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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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Goodman, Arnold | Sweet Words to God: A Childs Book of Jewish Prayers | 2001 | N/D 01 | 21 | ||||||
Cohen, Barbara | Binding of Isaac, The | S 78 | 6 | |||||||
Lieberman, Sherman | Mystics and Missionaries: The Jews in Palestine, 1799-1840 | 1992 | S/O 93 | 19 | ||||||
Sabbath Garden, The | 1993 | M/J 94 | 11 | |||||||
Walfish, Miriam | Libas Palace | 2012 | Jewish Girls Around the World | S/O13 | 4 | |||||
Brennan, Marcia | Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics | 2001 | M/J 02 | 9 | ||||||
Nason, Ruth | Jewish Faith, The | 2005 | Start-Up Religion Series | N/D 05 | 20 | |||||
Clark, Kathy | Guardian Angel House | 2009 | Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers Series | S/O 09 | 12 | |||||
Solomon, Norman | Historical Dictionary of Judaism | 1998 | S/O 99 | 14 | ||||||
Harduf, David Mendel | English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary | 2003 | N/D 03 | 13 | ||||||
Ettinger, Steven | Torah 24/7 | 2003 | S/O 04 | 16 | ||||||
Lori Cahan-Simon Ensemble | Chanukah is Freylekh! Songs my Bubbe Should Have Taught Me: Volume 2 (AUDIO) | 2006 | N/D 08 | 25 | ||||||
Citron, Sterna, Eydel, Igor | Shlomos Little Joke | 2007 | S/O 08 | 52 | ||||||
Wormell, Christopher | Animals Came Two by Two: The Story of Noahs Ark, The | 2008 | S/O 09 | 14 | ||||||
Rosner, Fred | Medical Encyclopedia of Moses Maimonides | 1998 | F/M 99 | 41986 | ||||||
Keller, Tsipi | Prophet of Tenth Street, The | 2012 | N/D12 | 43 | ||||||
Klawans, Jonathan | Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism | 2012 | N/D13 | 30 | ||||||
Goldberg, Lester | In Siberia It Is Very Cold | 1987 | N/D 87 | 6 | ||||||
Blum, Yehuda Z. | For Zions Sake | 1987 | N/D 87 | 4 | ||||||
Rosenthal, Monroe, Mozeson, Isaac | Wars of the Jews | 1990 | M/J 90 | 41986 | ||||||
Van Dijk, Lutz, Crawford, Elizabeth D. | Damned Strong Love: The True Story of Will G. and Stefan K. | 1995 | N/D 95 | 11 | ||||||
Wells, Rosemary, Andreasen, Dan | Streets of Gold | 1999 | M/J 00 | 22 | ||||||
Frucht, Phyllis, Rothschild, Joy, Katz, Gertrude, Sacks, Shelly | Best of Jewish Cooking, The | 1974 | Sp 75 | 26 | ||||||
Koffsky, Ann D. | My Jewish Holiday Fun Book | 2000 | S/O 00 | 36 | ||||||
Jenks, Kathleen | River and the Stone: Moses Early Years in Egypt, The | 1977 | Sp77 | 28 | ||||||
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 | ||||||
Sofsky, Wolfgang, Templer, William | Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp, The | 1997 | S/O 97 | 23 | ||||||
Kaufman, David E. | Jewhooing the Sixties: America Celebrity and Jewish Identity | 2012 | S/O13 | 31-32 | ||||||
Hammer, Gottlieb | Good Faith and Credit | 1986 | F/M 87 | 4 | ||||||
Bellow, Saul | Henderson, The Rain King | 1965 | Sp77 | 30 | ||||||
Nivola, Claire A. | Elizabeth | 1997 | F/M 98 | 16 | ||||||
Terrier, Samuel | Til the Heart Sings | F/M 86 | 5 | |||||||
Schorsch, Ismar | Canon Without Closure: Torah Commentaries | 2007 | S/O 08 | 9 | ||||||
Goodman, Naomi | On Borrowed Time: Poems of Two Centuries | 2005 | F/M 06 | 26 | ||||||
Zwerin, Raymond A. | Shabbat Can Be | O 80 | 13 | |||||||
Appelfeld, Aharon | All Whom I Have Loved: A Novel | 2007 | S/O 07 | 42 | ||||||
Kranzler, David | Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz, The: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerlands Finest Hour | 2000 | S/O 01 | 17 | ||||||
Mintz, Alan L. | Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America | 2001 | N/D 01 | 10 | ||||||
Shimoni, Gideon | Zionist Ideology, The | 1995 | Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series | N/D 95 | 41892 | |||||
Stillman, Norman A. | Jews of Arab Lands, The | 1979 | W80 | 16 | ||||||
Lehrer, Alice Becker | If We Could Hear Them Now: Encounters with Legendary Jewish Heroines | 2009 | M/J 10 | 35 | ||||||
Schachnowitz, Selig, Mashinsky, M. L. | Fire in the Sky | 1984 | S/O 85 | 41702 | ||||||
Gerber, Merrill Joan | Victory Gardens of Brooklyn, The: A Novel | 2007 | Library of Modern Jewish Literature | N/D 08 | 7 | |||||
Cisner, Naftali | Count with Mendel | 2003 | S/O 03 | 48 | ||||||
Stepping Stones to Further Jewish-Christian Relations | F/M 82 | 6 | ||||||||
Greene, Rhonda Gowler, Wilson, Anne | Beautiful World That God Made, The | 2002 | S/O 02 | 41 | ||||||
Bellow, Saul | Mr. Sammlers Planet | 1970 | Sp77 | 30 | ||||||
Agamben, Giogio | Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive | 2000 | S/O 00 | 7 | ||||||
Hecht, Jacob J. | Lag BOmer Book | S/O 83 | 4 | |||||||
Reitter, Paul | On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred | 2012 | N/D13 | 35 | ||||||
Creiger, Joyce, Serfaty, Raphaella | Izzy Iguana is Invited to Israel | 2009 | S/O 09 | 21 | ||||||
Celan, Paul | Glottal Stop: 101 Poems | 2000 | S/O 01 | 9 | ||||||
Bauman, Janina | Winter in the Morning: A Young Girls Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond, 1939-1945 | 1986 | S/O 86 | 7 | ||||||
Blaine, Marge, Lisowski, Gabriel | Dvoras Journey | 1979 | W79 | 25 | ||||||
Jacobs, Jill | There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice Through Jewish Law & Tradition | 2009 | M/J 10 | 34 | ||||||
Banks, Lynne Reid | Broken Bridge | 1994 | N/D 95 | 14 | ||||||
Shenker, Israel | Noshing is Sacred: The Joys and Oys of Jewish Food | 1979 | Sp80 | 15 | ||||||
Zim, Paul | Seder Nights (AUDIO) | 1994 | F/M 95 | 14 | ||||||
Fisman, Karen, McAteer, Thomas | Adventure in Latkaland: A Hanukkah Story, An | 2009 | N/D 09 | 11 | ||||||
Pitman, Walter | Louis Applebaum: A Passion for Culture | 2002 | N/D 03 | 15-16 | ||||||
Gavron, Daniel | Pilgrims: A Novel | 2000 | F/M 01 | 13 | ||||||
Shrayer, Maxim D. | Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories | 2009 | Library of Modern Jewish Literature | S/O 10 | 26 | |||||
Jewish Travel Guide 2007 International Edition | 2007 | F/M 08 | 40 | |||||||
Weiner, Ellis, Davilman, Barbara | How to Raise a Jewish Dog | 2007 | M/J 08 | 40, 42 | ||||||
Heuvel, Eric, Miller, Lorraine T. | Family Secret, A | 2009 | N/D 09 | 41986 | ||||||
Kaltner, John, MckKenzie, Steven, Kilpatrick, Joel | Uncensored Bible, The: The Bawdy and Naughty Bits of the Good Book | 2008 | M/J 09 | 24 | ||||||
Sears, David | Compassion for Humanity in the Jewish Tradition | 1998 | N/D 99 | 12 | ||||||
Khanga, Yelena, Jacoby, Susan | Soul to Soul: The Story of a Black-Russian American Family, 1865-1992 | 1992 | M/J 93 | 15 | ||||||
Stanislawksi, Michael | Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning | 2004 | F/M 05 | 24 | ||||||
Breuer, Mordechai, Petuchowski, Elizabeth | Modernity within Tradition: The Social History of Orthodox Jewry in Imperial Germany | 1992 | F/M 93 | 21 | ||||||
Berger, David | Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference, The | 2001 | M/J 02 | 9 | ||||||
Feltquate, Barbara, Post, Tom | Kiddish Yiddish: Jewish Tradition and Culture and Rhyme | 2008 | N/D 08 | 35-36 | ||||||
Bard, Mitchell | Israel Matters: Understand the Past-Look to the Future | 2012 | N/D12 | 9-10 | ||||||
Lampert, Lisa | Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare | 2004 | S/O 04 | 19 | ||||||
Kacer, Kathy, McKay, Sharon E. | Whisperers from the Ghettos | 2009 | N/D 09 | 8 | ||||||
Edelman, Marsha Bryan | Discovering Jewish Music | 2003 | S/O 04 | 15 | ||||||
Erps, Yitzy | Tell Me a Tale: 8 Great Stories | 2005 | M/J 06 | 12 | ||||||
Potok, Chaim | Book of Lights, The | N/D 81 | 14 | |||||||
Schwatz, Howard, Waldman, Neil | Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Stories | 1996 | N/D 95 | 16-17 | ||||||
Spero, Moshe Halevi, Gaash, Elisheva | Saying Goodbye to Grandma | 1997 | N/D 98 | 16 | ||||||
Perechodnik, Calel | "Am I a Murderer?" Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman | 1996 | M/J 96 | 15 | ||||||
Margolin, Miriam, Ryback, Issachar | Little Stories for Little Children | 1986 | F/M 87 | 8 | ||||||
Elmer, Robert | Peace Rebel | 2000 | Promise of Zion Series | S/O 01 | 34 | |||||
Henkin, Joshua | World Without You, The | 2012 | M/J13 | 39 | ||||||
Danan, Julie Hilton | Jewish Parents Almanac, The | 1993 | S/O 94 | 9 | ||||||
Raabe, Emily | Hanukkah Holiday Cookbook, A | 2002 | F/M 03 | 45 | ||||||
Wood, Angela Gluck | Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People | 2007 | N/D 07 | 10 | ||||||
Grunblatt, Joseph | Exile and Redemption: Meditations on Jewish History | 1988 | S/O 88 | 7 | ||||||
Ackroyd, Peter | Trial of Elizabeth Cree: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders, The | 1995 | N/D 95 | 41986 | ||||||
Cinnamon and Myrrh | 1994 | N/D 94 | 7 | |||||||
Kay, Devora, Vand, Rochel | Sleep Sheep Book, The | 2013 | S/O13 | 11 | ||||||
Sacks, Jonathan | Arguments for the Sake of Heaven | 1991 | Emergeng Trends in Traditional Judaism | M/J 91 | 15 | |||||
Ray, Brenda | Midwifes Song: A Story of Moses Birth, The | 2000 | 15 | |||||||
Stern, David, Mirsky, Mark J. | Rabbinic Fantasies: Imaginative Narratives from Classical Hebrew Literature | 1990 | M/J 92 | 21 | ||||||
Lehrman, Robert | Juggling | N/D 82 | 8 | |||||||
Einstein, Stephen J. | Introduction to Judaism | N/D 83 | 8 | |||||||
Kaes, Anton | From Hitler to Helmat: The Return of History as Film | 1989 | M/J 92 | 16 | ||||||
Cohen, Naomi W. | What the Rabbis Said: The Public Discourse of Nineteenth-Century American Rabbis | 2008 | F/M 09 | 8 | ||||||
Hirsh, Marilyn | Deborah the Dybbuk: A Ghost Story | 1978 | W78 | 28 | ||||||
Appelfeld, Aharon, Appelfeld, Meir | Table for One: Under the Light of Jerusalem, A | 2005 | S/O 05 | 41 |