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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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Franciosi, Robert | Elie Wiesel: Conversations | 2002 | M/J 03 | 15 | ||||||
Petsonk, Judy | Intermarriage Handbook, The | 1988 | N/D 88 | 7 | ||||||
Sachs, Marilyn | Call Me Ruth | N/D 82 | 7 | |||||||
Gavison, Ruth | Two-State Solution: The UN Partition Resolution of Mandatory Palestine - Analysis and Sources, The | 2013 | N/D13 | 27 | ||||||
Meir, Mira | Alina: A Russian Girl Comes to Israel | N/D 82 | 8 | |||||||
Simchovich, Simcha | Song Will Remain, A | 1996 | M/J 98 | 18-19 | ||||||
Epstein, Lawrence J. | Readings on Conversion to Judaism | 1995 | N/D 96 | 5 | ||||||
Lieberman, Sherman | Mystics and Missionaries: The Jews in Palestine, 1799-1840 | 1992 | S/O 93 | 19 | ||||||
Walfish, Miriam | Libas Palace | 2012 | Jewish Girls Around the World | S/O13 | 4 | |||||
Labinsky, Baruch | Financial Guide to Aliyah and Life in Israel | 2012 | FM13 | 29 | ||||||
Nason, Ruth | Jewish Faith, The | 2005 | Start-Up Religion Series | N/D 05 | 20 | |||||
Wiesel, Elie, Heffner, Richard D., Vinciguerra, Thomas J. | Conversations with Elie Wiesel | 2001 | N/D 02 | 16 | ||||||
Bergman, Tamar, Modan, Ruti | Where Is? | 2002 | F/M 03 | 43 | ||||||
Solomon, Norman | Historical Dictionary of Judaism | 1998 | S/O 99 | 14 | ||||||
Kramer, Ralph | Bay Area Jewish Forum Haggadah, The | M/J 86 | 4 | |||||||
Minken, Jacob S. | Teachings of Maimonides, The | N/D 87 | 6 | |||||||
Grunberg, Slawomir, Podgursky, Robert | Saved by Deportation: An Unknown Odyssey of Polish Jews (VIDEO) | 2007 | S/O 08 | 38 | ||||||
Katz, Robert L. | Pastoral Care and the Jewish Tradition: Empathic Process and Religious Counseling | 1985 | Theology and Pastoral Care Series | F/M 85 | 5 | |||||
Rosner, Fred | Medical Encyclopedia of Moses Maimonides | 1998 | F/M 99 | 41986 | ||||||
Winecki, Christine | Girl in the Check Coat: Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland and a New Life in Australia, The | 2007 | The Library of Holocaust Testimonies | F/M 08 | 45 | |||||
Klawans, Jonathan | Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism | 2012 | N/D13 | 30 | ||||||
Lasky, Kathryn | Dreams in the Golden Country | Dear America series | F/M 99 | 19 | ||||||
Goldberg, Lester | In Siberia It Is Very Cold | 1987 | N/D 87 | 6 | ||||||
Roskies, David G. | Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling, A | 1995 | N/D 95 | 41860 | ||||||
Epstein, Lawrence J. | Treasury of Jewish Anecdotes, A | 1989 | F/M 90 | 14 | ||||||
Michelson, Richard, Lewis, E. B. | Across the Alley | 2006 | S/O 06 | 22 | ||||||
Flam, Gila | Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto 1940-1945 | 1992 | M/J 92 | 15 | ||||||
Appel, Allan | Rabbi of Casino Boulevard, The | 1986 | M/J 87 | 5 | ||||||
Koffsky, Ann D. | My Jewish Holiday Fun Book | 2000 | S/O 00 | 36 | ||||||
Rabinowicz, Tzvi M. | Hasidism in Israel: A History of the Hasidic Movement and Its Masters in the Holy Land | 2000 | N/D 00 | 12 | ||||||
Grief, Howard | Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel Under International Law, The: A Treatise on Jewish Sovereignty Over the Land of Israel | 2008 | S/O 09 | 39 | ||||||
Kellerman, Faye | False Prophet | 1992 | S/O 92 | 21 | ||||||
Kaufman, David E. | Jewhooing the Sixties: America Celebrity and Jewish Identity | 2012 | S/O13 | 31-32 | ||||||
Shires, Linda M. | Coming Home: A Womans Story of Conversion to Judaism | 2003 | F/M 04 | 20 | ||||||
Jaffe, Azriela | What Do You Mean, You Cant Eat in My Home?: A Guide to How Newly Observant Jews and Their Less-Observant Relatives Can Still Get Along | 2005 | N/D 05 | 28 | ||||||
Bellow, Saul | Henderson, The Rain King | 1965 | Sp77 | 30 | ||||||
Swinsky, Michael | At the Threshold: Jewish Meditations on Death | 1995 | S/O 96 | 12 | ||||||
Goodman, Arnold | Sweet Words to God: A Childs Book of Jewish Prayers | 2001 | N/D 01 | 21 | ||||||
Sabbath Garden, The | 1993 | M/J 94 | 11 | |||||||
Goodman, Naomi | On Borrowed Time: Poems of Two Centuries | 2005 | F/M 06 | 26 | ||||||
Brennan, Marcia | Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics | 2001 | M/J 02 | 9 | ||||||
Flanders, Elle | Zero Degrees of Separation (VIDEO) | 2005 | S/O 07 | 56 | ||||||
Kranzler, David | Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz, The: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerlands Finest Hour | 2000 | S/O 01 | 17 | ||||||
Aidinoff, Elsie | Garden, The | 2004 | N/D 04 | 14 | ||||||
Stillman, Norman A. | Jews of Arab Lands, The | 1979 | W80 | 16 | ||||||
Levinas, Emmanuel | Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism | 1998 | N/D 98 | 8, 10 | ||||||
Lehrer, Alice Becker | If We Could Hear Them Now: Encounters with Legendary Jewish Heroines | 2009 | M/J 10 | 35 | ||||||
Gries, Zeev | Book in the Jewish World 1700-1900, The | 2007 | F/M 08 | 39 | ||||||
Ettinger, Steven | Torah 24/7 | 2003 | S/O 04 | 16 | ||||||
Citron, Sterna, Eydel, Igor | Shlomos Little Joke | 2007 | S/O 08 | 52 | ||||||
Keller, Tsipi | Prophet of Tenth Street, The | 2012 | N/D12 | 43 | ||||||
Bellow, Saul | Mr. Sammlers Planet | 1970 | Sp77 | 30 | ||||||
Potts, Steve | Hanukkah | 2005 | N/D 05 | 17 | ||||||
Hecht, Jacob J. | Lag BOmer Book | S/O 83 | 4 | |||||||
Raviv, Dan, Melman, Yosel | Every Spy a Prince | 1991 | S/O 91 | 20 | ||||||
Creiger, Joyce, Serfaty, Raphaella | Izzy Iguana is Invited to Israel | 2009 | S/O 09 | 21 | ||||||
Herczl, Moshe Y., Lerner, Joel | Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry | 1993 | F/M 94 | 9 | ||||||
Rosenthal, Monroe, Mozeson, Isaac | Wars of the Jews | 1990 | M/J 90 | 41986 | ||||||
Senker, Cath | Arab-Israeli Conflict, The | 2004 | Questioning History Series | F/M 05 | 33 | |||||
Wells, Rosemary, Andreasen, Dan | Streets of Gold | 1999 | M/J 00 | 22 | ||||||
Jenks, Kathleen | River and the Stone: Moses Early Years in Egypt, The | 1977 | Sp77 | 28 | ||||||
Shenker, Israel | Noshing is Sacred: The Joys and Oys of Jewish Food | 1979 | Sp80 | 15 | ||||||
Sofsky, Wolfgang, Templer, William | Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp, The | 1997 | S/O 97 | 23 | ||||||
Estraikh, Gennady, Krutikov, Mikhail | Yiddish in the Contemporary World: Papers of the First Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish | 1999 | M/J 00 | 10 | ||||||
Pitman, Walter | Louis Applebaum: A Passion for Culture | 2002 | N/D 03 | 15-16 | ||||||
Nigosian, S. A. | From Ancient Writings to Sacred Texts: The Old Testament and Apocrypha | 2004 | M/J 05 | 40 | ||||||
Jewish Travel Guide 2007 International Edition | 2007 | F/M 08 | 40 | |||||||
Schiffman, Lawrence H. | Dead Sea Scrolls: The Truth Behind the Mystique, The (AUDIO) | 2007 | F/M 08 | 49 | ||||||
Weiner, Ellis, Davilman, Barbara | How to Raise a Jewish Dog | 2007 | M/J 08 | 40, 42 | ||||||
Cohen, Barbara | Binding of Isaac, The | S 78 | 6 | |||||||
Terrier, Samuel | Til the Heart Sings | F/M 86 | 5 | |||||||
Zwerin, Raymond A. | Shabbat Can Be | O 80 | 13 | |||||||
Mintz, Alan L. | Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America | 2001 | N/D 01 | 10 | ||||||
Breuer, Mordechai, Petuchowski, Elizabeth | Modernity within Tradition: The Social History of Orthodox Jewry in Imperial Germany | 1992 | F/M 93 | 21 | ||||||
Clark, Kathy | Guardian Angel House | 2009 | Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers Series | S/O 09 | 12 | |||||
Feltquate, Barbara, Post, Tom | Kiddish Yiddish: Jewish Tradition and Culture and Rhyme | 2008 | N/D 08 | 35-36 | ||||||
Harduf, David Mendel | English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary | 2003 | N/D 03 | 13 | ||||||
Bard, Mitchell | Israel Matters: Understand the Past-Look to the Future | 2012 | N/D12 | 9-10 | ||||||
Lori Cahan-Simon Ensemble | Chanukah is Freylekh! Songs my Bubbe Should Have Taught Me: Volume 2 (AUDIO) | 2006 | N/D 08 | 25 | ||||||
Gerber, Merrill Joan | Victory Gardens of Brooklyn, The: A Novel | 2007 | Library of Modern Jewish Literature | N/D 08 | 7 | |||||
Wormell, Christopher | Animals Came Two by Two: The Story of Noahs Ark, The | 2008 | S/O 09 | 14 | ||||||
Stepping Stones to Further Jewish-Christian Relations | F/M 82 | 6 | ||||||||
Agamben, Giogio | Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive | 2000 | S/O 00 | 7 | ||||||
Schwatz, Howard, Waldman, Neil | Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Stories | 1996 | N/D 95 | 16-17 | ||||||
Reitter, Paul | On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred | 2012 | N/D13 | 35 | ||||||
Edelheit, Hershel, Edelheit, Abraham J. | World in Turmoil: An Integrated Chronology of the Holocaust and World War II, A | 1991 | M/J 92 | 15 | ||||||
Margolin, Miriam, Ryback, Issachar | Little Stories for Little Children | 1986 | F/M 87 | 8 | ||||||
Blum, Yehuda Z. | For Zions Sake | 1987 | N/D 87 | 4 | ||||||
Danan, Julie Hilton | Jewish Parents Almanac, The | 1993 | S/O 94 | 9 | ||||||
Van Dijk, Lutz, Crawford, Elizabeth D. | Damned Strong Love: The True Story of Will G. and Stefan K. | 1995 | N/D 95 | 11 | ||||||
Bauman, Janina | Winter in the Morning: A Young Girls Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond, 1939-1945 | 1986 | S/O 86 | 7 | ||||||
Wood, Angela Gluck | Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People | 2007 | N/D 07 | 10 | ||||||
Frucht, Phyllis, Rothschild, Joy, Katz, Gertrude, Sacks, Shelly | Best of Jewish Cooking, The | 1974 | Sp 75 | 26 | ||||||
Jacobs, Jill | There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice Through Jewish Law & Tradition | 2009 | M/J 10 | 34 | ||||||
Zim, Paul | Seder Nights (AUDIO) | 1994 | F/M 95 | 14 | ||||||
Gavron, Daniel | Pilgrims: A Novel | 2000 | F/M 01 | 13 | ||||||
Ray, Brenda | Midwifes Song: A Story of Moses Birth, The | 2000 | 15 | |||||||
Hammer, Gottlieb | Good Faith and Credit | 1986 | F/M 87 | 4 | ||||||
Lehrman, Robert | Juggling | N/D 82 | 8 | |||||||
Nivola, Claire A. | Elizabeth | 1997 | F/M 98 | 16 |