feit, Shelly | |||||
Rapaport, Benjamin | Jewish Art of Self Discovery, The | 2013 | N/D 14 | 30 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
De Waal, Elisabeth | Exiles Return, The | 2013 | N/D 14 | 38 | Bibel, Barbara M. | |||||
Freeze, ChaeRan. Y and Jay M. Harris eds. | Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia: Select Documents 1772-1914 | 2013 | Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry | S/O14 | 12 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | ||||
Weissman, Elissa Brent | The Short Seller | 2013 | F/M14 | 5-6 | Dublin, Anne | |||||
Robinson, Ira, ed. | Canada's Jews: In Tim, Space, and Spirit (Jews in Space and Time) | 2013 | S/O14 | 19 | Cohen, Leah | |||||
Fagan, Cary | Oy, Feh, So? | 2013 | F/M14 | 13 | Cooper, Abby | |||||
Astaire, Libi | 36 Candles: Chassidic Tales for Channukah | 2013 | S/O14 | 27 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Kagan, Jeremy | Choice to Be: A Jewish Path to Self and Spirituality, The | 2012 | M/J13 | 26 | ||||||
Schram, Peninnah, Davis, Rachayl Eckstein, Lee, Wendy W. | Apple Trees Discovery, The | 2012 | M/J 12 | 9 | ||||||
Derwin, Susan | Rage is the Subtext: Readings in Holocaust Literature and Film | 2012 | FM13 | 22 | ||||||
Goldstein, Stephen L. | When My Mother No Longer Knew My Name: A Sons "Course" in "Rational" Caregiving | 2012 | M/J13 | 24 | ||||||
Langer, Ruth | Cursing the Christians? A History of the Birkat HaMinim | 2012 | M/J 12 | 34 | ||||||
Walfish, Miriam | Libas Palace | 2012 | Jewish Girls Around the World | S/O13 | 4 | |||||
Labinsky, Baruch | Financial Guide to Aliyah and Life in Israel | 2012 | FM13 | 29 | ||||||
Klawans, Jonathan | Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism | 2012 | N/D13 | 30 | ||||||
Kaufman, David E. | Jewhooing the Sixties: America Celebrity and Jewish Identity | 2012 | S/O13 | 31-32 | ||||||
Rossman, Avraham, Linsider, Joel | Rashi | 2012 | FM13 | 25-26 | ||||||
Bard, Mitchell | Israel Matters: Understand the Past-Look to the Future | 2012 | N/D12 | 9-10 | ||||||
Ladin, Joy | Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders | 2012 | S/O12 | 40 |