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Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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Dwork, Deborah | Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe | 1991 | S/O 91 | 18 | ||||||
Bogot, Howard I. | Childrens Haggadah, A | 1993 | N/D 94 | 13 | ||||||
Brown, Laaren, Hort, Lenny, Thomas, Eric | Childrens Illustrated Jewish Bible (rev. ed.) | 2007 | F/M 08 | 9, 11 | ||||||
Nathan, Joan | Childrens Jewish Holiday Kitchen, The | 1987 | M/J 87 | 41797 | ||||||
Latrobe, Kathy H., Brodie, Carolyn S., White, Maureen | Childrens Litearutre Dictionary, The: Definitions, Resources, and Learning Activities | 2002 | S/O 03 | 56 | ||||||
Golding, Barbara | Childs Book of Midrash, A | 1990 | F/M 91 | 22 | ||||||
Kangas, Juli | Childs Book of Prayers, A | 2008 | S/O 08 | 59 | ||||||
Newman, Shirley | Childs Introduction to Torah, A | 1972 | Sp 75 | 28 | ||||||
Meshi, Ita | Childs Picture Hebrew Dictionary, A | 1985 | S/O 85 | 7 | ||||||
David, Kati | Childs War: World War II Through the Eyes of Children, A | 1989 | M/J 90 | 14 | ||||||
Maynard, Isabelle | China Dreams: Growing up Jewish in Tientsin | 1996 | M/J 98 | 10 | ||||||
Eber, Irene | Chinese and Jews: Encounters Between Cultures | 2008 | M/J 09 | 19 | ||||||
Sui-jeung, Chan | Chinese Jews | 2004 | S/O 05 | 43 | ||||||
Rosten, Carrie | Chloe Leiberman (Sometimes Wong) | 2005 | F/M 06 | 13 | ||||||
Rauchwerger, Lisa | Chocolate Chip Challah and Other Twists on the Jewish Holiday Table | 1999 | F/M 00 | 10 | ||||||
Rabb, M. E. | Chocolate Lover, The | 2004 | Missing Persons Series | N/D 04 | 17 | |||||
Kagan, Jeremy | Choice to Be: A Jewish Path to Self and Spirituality, The | 2012 | M/J13 | 26 | ||||||
Angel, Marc D. | Choosing to Be Jewish: The Orthodox Road to Convesion | 2005 | S/O 06 | 34-35 | ||||||
Rabinovitch, Lara, Goren, Shiri, Pressman, Hanna S. | Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture | 2013 | M/J13 | 32 | ||||||
Kaplan, Howard | Chopin Express, The | 1978 | W78 | 23 | ||||||
Botticini, Maristella, Eckstein, Zvi | Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492, The | 2012 | S/O13 | 22 | ||||||
Kurlansky, Mark | Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry | 1995 | N/D 95 | 10 | ||||||
Pearl, Jonathan, Pearl, Judith | Chosen Image: Televisions Portrayal of Jewish Themes and Characters, The | 1999 | S/O 99 | 13 | ||||||
Eisen, Arnold H. | Chosen People in America, The | M/J 84 | 4 | |||||||
Eisen, Arnold H. | Chosen People in America: A Study of Religious Ideology, The | 1995 | F/M 96 | 8 | ||||||
Nyburg, Sidney | Chosen People, The | 1985 | S/O 86 | 9 | ||||||
Davies, Grahame | Chosen People: Wales and the Jews, The | 2002 | M/J 03 | 13-14 | ||||||
Schram, Peninnah | Chosen Tales: Stories Told by Jewish Storytellers | 1995 | F/M 96 | 7 | ||||||
Schram, Peninnah | Chosen Tales: Stories Told by Jewish Storytellers | 1995 | N/D 95 | 9 | ||||||
Stone, Marilyn | Chosen: Appetizers & Desserts, The | S/O 82 | 8 | |||||||
Weinstein, Russ | Christ-Killers: A Fictionalized Historical Analysis of How the Jews Got Blamed for the Crucificition, The | 1994 | F/M 95 | 10 | ||||||
Singer, David G. | Christian Search for a New Zion: Christian Love and Hate of the Jews and Judaism from the Time of St. Paul to the Present, The | 1999 | N/D 01 | 12 | ||||||
Thoma, Clemens | Christian Theology of Judaism, A | F/M 82 | 6 | |||||||
Herczl, Moshe Y., Lerner, Joel | Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry | 1993 | F/M 94 | 9 | ||||||
Frymer-Kensky, Tikva, Novak, David, Ochs, Peter, Sandmel, David Fox, Signer, Michael A. | Christianity in Jewish Terms | 2000 | S/O 01 | 13 | ||||||
Steele, Michael R. | Christianity, Tragedy, and Holocaust Literature | 1995 | Contributions to the Study of Religion, vol. 41 | N/D 95 | 41923 | |||||
Boys, Mary C., Lee, Sara L. | Christians & Jews in Dialogue: Learning in the Presence of the Other | 2006 | M/J 07 | 22 | ||||||
Braude, Benjamin | Christians & Jews in the Ottoman Empire: the Abridged Edition with a New Introduction | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 14 | Simon, Rachel | |||||
Nickelsburg, George W. E., MacRae, George W. | Christians Among Jews and Gentiles; Essays in Honor of Krister Stendahl on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday | 1986 | N/D 86 | 4 | ||||||
Cohn, Janice, Farnsworth, B. | Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate, The | 1995 | N/D 95 | 17 | ||||||
Cohen, Barbara, DeGrost, Diane | Christmas Revolution, The | 1987 | F/M 88 | 6 | ||||||
Polacco, Patricia | Christmas Tapestry | 2002 | F/M 03 | 44-45 | ||||||
Keyserling, M., Gross, Charles | Christopher Columbis and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries | 1989 | M/J 91 | 13 | ||||||
Amler, Jane Frances | Christopher Columbus’ Jewish Roots | 1991 | F/M 92 | 17 | ||||||
Scharfstein, Sol | Chronicle of Jewish History: From the Patriarchs to the 21st Century | 1997 | S/O 97 | 28 | ||||||
Harvey, John F. | Church and Synagogue Libraries | N/D 81 | 12 | |||||||
Rodds, Dorothy | Church and Synagogue Library Resources (5th rev. ed.) | 1992 | N/D 92 | 25 | ||||||
Spektor, Zev | Churva Plot, The | 2012 | Adventures of a Lifetime | S/O13 | 4 | |||||
Feinstein, Edward | Chutzpah Imperative: Empowering Today’s Jews for a Life That Matters., the | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 6 | Stein, Marion M | |||||
Zieman, Joseph | Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square, The | 1975 | W75 | 30 | ||||||
Cinnamon and Myrrh | 1994 | N/D 94 | 7 | |||||||
Abramson, Edward | Circle in the Square: Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Reinvents the Synagogue, A | 2008 | M/J 09 | 18 | ||||||
Leahy, Syrell R. | Circle of Love | F/M 81 | 5 | |||||||
Schur, Maxine Rose | Circlemaker, The | 1994 | F/M 95 | 11 | ||||||
Campbell, Yisrael | Circumcise Me: The Comedy of Yisrael Campbell (VIDEO) | 2009 | M/J 10 | 26 | ||||||
Kahn, Bezalel | Citadel of Splendor: The 500 Year Legacy of Jewish Sulzburg | 1995 | M/J 96 | 15 | ||||||
Wouk, Herman | City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder | 1969 | W76 | 18 | ||||||
Katz, Dovid, Zumoff, Barnett | City in the Moonlight: Stories of the Old-Time Lithuanian Jews, The | 2012 | M/J 12 | 50 | ||||||
Hareven, Shulamith | City of Many Days | 1993 | F/M 94 | 7 | ||||||
Hareven, Shulamith, Halkin, Hillel | City of Many Days | 1977 | Sp77 | 25 | ||||||
Farber, Valerie | City of Refuge: A Biblical Novel of the Ancient Past | 2008 | S/O 08 | 50 | ||||||
Drew, Cynthia | City of Slaughter | 2012 | S/O12 | 53 | ||||||
Benvenisti, Meron | City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem | 1996 | F/M 97 | 3 | ||||||
Cohen-Kiener, Andrea | Claiming Earth as Common Ground: The Ecological Crisis through the Lens of Faith | 2009 | M/J 10 | 30 | ||||||
Jules, Jacqueline, Springer, Sally | Clap and Count!: Action Rhymes for the Jewish Year | 2001 | S/O 01 | 37 | ||||||
Szalat, Alex | Clara Lemlich: A Strike Leaders Diary (VIDEO) | 2004 | F/M 06 | 24 | ||||||
Isaacman, Clara | Claras Story | 1984 | S/O 85 | 6 | ||||||
Kacer, Kathy | Claras War | 2001 | S/O 01 | 38-39 | ||||||
Levin, Meyer | Classic Chassidic Tales | 1996 | M/J 96 | 10 | ||||||
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 | ||||||
Machlin, Edda Servi | Classic Dolci of the Italian Jews: A World of Jewish Desserts, The | 1999 | M/J 00 | 13 | ||||||
Sokoloff, David | Classic Jewish Tales | 2003 | F/M 04 | 33-34 | ||||||
Finkel, Sara | Classic Kosher Cooking | F/M 90 | 14 | |||||||
Frankel, Ellen | Classic Tales, The | 1989 | N/D 89 | 12 | ||||||
Frieden, Ken, Gorelick, Ted | Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz | 2004 | S/O 04 | 8 | ||||||
Classics of Western Spirituality: A Library of Great Spiritual Masters | F/M 82 | 9 | ||||||||
Elazar, David H. | Classification System for Libraries of Judaica, A (2nd ed.) | 1988 | M/J 89 | 9 | ||||||
Watts, Irene N., Shoemaker, Kathryn E. | Clay Man: The Golem of Prague | 2009 | N/D 09 | 16 | ||||||
Davidoff, Oded | Clean Sweep | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 44 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Sion, Philip J. | Cleft Roots | 1975 | Sp77 | 26 | ||||||
Sylvie Anne Goldberg, Benjamin Ivry | Clepsydra: Essay on the Plurality of Time in Judaism | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 9-10 | Roger S. Kohn | |||||
Waldman, Debby, Revell, Cindy | Clever Rachel | 2009 | N/D 09 | 15 | ||||||
Bridwell, Norman | Clifford Celebrates Hanukkah | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 15 | Kamin, Rachel | |||||
Kimmel, Eric A., Krenina, Katya | Cloak for the Moon, A | 2001 | F/M 01 | 17 | ||||||
Kimmel, Eric A., Krenina, Katya | Cloak for the Moon, A | 2001 | M/J 01 | 17 | ||||||
Isaacs, Ronald H. | Close Encounters: Jewish Views About God | 1996 | N/D 96 | 10 | ||||||
Miklowitz, Gloria D. | Close to the Edge | S/O 84 | 8 | |||||||
Loevy, Ram | Close, Closed, Closure (VIDEO) | 2002 | M/J 03 | 26 | ||||||
Fineman, Alisa, de Grassi, Alex | Closing the Distance: Poems, Prayers, and Love Songs (AUDIO) | 2004 | S/O 08 | 35 | ||||||
Grant, Linda | Clothes on Their Backs, The | 2008 | S/O 08 | 12 | ||||||
Chaikin, Miriam, Frampton, David | Clouds of Glory | 1998 | M/J 99 | 14 | ||||||
Corcoran, Barbara | Clown, The | 1975 | W75 | 29 | ||||||
Kraft, Betsy H. | Coal (rev. ed.) | W83 | 13 | |||||||
Davis, Bertha, Whitfield, Susan | Coal Question, The | W83 | 13 | |||||||
Lavender, Abraham D. | Coat of Many Colors, A: Jewish Subcommunities in the United States | 1977 | Contributions in Family Studies, number 1 | W78 | 26 | |||||
Koraiek, Jenny, Baynes, Pauline | Coat of Many Colors, The | 2004 | N/D 04 | 13 | ||||||
Shenker, Israel | Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life | 1985 | S/O 85 | 5 | ||||||
South, Sheri Cobb | Cobra and the Lily, The | 2002 | M/J 03 | 12 | ||||||
Courter, Gay | Code Ezra | 1986 | S/O 86 | 8 | ||||||
Chevrillon, Claire, Stott, Jane Kietly | Code Name Christine Clouet: A Woman in the French Resistance | 1995 | N/D 95 | 11 |