Book Review Index
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| Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication |
Year |
Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balsley, Tilda, Fischer, Ellen, Leigh, Tom | Counts Hanukkah Countdown, The | 2012 | N/D12 | 7 | ||||||
| Band, Debra, Band, Arnold J. | Arise! Arise! Deborah, Ruth and Hannah | 2012 | S/O13 | 19 | ||||||
| Gleitzman, Morris | Now | 2012 | S/O12 | 7-8 | ||||||
| Rubin, Barry | Israel: an Introduction | 2012 | N/D12 | 35 | ||||||
| Goetz, Bracha | What Do You See? At School | 2012 | FM13 | 4 | ||||||
| Down, Susan Brophy | Irena Sendler: Bringing Life to Children of the Holocaust | 2012 | Crabtree Groundbreaker Biographies | FM13 | 3 | |||||
| Stepanick, Lukas, Wegenstein, Bernadette | See You Soon Again (VIDEO) | 2012 | FM13 | 16 | ||||||
| Kaplan, Steven J. | Rabbinical Counseling | 2012 | S/O12 | 38 | ||||||
| Marcus, Jerry | Shoshanas Song | 2012 | M/J13 | 40 | ||||||
| Lenhard, Elizabeth, Wolff, Jason | Ball of Clay that Rolled Away, The | 2012 | M/J 12 | 11 | ||||||
| Harkham, Rachel, Thomas, Donni Zasloff | Get Cooking! Jewish American Family Cookbook ... and Rockin Mama Doni Celebration | 2012 | FM13 | 5 | ||||||
| Deutsch, Tehilla, Zimmer, Glenn | Dollar$ and $ense | 2012 | FM13 | 10 | ||||||
| Berkowitz, Joshua | Third Base for Life: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Baseball | 2012 | S/O12 | 25 | ||||||
| Bar-On, Mordechai | Moshe Dayan: Israels Controversial Hero | 2012 | Jewish Lives | FM13 | 17-18 | |||||
| Plaut, Joshua Eli | Kosher Christmas: Tis the Season to Be Jewish, A | 2012 | FM13 | 34 | ||||||
| Herzfeld, Shmuel | Fifty-Four PIck Up | 2012 | N/D12 | 24 | ||||||
| Tropper, Jonathan | One Last Thing Before I Go | 2012 | FM13 | 42-43 | ||||||
| Rosett, Racelle | Moving Waters: Stories | 2012 | FM13 | 42 | ||||||
| Hiranandani, Veera | Whole Story of Half a Girl, The | 2012 | S/O12 | 8 | ||||||
| Stampfer, Shaul, Taylor-Gutharz, Lindsey | Lithuanian Yeshivas of the Nineteenth Century: Creating a Tradition of Learning | 2012 | S/O12 | 48 | ||||||
| Baer, Elizabeth R. | Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction, The | 2012 | S/O12 | 24 | ||||||
| Rosen, Ruth | Called to controversy: The unlikely story of Mishe Rosen and the founding of Jews for Jesus | 2012 | N/D12 | 35 | ||||||
| Yoffie, Alan S., Podwal, Mark | Sharing the Journey: The Haggadah for the Contemporary Family | 2012 | FM13 | 39 | ||||||
| Wolfson, Ron | Be Like God: Gods To-Do List for Kids | 2012 | FM13 | 8 | ||||||
| Landress, Barbara Ann | Her Glory Within: Rejecting and Transforming Orthodoxy in Israeli and American Jewish Womens Fiction | 2012 | Studies in Orthodox Judaism | S/O13 | 33 | |||||
| Stein, Dina | Textual Mirrors: Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self | 2012 | M/J13 | 36 | ||||||
| Mokhtari, Fariborz | In the Lions Shadow: the Iranian Schindler and His Homeland in the Second World War | 2012 | N/D12 | 30-31 | ||||||
| Penalosa, Fernando | Dybbuk: Text, Subtext, and Context, The | 2012 | N/D13 | 34 | ||||||
| Alexander, Edward | State of the Jews: A Critical Appraisal, The | 2012 | Jewish and Israeli Studies, Political Ideology, Cultural STudies | N/D12 | 13 | |||||
| Bernhardt, Jeff | On Sacred Ground: Jewish and Christian Clergy Reflect on Transformative Passages from the Five Books of Moses | 2012 | S/O13 | 21 | ||||||
| Oberman, Sheldon, Waldman, Neil | Wind that Wanted to Rest, The | 2012 | N/D12 | 41765 | ||||||
| Greenberg, Molly | Secrets in the Suitcase: Stories My Mother Never Told Me | 2012 | M/J13 | 25 | ||||||
| Arnold, Elana K. | Sacred | 2012 | S/O13 | 5 | ||||||
| Segal, Nechamy, Lumer, Marc | Torah Book of Opposites, The | 2012 | FM13 | 4 | ||||||
| Weber, Ilse, Fisher, Hans, Burden, P. John | Mendel Rosenbusch: Tales for Jewish Children | 2012 | S/O13 | 10 | ||||||
| My Torah Colors | 2012 | M/J13 | 4 | |||||||
| Picard, Ariel | Halacha in a New World: Rabbinic Discourse in Modern Society | 2012 | N/D12 | 33-34 | ||||||
| Schachter, Allison | Diasporic Modernism: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century | 2012 | S/O12 | 46-47 | ||||||
| Olswanger, Anna, Nerlove, Miriam | Greenhorn | 2012 | FM13 | 6 | ||||||
| Brod, Harry | Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way | 2012 | M/J13 | 20 | ||||||
| Hoffman, Edward | My Life in Jewish Renewal: A Memoir | 2012 | S/O13 | 38 | ||||||
| Polikoff, Barbara Garland | Her Mothers Secret | 2012 | S/O13 | 6 | ||||||
| Alpert, Bernard, Alpert, Fran | Archaeology and the Biblical Record | 2012 | M/J13 | 16 | ||||||
| Rodrigue, Aron, Jerusalmi, Isaac | Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Saadi Besalel a-Levi, A | 2012 | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture | M/J 12 | 29-30 | |||||
| Hartman, David | From Defender to Critic: The Search for a New Jewish Self | 2012 | N/D12 | 24 | ||||||
| Stern, Ariella, Argoff, Patti | Chanukah: Guess Who? A Lift-the-Flap Book | 2012 | M/J13 | 15 | ||||||
| Helfgot, Nathaniel | Mikra and Meaning: Studies in Bible and its Interpretation | 2012 | S/O13 | 30 | ||||||
| Budnitskii, Oleg, Portice, Timothy | Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920 | 2012 | FM13 | 21-22 | ||||||
| Rosenbaum, Thane | Stranger Within Sarah Stein, The | 2012 | S/O12 | 9 | ||||||
| Halbertal, Moshe | On Sacrifice | 2012 | Fm13 | 26-27 | ||||||
| My Torah Numbers | 2012 | M/J13 | 4 | |||||||
| Newman, Leslea, Blackmore, Katherine | Kiss on the Keppie, A | 2012 | FM13 | 12-13 | ||||||
| Aylon, Helene | Whatever Is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist | 2012 | The Rueben/Rifkin Jewish Women Writers Series | M/J13 | 17 | |||||
| Matt, Daniel C. | Zohar, The (Pritzker Edition) | 2012 | S/O13 | 47 | ||||||
| Secunda, Shai, Fine, Steven | Shoshannat Yaakov: Jewish and Iranian Studies in Honor of Yaakov Elman | 2012 | S/O13 | 40 | ||||||
| Engel, David, Schiffman, Lawrence H., Wolfson, Elliot R. | Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History: Festschrift in Honor of Robert Chazan | 2012 | Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy | S/O12 | 29 | |||||
| Finkelstein, Chaim | Burskfield Bike Club Operation Snowman, The | 2012 | Burksfield Bike Club | N/D13 | 4 | |||||
| Goodman, Nancy, Meyers, Marilyn | Power of Witnessing: Reflections, Reverberations, and Traces of the Holocaust, The | 2012 | FM13 | 25 | ||||||
| Fishman, Cathy Goldberg, Elliot, Mark | When Jackie and Hank Met | 2012 | M/J 12 | 13 | ||||||
| Kolsky, Rachel, Rawson, Roslyn | Jewish London: A Comprehensive Guidebook for Visitors and Londoners | 2012 | S/O12 | 39 | ||||||
| Andrews, Jesse | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | 2012 | M/J 12 | 5 | ||||||
| Lewis, Jeffrey | Berlin Cantata | 2012 | N/D12 | 43 | ||||||
| Bowers, Rick | Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate | 2012 | M/J13 | 9 | ||||||
| Hakak, Yohai | Young Men in Israeli Haredi Yeshiva Education: The Scholars Enclave in Unrest | 2012 | Jewish Identiites in a Changing World; 19 | S/O13 | 26 | |||||
| Price, Dena G. | Everything Kosher Slow Cooker Cookbook, The | 2012 | Everything series | M/J13 | 31 | |||||
| Simpson, Lesley, Mai-Wyss, Tatjana | Song for My Sister, A | 2012 | N/D12 | 2 | ||||||
| Anton, Maggie | Rav Hisdas Daughter: Book I: Apprentice | 2012 | N/D12 | 41 | ||||||
| Sand, Shlomo | Invention of the Land of Israel: from Holy Land to Homeland, The | 2012 | FM13 | 35 | ||||||
| Vinick, Barbara, Reinharz, Shulamit | Today I am a Woman: Stories of Bat Mitzvah Around the World | 2012 | M/J 12 | 45 | ||||||
| Stampler, Ann Redisch, Liddiment, Carol | Wooden Sword, The | 2012 | M/J 12 | 3 | ||||||
| Katz, Dovid, Zumoff, Barnett | City in the Moonlight: Stories of the Old-Time Lithuanian Jews, The | 2012 | M/J 12 | 50 | ||||||
| Lapidus, Rina | Jewish Women Writers in the Soviet Union | 2012 | Routledge History of Russian and Eastern Europe Series | FM13 | 30 | |||||
| Stongwater, Andrea | Where We Once Gathered: Lost Synagogues of Europe | 2012 | M/J 12 | 14 | ||||||
| Buchin, Joshua, Mer, Woody | Tefilat HaDerech: The Travelers Prayer | 2012 | FM13 | 7 | ||||||
| Woolf, Alex | Living Through teh Arab-Israeli War Since 1948 | 2012 | M/J13 | 12 | ||||||
| Hitlers Children (VIDEO) | 2012 | N/D13 | 46 | |||||||
| Ascher, Abraham | Was Hitler a Riddle? Western Democracies and National Socialism | 2012 | M/J13 | 16 | ||||||
| Lamm, Norman | Derashot Ledorot Genesis: A Commentary for the Ages | 2012 | S/O13 | 32 | ||||||
| Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman N. | Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Prayer | 2012 | M/J13 | 33 | ||||||
| Israeli, Raphael | Oslo Idea: The Euphoria of Failure, The | 2012 | N/D12 | 25 | ||||||
| Wyshogrod, Diane | Hiding Places, A Mother, A Daughter, an Uncovered Life | 2012 | S/O13 | 46 | ||||||
| Levine, Anna, Topaz, Ksenia | Jodies Passover Adventure | 2012 | M/J 12 | 16-17 | ||||||
| Langer, Irving | Kosher Grapevine: Exploring the World of Fine Wine, The | 2012 | N/D12 | 28 | ||||||
| Sanders, Shelly | Rachels Secret | 2012 | S/O12 | 1 | ||||||
| Pelham, Abigail | Contested Creations in the Book of Job: the World-as-It-Ought-and-Ought-Not-to-Be | 2012 | FM13 | 33-34 | ||||||
| Steckel, Richard, Steckel, Michele | Faith: Five Religions and What They Share | 2012 | S/O12 | 6-7 | ||||||
| Temes, Peter S. | Future of the Jewish People in Five Photographs, The | 2012 | S/O12 | 48, 50 | ||||||
| Fried, Norman J. | Every day I bless you: Reflection on the healing power of Shiva | 2012 | N/D12 | 21-22 | ||||||
| Shindler, Colin | Israel and the European Left: Between Solidarity and Delegitimization | 2012 | S/O13 | 41 | ||||||
| Perl, Lila | Holocaust, The | 2012 | Great Escapes | M/J 12 | 10-11 | |||||
| Alko, Selina | Daddy Christmas & Hanukkah Mama | 2012 | FM13 | 13 | ||||||
| Brothers, Eric | Berlin Ghetto: Herbert Baum and the Anti-Fascist Resistance | 2012 | N/D13 | 21 | ||||||
| Stepon, Matt | Judaism: History, Belief, and Practice | 2012 | Britannica Guide to Religion | S/O12 | 48 | |||||
| Prudovsky, Leon, Yacov-Mecklberg, Estee, Mecklberg, Haim | Welcome and ... Our Condolences (VIDEO) | 2012 | S/O13 | 50-51 | ||||||
| Wolf, Elaine | Camp | 2012 | M/J13 | 7 | ||||||
| Zakovitch, Yair | Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch | 2012 | N/D12 | 40 | ||||||
| Pekar, Harvey | Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me | 2012 | N/D12 | 32-33 | ||||||
| Bullard, Lisa, Basaluzzo, Constanza | Sarahs Passover | 2012 | S/O12 | 15 | ||||||
| Siry, Joseph | Beth Sholom Synagogue: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture | 2012 | N/D13 | 38 | ||||||
| Gordis, Daniel | Promise of Israel: Why its Seemingly Greatest Weakness is Actually its Greatest Strength, The | 2012 | FM13 | 25 |
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