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Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto | 1975 | W75 | 28 | |||||||
Julius, Lyn | Uprooted: How 3,000 of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 31 | Dwoskin, Beth | Book | Adult | |||
Kivel, Paul | Uprooting Racism: How White People can Work for Social Justice | 1996 | M/J 96 | 8 | ||||||
Jacobi, Kathryn | Upside-Down Coffee | 2012 | N/D12 | 42 | ||||||
Moore, Deborah Dash | Urban Origins of American Judaism | 2014 | M/J 15 | 33 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Geller, Uri | Uri Geller: My Story | 1975 | W75 | 29 | ||||||
Felton, Harodl W. | Uriah Phillips Levy | 1979 | Sp79 | 26 | ||||||
Greenstein, David | Utopia: The Walking Stories of the Zohar | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 19 | Levy, David B | |||||
Taube, Herman | Uzbekistan Stories: A Jewish Medic During WWII | 2014 | M/J 15 | 40 | Simon, Rachel | |||||
Sandrow, Nahama | Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater | 1977 | Sp78 | 24 | ||||||
Kossoff, Philip | Valiant Heart: A Biography of Heinrich Heine | S/O 84 | 6 | |||||||
Brichto, Mira Pollak, Alko, Selina | Valley of Blessings, The | 2001 | The God Around Us (Vol. 2) | F/M 01 | 14-15 | |||||
Lapid, Shulamit | Valley of Strength | 2009 | S/O 09 | 34 | ||||||
Somtow, S. P., Lippincott, Gary | Vampires Beautiful Daughter, The | 1997 | F/M 99 | 21 | ||||||
Gordon, Paul | Van Goghs Last Painting and Other Stories from the Edge | 2001 | N/D 01 | 17 | ||||||
Sniegon, Tomas | Vanished History: The Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture | 2014 | Making Sense of History: Studies in Historical Cultures; 18 | N/D 14 | 34 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | ||||
Peacock, Shane | Vanishing Girl: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His 3rd Case | 2009 | N/D 09 | 11 | ||||||
Axe-Bronk, Susan, Monelli, Marta | Vanishing Gourds: A Sukkot Mystery, The | 2012 | N/D12 | 8 | ||||||
Price, Sean | Varian Fry: Hero of the Holocaust | 2008 | Raintree Fusion Series | S/O 08 | 57 | |||||
Berger, Marshall J. | Vatican-Israel Accords, The: Political, Legal, and Theological Contexts | 2004 | M/J 05 | 32 | ||||||
Hammer, Shalom | Vayaged Yehonatan: The Eybeshitz Haggadah | 2008 | N/D 08 | 13, 15 | ||||||
Greengard, Alison, Racklin-Siegel, Carol | Vayetse Yaakov, Jacobs Travels: Excerpted from the Book of Genesis | 2006 | M/J 06 | 9 | ||||||
Kalechofsky, Roberta | Vegetarian Judaism: A Guide for Everyone | 1998 | S/O 00 | 14 | ||||||
Kalechofsky, Roberta | Vegetarian Judaism: A Guide for Everyone | 1998 | S/O 00 | 14 | ||||||
Cooperman, Bernard, Curiel, Roberta | Venetian Ghetto, The | 1990 | M/J 91 | 9 | ||||||
Rabb, M. E. | Venetian Policeman, The | 2004 | Missing Persons Series | N/D 04 | 17 | |||||
Fudeman, Kristen A. | Vernacular Voices: Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities | 2010 | N/D 10 | 18-19 | ||||||
Gordon, Ellen, Katz, Avi | Verseful of Jewish Holidays, A | 2008 | F/M 09 | 46 | ||||||
Rosenfeld, Dina H. | Very Best Place for a Penny, The | N/D 84 | 6 | |||||||
Blaivas, C., Blaivas, Z. | Very First Rainbow: Noach and the Mabul, The | 2007 | S/O 07 | 9 | ||||||
Burg, Avraham | Very Near to You: Human Readings of the Torah | 2012 | M/J 12 | 22-23 | ||||||
Dolinger, Leah | Very Special Yarmulke, A | S 80 | 10 | |||||||
Silver, MItchell | Veterans of History: A Young Perosn's History of the Jewish, The | S/O 14 | 47 | Isaac, Fred | ||||||
Marrus, Michael R., Paxton, Robert O. | Vichy France and the Jews 2nd ed. | 2019 | F/M 2020 | 28 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | Book | Adult | |||
Bellow, Saul | Victim, The | 1947 | Sp77 | 30 | ||||||
Redsand, Anna S. | Victor Frankl: A Life Worth Living | 2006 | N/D 06 | 8 | ||||||
Winsow, Philip C. | Victory for Us is to See You Suffer: In the West Bank with the Palestinians and the Israelis | 2007 | M/J 08 | 29-30 | ||||||
Gerber, Merrill Joan | Victory Gardens of Brooklyn, The: A Novel | 2007 | Library of Modern Jewish Literature | N/D 08 | 7 | |||||
Jablonski, Carla, Purvis, Leland | Victory: Resistance Book 3 | 2012 | M/J13 | 1 | ||||||
Morin, Edgar, Montuori, Alfonso | Vidal and His Family: From Salonica to Paris, The Story of a Sephardic Family in the Twenieth Century | 2008 | S/O 10 | 35 | ||||||
Freda, Ulman | Vienna Revisited | 1995 | M/J 96 | 12 | ||||||
Mayer, Emil | Viennese Types | 1999 | S/O 00 | 15-16 | ||||||
Curzon, David | View from Jacobs Ladder, The: One Hundred Midrashim | 1996 | F/M 97 | 8 | ||||||
Redsand, Anna S. | Viktor Frankl: A Life Worth Living | 2006 | N/D 06 | 8 | ||||||
Friedlander, Judith | Villa on the Seine: Jewish Intellectuals in France Since 1968 | 1990 | M/J 91 | 11 | ||||||
MacMillan, Ian | Village of a Million Spirits: A Novel of the Treblinka Uprising | 1999 | S/O 00 | 33 | ||||||
Cohen, Israel | Vilna | 1992 | S/O 92 | 17-18 | ||||||
Friedlander, Judith | Vilna on the Seine: Jewish Intellectuals in France since 1968 | 1990 | M/J 91 | 11 | ||||||
Lewando, Fania | Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook: Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today’s Kitchen | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 10 | Feder, Debbie | |||||
Mayer, Emil | Vinnese Types | 1999 | S/O 00 | 15 | ||||||
Sherman, Eileen Bluestone | Violin Players, The | 1998 | M/J 99 | 18 | ||||||
Shuman, Ellis | Virtual Kibbutz: Stories from a Changing Society, The | 2003 | S/O 03 | 13, 15 | ||||||
Gruber, Ruth Ellen | Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe | 2002 | N/D 02 | 12 | ||||||
Soloveitchik, Joseph B., Shatz, David, Wolowelsky, Joel B., Ziegler, Reuven | Vision and Leadership: Reflections on Joseph and Moses | 2013 | S/O13 | 42 | ||||||
Kozodoy, Ruth, Sidorsky, David, Sultanik, Kalman | Vision Confonts Reality: Historical Perspectives on the Contemporary Jewish Agenda | 1989 | The Herzl Yearbook, no. 9 | F/M 90 | 18 | |||||
Sears, David | Vision of Eden, The: Animal Welfare and Vegetarianism in Jewish Law and Mysticism | 2004 | M/J 04 | 21-22 | ||||||
Covitz, Joel | Visions of the Night: A Study of Jewish Dream Interpretation | 1990 | F/M 92 | 17-18 | ||||||
Berger, Moshe Tzvi Halevi | Visions of the Psalms: Through the Gate of Colors | 2005 | F/M 06 | 28-29 | ||||||
Goldman, Eric | Visions, Images, and Dreams | N/D 84 | 4 | |||||||
Weilerstein, Sadie Rose | Visit with Ktonton in Story and Song | S/O 85 | 7 | |||||||
Nason, Ruth | Visiting a Synagogue | 2005 | Start-up Religion Series | N/D 05 | 20-21 | |||||
Codell, Esme Raji | Vive la Paris | 2006 | S/O 06 | 13 | ||||||
Jabotinsky, Vladimir, Horowitz, Brian, Katsis, Leonid | Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Story of My Life | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 31 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
Kranz, Jacob ben Wolf, Zucker, David | Voice of Nobles: Commentary of the Dubner Maggid on the Book of Ecclesiastes, The | 2009 | M/J 10 | 35 | ||||||
Cohen, Mark R. | Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages, The: An Anthology of Documents from the Ciaro Geniza | 2005 | Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World Series | F/M 06 | 29, 31 | |||||
Kranz, Jacob ben Wolf, Zucker, David M. | Voice Shall Sing Forth: Commentary of the Dubner Maggid on the Song of Songs, A | 2008 | M/J 10 | 35 | ||||||
Dwork, Deborah | Voices & Views: A History of the Holocaust | 2002 | M/J 03 | 14 | ||||||
Bonucci, Silvia, King, Martha | Voices from a Time: A Novel | 2006 | S/O 07 | 42 | ||||||
Cohen, Norman J. | Voices from Genesis, Guiding Us Through the Stages of Life | 1998 | N/D 99 | 41828 | ||||||
Levine, Etan | Voices from Israel: Understanding the Israeli Mind | 1986 | S/O 86 | 8 | ||||||
Roth, Sylvia | Voices from the Holocaust | N/D 81 | 12 | |||||||
Wallerstein, Jane | Voices from the Paterson Silk Mills | 2000 | S/O 01 | 21-22 | ||||||
Weissler, Chava | Voices of the Matriarchs: Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women | 1998 | S/O 00 | 31-32 | ||||||
Notowitz, David | Voices of the Shoah: Remembrances of the Holocaust: An Audio Documentary | 2000 | S/O 00 | 39 | ||||||
Notowitz, David | Voices of the Shoah: Remembrances of the Holocaust: An Audio Documentary (AUDIO) | 2000 | S/O 00 | 39 | ||||||
Klagsbrun, Francine | Voices of Wisdom | 1980 | Sp80 | 13 | ||||||
Schwartz, Howard | Voices within the Ark | Sp 81 | 6 | |||||||
Schwartz, Howard, Rudoff, Anthony | Voices Within the Ark: The Modern Jewish Poets | 1980 | F 81 | 6 | ||||||
Horowitz, Sara R. | Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction | 1997 | M/J 97 | 17 | ||||||
Zorn, John, Friedlander, Erik | Volac (AUDIO) | 2007 | M/J 08 | 46 | ||||||
Ostriker, Alicia Suskin | Volcano Sequence, The | 2002 | S/O 02 | 32 | ||||||
Geras, Adele | Voyage | M/J 83 | 9 | |||||||
Thomas, Gordon, Witts, Max Morgan | Voyage of the Damned | 1974 | D 74 | 30 | ||||||
Yerby, Frank | Voyage Unplanned | 1974 | D 74 | 27 | ||||||
Liberman, Judith Weinshall, Davis, Gail | Wailing Wall | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 18 | Eskin, Marcie | Book | Juvenile | |||
Barash, Chris, Grove, Christine | Wait! It's Friday | 2019 | M/J 2019 | 21 | Cole, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
Lowenstein, Sallie | Waiting for Eugene | 2006 | N/D 05 | 13 | ||||||
Moskin, Marietta | Waiting for Mama | 1974 | W75 | 29 | ||||||
Staiman, Mordechai | Waiting for the Messiah: Stories to Inspire Jews with Hope | 1997 | F/M 98 | 41986 | ||||||
Braunstein, Leah Levy, Katz, Avi | Waiting Wall, The | 2009 | N/D 09 | 15 | ||||||
Diamond, Shani, Teleshevsky, Sarah Baila, Niasoff, Nissa | Wake Up Mish and Mush - A Story About Negel Vasser | 2002 | Mish and Mush, book 1 | N/D 02 | 29 | |||||
Helmreich, William B. | Wake Up, Wake Up, to Do the Work of the Creator | 1976 | Sp77 | 28 | ||||||
Baer, Edith | Walk the Dark Streets | 1998 | F/M 99 | 16 | ||||||
Kugel, James L. | Walk Through Jubilees: Studies in the Book Jubilees and the World of its Creation, A | 2012 | Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 156 | S/O12 | 40 | |||||
Williams, Denise | Walk Together, Children: A Collection of Black and Jewish Music (SOUND) | 2006 | S/O 08 | 37 | ||||||
Feiler, Bruce | Walking the Bible: An Illustrated Journey for Kids Through the Greatest Stories Ever Told | 2004 | F/M 05 | 26 | ||||||
Gavron, Daniel | Walking through Israel | S/O 81 | 13 | |||||||
Karmel, Henia, Karmel, Ilona | Wall of Two: Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Krakow to Buchenwald and Beyond, A | 2007 | M/J 08 | 20 | ||||||
Sutcliffe, William | Wall: A Modern Fable, The | 2013 | M/J13 | 7 | ||||||
Lester, Elenore | Wallenberg: The Man in the Iron Web | M/J 83 | 3 |