Book Review Index
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| Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication |
Year |
Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deutsch, Yaakov | Judaism in Christian Eyes: Ethnographic Descriptions of Jews and Judaism in Early Modern Europe | 2012 | FM13 | 22-23 | ||||||
| Berkowitz, Beth A. | Defining Jewish Difference: From Antiquity to the Present | 2012 | N/D12 | 17-18 | ||||||
| Levine, Aron | Economic Morality and Jewish Law | 2012 | M/J13 | 29 | ||||||
| Lapin, Hayim | Rabbis as Romans: the Rabbinic Movement in Palestine, 100-400 C.E. | 2012 | FM13 | 30 | ||||||
| Shindler, Colin | Israel and the European Left: Between Solidarity and Delegitimization | 2012 | S/O13 | 41 | ||||||
| Perl, Lila | Holocaust, The | 2012 | Great Escapes | M/J 12 | 10-11 | |||||
| Stepon, Matt | Judaism: History, Belief, and Practice | 2012 | Britannica Guide to Religion | S/O12 | 48 | |||||
| Maitland, Leslie | Crossing the Borders of Time: a True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed | 2012 | FM13 | 31 | ||||||
| Zakovitch, Yair | Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch | 2012 | N/D12 | 40 | ||||||
| Pekar, Harvey | Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me | 2012 | N/D12 | 32-33 | ||||||
| Robinson, James T. | Asceticism, Eschatology, Opposition to Philosophy: the Arabic Translation and Commentary of Salmon ben Yeroham on Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) | 2012 | FM13 | 34 | ||||||
| Wise, Stephen | Israel: Repairing the World | 2012 | M/J13 | 12 | ||||||
| Upjohn, Rebecca, Benoit, Renne | Secret of the Village Fool, The | 2012 | N/D12 | 9 | ||||||
| Davis, Marni | Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition | 2012 | Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History | S/O12 | 28 | |||||
| Bashkin, Orit | New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq | 2012 | FM13 | 18 | ||||||
| Lynette, Rachel | Lets Throw a Hanukkah Party | 2012 | S/O12 | 16 | ||||||
| Mintzberg, Devora, Sternberg, Margalit | Good Morning, Boker Tov! Exploring the Morning Berachos with Boruch and Bracha | 2012 | FM13 | 7 | ||||||
| Rubens, MIchael | Sons of the 613 | 2012 | N/D12 | 5 | ||||||
| Azaryahu, Maoz, Troen, S. Ilan | Tel-Aviv, The First Century: Visions, Designs, Actualities | 2012 | N/D12 | 14, 16 | ||||||
| Korczak, Janusz, Katz, Avi, Lloyd-Jones, Antonia | Kaytek the Wizard | 2012 | FM13 | 5 | ||||||
| Yomtov, Neil | Israel | 2012 | Enchantment of the World | S/O12 | 12-13 | |||||
| Fleischaker, Samuel | Divine Teaching and the Way of the World | 2012 | N/D12 | 21 | ||||||
| Zorn, John | Pruflas: Book of Angels, vol. 18, David Krakauer plays Masada, Book Two (AUDIO) | 2012 | S/O13 | 53 | ||||||
| Strom, Yale | Shpil: The Art of Playing Klezmer | 2012 | S/O13 | 42-43 | ||||||
| Edwards, Michelle, Christy, Jana | Room for the Baby | 2012 | FM13 | 10 | ||||||
| Israeli, Raphael | Blood Libel and its Derivatives: The Scourge of Anti-Semitism | 2012 | N/D12 | 34-35 | ||||||
| Boyarin, Daniel | Jewish Gospels: the Story of the Jewish Christ, The | 2012 | FM13 | 20 | ||||||
| Ulrich, Hub, Muhle, Jorg | Meet at the Ark at Eight | 2012 | FM13 | 3 | ||||||
| Greene, Jacqueline D., Melmon, Deborah | Speak Up, Tommy! | 2012 | S/O12 | 13-14 | ||||||
| Brown, Erica | Return: Daily Inspiration for the Days of Awe | 2012 | FM13 | 21 | ||||||
| Thanny, Binyamin | Freing Out: Why people go off the derech and what we can do about it | 2012 | N/D12 | 37-38 | ||||||
| Corman, Leela | Unterzakhn | 2012 | S/O12 | 53 | ||||||
| Cooper, Levi | Relics for the Present: Contemporary Reflections on the Talmud | 2012 | N/D12 | 19 | ||||||
| Pludwinski, Izzy | Mastering Hebrew Calligraphy | 2012 | N/D12 | 34 | ||||||
| Mandelmbaum, David Avraham | Daf Yomi: A Pictorial History, The | 2012 | M/J13 | 30 | ||||||
| King, Anna | Adele (the Rabbis Mother: Book One) | 2012 | M/J13 | 39-40 | ||||||
| Lewis, Anne Margaret, Ms, Tom | What Am I? Passover | 2012 | My Look and See Holiday Book | M/J 12 | 17 | |||||
| Indursky, Yehonatan | Ponevezh Time (VIDEO) | 2012 | N/D13 | 45-46 | ||||||
| Walzer, Michael | In Gods Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible | 2012 | M/J13 | 37-38 | ||||||
| Balsley, Tilda, Jago | Oh No, Jonah! | 2012 | S/O12 | 3 | ||||||
| Benor, Sarah | Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism | 2012 | M/J13 | 19 | ||||||
| McClurkan, Rob | Noahs Ark | 2012 | S/O12 | 3 | ||||||
| Grenimann, Yehiel | Far Away from Where? | 2012 | S/O12 | 54 | ||||||
| Carlebach, Shlomo, Katz, Shlomo | Genesis, Part I | 2012 | N/D12 | 19 | ||||||
| Calkhoven, Laurie | Michael at the Invasion of France 1943 | 2012 | S/O13 | 7 | ||||||
| Feldmann, Micha | On Wings of Eagles: The Secret operation of the Ethiopian Exodus | 2012 | N/D12 | 21 | ||||||
| Astaire, Libi | Tempest in the Tea Room | 2012 | N/D13 | 8 | ||||||
| Kanoff, Aviva | No-Potato Passover: A Journey of Food, Travel and Color, The | 2012 | S/O12 | 37 | ||||||
| Mikva, Rachel S. | Midrash vaYosha: A Medieval midrash on the Song at the Sea | 2012 | M/J13 | 30 | ||||||
| Martens, Bob | Destroyed Synagogues of Vienna: Virtual City Walks, The | 2012 | N/D12 | 29 | ||||||
| McClurkan, Rob | David and Goliath | 2012 | S/O12 | 3 | ||||||
| Bleich, J. David | Contemporary Halakhic Problems | 2012 | Contemporary Halakhic Problems; vol. VI | S/O12 | 27 | |||||
| Meyerhoff, Jenny | Samis Sleepaway Summer | 2012 | M/J 12 | 7 | ||||||
| Walker, Robert | Bar and Bat Mitzvahs | 2012 | Celebrations in My World | FM13 | 12 | |||||
| Dever, William G. | Lives of Ordinary Poeple in Ancient Israel: Where Archaeology and the Bible Intersect, The | 2012 | M/J13 | 23 | ||||||
| My Alef Beis | 2012 | M/J13 | 4 | |||||||
| Manning, Maurie J. | Laundry Day | 2012 | M/J 12 | 15 | ||||||
| Strauss, Linda Leopold, Natchev, Alexi | Elijah Door: A Passover Tale, The | 2012 | M/J 12 | 18 | ||||||
| Gotliffe, Harvey | Oy Way: Following the Path of Most Resistance, The | 2012 | S/O12 | 32 | ||||||
| Brink-Danan, Marcy | Jewish Life in 21st-Century Turkey: The Other Side of Tolerance | 2012 | M/J13 | 19-20 | ||||||
| Reisen, Avrom, Fink, Harvey, Skulsi, David | Poor Matza (AUDIO) | 2012 | S/O13 | 51 | ||||||
| Burg, Avraham | Very Near to You: Human Readings of the Torah | 2012 | M/J 12 | 22-23 | ||||||
| Goldin, Aliza | Wordwatch: A Shemiras Haloshon Lesson-A-Day for Teens | 2012 | FM13 | 11 | ||||||
| Nemirovsky, Irene | Wine of Solitude, The | 2012 | FM13 | 41-42 | ||||||
| Snyder, Laurel, Ishida, Jui | Good Night, Laila Tov | 2012 | M/J 12 | 11-12 | ||||||
| Peacock, Shane | Becoming Holmes: The Boy Sherlock Holmes: His Final Case | 2012 | FM13 | 9 | ||||||
| Drew, Cynthia | City of Slaughter | 2012 | S/O12 | 53 | ||||||
| Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara | Anne Frank Unbound; Media, Imagination, Memory | 2012 | N/D12 | 26 | ||||||
| Hurwitz, Yitzhak Shimon | Wisdom of the Jews: Using Rationality and Practicality to Make Sense of Life | 2012 | S/O13 | 30-31 | ||||||
| Kornbluth, Doron | Cremation or Burial? A Jewish View | 2012 | N/D12 | 26 | ||||||
| Matas, Carol | Behind Enemy Lines: World War II | 2012 | I Am Canada | S/O12 | 11-12 | |||||
| Simon-Shoshan, Moshe | Stories of the Law: Narrative Discourse and the Construction of Authority in the Mishnah | 2012 | S/O12 | 47 | ||||||
| White, Kristopher | Thirty Six, The | 2012 | N/D12 | 44 | ||||||
| Lehman, Marjorie | En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habibs Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus, The | 2012 | M/J 12 | 34 | ||||||
| Siddur Shevet Asher: The Tribe Siddur for Children and Families | 2012 | FM13 | 8 | |||||||
| Priddy, Roger | Story of Moses; Babys First Bible, The | 2012 | S/O12 | 4 | ||||||
| Kraemer, Joel L., Wechsler, Michael G. | Pesher Nahhum: Texts and Studies in Jewish History and Literature from Antiquity through the Middle Ages Presented to Norman (Nahum) Golb | 2012 | Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, vol. 66 | N/D12 | 26 | |||||
| Groner, Judy, Roma, Ursula | Maccabee Meals: Food and Fun for Hanukkah | 2012 | S/O12 | 7 | ||||||
| Markovits, Anouk | I Am Forbidden | 2012 | S/O13 | 48-49 | ||||||
| Liss-Levinson, Nechama | When the Hurricane Came | 2012 | N/D12 | 4 | ||||||
| Goldstein, Phyllis | Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism, A | 2012 | M/J 12 | 28 | ||||||
| Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg, Rothenberg, Joani Keller | Shema in the Mezuzah: Listening to Each Other, The | 2012 | N/D12 | 6 | ||||||
| Werber, Millie, Keller, Eve | Two Rings: A Story of Love and War | 2012 | N/D12 | 39 | ||||||
| Kogman-Appel, Katrin | Mahzor from Worms: Art and Religion in a Medieval Jewish Community, A | 2012 | S/O12 | 38-39 | ||||||
| Dauber, Jonathan | Knowledge of God and the Development of Early Kabbalah | 2012 | M/J13 | 22-23 | ||||||
| Schuman, Sandor, Kuhne, Kevin | Adirondack Mendels Aufruf | 2012 | N/D13 | 10-11 | ||||||
| Newman, Vivian, Mack, Steve | Tikkun Olam Ted | 2012 | FM13 | 4 | ||||||
| Wasserstein, Bernard | On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War | 2012 | N/D12 | 38-39 | ||||||
| Edelman, B. C. | My First Brachos Board Book | 2012 | M/J 12 | 10 | ||||||
| Collins, John J., Harlow, Daniel C. | Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview | 2012 | N/D13 | 22-23 | ||||||
| Benaim, Annette | Sixteenth-Century Judeo-Spanish Testimonies: An Edition of Eighty-Four Testimonies from the Sephardic Responsa in the Ottoman Empire | 2012 | Etudes sur le Judaisme Medieval (no. 52) | M/J 12 | 19 | |||||
| Marshall, Linda Elovitz, Engel, Christianne | Mitzvah Magician, The | 2012 | FM13 | 11-12 | ||||||
| Bardin, Hillel | Zionist among Palestinians, A | 2012 | N/D12 | 16 | ||||||
| Kuhr, Moshe David | Lion Cub of Prague: Thought, Kabbala, Hashkafa from Gur Arye. Exodus & Leviticus, The | 2012 | N/D13 | 30 | ||||||
| Baader, Benjamin Mara | Jewish Masculinities: German Jews, Gender and History | 2012 | S/O13 | 19 | ||||||
| Fingueret, Manuela, Lockhart, Darrell B. | Daughter of Silence | 2012 | N/D12 | 41-42 | ||||||
| Sanchez, George J. | Beyond Alliances: The Jewish Role in Reshaping the Racial Landscape of Southern California | 2012 | The Jewish Role in Ameriacn Life, vol. 9 | S/O12 | 46 | |||||
| Morse, Benjamin | Oldest Bedtime Story Ever, The | 2012 | S/O13 | 3 | ||||||
| Gordon, Menachem-Martin | Modern Orthodox Judaism: Studies and Perspectives | 2012 | N/D12 | 22 | ||||||
| Weizman, Janice | Wayward Moon, The | 2012 | S/O13 | 49 |
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