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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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Hecht, Jacob J. | Lag BOmer Book | S/O 83 | 4 | |||||||
Raviv, Dan, Melman, Yosel | Every Spy a Prince | 1991 | S/O 91 | 20 | ||||||
Steinsaltz, Adin | Teshuvah: A Guide for the Newly Observant Jew | N/D 96 | 12 | |||||||
Creiger, Joyce, Serfaty, Raphaella | Izzy Iguana is Invited to Israel | 2009 | S/O 09 | 21 | ||||||
Herczl, Moshe Y., Lerner, Joel | Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry | 1993 | F/M 94 | 9 | ||||||
Hunt, Linda | Secret Agenda: United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945-1990 | 1991 | S/O 91 | 19 | ||||||
Senker, Cath | Arab-Israeli Conflict, The | 2004 | Questioning History Series | F/M 05 | 33 | |||||
Neusner, Jacob | Pharisees: Rabbinic Perspectives, The | 1985 | F/M 86 | 4 | ||||||
Shenker, Israel | Noshing is Sacred: The Joys and Oys of Jewish Food | 1979 | Sp80 | 15 | ||||||
Pitman, Walter | Louis Applebaum: A Passion for Culture | 2002 | N/D 03 | 15-16 | ||||||
Nigosian, S. A. | From Ancient Writings to Sacred Texts: The Old Testament and Apocrypha | 2004 | M/J 05 | 40 | ||||||
Caudill, Mark A | Twilight in the Kingdom: Understanding the Saudis | 2006 | F/M 07 | 31 | ||||||
Jewish Travel Guide 2007 International Edition | 2007 | F/M 08 | 40 | |||||||
Schiffman, Lawrence H. | Dead Sea Scrolls: The Truth Behind the Mystique, The (AUDIO) | 2007 | F/M 08 | 49 | ||||||
Gilman, Phoebe | Something for Nothing | 1993 | N/D 93 | 12 | ||||||
Weiner, Ellis, Davilman, Barbara | How to Raise a Jewish Dog | 2007 | M/J 08 | 40, 42 | ||||||
Cohen, Barbara | Binding of Isaac, The | S 78 | 6 | |||||||
Rossman, Avraham, Linsider, Joel | Rashi | 2012 | FM13 | 25-26 | ||||||
Breuer, Mordechai, Petuchowski, Elizabeth | Modernity within Tradition: The Social History of Orthodox Jewry in Imperial Germany | 1992 | F/M 93 | 21 | ||||||
Clark, Kathy | Guardian Angel House | 2009 | Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers Series | S/O 09 | 12 | |||||
Nutkis, Phyllis, Argoff, Patti | When the World Was Quiet | 2004 | M/J 04 | 29 | ||||||
Feltquate, Barbara, Post, Tom | Kiddish Yiddish: Jewish Tradition and Culture and Rhyme | 2008 | N/D 08 | 35-36 | ||||||
Harduf, David Mendel | English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary | 2003 | N/D 03 | 13 | ||||||
Rabinowitz, Abraham Hirsch | Taryag: A Study of the Tradition that the Written Torah Contains 613 Mitzvot | 1996 | F/M 97 | 6 | ||||||
Bard, Mitchell | Israel Matters: Understand the Past-Look to the Future | 2012 | N/D12 | 9-10 | ||||||
Lori Cahan-Simon Ensemble | Chanukah is Freylekh! Songs my Bubbe Should Have Taught Me: Volume 2 (AUDIO) | 2006 | N/D 08 | 25 | ||||||
Simhaee, Rebeka, Weber, Michael | Sara Finds a Mitzva | 2010 | N/D 10 | 13 | ||||||
Wormell, Christopher | Animals Came Two by Two: The Story of Noahs Ark, The | 2008 | S/O 09 | 14 | ||||||
Schotter, Roni, Hafner, Marilyn | Passover Magic | 1995 | F/M 96 | 18 | ||||||
Schwatz, Howard, Waldman, Neil | Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Stories | 1996 | N/D 95 | 16-17 | ||||||
Margolin, Miriam, Ryback, Issachar | Little Stories for Little Children | 1986 | F/M 87 | 8 | ||||||
Blum, Yehuda Z. | For Zions Sake | 1987 | N/D 87 | 4 | ||||||
Robinson, Ira | Translating a Tradition: Studies in American Jewish History | 2008 | F/M 09 | 16-17 | ||||||
Danan, Julie Hilton | Jewish Parents Almanac, The | 1993 | S/O 94 | 9 | ||||||
Van Dijk, Lutz, Crawford, Elizabeth D. | Damned Strong Love: The True Story of Will G. and Stefan K. | 1995 | N/D 95 | 11 | ||||||
Leeds, Constance | Silver Cup, The | 2007 | S/O 07 | 9 | ||||||
Wood, Angela Gluck | Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People | 2007 | N/D 07 | 10 | ||||||
Frucht, Phyllis, Rothschild, Joy, Katz, Gertrude, Sacks, Shelly | Best of Jewish Cooking, The | 1974 | Sp 75 | 26 | ||||||
Schiffman, Lawrence H. | Qumran and Jerusalem: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism | 2010 | N/D 10 | 23 | ||||||
Ray, Brenda | Midwifes Song: A Story of Moses Birth, The | 2000 | 15 | |||||||
Hammer, Gottlieb | Good Faith and Credit | 1986 | F/M 87 | 4 | ||||||
Zakutinsky, Ruth, Richter, Sharon | Were Really Going Home | 1979 | Sp80 | 21 | ||||||
Lehrman, Robert | Juggling | N/D 82 | 8 | |||||||
Nivola, Claire A. | Elizabeth | 1997 | F/M 98 | 16 | ||||||
Senderk, Cath | Surviving the Holocaust | 2006 | On the Front Line Series | F/M 07 | 15 | |||||
Einstein, Stephen J. | Introduction to Judaism | N/D 83 | 8 | |||||||
Schorsch, Ismar | Canon Without Closure: Torah Commentaries | 2007 | S/O 08 | 9 | ||||||
Checinski, Michael Moshe | Running the Gauntlet of Anti-Semitism: From Polish Counter-Intelligence to the Marshall Center | 2004 | M/J 05 | 33 | ||||||
Appelfeld, Aharon | All Whom I Have Loved: A Novel | 2007 | S/O 07 | 42 | ||||||
Helfgott, Margaret, Gross, Tom | Out of Tune: David Helfgott and the Myth of Shine | 1998 | S/O 98 | 9 | ||||||
Green, Arthur, Holtz, Barry W. | Your Word a Fire: The Hasidic Masters on the Contemplative Prayer | 1977 | F/M 86 | 3 | ||||||
Kaplan, Herbert | Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: The Critical Years 1806-1816 | 2006 | F/M 07 | 33 | ||||||
Kaminsky, Stuart M. | Liebermans Day | 1994 | S/O 94 | 7 | ||||||
Schachnowitz, Selig, Mashinsky, M. L. | Fire in the Sky | 1984 | S/O 85 | 41702 | ||||||
Lankin, Eliahu, Hershberg, Ariziah | To Win the Promised Land: Story of a Freedom Fighter | 1992 | N/D 92 | 24 | ||||||
Brody, Seymour | Jewish Heroes and Heroines of America | 1996 | F/M 97 | 41702 | ||||||
Cisner, Naftali | Count with Mendel | 2003 | S/O 03 | 48 | ||||||
Salamon, Michael J. | Shidduch Crisis: Cuases and Cures, The | 2008 | M/J 09 | 28 | ||||||
Langer, Howard J. | History of the Holocaust, The: A Chronology of Quotations | 1997 | S/O 97 | 11 | ||||||
Greene, Rhonda Gowler, Wilson, Anne | Beautiful World That God Made, The | 2002 | S/O 02 | 41 | ||||||
Vogiel, Eva | Problem Called Chavi, A | 1985 | F/M 86 | 7 | ||||||
Beatty, Patricia | Melinda Takes a Hand | S/O 84 | 8 | |||||||
Celan, Paul | Glottal Stop: 101 Poems | 2000 | S/O 01 | 9 | ||||||
Dann, Jack | Wandering Stars | 1974 | Ap 74 | 25 | ||||||
Bierman, Carol | Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to America | 1998 | F/M 99 | 16 | ||||||
Blaine, Marge, Lisowski, Gabriel | Dvoras Journey | 1979 | W79 | 25 | ||||||
Berkovic, Sally | Straight Talk: My Dilemma as a Modern Orthodox Jewish Woman | 1999 | S/O 00 | 8 | ||||||
Simon, Rita J. | In the Golden Land: A Century of Russian and Soviet Jewish Immigration in America | 1997 | S/O 97 | 23 | ||||||
Banks, Lynne Reid | Broken Bridge | 1994 | N/D 95 | 14 | ||||||
Salkin, Jeffrey K. | Righteous Gentiles in the Hebrew Bible: Ancient Role Models for Sacred Relationships | 2008 | S/O 09 | 43-44 | ||||||
Fisman, Karen, McAteer, Thomas | Adventure in Latkaland: A Hanukkah Story, An | 2009 | N/D 09 | 11 | ||||||
Wolfson, Elliot R. | Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson | 2009 | S/O 10 | 40 | ||||||
Leviant, Curt | Yemenite Girl, The | 1977 | Sp77 | 26 | ||||||
Machlin, Mikki | My Name is Not Gussie | 1999 | F/M 00 | 11 | ||||||
Lazo, Caroline Evensen | Leonard Bernstein: In Love with Music | 2003 | M/J 03 | 28 | ||||||
Heuvel, Eric, Miller, Lorraine T. | Family Secret, A | 2009 | N/D 09 | 41986 | ||||||
Ladin, Joy | Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders | 2012 | S/O12 | 40 | ||||||
Stein, Robert | Jewish Americans | 2003 | Coming to America Series | F/M 04 | 39-40 | |||||
Sears, David | Compassion for Humanity in the Jewish Tradition | 1998 | N/D 99 | 12 | ||||||
Cohen, Deborah Bodin, Hall, Melanie G. | Seventh Day, The | 2005 | M/J 05 | 15-16 | ||||||
Eban, Abba | Heritage: Civilization and the Jews | N/D 84 | 3 | |||||||
Stanislawksi, Michael | Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning | 2004 | F/M 05 | 24 | ||||||
Taubes, Jacob, Assmann, Aleida, Hollander, Dana | Political Theology of Paul, The | 2004 | M/J 04 | 23-24 | ||||||
Cheng, Andrea | Marika | 2002 | S/O 02 | 45 | ||||||
Lampert, Lisa | Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare | 2004 | S/O 04 | 19 | ||||||
Berger, Marshall J. | Vatican-Israel Accords, The: Political, Legal, and Theological Contexts | 2004 | M/J 05 | 32 | ||||||
Isaac, Frederick | Jews of Oakland and Berkeley | 2009 | Images of America | N/D 09 | 22 | |||||
Edelman, Marsha Bryan | Discovering Jewish Music | 2003 | S/O 04 | 15 | ||||||
Schapira, Leah, Dwek, Victoria | Starters & Sides Made Easy | 2013 | N/D13 | 37 | ||||||
Gregory, Jill, Tintori, Karen | Illumination, The | 2009 | M/J 09 | 32 | ||||||
Potok, Chaim | Book of Lights, The | N/D 81 | 14 | |||||||
Finkelstein, Norman H., Hokanson, Lois, Hokanson, Lars | Remember Not to Forget: A Memory of the Holocaust | 1985 | A/M 86 | 6 | ||||||
Perechodnik, Calel | "Am I a Murderer?" Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman | 1996 | M/J 96 | 15 | ||||||
Tolley, Jacquelyn | On Our Spiritual Journey: A Creative Shabbat Service | N/D 84 | 5 | |||||||
Anisfeld, Sharon Cohen | Womens Passover Companion, The: Womens Reflections on the Festival of Freedom | 2003 | S/O 03 | 16 | ||||||
Baumslag, Naomi | Murderous Medicine: Nazi Doctors, Human Experimentation, and Typhus | 2005 | N/D 05 | 24 | ||||||
Raabe, Emily | Hanukkah Holiday Cookbook, A | 2002 | F/M 03 | 45 | ||||||
Kotkowski, Itzhak | Wiles of Destiny: The Memoirs of Itzhak Kotkowski, The | 1995 | M/J 96 | 18 | ||||||
Bank, Mirra | Last Dance (VIDEO) | 2002 | N/D 03 | 41892 | ||||||
Grunblatt, Joseph | Exile and Redemption: Meditations on Jewish History | 1988 | S/O 88 | 7 |