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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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Stuchner, Joan Betty, Row, Richard | Kugel Valley Klezmer Band, The | 1998 | M/J 99 | 19 | ||||||
Senesh, Hannah | Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary. The first complete edition | 2004 | F/M 05 | 23 | ||||||
Wallerstein, Jane | Voices from the Paterson Silk Mills | 2000 | S/O 01 | 21-22 | ||||||
Balsley, Tilda, Fischer, Ellen, Leigh, Tom | Its a Mitzvah, Grover! | 2013 | FM13 | 9 | ||||||
Ungar, Richard | Even Higher | 2007 | S/O 07 | 19 | ||||||
Josephson, Erland, Greenwald, Roger | Story About Mr. Silberstein, A | 1995 | S/O 96 | 15 | ||||||
Kagan, Jeremy | Choice to Be: A Jewish Path to Self and Spirituality, The | 2012 | M/J13 | 26 | ||||||
Hoffman, Lawrence A. | Rethinking Synagogues: A New Vocabulary for Congregational Life | 2006 | M/J 07 | 26 | ||||||
Schram, Peninnah, Davis, Rachayl Eckstein, Lee, Wendy W. | Apple Trees Discovery, The | 2012 | M/J 12 | 9 | ||||||
Schleimer, Sarah M., Klineman, Harvey | One Good Turn | 1990 | N/D 90 | 41955 | ||||||
Lunge-Larsen, Lise, Trueman, Matthew | Noahs Mittens | 2006 | N/D 06 | 7 | ||||||
Nir, Yehuda | Lost Childhood, a World War II Memoir, The | 2002 | S/O 02 | 45-46 | ||||||
Leapman, Michael | Witness to War: Eight True-Life Stories of Nazi Persecution | 1998 | F/M 99 | 16 | ||||||
Marcus, Audrey F. | Jewish Teachers Handbook | O 80 | 15 | |||||||
Rice, Emanuel | Freud and Moses: the Long Journey Home | 1990 | M/J 91 | 15 | ||||||
Hepker, Sue, Wummer, Amy | This Is the Challah | 2012 | FM13 | 14-15 | ||||||
Sales, Amy L., Saxe, Leonard | How Goodly Are Thy Tents: Summer Camps as Jewish Socializing Experiences | 2004 | S/O 04 | 24 | ||||||
Schwartz, Howard | Day the Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic, The | 2000 | S/O 00 | 17, 19 | ||||||
Anidjar, Gil | Semites: Race, Religion, Literature | 2008 | Cultural Memory in the Present | M/J 08 | 32-33 | |||||
Feldman, Emanuel | Biblical Echo: Reflectiosn on Bible, Jews and Judaism, The | 1986 | M/J 87 | 3 | ||||||
Feldman, Stephen M. | Please Dont Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State | 1997 | S/O 97 | 7 | ||||||
Cowan, Paul, Cowan, Rachel | Mixed Blessings | 1987 | F/M 88 | 4 | ||||||
Sofer, Barbara | Keeping Israel Safe: Serving in the Israel Defense Forces | 2008 | M/J 08 | 14 | ||||||
Fleming, K. E. | Greece: A Jewish History | 2008 | S/O 08 | 15 | ||||||
Ben-Zul, Abraham | United States and Israel: The Limits of the Special Relationship, The | 1993 | M/J 94 | 8 | ||||||
Hintz, Martin | Israel (Rev. ed.) | 2006 | Enchantment of the World Series | S/O 06 | 20 | |||||
Bender, Sara, Lucien Lazare, eds. | Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust | 2003 | France | M/J 06 | 27 | |||||
Geppert, Edyta, Kroke | Spiewam Zyce - I Sing Life (AUDIO) | 2006 | N/D 08 | 24 | ||||||
Bogacki, Tomek | Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak, The | 2009 | S/O 09 | 12 | ||||||
Burgan, Michael | Refusing to Crumble: The Danish Resistance in World War II | 2010 | M/J 10 | 16 | ||||||
Krich, Rochelle Majer | Angel of Death | 1994 | N/D 94 | 11 | ||||||
Millen, Rochelle L. | New Perspectives on the Holocaust: A Guide for Teachers and Scholars | 1996 | F/M 97 | 6 | ||||||
Machlis, Joseph | Lisas Boy | M/J 83 | 9 | |||||||
Pomerantz, Barbara | Who Will Lead Kiddush? | M/J 86 | 6 | |||||||
Valensi, Lucette, Wachtel, Nathan | Jewish Memories | 1991 | N/D 91 | 14 | ||||||
Bohlman, Philip V.,, Holzapfel, Otto | Folk Songs of Ashkenaz, The | 2001 | F/M 02 | 18-19 | ||||||
Friedman, Saul S. | Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich, The | 1993 | S/O 93 | 18 | ||||||
Deutsch, Naftali | Holocaust Survivor, A: In the Footsteps of His Past | 2007 | S/O 08 | 18 | ||||||
Langer, Ruth | Cursing the Christians? A History of the Birkat HaMinim | 2012 | M/J 12 | 34 | ||||||
Rubin, Susan Goldman | Searching for Anne Frank: Letters from Amsterdam to Iowa | 2003 | M/J 04 | 34-35 | ||||||
Abramson, Ruth | Benjamin: Journey of a Jew | 1987 | S/O 87 | 6 | ||||||
Cohen, Nancy J. | Permed to Death Hair | 1999 | Bad Hair Day Mysteries | N/D 02 | 17 | |||||
Cheshire, Gerald, Hammond, Paula | Middle East, The | 2003 | Cultures and Costumes: Symbols of Their Period | M/J 04 | 38 | |||||
Zakar, Susan M. | Judaism Online: Confronting Spirituality on the Internet | 1998 | F/M 99 | 14 | ||||||
Wisniewski, David | Golem | 1996 | M/J 97 | 13 | ||||||
Topek, Susan Remick | Turn for Noah, A: a Hanukkah Story | 1992 | M/J 93 | 17 | ||||||
Petsonk, Judy | Intermarriage Handbook, The | 1988 | N/D 88 | 7 | ||||||
Franciosi, Robert | Elie Wiesel: Conversations | 2002 | M/J 03 | 15 | ||||||
Bryan, Diane Brenda | Soldier of God | 2001 | N/D 03 | 7 | ||||||
Sachs, Marilyn | Call Me Ruth | N/D 82 | 7 | |||||||
Derwin, Susan | Rage is the Subtext: Readings in Holocaust Literature and Film | 2012 | FM13 | 22 | ||||||
Meir, Mira | Alina: A Russian Girl Comes to Israel | N/D 82 | 8 | |||||||
Antler, Joyce | You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother | 2007 | F/M 08 | 35 | ||||||
Lieberman, Sherman | Mystics and Missionaries: The Jews in Palestine, 1799-1840 | 1992 | S/O 93 | 19 | ||||||
Walfish, Miriam | Libas Palace | 2012 | Jewish Girls Around the World | S/O13 | 4 | |||||
Goldstein, Stephen L. | When My Mother No Longer Knew My Name: A Sons "Course" in "Rational" Caregiving | 2012 | M/J13 | 24 | ||||||
Nason, Ruth | Jewish Faith, The | 2005 | Start-Up Religion Series | N/D 05 | 20 | |||||
Labinsky, Baruch | Financial Guide to Aliyah and Life in Israel | 2012 | FM13 | 29 | ||||||
Abrams, Judith Z. | Talmud for Beginners, The: vol. 1 Prayer | 1991 | M/J 91 | 8 | ||||||
Solomon, Norman | Historical Dictionary of Judaism | 1998 | S/O 99 | 14 | ||||||
Wiesel, Elie, Heffner, Richard D., Vinciguerra, Thomas J. | Conversations with Elie Wiesel | 2001 | N/D 02 | 16 | ||||||
Rouss, Sylvia A., Kahn, Katherine Janus | Sammy Spider's First Simhat Torah | 2010 | S/O 10 | 15-16 | ||||||
Kramer, Ralph | Bay Area Jewish Forum Haggadah, The | M/J 86 | 4 | |||||||
Greenfeld, Howard, Grove, E. | Passover | 1978 | W78 | 28 | ||||||
Rosner, Fred | Medical Encyclopedia of Moses Maimonides | 1998 | F/M 99 | 41986 | ||||||
Klawans, Jonathan | Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism | 2012 | N/D13 | 30 | ||||||
Winecki, Christine | Girl in the Check Coat: Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland and a New Life in Australia, The | 2007 | The Library of Holocaust Testimonies | F/M 08 | 45 | |||||
Haas, Gerda | Tracking the Holocaust | 1995 | N/D 95 | 6 | ||||||
Goldberg, Lester | In Siberia It Is Very Cold | 1987 | N/D 87 | 6 | ||||||
Lasky, Kathryn | Dreams in the Golden Country | Dear America series | F/M 99 | 19 | ||||||
Sacks, Jonathan | Sidur Koren = The Koren Siddur | 2009 | M/J 10 | 39, 41 | ||||||
Roskies, David G. | Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling, A | 1995 | N/D 95 | 41860 | ||||||
Moscowitz, Moshe, Sokoloff, David, Carter, Jon | Queen of Persia, The | 2004 | M/J 04 | 36 | ||||||
Michelson, Richard, Lewis, E. B. | Across the Alley | 2006 | S/O 06 | 22 | ||||||
Kidd, Ronald | Year of the Bomb, The | 2009 | N/D 09 | 11 | ||||||
Koffsky, Ann D. | My Jewish Holiday Fun Book | 2000 | S/O 00 | 36 | ||||||
Grief, Howard | Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel Under International Law, The: A Treatise on Jewish Sovereignty Over the Land of Israel | 2008 | S/O 09 | 39 | ||||||
Rabinowicz, Tzvi M. | Hasidism in Israel: A History of the Hasidic Movement and Its Masters in the Holy Land | 2000 | N/D 00 | 12 | ||||||
Carlson, Lewis H. | We Were Each Others Prisoners: An Oral History of World War II: American and German Prisoners of War | 1997 | S/O 97 | 6 | ||||||
Kaufman, David E. | Jewhooing the Sixties: America Celebrity and Jewish Identity | 2012 | S/O13 | 31-32 | ||||||
Kellerman, Faye | False Prophet | 1992 | S/O 92 | 21 | ||||||
Hull, Eleanore | Summer People, The | S/O 84 | 8 | |||||||
Bellow, Saul | Henderson, The Rain King | 1965 | Sp77 | 30 | ||||||
Shires, Linda M. | Coming Home: A Womans Story of Conversion to Judaism | 2003 | F/M 04 | 20 | ||||||
Drucker, Malka | Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Sweet Beginnings | S/O 81 | 9 | |||||||
Swinsky, Michael | At the Threshold: Jewish Meditations on Death | 1995 | S/O 96 | 12 | ||||||
Hessel, Carolyn S. | Our Story: The Jews of Sepharad - A Resource Guide | 1992 | S/O 92 | 18 | ||||||
Goodman, Naomi | On Borrowed Time: Poems of Two Centuries | 2005 | F/M 06 | 26 | ||||||
Kranzler, David | Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz, The: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerlands Finest Hour | 2000 | S/O 01 | 17 | ||||||
Stillman, Norman A. | Jews of Arab Lands, The | 1979 | W80 | 16 | ||||||
Aidinoff, Elsie | Garden, The | 2004 | N/D 04 | 14 | ||||||
Friedman, Daniel | To Kill and Take Possession: Law, Morality and Society in Biblical Stories | 2002 | M/J 04 | 14 | ||||||
Lehrer, Alice Becker | If We Could Hear Them Now: Encounters with Legendary Jewish Heroines | 2009 | M/J 10 | 35 | ||||||
Levinas, Emmanuel | Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism | 1998 | N/D 98 | 8, 10 | ||||||
Blacker Cohen, Sarah, Koch, Joanne B. | Shared Stages: Ten American Dramas of Blacks and Jews | 2007 | SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture | M/J 08 | 19-20 | |||||
Gries, Zeev | Book in the Jewish World 1700-1900, The | 2007 | F/M 08 | 39 | ||||||
Silva, Daniel | Prince of Fire | 2005 | M/J 05 | 30 | ||||||
Bellow, Saul | Mr. Sammlers Planet | 1970 | Sp77 | 30 | ||||||
Hecht, Jacob J. | Lag BOmer Book | S/O 83 | 4 | |||||||
Potts, Steve | Hanukkah | 2005 | N/D 05 | 17 |