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Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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Shapira, Anita, Abel, Evelyn | Yigal Allon, Native Son, a Biography | 2008 | Jewish Culture and Contexts | M/J 08 | 32 | |||||
Mani-Leib, Lissitsky, El | Yingl Tsingl Khvat | 1986 | F/M 87 | 8 | ||||||
Vinitzky-Seroussi, Vered | Yitzhak Rabins Assassination and the Dilemmas of Commemoration | 2009 | SUNY Series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies | S/O 10 | 38 | |||||
Ungar, Richard | Yitzi and the Giant Menorah | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 3 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |||||
Kuznitz, Cecile Esther | YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 24 | Dwoskin, Beth | |||||
Elkins, Dov Peretz | Yom Kippur | 1990 | Moments of Transcendence: A Devotional Commentary on the High Holiday Mahzor, vol. 2 | F/M 91 | 16-17 | |||||
Shrayer, Maxim D. | Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories | 2009 | Library of Modern Jewish Literature | S/O 10 | 26 | |||||
Harris, Lee | Yom Kippur Murder, The | 1992 | S/O 93 | 15 | ||||||
Jerusalem Post Staff | Yom Kippur Plus 100 Days | 1975 | W75 | 28 | ||||||
Allen, Peter | Yom Kippur War, The | S/O 82 | 4 | |||||||
Davis, Moshe | Yom Kippur War, The | 1974 | W75 | 27 | ||||||
Davis, Moshe | Yom Kippur War, The | 1974 | F/M 91 | 27 | ||||||
London Sunday Times Insight Team | Yom Kippur War, The | 1974 | Sp 75 | 26 | ||||||
Rosenberg, Aaron | Yom Kippur War, The | 2003 | War and Conflict in the Middle East Series | S/O 04 | 52 | |||||
Abrams, Judith Z., Kahn, Katherine Janus | Yom Kippur: A Family Service | 1990 | N/D 90 | 12 | ||||||
Davis, Joseph M. | Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller: Portrait of a Seventeenth-century Rabbi | 2003 | M/J 04 | 41986 | ||||||
Bogot, Howard I. | Yoni | F/M 83 | 5 | |||||||
Lev, Michael | Yordim | N/D 86 | 6 | |||||||
Lev, Michael | Yordim | 1986 | S/O 86 | 9 | ||||||
Lev, Micha | Yordim: Leaving the Promised Land for the Land of Promise | 1986 | N/D 86 | 6 | ||||||
Shapira, Anita | Yosef Haim Brenner: A Life | 2015 | M/J 15 | 38 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
Rouss, Sylvia A., Naim, Asher | Yosef’s Dream | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 11 | Levine, Joyce | |||||
Karen, Rea, Vaye, Rachel | Yossef Mokir Shabbos: A Talmudic Story from our Sages | 1979 | Sp79 | 26 | ||||||
Schwartz, Amy | Yossel Zissel and the Wisdom of Chelm | 1986 | N/D 86 | 7 | ||||||
Schwartz, Amy | Yossel Zissel and the Wisdom of Chelm | 1986 | F/M 87 | 8 | ||||||
Kubert, Joe | Yossel-April 19, 1943: A Story of the Warsaw Ghett o Uprising | 2003 | S/O 04 | 49 | ||||||
Rosenfeld, Dina H. | Yossi & Laibel: On the Ball | 1998 | N/D 98 | 15 | ||||||
Rosenfeld, Dina H., Nodel, Norman | Yossi and Laibel’s Shabbos Surprise | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 20 | Silver, Linda R. | Book | Juvenile | |||
Chaikin, Miriam | Yossi Asks the Angels for Help | 1985 | F/M 86 | 6 | ||||||
Chaikin, Miriam, Mathers, Petra | Yossi Asks the Angels for Help | 1985 | M/J 85 | 6 | ||||||
Chaikin, Miriam, Saldutti, Denise | Yossi Tries to Help God | 1987 | S/O 87 | 10 | ||||||
Schwartz, Ellen, Silvana Bevilacqua | Yossis Goal | 2006 | F/M 07 | 10 | ||||||
Rosenbloom, Fiona | You Are SO Not Inivted to My Bat Mitzvah | 2005 | N/D 05 | 11 | ||||||
Silverman, Laura | You Asked for Perfect | 2019 | F/M 2020 | 39 | Goldstein, Susannah | Book | Juvenile | |||
Groner, Judy, Kahn, Katherine Janus | You Can Do a Mitzvah! | 1999 | M/J 00 | 19 | ||||||
Kohn, Rita, Tepper, Krysta | You Can Do It: A PR Skills Manual for Librarians | 1981 | F 81 | 13 | ||||||
Kohn, Rita, Tepper, Krysta | You Can Do It: A PR Skills Manual for Librarians | 1981 | W82 | 13 | ||||||
Gilden, Leon H. | You Cant Do Business (Or Most Anything Else) without Yiddish | 2000 | S/O 01 | 13 | ||||||
Markfield, Wallace | You Could Live if They Let You | 1974 | D 74 | 26 | ||||||
Levenson, Sam | You Dont Have to Be in Whos Who to Know Whats What | 1979 | W79 | 23 | ||||||
Hirschfield, Brad | You Dont Have to Be Wrong for Me to Be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism | 2007 | M/J 08 | 35 | ||||||
Goodman, Joanna | You Made Me Love You | 2006 | F/M 07 | 29 | ||||||
Antler, Joyce | You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother | 2007 | F/M 08 | 35 | ||||||
Winter, Jonah, Carrilho, Andre | You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! | 2009 | M/J 09 | 8 | ||||||
Prose, Francine, Podwal, Mark | You Never Know: A Legend fo the Lamed-Vavniks | 1998 | M/J 99 | 18 | ||||||
Vorspan, Albert | You Packed the Cat in the Suitcase?! | Ma 79 | 7 | |||||||
Gubkin, Liora | You Shall Tell Your Children: Holocaust Memory in American Passover Ritual | 2007 | M/J 08 | 34 | ||||||
Veksler, Artur | Young Loves | 2001 | F/M 02 | 35 | ||||||
Singer, Isaac Bashevis | Young Man in Search of Love, A | 1978 | Sp78 | 24 | ||||||
Hakak, Yohai | Young Men in Israeli Haredi Yeshiva Education: The Scholars Enclave in Unrest | 2012 | Jewish Identiites in a Changing World; 19 | S/O13 | 26 | |||||
Altshuler, David | Young Readers Version of the War Against the Jews by Lucy Dawidowicz, A | 1978 | Sp79 | 27 | ||||||
Shadur, Joseph | Young Travelers in Jerusalem: An Annotated Survey of American and English Juvenile Literature on the Holy Land, 1785-1940 | 1999 | N/D 99 | 12 | ||||||
Kerr, M. E. | Your Eyes in Stars | 2006 | S/O 06 | 14 | ||||||
Lichtman, Allan J. | Your Family History | 1978 | W78 | 26 | ||||||
Blech, Benjamin | Your Name is Your Blessing: Hebrew Names and Their Mystical Meanings | 1999 | M/J 00 | 41828 | ||||||
Blech, Benjamin, Blech, Elaine | Your Name Is Your Blessing: Hebrew Names and Their Mystical Meanings (2nd ed.) | 2013 | N/D13 | 20-21 | ||||||
Romanoff, Lena | Your People, My People: Finding Acceptance and Fulfillment as a Jew by Choice | 1990 | F/M 91 | 20 | ||||||
Sherman, Josepha | Your Travel Guide to Ancient Israel | 2004 | M/J 04 | 39 | ||||||
Green, Arthur, Holtz, Barry W. | Your Word a Fire: The Hasidic Masters on the Contemplative Prayer | 1977 | F/M 86 | 3 | ||||||
Goldstein, Arthur D. | Youre Never Too Old to Die | 1074 | W75 | 26 | ||||||
Marchione, Margherita | Yours Is a Precious Witness: Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy | 1997 | S/O 97 | 14 | ||||||
Marchione, Margherita | Yours is a Precious Witness: Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy | 1997 | F/M 97 | 5 | ||||||
Byers, Anne | Youth Destroyed - The Nazi Camps: Primary Sources from the Holocaust | 2010 | True Stories of Teens in the Holocaust | S/O 10 | 17 | |||||
Geve, Thomas | Youth in Chains | N/D 82 | 2 | |||||||
Geve, Thomas | Youth in Chains | F/M 83 | 2 | |||||||
Cohen, Barbara | Yussels Prayer: A Yom Kippur Story | N/D 82 | 4 | |||||||
Cohen, Barbara | Yussels Prayer: A Yom Kippur Story | S/O 81 | 9 | |||||||
Pintoff, Ernest | Zachary | 1990 | S/O 91 | 22 | ||||||
Denholtz, Elaine Grudin | Zaddik: The Battle for a Boys Soul, The | 2001 | F/M 02 | 19-20 | ||||||
Wengrov, Charles, Taub, Y. E. | Zalmans Menorah | 1987 | F/M 88 | 7 | ||||||
Wiesel, Elie | Zalmen, or the Madness of God | 1975 | Sp 75 | 27 | ||||||
Nislick, June Levitt | Zayda Was a Cobwoby | 2005 | M/J 05 | 21 | ||||||
Sinykin, Sheri Cooper, Swarner, Kristina | Zayde Comes to Live | 2012 | N/D12 | 11 | ||||||
Potok, Chaim | Zebra and Other Stories | 1998 | N/D 98 | 16-17 | ||||||
Neinstein, Larry, Bubar, Lorraine | Zeide, Why Are You Wearing White Tennis Shoes on Yom Kippur? | 2014 | N/D 14 | 8 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
Flanders, Elle | Zero Degrees of Separation (VIDEO) | 2005 | S/O 07 | 56 | ||||||
Messler, Mark A. | Zeyde and the Hidden Mine | 2003 | F/M 04 | 32 | ||||||
Keren, Michael | Zichroni v. State of Israel: The Biography of a Civil Rights Lawyer | 2002 | S/O 02 | 21 | ||||||
Kimmel, Eric A. | Zigazak! A Magical Hanukkah Night | 2001 | N/D 01 | 19-20 | ||||||
Kimmel, Eric A., Goodell, Jon | Zigazak! A Magical Hanukkah Night | 2001 | N/D 01 | 19-20 | ||||||
Cohen, Mitchell | Zion & State: Nation, Class and the Shaping of Modern Israel | 1987 | M/J 88 | 11 | ||||||
Novak, David | Zionism and Judaism: a New Theory | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 16 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
Medoff, Rafael | Zionism and the Arabs: An American Jewish Dilemma, 1898-1948 | 1997 | F/M 98 | 11 | ||||||
Elath, Eliahu, Yitzhak, Michael Ben | Zionism at the University: A Diary of the First Days | 1976 | W77 | 26 | ||||||
Brenner, Lenni | Zionism in the Age of the Dictators | M/J 84 | 3 | |||||||
Davis, Moshe | Zionism in Transition | S/O 81 | 13 | |||||||
Diament, Carol | Zionism, the Sequel | 1998 | M/J 99 | 6 | ||||||
Chernov, Claudia R., Tanenbaum, Leora | Zionism, The Sequel: A Leaders Guide | 1998 | M/J 99 | 6 | ||||||
Bardin, Hillel | Zionist among Palestinians, A | 2012 | N/D12 | 16 | ||||||
Berkowitz, Michael | Zionist Culture and West European Jewry Before the First World War | 1993 | N/D 93 | 41828 | ||||||
Shimoni, Gideon | Zionist Ideology, The | 1995 | N/D 95 | 9 | ||||||
Shimoni, Gideon | Zionist Ideology, The | 1997 | Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series, no. 21 | F/M 98 | 12 | |||||
Shimoni, Gideon | Zionist Ideology, The | 1995 | Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series | N/D 95 | 41892 | |||||
Tatjana Lichtenstein | Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 14-15 | Hallie Cantor | |||||
Rubinstein, Robert, Mer, Woody | Zishe the Strongman | 2010 | S/O 10 | 12 | ||||||
Leviant, Curt | Zix Zexy Ztories | 2012 | Modern Jewish Literature and Culture | FM13 | 41 | |||||
Jules, Jacqueline, Kahn, Katherine Janus | Ziz and the Hanukkah Miracle, The | 2006 | S/O 06 | 16-17 | ||||||
Minaki, Christina | Zoes Extraordinary Holiday Adventures | 2007 | F/M 08 | 13 | ||||||
Matt, Daniel C. | Zohar, The (Pritzker ed.) (vol. 4) | 2007 | M/J 08 | 42-43 | ||||||
Matt, Daniel C. | Zohar, The (Pritzker Edition) | 2012 | S/O13 | 47 |