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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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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 | ||||||
Shimoni, Rachel | Love, Ruhl | Sp 75 | 28 | |||||||
Collins, John J. | Bible After Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age, The | 2005 | F/M 07 | 31-32 | ||||||
Masnik, Ann S. | Jewish Woman, The | 1996 | M/J 96 | 10 | ||||||
Gavison, Ruth | Two-State Solution: The UN Partition Resolution of Mandatory Palestine - Analysis and Sources, The | 2013 | N/D13 | 27 | ||||||
Muraskin, Bennett | Humanist Readings in Jewish Folklore | 2001 | S/O 02 | 32 | ||||||
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 | ||||||
Hoffman, Charles | Gray Dawn: The Jews of Eastern Europe in the Post-Communist Era | 1992 | S/O 92 | 18 | ||||||
Fuchs, Ester | Encounters with Israeli Authors | F/M 83 | 3 | |||||||
Backman, Aidel | Money in the Honey, The | 2003 | N/D 03 | 23 | ||||||
Kramer, Aaron | Century of Yiddish Poetry, A | 1989 | F/M 90 | 14 | ||||||
Slavicek, Louise Chipley | King David | 2008 | Ancient World Leaders Series | M/J 09 | 9 | |||||
Bergman, Tamar, Modan, Ruti | Where Is? | 2002 | F/M 03 | 43 | ||||||
Sparks, Kenton L. | Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible: A Guide to the Background Literature | 2005 | F/M 06 | 37 | ||||||
Hoffman, Lawrence A. | Israel: A Spiritual Travel Guide (2nd ed.) | 2005 | S/O 05 | 45 | ||||||
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 | |||||
Berger, Shalom Z., Daniel Jacobson,, Waxman, Chaim I. | Flipping Out?: Myth or Fact?: The Imapct of the "Year in Israel" | 2007 | M/J 08 | 28-29 | ||||||
Goldin, Barbara Diamond, August, Louise | Night Lights: A Sukkot Story | 1995 | N/D 95 | 14 | ||||||
Nissimi, Hilda | Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: the Shaping of Religious and Communal Identity in their Journey from Iran to New York | 2007 | S/O 07 | 52-53 | ||||||
Dekel, Lilach | Living for Tomorrow: Untold Stories by the Pioneering Women of Israel (VIDEO) | N/D 01 | 18 | |||||||
Faber, Doris | Bella Abzug | 1976 | W76 | 20 | ||||||
Cohen, J. Simcha | Jewish Prayer: The Right Way, Resolving Halachic Dilemmas | 2012 | M/J13 | 21 | ||||||
Epstein, Lawrence J. | Treasury of Jewish Anecdotes, A | 1989 | F/M 90 | 14 | ||||||
Tye, Larry | Home Lands: Portraits of the New Jewish Diaspora | 2001 | S/O 02 | 36 | ||||||
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 | ||||||
Bruder, Judith | Going to Jerusalem | Ma 80 | 4 | |||||||
Kanfer, Stefan | Eighth Sin, The | 1978 | W78 | 23 | ||||||
Cohen, I. Alan | Minyan Miracle | 1993 | M/J 94 | 7 | ||||||
Polacco, Patricia | Butterfly, The | 2000 | ||||||||
Emerman, Ellen, Kranz, Sarah | Just Right: The Story of a Jewish Home | 1999 | M/J 00 | 21 | ||||||
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 | ||||||
Speregen-Newberger, Devra | Albert Einstein: The Jewish Man Behind the Theory | 2006 | N/D 06 | 41860 | ||||||
Neusner, Jacob | Invitation to the Talmud | 1973 | D 74 | 29 | ||||||
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 | |||||||
Brennan, Marcia | Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics | 2001 | M/J 02 | 9 | ||||||
Wishnia, Kenneth | Fifth Servant, The | 2010 | M/J 10 | 26 | ||||||
Flanders, Elle | Zero Degrees of Separation (VIDEO) | 2005 | S/O 07 | 56 | ||||||
Garus, Liz | Nazi Officers Wife (VIDEO) | 2003 | F/M 04 | 14 | ||||||
Suleiman, Susan Rubin, Forgecs, Eva | Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary: An Anthology | 2003 | Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World Series | S/O 04 | 41892 | |||||
Pinsky, Robert | Life of David, The | 2005 | F/M 06 | 35 | ||||||
Metter, Bert | Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah | S/O 84 | 10 | |||||||
Bloomfield, Jill Colella | Jewish Holidays Cookbook: Festive Meals for Celebrating the Year | 2008 | N/D 08 | 35 | ||||||
Ettinger, Steven | Torah 24/7 | 2003 | S/O 04 | 16 | ||||||
Langmuir, Gavni I. | History, Religion and Anti-Semitism | 1990 | M/J 91 | 13-14 | ||||||
Citron, Sterna, Eydel, Igor | Shlomos Little Joke | 2007 | S/O 08 | 52 | ||||||
Keller, Tsipi | Prophet of Tenth Street, The | 2012 | N/D12 | 43 | ||||||
Penn, Malka, Black, Theodor | Ghosts and Golems: Haunting Tales of the Supernatural | 2001 | F/M 02 | 34-35 | ||||||
Tal, Eve | Double Crossing: A Jewish Immigration Story | 2005 | N/D 05 | 14 | ||||||
Lawson, Tom, Jordan, James | Memory of the Holocaust in Australia, The | 2008 | N/D 08 | 16 | ||||||
Alma, Ann | Brave Deeds: How One Family Saved Many from the Nazis | 2008 | F/M 09 | 39-40 | ||||||
Migrom, Jacob | JPS Torah Commentary: Numbers | M/J 90 | 12 | |||||||
Rosenthal, Monroe, Mozeson, Isaac | Wars of the Jews | 1990 | M/J 90 | 41986 | ||||||
Abraham Isaac Kook | F/M 82 | 9 | ||||||||
Provoost, Anne, Nieuwenhuizen, John | In the Shadow of the Ark | 2004 | N/D 04 | 16-17 | ||||||
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 | ||||||
MacLeod, Elizabeth | Harry Houdini: A Magical Life | 2005 | S/O 05 | 10 | ||||||
Sofsky, Wolfgang, Templer, William | Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp, The | 1997 | S/O 97 | 23 | ||||||
Lehmann, Marcus, Teomim, Joseph | Faith and Courage | 2009 | S/O 10 | 18-19 | ||||||
Estraikh, Gennady, Krutikov, Mikhail | Yiddish in the Contemporary World: Papers of the First Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish | 1999 | M/J 00 | 10 | ||||||
Sheinmel, Courtney | My So-Called Family | 2008 | S/O 09 | 18 | ||||||
Corenthal, Michael G. | Cohen on the Telephone: A Hisotry of Jewish Recorded Humor and Popular Music, 1892-1942 | 1984 | N/D 86 | 4 | ||||||
Wild, Miriam, Vivas, Julie | Let the Celebrations Begin! | 1991 | M/J 92 | 23 | ||||||
Brown, Danit | Ask for a Convertible | 2008 | M/J 09 | 31 | ||||||
Kolatch, Alfred | Jewish Book of Why, The | 1981 | W82 | 11 | ||||||
Terrier, Samuel | Til the Heart Sings | F/M 86 | 5 | |||||||
Rustow, Marina | Hersy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate | 2008 | F/M 09 | 17 | ||||||
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 | ||||||
Koren, Yeshayahu | Funeral at Noon | 1996 | S/O 96 | 13 | ||||||
Leviant, Curt | Diary of an Adulterous Woman: A Novel: Including an ABC Directory that Offers Alphabetical Tidbits and Surprises | 2001 | F/M 02 | 30 | ||||||
Gordon, Haim, Bloch, Jochanan | Martin Buber: A Centenary Volume | 1984 | M/J 85 | 41734 | ||||||
Lazar, David | Body of Brooklyn, The | 2003 | M/J 04 | 18 | ||||||
Rechter, David | Jews of Vienna and the First World War, The | 2001 | F/M 02 | 24-25 | ||||||
Gerber, Merrill Joan | Victory Gardens of Brooklyn, The: A Novel | 2007 | Library of Modern Jewish Literature | N/D 08 | 7 | |||||
Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism | Images of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: What is Arab Antisemitism? (VIDEO) | 2013 | N/D13 | 46 | ||||||
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 | ||||||
Senesh, Hannah | Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary. The first complete edition | 2004 | F/M 05 | 23 | ||||||
Reitter, Paul | On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred | 2012 | N/D13 | 35 | ||||||
Ungar, Richard | Even Higher | 2007 | S/O 07 | 19 | ||||||
Edelheit, Hershel, Edelheit, Abraham J. | World in Turmoil: An Integrated Chronology of the Holocaust and World War II, A | 1991 | M/J 92 | 15 | ||||||
Freedman, Paula J. | My Basmati Bat Mitzvah | 2013 | N/D13 | 4 | ||||||
Kagan, Jeremy | Choice to Be: A Jewish Path to Self and Spirituality, The | 2012 | M/J13 | 26 | ||||||
Arato, Rona | Last Train: A Holocaust Story, The | 2013 | M/J13 | 10 | ||||||
Bauman, Janina | Winter in the Morning: A Young Girls Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond, 1939-1945 | 1986 | S/O 86 | 7 | ||||||
Schram, Peninnah, Davis, Rachayl Eckstein, Lee, Wendy W. | Apple Trees Discovery, The | 2012 | M/J 12 | 9 | ||||||
Gellman, Ellie, Friedman, Judith | Jeremys Dreidel | 1992 | M/J 93 | 16 | ||||||
Jacobs, Jill | There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice Through Jewish Law & Tradition | 2009 | M/J 10 | 34 |