Book Review Index
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| Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication |
Year |
Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Korngold, Jamie S., Fortenberry, Julie | Sadie's Almost Marvelous Menorah | 2012 | S/O13 | 13 | ||||||
| Kressel, Neil J. | "The Sons of Pigs and Apes": Muslim Antisemitism and the Conspiracy of Silence | 2012 | S/O13 | 32 | Simon, Rachel | |||||
| Shinan, Avigdor,, Zakovitch, Yair, Zakovitch, Valerie | From Gods to God: How the Bible Debunked, Suppressed or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends | 2012 | M/J13 | 33-34 | ||||||
| Firestone, Reuven | Holy War in Judaism: The Fall & Rise of a Controversial Idea | 2012 | M/J13 | 23-24 | ||||||
| Preston, Paul | Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain, The | 2012 | N/D 14 | 29 | Belinfante, Randall C. | |||||
| Adwan, Sami, Navel, Eyeal, Bar-On, Dan | Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestin | 2012 | PRIME: Peace Research Institute in the Middle East | M/J13 | 16 | |||||
| Ran, AMalia and Jean Axelrad Cahan, eds. | Returning to Babel: Jewish Latin American Experiences, Representations, and Identity | 2012 | Jewish Latin America: Issues and Methods; 1 | S/O14 | 17 | Chesner, Michelle | ||||
| Cherlow, Semadar | The Tzaddiq is the Foundation of the World: Rav Kook’s Esoteric Mission and Mystical Experience | 2012 | Mahshavot | F/M14 | 28 | Wolfe, Nira | ||||
| Cohn, Willy | No Justice in Germany: The Breslau Diaries, 1933-1941 | 2012 | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture | F/M14 | 28 | Cantor, Hallie | ||||
| Brill, Marlene Targ, Akib, Jamel | Annie Shapiro and the Clothing Workers Strike | 2011 | History Speaks Series | S/O 10 | 13 | |||||
| Ofek, David | Luxuries | 2011 | M/J 15 | 46 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
| Brofsky, David | ilkhot Mo’adim, Understanding the Laws of the Festivals | 2011 | F/M14 | 26 | Tesler, David | |||||
| Simhaee, Rebeka, Weber, Michael | Sara Finds a Mitzva | 2010 | N/D 10 | 13 | ||||||
| Schiffman, Lawrence H. | Qumran and Jerusalem: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism | 2010 | N/D 10 | 23 | ||||||
| Mundill, Robin R. | Kings Jews: Money, Massacre and Exodus in Medieval England, The | 2010 | N/D 10 | 21 | ||||||
| Florence, Ronald | Emissary of the Doomed: Bargaining for Lives in the Holocaust | 2010 | S/O 10 | 31, 33 | ||||||
| Gelbwasser, Margie | Inconvenient | 2010 | N/D 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Benenfeld, Rikki | Lets Go to the Farm | 2010 | F/M 10 | 17 | ||||||
| Wishnia, Kenneth | Fifth Servant, The | 2010 | M/J 10 | 26 | ||||||
| Burgan, Michael | Refusing to Crumble: The Danish Resistance in World War II | 2010 | M/J 10 | 16 | ||||||
| Zediker, Rose Ross | Wealth in Biblical Times | 2010 | S/O 09 | 14 | ||||||
| Cartwright, Amy | Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel | 2010 | N/D 10 | 8 | ||||||
| Friesner, Esther | Threads and Flames | 2010 | N/D 10 | 5 | ||||||
| Schnur, Susan, Schnur-Fishman, Anna, Steele-Morgan, Alex | Tashlich at Turtle Rock | 2010 | S/O 10 | 16 | ||||||
| Schwartz, Seth | Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society?: Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism | 2010 | F/M 10 | 39 | ||||||
| Pinkwater, Daniel, Pinkwater, J. | Beautiful Yetta: The Yiddish Chicken | 2010 | S/O 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Altman, Linda Jacobs | Escape - Teens on the Run: Primary Sources from the Holocaust | 2010 | True Stories of Teens in the Holocaust | S/O 10 | 17 | |||||
| Heilman, Samuel, Friedman, Menachem | Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, The | 2010 | N/D 10 | 20 | ||||||
| Rubinstein, Robert, Mer, Woody | Zishe the Strongman | 2010 | S/O 10 | 12 | ||||||
| Rosinsky, Natalie M. | Judaism | 2010 | World Religions Series | N/D 09 | 15 | |||||
| Jules, Jacqueline, Shapiro, Michelle | Happy Hanukkah Lights | 2010 | S/O 10 | 15 | ||||||
| Appelfeld, Aharon, Green, Jeffrey M. | Blooms of Darkness | 2010 | M/J 10 | 25 | ||||||
| Meyerhoff, Jenny | Queen of Secrets | 2010 | M/J 10 | 11 | ||||||
| Hanukkah | 2010 | N/D 10 | 8 | |||||||
| Jennings, Sharon, Newland, Gillian | Chanukah Noel: A True Story, A | 2010 | N/D 10 | 41860 | ||||||
| Byers, Anne | Trapped - Youth in the Nazi Ghettos: Primary Sources from the Holocaust | 2010 | True Stories of Teens in the Holocaust | S/O 10 | 17 | |||||
| Muller, Jerry Z. | Capitalism and the Jews | 2010 | S/O 10 | 35-36 | ||||||
| Shulevitz, Judith | Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time, The | 2010 | M/J 10 | 39 | ||||||
| Jules, Jacqueline, Iwai, Melissa | Before We Eat: A Thank You Prayer | 2010 | F/M 10 | 17 | ||||||
| Frank, Thaisa | Hedeggers Glasses: A Novel | 2010 | N/D 10 | 15 | ||||||
| Deutsch, Tehilla, Romanenko, Vitaliy | Benny the Big Shot | 2010 | N/D 10 | 12 | ||||||
| Frankel, Pessie, Perkal, Yocheved Leah, Katz, Tova | Mrs. Honigs Cakes 4: Summer Stories | 2010 | N/D 10 | 12 | ||||||
| Goldwasser, Dovid | Starving Souls: A Spiritual Guide to Understanding Eating Disorders: Anorexia, Bulimia, Binging … | 2010 | S/O 10 | 33 | ||||||
| Greene, Jacqueline | Secrets at Camp Nokomis: A Rebecca Mystery | 2010 | American Girl Series | M/J 10 | 14 | |||||
| Steinberg, Milton | Prophets Wife, The | 2010 | M/J 10 | 25-26 | ||||||
| Wistrich, Robert S. | Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad, A | 2010 | M/J 10 | 42 | ||||||
| Gunneweg, Jan, Adriaens, Annemie , Dik, Joris | Holistic Qumran: Trans-disciplinary Research of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls | 2010 | Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 87 | N/D 10 | 19-20 | |||||
| Jablonski, Carla, Purvis, Leland | Resistance | 2010 | M/J 10 | 17 | ||||||
| Hoffman, Lawrence A. | Who by Fire, Who by Water: Untaneh Tokef | 2010 | Prayers of Awe | N/D 10 | 20 | |||||
| Portnoy, Mindy A., Cis, Valeria | Tale of Two Seders, A | 2010 | M/J 10 | 15-16 | ||||||
| Telushkin, Joseph | Hillen: If Not Now, When? | 2010 | Jewish Encounters | N/D 10 | 24 | |||||
| Berlin, Bill, Isakoff Berlin, Susan, Welling, Peter | Kvetch Who Stole Hanukkah, The | 2010 | N/D 10 | 7 | ||||||
| Segal, Miryam | New Sound in Hebrew Poetry: Poetics, Politcs, Accent, A | 2010 | Jewish Literature and Culture | N/D 10 | 23 | |||||
| Marx, Trish, Karp, Cindy | Sharing Our Homeland: Palestinian and Jewish Children at Summer Peace Camp | 2010 | S/O 10 | 18 | ||||||
| Arato, Rona | Mrs. Kaputniks Pool Hall and Matzo Ball Emporium | 2010 | M/J 10 | 13 | ||||||
| Robinson, Sharon, Lewis, E. B. | Jackies Gift: A True Story of Christmas, Hanukkah, and Jackie Robinson | 2010 | S/O 10 | 41892 | ||||||
| Byers, Anne | Youth Destroyed - The Nazi Camps: Primary Sources from the Holocaust | 2010 | True Stories of Teens in the Holocaust | S/O 10 | 17 | |||||
| Wengeroff, Pauline, Magnus, Shulamit S. | Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume One | 2010 | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture | N/D 10 | 25 | |||||
| Herman, Charlotte, Mitter, Kathryn | First Rain | 2010 | F/M 10 | 16 | ||||||
| Newman, Louis E. | Repentance: The Meaning & Practice of Teshuvah | 2010 | N/D 10 | 22 | ||||||
| Krieger, Evelyn | One Is Not a Lonely Number | 2010 | N/D 10 | 10 | ||||||
| Halkin, Hillel | Yehuda Halevi | 2010 | Jewish Encounters | M/J 10 | 33 | |||||
| Taubes, Jacob, Fonrobert, Elisheva, Engel, Amit | From Cult to Culture: Fragments Toward a Critique of Historical Reason | 2010 | Cultural Memory in the Present | M/J 10 | 41 | |||||
| Byers, Anne | Courageous Teen Resisters: Primary Sources from the Holocaust | 2010 | True Stories of Teens in the Holocaust | S/O 10 | 17 | |||||
| Jules, Jacqueline, Ugliano, Natascia | Miriam in the Desert | 2010 | S/O 10 | 12 | ||||||
| Missing Piece, The (VIDEO) | 2010 | M/J 10 | 26 | |||||||
| Bick, Ilsa J. | Draw the Dark | 2010 | S/O 10 | 41986 | ||||||
| Bieringer, Reimund | New Testament and Rabbinic Literature, The | 2010 | N/D 10 | 17 | ||||||
| Littman, Sarah Darer | Life, After | 2010 | M/J 10 | 9, 11 | ||||||
| Robson, David | Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | 2010 | Lucent Books World History Series | S/O 10 | 18 | |||||
| Sklar, Tanya | Islamic-Jewish Relations Before 1947 | 2010 | World of Islam Series | N/D 10 | 41797 | |||||
| Glaser, Linda, Nivola, Claire A. | Emmas Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty | 2010 | M/J 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Tepper, Yona, Curiel, Gil-Ly Alon, Guthman, Deborah | Passing By | 2010 | M/J 10 | 20 | ||||||
| Dalrymple, Jan, Dalrymple, Bob | Story of Hanukkah Howie, The | 2010 | N/D 10 | 8 | ||||||
| Altman, Linda Jacobs | Shattered Youth in Nazi Germany: Primary Sources from the Holocaust | 2010 | True Stories of Teens in the Holocaust | S/O 10 | 17 | |||||
| Hays, Peter, Rozen, Beti | Two Continents, Four Generations: One Hundred Years, Two Stories | 2010 | S/O 10 | 13 | ||||||
| Fudeman, Kristen A. | Vernacular Voices: Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities | 2010 | N/D 10 | 18-19 | ||||||
| Molnar, Haya Leah | Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania | 2010 | M/J 10 | 11 | ||||||
| Dogar, Sharon | Annexed | 2010 | S/O 10 | 16 | ||||||
| Peppas, Lynn | Purim | 2010 | Celebrations in My World | S/O 10 | 13, 15 | |||||
| Prager, Yossi | Toward a Renewed Ethic of Jewish Philanthropy | 2010 | Orthodox Forum | N/D 10 | 22 | |||||
| Alphin, Elaine Marie | Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank, An | 2010 | S/O 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Lamm, Norman, Wolowelsky, Joel B. | Royal Table: A Passover Haggadah, The | 2010 | S/O 10 | 34 | ||||||
| Brandeis, Gayle | My Life with the Lincolns | 2010 | M/J 10 | 13-14 | ||||||
| Weber, Doba Rivka, Saroff, Phyllis | Dear Tree: A Tu BShvat Wish | 2010 | F/M 10 | 13 | ||||||
| Ziefert, Harriet, Gudeon, Karla | Passover: Celebrating Now, Remembering Then | 2010 | M/J 10 | 41955 | ||||||
| Deutsch, Stacia, Cohon, Rhody, Orback, Craig | Hot Pursuit: Murder in Mississippi | 2010 | M/J 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Collins, John J. | Beyond the Qumran Community: The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls | 2010 | S/O 10 | 30 | ||||||
| Kesselring, Susan | Albert Einstein | 2010 | Basic Biographies Series | S/O 10 | 12 | |||||
| Hyde, Heidi Smith, Sterre, Johanna van der | Feivels Flying Horse | 2010 | F/M 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Baer, Marc David | Donme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks, The | 2010 | M/J 10 | 28 | ||||||
| Stern, Steve | Frozen Rabbi, The | 2010 | S/O 10 | 27 | ||||||
| Ho, Jannie | Great Matzoh Hunt, The | 2010 | M/J 10 | 15 | ||||||
| Borman, Leonard | Our Jewish Robot Future: A Novel About the Garden of Eden and the Cyborgian Transformation of the Human Race | 2010 | N/D 10 | 15 | ||||||
| Hackett, Jo Ann | Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew, with CD | 2010 | N/D 10 | 20 | ||||||
| Elissa, Barbara, Zaman, Farida | Remarkable Journey of Joshs Kippa, The | 2010 | S/O 10 | 18 | ||||||
| Fagenblat, Michael | Covenant of Creatures: Levinass Philosophy of Judaism, A | 2010 | N/D 10 | 18 | ||||||
| Chayil, Eshes | Hush | 2010 | S/O 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Krohn, Genendel, Katz, Tova | Miracle of the Golden Dove and Other Stories, The | 2010 | N/D 10 | 41986 | ||||||
| Werlin, Nancy | Extraordinary | 2010 | N/D 10 | 7 |
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