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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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Wulf, Linda Press | Night of the Burning: Devorahs Story, The | 2006 | N/D 06 | 41955 | ||||||
Halberstam, Michael | Wanting of Levine, The | 1978 | W78 | 23 | ||||||
Nadler, Leonard, Nadler, Zeace | Living Judaism Around the World | 1997 | F/M 00 | 41828 | ||||||
Halkin, Hillel | Strange Death: A Story Originating in Espionage, Betrayal, and Vengeance in a Village in Old Palestine, A | 2005 | S/O 05 | 38 | ||||||
Falk, Sandy, Judson, Daniel | Jewish Pregnancy Book: A Resource for the Soul, Body & Mind During Pregnancy, Birth, & the First Three Months, The | 2004 | M/J 04 | 14 | ||||||
God in the Wilderness: Rediscovering the Spirituality of the Great Outdoors with the Adventure Rabbi | 2007 | S/O 08 | 25 | |||||||
Rose, Or N., Kaiser, Jo Ellen Green, Klein, Margie | Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice | 2008 | M/J 08 | 39 | ||||||
Wolfman, Marv, Ruiz, Mario, Rubin, William J. | Homeland: The Illustrated History of the State of Israel | 2007 | S/O 07 | 9 | ||||||
Dwyer, Karen K | Easy Livin Microwave Cooking for the Holidays | N/D 89 | 12 | |||||||
Avriel, Ehud | Open the Gates | 1975 | F/M 91 | 27 | ||||||
Kushner, Tony, Sendak, Maurice | Brundibar | 2003 | F/M 04 | 37 | ||||||
Lambert, Derek | Yermakov Transfer, The | Sp 75 | 25 | |||||||
Hoffman, Eva | After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust | 2004 | M/J 04 | 16 | ||||||
Klezmer Alliance | Mir Basaraber (AUDIO) | 2007 | S/O 08 | 35 | ||||||
Hamilton, Martha, Weiss, Mitch, Lyon, Carol | Through the Grapevine: World Tales Kids Can Read & Tell | 2001 | S/O 02 | 43 | ||||||
Kellerman, Faye | Justice | 1995 | N/D 95 | 13 | ||||||
Chaikin, Miriam | Seventh Day, The: The Story of the Jewish Sabbath | M/J 83 | 9 | |||||||
Dubov, Nissan Dovid | Inward Bound: A Guide to Understanding Kabbalah | 2007 | M/J 08 | 33 | ||||||
Browne, Edmund | Farewell Israel | 1977 | W78 | 26 | ||||||
Goren, Arthur A. | Politics and Public Culture of American Jews, The | 1999 | M/J 00 | 41923 | ||||||
Littman, Sarah Darer | Confessions of a Clost Catholic | 2005 | S/O 05 | 17-18 | ||||||
Dublin, Anne | Baby Experiment, The | 2012 | M/J 12 | 1 | ||||||
Johnson, Eric | Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans | 1999 | S/O 00 | 9 | ||||||
Greengard, Alison, Racklin-Siegel, Carol | Vayetse Yaakov, Jacobs Travels: Excerpted from the Book of Genesis | 2006 | M/J 06 | 9 | ||||||
Morris, Neil | Life of Moses, The | 2003 | Art Revelations Series | F/M 04 | 30 | |||||
Meltzer, Milton | Starting from Home: A Writers Beginnings | 1988 | M/J 89 | 9 | ||||||
Gurary, Noson | Jewish Holy Days in Chasidic Philosophy, The | 2000 | F/M 01 | 41892 | ||||||
Veljic, Aleksander | Genocide Revealed: New Light on the Massacre of Serbs and Jews Under Hungarian Occupation | 2012 | M/J13 | 36-37 | ||||||
Newman, Leslea, Ritz, Karen | Remember That | 1996 | M/J 97 | 13 | ||||||
Langley, Andrew | Hitler and Kristallnacht | 2014 | Days of Decision | N/D13 | 9-10 | |||||
Wolitzer, Hilma | Doctors Daughter: A Novel, The | 2006 | S/O 06 | 34 | ||||||
Fishman, Cathy Goldberg, Hall, Melanie W. | On Purim | 2000 | F/M 01 | 13 | ||||||
Bogot, Howard I. | Books are Treasures | N/D 82 | 7 | |||||||
Palacio, RJ | Wonder | 2012 | S/O12 | 9 | ||||||
Brown, Jason Robert, Elish, Dan | 13: A Novel | 2008 | F/M 09 | 38, 40 | ||||||
Starkopf, Adam | Will to Live | 1995 | N/D 95 | 12 | ||||||
Haber, Eitan | Menachem Begin | S 78 | 2 | |||||||
Jacobs, Louis | Their Heads in Heaven: Unfamiliar Aspects of Hasidism | 2005 | M/J 05 | 36 | ||||||
Goris, Robert | Judaic Ethics for a Lawless World | 1986 | Moroshet Series: Studies in Jewish History, Literature and Thought (vol. xii) | N/D 87 | 5 | |||||
Codell, Esme Raji, Pham, LeUyen | Hanukkah, Shmanukkah! | 2005 | N/D 05 | 16 | ||||||
Hoffman, Eva | Secret: A Novel, The | 2002 | F/M 03 | 22 | ||||||
Ashlag, Yehudah Lev, Cohen, Mark, Cohen, Yedidah | In the Shadow of the Ladder: Introduction to Kabbalah | 2002 | S/O 03 | 16-17 | ||||||
Sarna, Nahum M. | Exploring Exodus | 1986 | Heritage of Biblical Israel (vol. 2) | S/O 86 | 6 | |||||
Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Jewish Holidays | 1981 | F 81 | 14 | ||||||
Levin, Meyer | Classic Chassidic Tales | 1996 | M/J 96 | 10 | ||||||
Langer, Lawrence L. | Art from the Ashes | 1995 | M/J 95 | 17 | ||||||
Mack, Grace | My Special Book of Jewish Celebrations | N/D 84 | 8 | |||||||
Katz, Susan B. | Tylers Hill | 2009 | N/D 10 | 41892 | ||||||
Brooks, Jeremy, Daly, Jude | Let There Be Peace: Prayers from Around the World | 2009 | N/D 09 | 17 | ||||||
Freedman, Robert | Songs for a Family Seder: A Companion Cassette Tape (AUDIO) | M/J 87 | 4 | |||||||
Rosenberg, Meir | Jewish Cat Book, A | F/M 83 | 2 | |||||||
Hoffman, Matthew | From Rebel to Rabbi: reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture | 2007 | Stanford Studies in Jewihs History and Culture | S/O 07 | 48 | |||||
Real Complete Jewish Party, The (AUDIO) | M/J 93 | 19 | ||||||||
Bellow, Saul | Herzog | 1976 | Sp77 | 30 | ||||||
Dalfin, Chaim | Demystifying the Mystical: Understanding the Language and Concepts of Chasidism and Jewish Mysticism: A Primer for the Layman | 1995 | F/M 96 | 8 | ||||||
Rosen, Michael | Blessing of the Animals, The | 2000 | F/M 01 | 16 | ||||||
Hazleton, Lesley | Where Mountains Roar | 1980 | W 81 | 19 | ||||||
Halter, Marek, Curtis, Howard | Mary of Nazareth | 2008 | S/O 08 | 13 | ||||||
Cardin, Rabbi Nina Beth | Tears of Sorrow, Tears of Hope: A Jewish Spiritual Companion for Infertility and Pregnancy Loss | 1999 | S/O 99 | 6 | ||||||
Sharfman, I. Harold | Jews on the Frontier | 1977 | Sp78 | 24 | ||||||
Uris, Leon | Haj, The | N/D 84 | 2 | |||||||
Werber, Jack | Saving Children: Diary of a Buchenwald Survivor and Rescuer | 1996 | F/M 96 | 14 | ||||||
Oren, Yitzhak | Imaginary Number, The | 1986 | M/J 87 | 41765 | ||||||
Fine, Lawrence | Essential Papers on Kabbalah | 1995 | S/O 95 | 7 | ||||||
Tal, Judi | Path Across the Sky (AUDIO) | 1993 | M/J 94 | 13 | ||||||
Oberski, Jona | Childhood | M/J 83 | 9 | |||||||
Kramer, Ann | Anne Frank: The Young Writer Who Told the World Her Story | 2007 | World History Biographies Series | M/J 07 | 8 | |||||
Bitton-Jackson, Livia | My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and Love After Auschwitz | 1999 | M/J 99 | 11 | ||||||
Blitz, Shumuel, Sutton, David | Treasury of Sephardic Bedtime Stories, A | 2006 | S/O 06 | 15 | ||||||
Yehoshua, A. B. | Late Divorce | N/D 84 | 2 | |||||||
Goldstein, Robert M. | Sinister Touches: The Secret War against Hitler | N/D 84 | 6 | |||||||
Gold, Alan | Jericho Files, The | 1995 | S/O 95 | 9 | ||||||
Zucker, Jonny, Cohen, Jan Barger | Four Special Questions: A Passover Story | 2003 | M/J 03 | 31 | ||||||
Abramson, Susan, DiOrio, Ariel | Rabbi Rocketpower and the Half-Baked Matzah Mystery: A Particularly Peculiar Passover | 2009 | F/M 10 | 12 | ||||||
Klempner, Mark | Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage, The | 2006 | S/O 06 | 41 | ||||||
Cleeve, Roger | Daughters of Jerusalem | 1986 | S/O 86 | 8 | ||||||
Zakutinsky, Rivka, Drus-Goetz, Bracha | Beyond Pearls and Merchant Ships: Finding the Woman of Valor | 1996 | S/O 96 | 12 | ||||||
Newman, Amy | Nuremberg Laws: Institutionalized Antisemitism | 1999 | Words that Changed History series | M/J 00 | 19 | |||||
Goetz, Bracha | What Do You See on Pesach | 2007 | S/O 07 | 21 | ||||||
Demas, Corinne, Natchev, Alexi | Magic Apple, The | 2003 | F/M 04 | 34 | ||||||
Epstein, T. Scarlett | Swimming Upstream: A Jewish Refugee from Vienna | 2005 | S/O 05 | 43 | ||||||
Traverso, Enzo, Weissbort, Daniel | Jews & Germany: From the Judeo-German Symbiosis to the Memory of Auschwitz | 1995 | F/M 96 | 13-14 | ||||||
Rosenbaum, Andrea Warmflash, Bjornson, Barb | Grandma Like Yours / A Grandpa Like Yours, A | 2006 | M/J 06 | 16 | ||||||
Shulevitz, Judith | Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time, The | 2010 | M/J 10 | 39 | ||||||
Landmann, Bimba | I Am Marc Chagall | 2006 | M/J 06 | 9 | ||||||
Schor, Esther | Emma Lazarus | 2006 | N/D 07 | 35 | ||||||
Singer, Margot | Pale of Settlement: Stories, The | 2007 | M/J 08 | 22 | ||||||
Heiligman, Deborah | Celebrate Passover with Matzah, Maror, and Memories | 2007 | Holidays Around the World Series | M/J 07 | 13 | |||||
Keren, Michael | Zichroni v. State of Israel: The Biography of a Civil Rights Lawyer | 2002 | S/O 02 | 21 | ||||||
Kaplan, Dana Evan | American Reform Judaism: An Introduction | 2003 | S/O 04 | 19 | ||||||
Moriah, Avner | Moriah Haggadah, The | 2005 | N/D 05 | 29 | ||||||
Scharfstein, Sol | Torah and Commentary: The Five Books of Moses: Translation, Rabbinic and Contemporary Commentary | 2008 | F/M 09 | 17 | ||||||
Greenberg, Joanne | Kings Persons, The | 1985 | S/O 86 | 9 | ||||||
Asner, Anne-Marie Baila | Shluffy Girl | 2005 | F/M 06 | 23 | ||||||
Reich, Bernard, Gershon R. Kieval, eds. | Israeli Politicsin the 1990s: Key Domestic and Foreign Policy Factors | Contributions in Political Science no. 285 | M/J 92 | 19 | ||||||
Horowitz, Dave | Five Little Gefiltes | 2007 | F/M 07 | 16 | ||||||
Weinstein, Miriam | Prophets and Dreamers: A Selection of Great Yiddish Literature | 2002 | F/M 03 | 41 | ||||||
Safran, Eliyahu | Crisis and Hope | N/D 87 | 6 | |||||||
Alexander, Sue, Gore, Leonid | Behold the Trees | 2001 | S/O 01 | 37 | ||||||
Meislin, Barbara, Webber, Helen | No One Can Ever Steal Your Rainbow | 2005 | N/D 05 | 13-14 |