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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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Ross, Lillian Hammer, Teis, Kyra | Daughters of Eve: Strong Women of the Bible | 2000 | N/D 00 | 17 | ||||||
Pitman, Walter | Louis Applebaum: A Passion for Culture | 2002 | N/D 03 | 15-16 | ||||||
Rappaport, Doreen | Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust | 2012 | S/O12 | 12 | ||||||
Jewish Travel Guide 2007 International Edition | 2007 | F/M 08 | 40 | |||||||
Caudill, Mark A | Twilight in the Kingdom: Understanding the Saudis | 2006 | F/M 07 | 31 | ||||||
Weiner, Ellis, Davilman, Barbara | How to Raise a Jewish Dog | 2007 | M/J 08 | 40, 42 | ||||||
Gilman, Phoebe | Something for Nothing | 1993 | N/D 93 | 12 | ||||||
Rossman, Avraham, Linsider, Joel | Rashi | 2012 | FM13 | 25-26 | ||||||
Ruelle, Karen Gray, DeSaix, Deborah Durland | Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews during the Holocaust, The | 2009 | N/D 09 | 14 | ||||||
Florence, Ronald | Emissary of the Doomed: Bargaining for Lives in the Holocaust | 2010 | S/O 10 | 31, 33 | ||||||
Breuer, Mordechai, Petuchowski, Elizabeth | Modernity within Tradition: The Social History of Orthodox Jewry in Imperial Germany | 1992 | F/M 93 | 21 | ||||||
Roth, Irene | Cecil Roth: Historian Without Tears | F/M 83 | 3 | |||||||
Feltquate, Barbara, Post, Tom | Kiddish Yiddish: Jewish Tradition and Culture and Rhyme | 2008 | N/D 08 | 35-36 | ||||||
Bauer, Jehuda | American Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945 | 1981 | F/M 90 | 14 | ||||||
Nutkis, Phyllis, Argoff, Patti | When the World Was Quiet | 2004 | M/J 04 | 29 | ||||||
Bard, Mitchell | Israel Matters: Understand the Past-Look to the Future | 2012 | N/D12 | 9-10 | ||||||
Rabinowitz, Abraham Hirsch | Taryag: A Study of the Tradition that the Written Torah Contains 613 Mitzvot | 1996 | F/M 97 | 6 | ||||||
Simhaee, Rebeka, Weber, Michael | Sara Finds a Mitzva | 2010 | N/D 10 | 13 | ||||||
Schotter, Roni, Hafner, Marilyn | Passover Magic | 1995 | F/M 96 | 18 | ||||||
Alter, Robert | Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary, The | 2004 | S/O 05 | 40 | ||||||
Schwatz, Howard, Waldman, Neil | Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Stories | 1996 | N/D 95 | 16-17 | ||||||
Safran, Eliyahu | Crisis & Hope: Reflections on the Contemporary American Jewish Condition | 1986 | N/D 87 | 6 | ||||||
Margolin, Miriam, Ryback, Issachar | Little Stories for Little Children | 1986 | F/M 87 | 8 | ||||||
Toll, Nelly S. | Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood | 1993 | F/M 94 | 14 | ||||||
Danan, Julie Hilton | Jewish Parents Almanac, The | 1993 | S/O 94 | 9 | ||||||
Robinson, Ira | Translating a Tradition: Studies in American Jewish History | 2008 | F/M 09 | 16-17 | ||||||
Wood, Angela Gluck | Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People | 2007 | N/D 07 | 10 | ||||||
Leeds, Constance | Silver Cup, The | 2007 | S/O 07 | 9 | ||||||
Schiffman, Lawrence H. | Qumran and Jerusalem: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism | 2010 | N/D 10 | 23 | ||||||
Berkovits, Eliezer | God, Man and History | 2004 | F/M 05 | 12 | ||||||
Zakon, Miriam Stark | Egyptian Star | M/J 83 | 9 | |||||||
Ray, Brenda | Midwifes Song: A Story of Moses Birth, The | 2000 | 15 | |||||||
Schwartz, Moshe, Lees, Susan, Kressel, Gideon M. | Burial Cooperatives in Socialist Utopia: Thirty Years of Moshav Development in Israel | 1995 | M/J 96 | 11 | ||||||
Lehrman, Robert | Juggling | N/D 82 | 8 | |||||||
Herscher, Uri D. | Agricultural Utopias in America, 1880-1910 | 1981 | F 81 | 14 | ||||||
Zakutinsky, Ruth, Richter, Sharon | Were Really Going Home | 1979 | Sp80 | 21 | ||||||
Einstein, Stephen J. | Introduction to Judaism | N/D 83 | 8 | |||||||
Senderk, Cath | Surviving the Holocaust | 2006 | On the Front Line Series | F/M 07 | 15 | |||||
Checinski, Michael Moshe | Running the Gauntlet of Anti-Semitism: From Polish Counter-Intelligence to the Marshall Center | 2004 | M/J 05 | 33 | ||||||
Green, Arthur, Holtz, Barry W. | Your Word a Fire: The Hasidic Masters on the Contemplative Prayer | 1977 | F/M 86 | 3 | ||||||
Helfgott, Margaret, Gross, Tom | Out of Tune: David Helfgott and the Myth of Shine | 1998 | S/O 98 | 9 | ||||||
Sanfield, Steve, Magil, Mikhail | Feather Merchantes and Other Tales of the Fools of Chelm, The | 1991 | M/J 92 | 23 | ||||||
Kaplan, Herbert | Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: The Critical Years 1806-1816 | 2006 | F/M 07 | 33 | ||||||
Schulweis, Harold M. | Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey | 2008 | F/M 09 | 18 | ||||||
Kaminsky, Stuart M. | Liebermans Day | 1994 | S/O 94 | 7 | ||||||
Balass, Joe | Baghdad Twist (VIDEO) | 2007 | F/M 09 | 23 | ||||||
Brody, Seymour | Jewish Heroes and Heroines of America | 1996 | F/M 97 | 41702 | ||||||
Lankin, Eliahu, Hershberg, Ariziah | To Win the Promised Land: Story of a Freedom Fighter | 1992 | N/D 92 | 24 | ||||||
Langer, Howard J. | History of the Holocaust, The: A Chronology of Quotations | 1997 | S/O 97 | 11 | ||||||
Salamon, Michael J. | Shidduch Crisis: Cuases and Cures, The | 2008 | M/J 09 | 28 | ||||||
Vogiel, Eva | Problem Called Chavi, A | 1985 | F/M 86 | 7 | ||||||
Celenza, Anna Harwell, Kitchel, JoAnn | Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue | 2006 | N/D 06 | 17 | ||||||
Gillman, Neil | Doing Jewish Theology: God, Torah and Israel in Modern Judaism | 2008 | M/J 09 | 22 | ||||||
Beatty, Patricia | Melinda Takes a Hand | S/O 84 | 8 | |||||||
Hannam, Charles | Boy in That Situation, A | S 78 | 5 | |||||||
Bierman, Carol | Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to America | 1998 | F/M 99 | 16 | ||||||
Spiegel, Murray, Stein, Rickey | 300 Ways to Ask the Four Questions | 2008 | N/D 08 | 13, 15 | ||||||
Dann, Jack | Wandering Stars | 1974 | Ap 74 | 25 | ||||||
Simon, Rita J. | In the Golden Land: A Century of Russian and Soviet Jewish Immigration in America | 1997 | S/O 97 | 23 | ||||||
Berkovic, Sally | Straight Talk: My Dilemma as a Modern Orthodox Jewish Woman | 1999 | S/O 00 | 8 | ||||||
Salkin, Jeffrey K. | Righteous Gentiles in the Hebrew Bible: Ancient Role Models for Sacred Relationships | 2008 | S/O 09 | 43-44 | ||||||
Capucilli, Alyssa Satin, Schories, Pat | Happy Hanukah, Biscuit! | 2002 | N/D 02 | 25 | ||||||
Leviant, Curt | Yemenite Girl, The | 1977 | Sp77 | 26 | ||||||
Wolfson, Elliot R. | Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson | 2009 | S/O 10 | 40 | ||||||
Schwarz, Yom Tov | Eyes to See: Recovering Ethical Torah Principles Lost in the Holocaust | 2004 | S/O 05 | 51-52 | ||||||
Machlin, Mikki | My Name is Not Gussie | 1999 | F/M 00 | 11 | ||||||
Isaacs, Ronald H. | Close Encounters: Jewish Views About God | 1996 | N/D 96 | 10 | ||||||
Lazo, Caroline Evensen | Leonard Bernstein: In Love with Music | 2003 | M/J 03 | 28 | ||||||
Michelson, Richard, Colon, Raul | As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschels Amazing March Toward Freedom | 2008 | M/J 08 | 8 | ||||||
Stein, Robert | Jewish Americans | 2003 | Coming to America Series | F/M 04 | 39-40 | |||||
Ladin, Joy | Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders | 2012 | S/O12 | 40 | ||||||
Eban, Abba | Heritage: Civilization and the Jews | N/D 84 | 3 | |||||||
Cohen, Deborah Bodin, Hall, Melanie G. | Seventh Day, The | 2005 | M/J 05 | 15-16 | ||||||
Taubes, Jacob, Assmann, Aleida, Hollander, Dana | Political Theology of Paul, The | 2004 | M/J 04 | 23-24 | ||||||
Buloff, Joseph, Singer, Joseph | From the Old Marketplace | 1991 | M/J 91 | 8 | ||||||
Orgel, Doris | Devil in Vienna, The | 1978 | Sp79 | 27 | ||||||
Cheng, Andrea | Marika | 2002 | S/O 02 | 45 | ||||||
Bloom, Harold | Blooms Modern Critical Views: David Mamet | 2004 | F/M 04 | 14-15 | ||||||
Isaac, Frederick | Jews of Oakland and Berkeley | 2009 | Images of America | N/D 09 | 22 | |||||
Berger, Marshall J. | Vatican-Israel Accords, The: Political, Legal, and Theological Contexts | 2004 | M/J 05 | 32 | ||||||
Gregory, Jill, Tintori, Karen | Illumination, The | 2009 | M/J 09 | 32 | ||||||
Schapira, Leah, Dwek, Victoria | Starters & Sides Made Easy | 2013 | N/D13 | 37 | ||||||
Finkelstein, Norman H., Hokanson, Lois, Hokanson, Lars | Remember Not to Forget: A Memory of the Holocaust | 1985 | A/M 86 | 6 | ||||||
Levine, Karen, Sher, Emil | Hanas Suitcase on Stage | 2007 | Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers Series | M/J 07 | 15 | |||||
Anisfeld, Sharon Cohen | Womens Passover Companion, The: Womens Reflections on the Festival of Freedom | 2003 | S/O 03 | 16 | ||||||
Tolley, Jacquelyn | On Our Spiritual Journey: A Creative Shabbat Service | N/D 84 | 5 | |||||||
Lerner, Anne Lapidus | Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry | 2007 | Brandeis Series on Jewish Women | S/O 08 | 8 | |||||
Baumslag, Naomi | Murderous Medicine: Nazi Doctors, Human Experimentation, and Typhus | 2005 | N/D 05 | 24 | ||||||
Dwork, Deborah | Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe | 1991 | S/O 91 | 18 | ||||||
Bank, Mirra | Last Dance (VIDEO) | 2002 | N/D 03 | 41892 | ||||||
Chatanow, Gerald, Schwartz, Bernard | Another Time, Another Place: A Neighborhood Remembered | 2000 | S/O 01 | 41892 | ||||||
Kotkowski, Itzhak | Wiles of Destiny: The Memoirs of Itzhak Kotkowski, The | 1995 | M/J 96 | 18 | ||||||
Jagendorf, Siegfried, Manheimer, Aron Hirt | Jagendorfs Foundry: A Memoir of ht eRomanian Holocaust, 1941-1944 | 1991 | S/O 91 | 19 | ||||||
Rovit, Rebecca,, Goldfarb, Alvin | Theatrical Performances During the Holocaust: Texts, Documents, Memoirs | 1999 | S/O 00 | 19 | ||||||
Shukert, Rachel | Have You No Shame? And Other Regrettable Stories | 2008 | F/M 09 | 22 | ||||||
Abrams, Judith Z. | Secret World of Kabbalah, The | 2006 | N/D 06 | 15 | ||||||
Adler, David A., Adler, Michael, Collins, Matt | Picture Book of Harry Houdini, A | 2009 | F/M 10 | 7 | ||||||
Lowenstein, Steven M. | Frankfurt on the Hudson: The German-Jewish Community of Washington Heights, 19339-1983, Its Structure and Culture | 1989 | N/D 90 | 10 | ||||||
Friedman, Robin | Nothing | 2008 | N/D 08 | 30-31 | ||||||
Gal, Alon, Siegel, David S. | David Ben-Gurion and the American Alignment for a Jewish State | 1991 | N/D 92 | 23 |