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Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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Glazerson, Matityahu | Building Blocks of the Soul: Studies on the Letters and Words of the Hebrew Language | 1997 | N/D 97 | 41828 | ||||||
Podwal, Mark | Built by Angels: The Story of the Old New Synagogue | 2009 | M/J 09 | 8 | ||||||
Cooper, Alanna E. | Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism | 2012 | S/O13 | 23 | ||||||
Benyaminov, Meyer, Benyaminov, Zilpa | Bukharian Jews | 1992 | F/M 93 | 21 | ||||||
Lazewnik, Libby | Burglar and Other Stories, The | 2004 | N/D 05 | 13 | ||||||
Schwartz, Moshe, Lees, Susan, Kressel, Gideon M. | Burial Cooperatives in Socialist Utopia: Thirty Years of Moshav Development in Israel | 1995 | M/J 96 | 11 | ||||||
Finkelstein, Chaim | Burksfield Bike Club 2: Lost and Found | 2007 | Burksfield Bike Club Series | F/M 08 | 12 | |||||
Lazewnik, Libby | Burlgar and Other Stories, The | 2004 | N/D 05 | 13 | ||||||
Kramer, Aaron | Burning Bush, The | S/O 84 | 6 | |||||||
Ramsey, Betsy, Katz, Avi | Burning Light, The | 2002 | N/D 02 | 26 | ||||||
Kellerman, Faye | Burnt House, The | 2007 | Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus Novel, A | N/D 07 | 26 | |||||
Finkelstein, Chaim | Burskfield Bike Club Operation Snowman, The | 2012 | Burksfield Bike Club | N/D13 | 4 | |||||
Keret, Etgar, Actus Comics | Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories, The | 2004 | M/J 06 | 21 | ||||||
Ackerman-Lieberman, Phillip I. | Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt | S/O14 | 1 | Roth, Pinchas | ||||||
Ashkenazi, Elliott | Business of Jews in Louisiana: Photos, Prints, 1840-1875, The The | 1988 | S/O 88 | 7 | ||||||
Oberman, Sheldon | Business with Elijah | 1993 | S/O 95 | 10 | ||||||
Laird, Christa | But Can the Phoenix Sing? | 1995 | F/M 96 | 17 | ||||||
Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg | But God Remembered: Stories of Women from Creation to the Promised Land | 1995 | S/O 95 | 10 | ||||||
Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg, Anderson, Bethanne | But God Remembered: Stories of Women from Creation to the Promised Land | 1995 | M/J 96 | 13-14 | ||||||
Marcus, Audrey F. | But This Night is Different | A/M 81 | 8 | |||||||
Greene, Jacqueline D. | Butchers and Bakers, Rabbis and Kings | S/O 84 | 8 | |||||||
Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg, Rothenberg, Joani Keller | Butterflies Under Our Hats | 2006 | S/O 06 | 22 | ||||||
Polacco, Patricia | Butterfly, The | 2000 | ||||||||
Clarke, Thurston | By Blood and Fire | S/O 81 | 13 | |||||||
Orde, Lewis | By Blood Divided | 1991 | N/D 91 | 15 | ||||||
Oberman, Sheldon, Waldman, Neil | By the Hanukkah Light | 1997 | F/M 98 | 14 | ||||||
DeMille, Nelson | By the Rivers of Babylon | 1978 | W78 | 23 | ||||||
Schnall, David J. | By the Sweat of Your Brow: Reflections on Work and the Workplace in Classic Jewish Thought | 2001 | F/M 02 | 26 | ||||||
Reznikoff, Charles | By the Waters of Manhattan | 2009 | S/O 09 | 34-35 | ||||||
Ostrovsky, Victor | By Way of Deceptions: the Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer | 1990 | F/M 91 | 19 | ||||||
Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven | By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature | 1980 | W80 | 19 | ||||||
Yanover, Yori | Cabalists Daughter, The | 2008 | N/D 08 | 8 | ||||||
Sender, Ruth Minsky | Cage, The | 1986 | F/M 87 | 7 | ||||||
Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg | Cain and Abel: Finding the Fruits of Peace | 2001 | F/M 02 | 33 | ||||||
Goldin, Barbara Diamond, Weihs, Erika | Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale | 1991 | S/O 92 | 22 | ||||||
Goldin, Barbara Diamond, Weihs, Erika | Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale | 1991 | F/M 91 | 22 | ||||||
Bullard, Lisa, Basaluzzo, Constanza | Calebs Hanukkah | 2013 | N/D12 | 7 | ||||||
Gilchrist, Cherry, Cann, Helen | Calendar of Festivals: Celebrations from Around the World, A | 2008 | S/O 08 | 54 | ||||||
Sachs, Marilyn | Call Me Ruth | N/D 82 | 7 | |||||||
Shawn, Karen, Goldfrad, Keren | Call of Memory: Learning about the Holocaust Through Narrative: An Anthology, The | 2008 | S/O 08 | 20 | ||||||
Hassenfeld, H. Daniel | Call of the Shofar | 1995 | S/O 96 | 8 | ||||||
Hassenfeld, H. Daniel | Call of the Shofar | 1995 | S/O 96 | 6 | ||||||
Mindel, Nissan | Call of the Shofar, The | N/D 85 | 5 | |||||||
Rosen, Ruth | Called to controversy: The unlikely story of Mishe Rosen and the founding of Jews for Jesus | 2012 | N/D12 | 35 | ||||||
Casteel, Sarah Phillips | Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination | 2016 | Literature Now | S/O 2016 | 4 | Dwoskin, Beth | ||||
Cambridge Companion to Spinoza, The | 1996 | S/O 96 | 41734 | |||||||
Jackson, Judy | Camel Trail, The | 2007 | S/O 08 | 13 | ||||||
Wolf, Elaine | Camp | 2012 | M/J13 | 7 | ||||||
Gold-Vukson, Marji E., Gold-Vukson, Michael | Can You Imagine? Creative Drawing Adventures for the Jewish Holiadys | 1992 | S/O 92 | 22 | ||||||
Robinson, Ira, ed. | Canada's Jews: In Tim, Space, and Spirit (Jews in Space and Time) | 2013 | S/O14 | 19 | Cohen, Leah | |||||
Techner, David, Hirt-Manheimer, Judith, Iskowitz, Joel | Candle for Grandpa: A Guide to the Jewish Funeral for Children and Parents, A | 1993 | N/D 93 | 14-15 | ||||||
Propp, Vera W. | Candle in the Closet | 2007 | N/D 07 | 13 | ||||||
Steinsaltz, Adin | Candle of God: Discourses on Chassidic Thought, The | 1998 | N/D 99 | 14-15 | ||||||
Firestone, Beth | Candles in My Window | 2010 | M/J 10 | 14 | ||||||
Firestone, Beth | Candles in My Window | 1990 | M/J 91 | 16 | ||||||
Propp, Vera W. | Candles in the Closet | 2007 | N/D 07 | 13 | ||||||
Schorsch, Ismar | Canon Without Closure: Torah Commentaries | 2007 | S/O 08 | 9 | ||||||
Congregation Beth Israel Sisterhood | Cant Believe Its Kosher | 2001 | F/M 03 | 34 | ||||||
Muller, Jerry Z. | Capitalism and the Jews | 2010 | S/O 10 | 35-36 | ||||||
Nahai, Gina B. | Capsian Rain | 2007 | N/D 07 | 26 | ||||||
Hirsch, Marily | Captain Jiri and Rabbi Jacob | 1976 | F/M 92 | 21 | ||||||
Finkelstein, Norman H. | Captain of Innocence: France and the Dreyfus Affair | 1991 | M/J 92 | 22 | ||||||
Alan Metnic | Captured in Memory: Photographs and Thoughts on Poland | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 16 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
Feinstein, Edward | Capturing the Moon: Classic and Modern Jewish Tales | 2008 | S/O 08 | 45 | ||||||
Mermelstein, Yael, Grossman, Vasily, Romanenko, Vitaliy | Car that Goes Far, A | 2009 | M/J 09 | 17 | ||||||
Roseman, Kenneth | Cardinals Snuffbox, The | N/D 82 | 7 | |||||||
Cardozo, Nathan Lopes | Cardozo on the Parashah: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion: The Book of Genesis | 2019 | N/D 2019 | 22 | Belinfante, Randall C. & Anne Marie | Book | Adult | |||
Wolitzer, Meg | Caribou | N/D 84 | 8 | |||||||
Fine, Gary M. | Carioca-Bev: The Wartime Record of Major Ralph I. Fine. The Making of a B-24 Liberator Pilot in the Eighth Air Force in Europe During World War II. A Portrait of Courage | 2019 | N/D 2019 | 23 | Bibel, Barbara M. | Book | Adult | |||
Carlebach, Shlomo, Stefansky, Chaim | Carlebach Haggadah: Seder Night with Reb Shlomo | 2000 | M/J 01 | 6 | ||||||
Carlebach, Shlomo | Carlebach Haggadah: Seder Night with Reb Shlomo, The | 2000 | F/M 01 | 6 | ||||||
Skolsky, Mindy Warshaw | Carnival and Kopeck and More About Hannah | Ma 80 | 8 | |||||||
Skolsky, Mindy Warshaw, Weinhaus, Karen Ann | Carnival and Kopeck and More About Hannah | 1979 | Sp79 | 25 | ||||||
Kotek, Joel, Jaffa, Alisa | Cartoons and Extremism: Israel and the Jews in Arab and Western Media | 2008 | M/J 09 | 26 | ||||||
Goberman, David | Carved Memories: Heritage in Stone from The Russian Jewish Pale | 2000 | S/O 00 | 41986 | ||||||
Goberman, David | Carved Memories: Heritage in Stone from the Russian Jewish Pale | 2000 | S/O 00 | 41986 | ||||||
Brown, Erica, Galperin, Misha | Case for Jewish Peoplehood: Can We Be One?, The | 2009 | F/M 10 | 32 | ||||||
Zakutinsky, Ruth | Case of the Missing Baseball Cards, The | N/D 82 | 6 | |||||||
Levine, Aron | Case Studies in Jewish Business Ethics | 2000 | Library of Jewish Law and Ethics, vol. XXII | S/O 00 | 15 | |||||
Nahai, Gina B. | Caspian Rain | 2007 | N/D 07 | 26 | ||||||
Rothstein, Gidon | Cassandra Misreads the Book of Samuel: (And Other Untold Tales of the Prophets) | 2008 | N/D 09 | 27 | ||||||
Susan Silverman | Casting Lots : Creating a Family in a Beautiful Broken World | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 24 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Heller, Linda | Castle on Hester Street, The | N/D 82 | 7 | |||||||
Heller, Linda, Boris Kulikov | Castle on Hester Street, The | 2007 | N/D 07 | 8 | ||||||
Denes, Magda | Castles Burning: A Childs Life in War | 1997 | S/O 97 | 28 | ||||||
Ellis, Deborah | Cat at the Wall, The | 2014 | N/D 14 | 10 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |||||
Rubin, Susan Goldman, Weissberger, Ela | Cat with the Yellow Star, The: Coming of Age in Terezin | 2006 | S/O 06 | 19 | ||||||
Catalog of the I. Edward Kiev Judaica Collection | 2003 | S/O 05 | 42-43 | |||||||
Tenenbom, Tuvia | Catch the Jews! | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 36 | Tesler, David | |||||
Ben-Dror, Graciela | Catholic Church and the Jews: Argentina 1933-1945 | 2008 | Studies in Antisemitism | S/O 09 | 35 | |||||
Hesse, Karen, Watson, Wendy | Cats of Krasinski Square, The | 2004 | N/D 04 | 20-21 | ||||||
Stampler, Ann Redisch, Carabelli, Francesca | Cats on Ben Yehuda Street, The | 2013 | FM13 | 13 | ||||||
Raphael, David | Cavalier of Malaga, the | 1989 | M/J 91 | 16 | ||||||
Witonsky, Pecki Sherman | Cave of Reconciliation, The (rev. ed.) | 2006 | M/J 07 | 16 | ||||||
Roth, Irene | Cecil Roth: Historian Without Tears | F/M 83 | 3 | |||||||
Heiligman, Deborah | Celebrate Hanukkah with Light, Latkes, and Dreidels | 2006 | Holidays Around the World Ceries | N/D 06 | 13 | |||||
Heiligman, Deborah | Celebrate Passover with Matzah, Maror, and Memories | 2007 | Holidays Around the World Series | M/J 07 | 13 | |||||
Heiligman, Deborah | Celebrate Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur with Honey, Prayers, and the Shofar | 2007 | Holidays Around the World Series | S/O 07 | 41860 | |||||
Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane, Peterson, Julie | Celebrating Hanukkah | 1996 | F/M 97 | 12 | ||||||
Drucker, Malka | Celebrating Life: Jewish Rites of Passage | N/D 84 | 7 |