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| Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
Review Author |
Review format | Review type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamar, Erika | Good-Bye, Glamour Girl | 1984 | F/M 85 | 7 | ||||||
| Ruby, Lois | Swindletop | 2000 | M/J 01 | 16 | ||||||
| Rabb, M. C. | Missing Persons: The Rose Queen | 2004 | S/O 04 | 46 | ||||||
| Berkowitz, Allan L., Moskovitz, Patti | Embracing the Covenant: Converts to Judaism Talk about Why & How | M/J 97 | 3 | |||||||
| Heschel, Abraham Joshua, Schor, Ilya | Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man, The | 2003 | M/J 04 | 16 | ||||||
| Wiseman, Eva | Kanada | 2006 | F/M 07 | 13 | ||||||
| Levine, Aron | Case Studies in Jewish Business Ethics | 2000 | Library of Jewish Law and Ethics, vol. XXII | S/O 00 | 15 | |||||
| Lowdermilk, Walter Clay | Palenstine Land of Promise | 1968 | W77 | 27 | ||||||
| Hughes, Chris | Israel | 2003 | Nations in Conflict Series | S/O 03 | 54 | |||||
| Millman, M. C. | Amen Allowed | 2008 | S/O 08 | 14 | ||||||
| Kimmel, Eric A. | Zigazak! A Magical Hanukkah Night | 2001 | N/D 01 | 19-20 | ||||||
| Linzwer, Judith | Torah and Dharma: Jewish Seekers in Eastern Religions | 1996 | M/J 97 | 6 | ||||||
| Abrams, Nathan | New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema, The | 2012 | FM13 | 17 | ||||||
| Schwartz, Daniel B. | First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image, The | 2012 | FM13 | 35-36 | ||||||
| Hoffman, Lawrence A. | Shma and its Blessings | 1997 | My Peoples Prayerbook: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries (vol. 1) | M/J 98 | 10 | |||||
| Schwartz, Howard | Liliths Cave | 1988 | N/D 88 | 7 | ||||||
| McDermott, Gerald | Creation | 2003 | F/M 04 | 30 | ||||||
| Steinberg, Milton | Prophets Wife, The | 2010 | M/J 10 | 25-26 | ||||||
| Elbogen, Ismar | Jewish Liturgy: a Comprehensive History | 1993 | M/J 94 | 13 | ||||||
| Carlstrom, Nancy White, Saport, Linda | Before You Were Born | 2002 | S/O 02 | 41 | ||||||
| Arad, Yitzhak | Holocaust in the Soviet Union, The | 2009 | N/D 10 | 16 | ||||||
| Zelnert, Karen | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, The | 1993 | M/J 94 | 41986 | ||||||
| Heller, Joseph | God Knows | 1984 | M/J 85 | 3 | ||||||
| Masters, Peter | Striking Back: A Jewish Commandos War Against the Nazis | 1997 | F/M 98 | 10 | ||||||
| Jacobson, Eric | Metaphysics of the Profane: The Political Theology of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem | 2003 | M/J 05 | 36-37 | ||||||
| Cooper, John | Eat and Be Satisfied: A Social History of Jewish Food | 1993 | N/D 93 | 8 | ||||||
| Schneiderman, Samuel | River Remembers, The | 1978 | W78 | 26 | ||||||
| Goldman, Alex J. | Judaism Confronts Contemporary Issues | O 79 | 6 | |||||||
| Ross, Lillian Hammer | Buba Leah and Her Paper Children | 1991 | S/O 92 | 23 | ||||||
| Traubman, Len | Oreckovsky Family: From Russia to America, The | 1994 | M/J 95 | 9 | ||||||
| Webster, Matt | Inside Israels Mossad: The Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks | 2003 | Inside the Worlds Most Famous Intelligence Agencies Series | F/M 04 | 42, 46 | |||||
| Rosenblatt, Naomi Harris | After the Apple: Women in the Bible - Timeless Stories of Love, Lust and Longing | 2005 | M/J 06 | 29 | ||||||
| Yiddish Lullabies for American Mothers (AUDIO) | 1991 | M/J 93 | 18-19 | |||||||
| Terrier, Samuel | Till the Heart Sings: A Biblical Theology of Manhood & Womanhood | 1986 | F/M 86 | 5 | ||||||
| Rothstein, Raphael | Mystery of Masada, The | 1986 | S/O 86 | 41892 | ||||||
| Gilbert, Joel | Farewell Israel: Bush, Iran and the Revolt of Islam (VIDEO) | 2007 | S/O 09 | 49 | ||||||
| Kimmelman, Leslie, Zollars, Jaime | Shabbat Puppy, The | 2012 | M/J 12 | 16 | ||||||
| Goitein, S. D. | Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders | 1974 | D 74 | 28 | ||||||
| Cuniot, Denis | Confidential Klezmer (SOUND) | 2007 | F/M 09 | 22 | ||||||
| Bellow, Saul, Tarcov, Edith | Portable Saul Bellow, The | 1974 | Sp77 | 30 | ||||||
| Somers, Erik, Kok, Rene | Jewish Displaced Persons in Camp Bergen-Belsen 1945-1950: The Unique Photo Album of Zippy Orlin | 2004 | F/M 05 | 23-24 | ||||||
| Esler, Anthony | Babylon | F/M 81 | 5 | |||||||
| Telushkin, Joseph | Hillen: If Not Now, When? | 2010 | Jewish Encounters | N/D 10 | 24 | |||||
| Freda, Ulman | Vienna Revisited | 1995 | M/J 96 | 12 | ||||||
| Altman, Linda Jacobs | Genocide: The Systematic Killing of a People | 2009 | Issues in Focus Today Series | N/D 08 | 32 | |||||
| Parish, James Robert | Steven Spielberg, Filmmaker | 2003 | M/J 04 | 31 | ||||||
| Gottlieb, Ayelet Rose | Mayim Rabim (AUDIO) | 2006 | S/O 08 | 35 | ||||||
| Silver-Brody, Vivienne | Documentors of the Dream: Pioneer Jewish Photographers in the Land of Israel, 1890-1933 | 1998 | N/D 99 | 12, 14 | ||||||
| Brann, Ross, Sutcliffe, Adam | Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture: From al-Andalus to the Haskalah | 2003 | Jewish Culture and Contexts | S/O 04 | 13 | |||||
| Bankston, John | Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine | 2002 | Unlocking the Secrets of Science Series | M/J 04 | 30 | |||||
| Pearl, Sydelle, Iantorno, Danlyn | Books for Children of the World: The Story of Jella Lepman | 2007 | S/O 07 | 11, 14 | ||||||
| Kitchen, K. A. | On the Reliability of the Old Testament | 2003 | M/J 04 | 17 | ||||||
| Pogany, Eugene | In My Brothers Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith After the Holocaust | 2000 | M/J 02 | 14 | ||||||
| Gross, David C. | 1401 Questions and Answers About Judaism | 2003 | N/D 03 | 12 | ||||||
| Berenbaum, Michael | World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The (2nd ed.) | 2006 | S/O 06 | 36 | ||||||
| Oberman, Sheldon, Waldman, Neil | Wisdom Bird: A Tale of Solomona nd Sheba, The | 2000 | F/M 01 | 16 | ||||||
| Hanukkah. Oh Hanukkah! | 1995 | F/M 96 | 16 | |||||||
| Sussman, Susan | Theres No Such Thing as a Chanukah Bush, Sandy Goldstein | N/D 83 | 9 | |||||||
| Sussman, Joni Kibort, Marzel, Pepi | My First Yiddish Word Book | 2009 | F/M 09 | 48, 50 | ||||||
| Witty, Abraham B., Witty, Rachel J. | Exploring Jewish Tradition: A Transliterated Guide to Everyday Practice and Observance | 2001 | M/J 01 | 41986 | ||||||
| LeBor, Adam, Boyes, Roger | Seduced by Hitler: The Choices of a Nation and the Ethics of Survival | 2001 | F/M 02 | 22-23 | ||||||
| Schwartz, Howard | Leaves from the Garden of Eden: One Hundred Classic Jewish Folktales | 2008 | F/M 09 | 21-22 | ||||||
| Machlin, Edda Servi | Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews, The: Traditioanl Recipes and Menus and a Memoir of a Vanished Way of Life | 1981 | W 82 | 14 | ||||||
| Sendak, Maurice | Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale (AUDIO) | 2004 | F/M 05 | 26 | ||||||
| Fuhmann, Franz | Jew Car, The | 2012 | FM13 | 40 | ||||||
| Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, Karp, Jonathan | Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times, The | 2008 | S/O 08 | 7 | ||||||
| Frank, Thaisa | Hedeggers Glasses: A Novel | 2010 | N/D 10 | 15 | ||||||
| Kushner, Don | Uncle Jacobs Ghost Story | 1986 | A/M 86 | 5 | ||||||
| Slobin, Mark | Old Jewish Folk Music: The Collection and Writings of Moshe Beregovski | 1982 | W83 | 7 | ||||||
| Sherman, Joseph | From Revolution to Repression: Soviet Yiddish Writing, 1917-1952 | 2012 | N/D12 | 36-37 | ||||||
| Wiesel, Elie | Souls on Fire | 1993 | M/J 93 | 14 | ||||||
| Gold, Penny Schine | Making the Bible Modern: Childrens Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America | 2004 | M/J 04 | 15 | ||||||
| Gottfried, Ted, Alcorn, Stephen | Deniers of the Holocaust | 2001 | The Holocaust Series | S/O 01 | 38 | |||||
| Sugarman, Brynn Olenberg, Shapiro, Michelle | Rebeccas Journey Home | 2006 | S/O 06 | 20 | ||||||
| Cohen, Michael | Jews in Germany, 1945-1993: The Building of a Minority | 1994 | M/J 95 | 14, 17 | ||||||
| Rosen, Michael | Blessing of the Animals, The | 2000 | M/J 01 | 16 | ||||||
| Strickman, H. Norman, Silver, Arthur M. | Ibn Ezras Commentary on the Pentateuch: Exodus (Shemot) | 1996 | M/J 97 | 41734 | ||||||
| Kacer, Kathy, McKay, Sharon E. | Whispers from the Ghettos | 2009 | N/D 09 | 8 | ||||||
| Heifetz, Mitch, Toben, Michael | HaKol BaSeder | 2013 | S/O13 | 12 | ||||||
| Buchignani, Walter | Tell No One Who You Are: the Hidden Children of Regine Miller | 1994 | M/J 95 | 18 | ||||||
| Freedman, Ramona R. | Moving Home: My Path to Jewish Observance | 2004 | M/J 05 | 33 | ||||||
| Reinharz, Jehuda, Shapira, Anita | Essential Papers on Zionism | 1995 | M/J 96 | 7 | ||||||
| Persky, Yehoshua, comp. | Sayings of God, The | 1990 | N/D 90 | 11 | ||||||
| HaLevi, Yehudah, Korobkin, N. Daniel | Kuzari: In Defense of the Despised Faith, The | 2009 | F/M 10 | 35 | ||||||
| Elsen, George | Children and Play in the Holocaust | 1988 | M/J 89 | 9 | ||||||
| Kurzweil, Arthur | Pebbles of Wisdom from Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz | 2009 | S/O 10 | 34 | ||||||
| Gellman, Ellie, Kahn, Katherine Janus | It's Chanukah! | 1985 | N/D 85 | 5 | ||||||
| Senker, Cath | Anne Frank: Voice of Hope | 2001 | Famous Lives Series | N/D 01 | 22 | |||||
| Greene, Jacqueline D. | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, The | 2007 | Code Red Series | N/D 07 | 16-17 | |||||
| Fox, Mem, Vivas, Julie, Greenspan, Shari Dash | Noam Mechapes Zichronot | 2002 | S/O 03 | 45 | ||||||
| Harrington, Jane | Four Things My Geeky-Jock-of-a-Best-Friend Must Do in Europe | 2006 | N/D 06 | 9 | ||||||
| Levy, Joanne | Small Medium at Large | 2012 | S/O12 | 8-9 | ||||||
| Sachs, Marilyn | Lost in America | 2005 | M/J 05 | 22-23 | ||||||
| Sartori, Eva Martin, Cottenet-Hage, Madeleine | Daughters of Sarah: Anthology of Jewish Women Writing in French | 2006 | F/M 07 | 34, 36 | ||||||
| Jacobs, Louis | Rabbinic Thought in the Talmud | 2005 | N/D 05 | 28 | ||||||
| Hochberg, Dovid | Jewish Teens Survival Guide: Honest Answers for Todays Teens, The | 2009 | M/J 09 | 16 | ||||||
| Jacobs, Louis | Beyond Reasonable Doubt | 1999 | N/D 99 | 10 | ||||||
| Shulevitz, Uri | How I Learned Geography | 2008 | M/J 08 | 8 | ||||||
| Hoffman, Lawrence A., Wolfson, Ron, Aron, Bill | What You Will See Inside a Synagogue | 2004 | F/M 05 | 34 | ||||||
| Drucker, Malka, Chwast, Eve | Grandmas Latkes | 1992 | S/O 92 | 23 |
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