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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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Ziv, Ilan | Junction, The (VIDEO) | 2004 | S/O 04 | 10,12 | ||||||
Lookstein, Heskel | Were We Our Brothers Keepres? The Public Response of American Jews to the Holocaust 1939-1944 | 1985 | N/D 87 | 4 | ||||||
Colman, Hila | Ellies Inheritance | 1979 | W79 | 24 | ||||||
Vermes, Geza | Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls, An | 2000 | M/J 01 | 12 | ||||||
Rubinstein, Erna F. | Survivor in Us All: Four Young Sisters in the Holocaust (Rev. ed.) | 1986 | N/D 86 | 5 | ||||||
Nahai, Gina B. | Capsian Rain | 2007 | N/D 07 | 26 | ||||||
Schwartz, Moshe, Lees, Susan, Kressel, Gideon M. | Rural Cooperatives in Socialist Utopia: Thirty Years of Moshav Development in Israel | 1995 | M/J 96 | 11 | ||||||
Marchione, Margherita | Yours is a Precious Witness: Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy | 1997 | F/M 97 | 5 | ||||||
Stern, Richard | Almonds to Zhoof: Collected Stories | 2005 | N/D 05 | 22-23 | ||||||
Mirvis, Tova | Outside World, The | 2004 | S/O 04 | 9 | ||||||
Goldenberg, Robert | Nations that Know Thee Not, The: Ancient Jewish Attitudes Toward Other Religions | 1998 | N/D 98 | 7 | ||||||
Kaminsky, Stuart M. | Liebermans Thief | 1995 | S/O 95 | 9 | ||||||
Herman, Richard | Firebreak | 1991 | S/O 92 | 21 | ||||||
Lazar, Wendy, Behr, Marion | Jewish Holiday Book, The | 1977 | W77 | 31 | ||||||
Mark, Michael | Toba at the Hands of a Thief | 1985 | F/M 86 | 7 | ||||||
Throp, Claire | Countries Around the World: Israel | 2012 | M/J13 | 11 | ||||||
Ben Sasson, H. H., ed. | History of the Jewish People, A | 1976 | Sp77 | 27 | ||||||
Bakhtaoul, Said, Ballout, Mohammad | Shiism: Waiting for the Hidden Imam (VIDEO) | 2005 | M/J 06 | 20 | ||||||
Bogot, Howard I., Gorbaty, Norman Z. | Becky and Benny Thank God | 1996 | F/M 97 | 12 | ||||||
Smith, Helmut Walser | Proestants, Catholics, and Jews in Germany, 1800-1914 | 2001 | F/M 03 | 38-39 | ||||||
Rabin, Yitzhak | Memoirs | 1996 | M/J 97 | 6 | ||||||
Shapiro, Chaim | Go My Son: A Young Jewish Refugees Story of Survival | 1989 | N/D 89 | 13 | ||||||
Levin, Michael Graubert | Journey to Tradition: The Odyssey of a Born-Again Jew | 1986 | M/J 87 | 4 | ||||||
Klein, Leah | War | 1991 | The B. Y. Times, no. 4 | M/J 92 | 23 | |||||
Prose, Francine, Podwal, Mark | Dybbuk: A Story Made in Heaven | 1996 | M/J 97 | 14 | ||||||
Oz, Amos | In the Land of Israel | M/J 84 | 5 | |||||||
Bukiet, Melvin Jules | Strange Fire | 2001 | N/D 02 | 17 | ||||||
Lasky, Kathryn | Broken Song | 2005 | M/J 05 | 21 | ||||||
Spring, Debbie | Righteous Smuggler, The | 2006 | A Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers | S/O 06 | 19 | |||||
Neusner, Jacob | Yerushalmi: The Talmud of the Land of Israel: An Introduction, The | 1993 | M/J 94 | 9 | ||||||
Bellow, Saul | Adventures of Augie March, The | 1974 | Sp77 | 30 | ||||||
Kacer, Kathy | Open Your Doors | 2006 | Margit: Book Three | N/D 06 | 9 | |||||
Milstein, Mati | My New Middle East: Inside the Israeli Conundrum | 2012 | M/J13 | 30-31 | ||||||
Ferencz, Benjamin B. | Less than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation | 1979 | W 81 | 19 | ||||||
Drucker, Malka, Pats, Nancy | Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays, The | 1994 | N/D 94 | 13 | ||||||
Jablon, Schmuel | Jewish Answers | 2000 | F/M 01 | 7 | ||||||
Urbach, Sara Selver, Boddansky, Siona | Through the Window of My Home: Memories from Ghetto Lodz | 1986 | F/M 89 | 12 | ||||||
Olitzky, Kerry M., Isaacs, Ronald H. | Complete How to Handbook for Jewish Living, The | 2004 | N/D 04 | 9 | ||||||
Adler, David A., Farnsworth, B. | Hero and the Holocaust: The Story of Januscz Korczak and His Children, A | 2002 | N/D 02 | 27 | ||||||
Easterman, Daniel | Seventh Sanctuary, The | 1987 | N/D 87 | 15 | ||||||
Fuchs, Menucha, Haas, Esti | Avigayil and Her Little Friends | 2008 | Smile with Avigayil Series (book 3) | F/M 09 | 50 | |||||
Lorberbaum, Menachem | Politics and the Limits of Law: Secularizing the Political in Medieval Jewish Thought | 2001 | S/O 02 | 23 | ||||||
Feldman, David | Marital Relations, Birth Control and Abortion in Jewish Law | 1974 | D 74 | 28 | ||||||
Blau, Rivkah | Gender Relationships in Marriage and Out | 2007 | M/J 08 | 33 | ||||||
de Pomiane, Edouard, Bacon, Josephine | Jews of Poland: Collections and Recipes, The | 1985 | S/O 86 | 5 | ||||||
Kalechofsky, Roberta | Vegetarian Judaism: A Guide for Everyone | 1998 | S/O 00 | 14 | ||||||
Displaced German Scholars: A Guide to Academics in Peril in Nazi Germany During the 1930s | 1993 | Studies in Judaica and the Holocaust, 7 | F/M 95 | 10 | ||||||
Joffe, Lawrence | Illustrated History of the Jewish People: The Epic 4000-year Story of the Jews, from teh Ancient Patriarchs and Kings through Centuries-Long Persecution to the Growth of a Worldwide Culture, An | 2012 | FM13 | 28 | ||||||
Goldwasser, Dovid | Starving Souls: A Spiritual Guide to Understanding Eating Disorders: Anorexia, Bulimia, Binging … | 2010 | S/O 10 | 33 | ||||||
Latner, Helen | Book of Modern Jewish Etiquette, The | M/J 82 | 2 | |||||||
Meltzer, Milton | Remember the Days: A Short History of the Jewish American | 1974 | Sp 75 | 28 | ||||||
Schwartz, Howard, Rush, Barbara | Wonder Child and Other Jewish Fairy Tales, The | 1996 | M/J 97 | 13 | ||||||
Friedenberg, Robert V. | "Hear O Israel": The History of American Jewish Preaching, 1654-1970 | 1989 | N/D 89 | 12 | ||||||
Peli, Pinchas H. | On Repentance: the Thought and Oral Discourses of Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik | 1996 | F/M 97 | 5, 7 | ||||||
Gilbert, Faye Alison, Silva, Leo | Mushy Red Stuff | 2012 | M/J13 | 14 | ||||||
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, Hall, Melanie G. | Hanukkah Lights: Holiday Poetry | 2004 | S/O 04 | 47 | ||||||
Schroeter, Leonard | Last Exodus, The | 1974 | D 74 | 29 | ||||||
Littlesugar, Amy, Low, Wiam | Willy and Max: A Holocaust Story | 2006 | F/M 06 | 16-17 | ||||||
Roth, Philip | Exit Ghost | 2007 | N/D 07 | 26 | ||||||
Cook, Lisa Fineberg | Japan Took the J.A.P. Out of Me | 2009 | F/M 10 | 33 | ||||||
Buttenwieser, Paul | Their Pride and Joy | 1987 | F/M 88 | 5 | ||||||
Schur, Maxine Rose | Circlemaker, The | 1994 | F/M 95 | 11 | ||||||
Rubin, Susan Goldman, Slonim, David | Haym Salomon: American Patriot | 2007 | N/D 07 | 11 | ||||||
Greene, Jacqueline | Secrets at Camp Nokomis: A Rebecca Mystery | 2010 | American Girl Series | M/J 10 | 14 | |||||
Levin, Esther | Ariel, Capital of Samaria | 1990 | N/D 92 | 24 | ||||||
Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Jewish Holidays, A | S/O 84 | 10 | |||||||
Levin, Meir | Novarodok: A Movement that Lived in Struggle and Its Unique Approach to the Problem of Man | 1996 | F/M 97 | 4 | ||||||
Angel, Marc D. | Loving Truth and Peace: The Grand Religious Worldview of Rabbi Benzion Uziel | 1999 | S/O 00 | 41828 | ||||||
From Jewish Life: Music for Cello and Orchestra (AUDIO) | 2008 | F/M 09 | 22 | |||||||
Freeze, Chaeran, Paula Hyman, Polonsky, Antony | Jewish Women in Eastern Europe | 2005 | Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Vol. 18 | S/O 06 | 38 | |||||
Greene, Michael, Birk, Surry | Tzadakah and the Precious Pushke: With CD Sounds of Sharing and Caring (AUDIO with Book) | 2001 | F/M 02 | 32 | ||||||
Lieberman, Charles S. | Deceptive Images: Toward a Redefinition of American Judaism | 1988 | N/D 89 | 13 | ||||||
Estes, Eleanor, Slobodkin, Louis | Hundred Dresses, The | 2004 | F/M 05 | 34 | ||||||
Abrams, Judith Z. | Songs for High Holidays | N/D 90 | 12 | |||||||
Carmel, Herman | Black Days, White Nights | 1984 | A/M 86 | 3 | ||||||
Real Complete Jewish Party, vol. II, The (AUDIO) | M/J 93 | 19 | ||||||||
Tanenbaum, Leora, Hadassah Tropper | Moonbeams: A Hadassah Rosh Hodesh Guide | 2000 | S/O 00 | |||||||
Steinitz, Richard | Gyorgy Ligeti: Music of the Imagination | 2003 | S/O 04 | 25 | ||||||
Napoli, Donna Jo | King of Mulberry Street, The | 2005 | S/O 05 | 12 | ||||||
Fabiyi, Jan Goldin, Rama, Sue | Where Shabbat Lives | 2008 | Very First Board Books | S/O 08 | 54 | |||||
Levitan, Sonia | Escape from Egypt | 1994 | N/D 94 | 13 | ||||||
Schroeter, Daniel J. | Israel: An Illustrated History | 1998 | M/J 99 | 11 | ||||||
Teasers, Twistres, Stumpers: A Bookful of Tricky Torah-riddles | 1989 | S/O 90 | 17 | |||||||
Ofanansky, Allison, Alpern, Eliyahu | Cheesecake for Shavuot | 2013 | FM13 | 15 | ||||||
Flim, Bert Jan | Saving the Children: History of the Organized Effort to Rescue Jewish Children in the Netherlands, 1942-1945 | 2005 | S/O 06 | 37 | ||||||
Ridley, Sarah | Anne Frank and Her Diary | 2013 | History Makers | M/J13 | 3 | |||||
Goelman, Ari | Path of Names, The | 2013 | N/D13 | 5 | ||||||
Kacer, Kathy | Night Spies, The | 2003 | Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers | S/O 03 | 51-52 | |||||
Zweig, Gedalia | Living Kaddish: Incredible and Inspiring Stories | 2007 | F/M 08 | 46 | ||||||
Aviezer, Nathan | Fossils & Faith (AUDIO) | 2009 | S/O 09 | 46 | ||||||
Elkin, Judith Laikin, Merk, Gilbert W. | Jewish Presence in Latin America, The | 1987 | Thematic Studies in Latin America | S/O 88 | 41828 | |||||
Aleichem, Sholem | Treasury of Sholom Aleichem Childrens Stories, A | 1996 | M/J 97 | 14 | ||||||
Shulman, David Dean | Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine | 2007 | F/M 09 | 18-19 | ||||||
Norich, Anita | Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israell Joshua Singer | 1991 | Jewish Literature and Culture Series | S/O 92 | 19-20 | |||||
Kanner, Rebecca | Sinners and the Sea: The Untold Story of Noahs Wife | 2013 | S/O13 | 48 | ||||||
Lapidus, Rina | Between Snow and Desert Heat: Russian Influences on Hebrew Literature, 1870-1970 | 2003 | Monographs of Hebrew Union College, no. 27 | M/J 05 | 39 | |||||
Abramson, Susan, Dvorkin, Aaron, DiOrio, Ariel | Rabbi Rocketpower and the Mystery of the Missing Menorahs - A Hanukkah Humdinger! | 2007 | S/O 08 | 53 | ||||||
Krohn, Genendel, Pelleg, Tirtsa | Miracle at Sea and Other Stories: Timeless Tales from the Lives of Our Sages | 2006 | N/D 06 | 18 | ||||||
Tamar, Erika | Good-Bye, Glamour Girl | 1984 | F/M 85 | 7 | ||||||
Gross, David | Justice for All the People: Louis D. Brandeis, A | 1987 | M/J 88 | 6 |