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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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dePaola, Tomie | My First Passover | 2008 | M/J 08 | 12 | ||||||
Zim, Paul | Seder Nights (AUDIO) | 1994 | F/M 95 | 14 | ||||||
Peters, Simi | Learning to Read Midrash | 2004 | F/M 04 | 18-19 | ||||||
Gavron, Daniel | Pilgrims: A Novel | 2000 | F/M 01 | 13 | ||||||
Pinsky, Mark I. | Jew Among the Evangelicals, A: A Guide for the Perplexed | 2006 | F/M 07 | 34 | ||||||
Kalman, Jason | Hebrew Union College and the Dead Sea Scrolls | 2012 | S/O13 | 31 | ||||||
Hammer, Gottlieb | Good Faith and Credit | 1986 | F/M 87 | 4 | ||||||
Nivola, Claire A. | Elizabeth | 1997 | F/M 98 | 16 | ||||||
Schorsch, Ismar | Canon Without Closure: Torah Commentaries | 2007 | S/O 08 | 9 | ||||||
Kaltner, John, MckKenzie, Steven, Kilpatrick, Joel | Uncensored Bible, The: The Bawdy and Naughty Bits of the Good Book | 2008 | M/J 09 | 24 | ||||||
Shulman, Abraham | Old Country, The | 1974 | Sp 75 | 27 | ||||||
Appelfeld, Aharon | All Whom I Have Loved: A Novel | 2007 | S/O 07 | 42 | ||||||
Khanga, Yelena, Jacoby, Susan | Soul to Soul: The Story of a Black-Russian American Family, 1865-1992 | 1992 | M/J 93 | 15 | ||||||
Downing, David | Making of the Middle East, The | 2006 | The Middle East Series | F/M 06 | 17-18 | |||||
Berger, David | Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference, The | 2001 | M/J 02 | 9 | ||||||
Whitfield, Stephen J. | Jews in American Life and Thought | 1984 | F/M 86 | 5 | ||||||
Eisenstein, Bernice | I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors | 2006 | F/M 07 | 32 | ||||||
Schachnowitz, Selig, Mashinsky, M. L. | Fire in the Sky | 1984 | S/O 85 | 41702 | ||||||
Cisner, Naftali | Count with Mendel | 2003 | S/O 03 | 48 | ||||||
Kacer, Kathy, McKay, Sharon E. | Whisperers from the Ghettos | 2009 | N/D 09 | 8 | ||||||
Greene, Rhonda Gowler, Wilson, Anne | Beautiful World That God Made, The | 2002 | S/O 02 | 41 | ||||||
Erps, Yitzy | Tell Me a Tale: 8 Great Stories | 2005 | M/J 06 | 12 | ||||||
Medoff, Francine | Mouse in the Matzah Factory, The | F/M 83 | 5 | |||||||
Spero, Moshe Halevi, Gaash, Elisheva | Saying Goodbye to Grandma | 1997 | N/D 98 | 16 | ||||||
Stuchner, Joan Betty, Row, Richard | Kugel Valley Klezmer Band, The | 1998 | M/J 99 | 19 | ||||||
Elmer, Robert | Peace Rebel | 2000 | Promise of Zion Series | S/O 01 | 34 | |||||
Balsley, Tilda, Fischer, Ellen, Leigh, Tom | Its a Mitzvah, Grover! | 2013 | FM13 | 9 | ||||||
Celan, Paul | Glottal Stop: 101 Poems | 2000 | S/O 01 | 9 | ||||||
Blaine, Marge, Lisowski, Gabriel | Dvoras Journey | 1979 | W79 | 25 | ||||||
Banks, Lynne Reid | Broken Bridge | 1994 | N/D 95 | 14 | ||||||
Ackroyd, Peter | Trial of Elizabeth Cree: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders, The | 1995 | N/D 95 | 41986 | ||||||
Lunge-Larsen, Lise, Trueman, Matthew | Noahs Mittens | 2006 | N/D 06 | 7 | ||||||
Fisman, Karen, McAteer, Thomas | Adventure in Latkaland: A Hanukkah Story, An | 2009 | N/D 09 | 11 | ||||||
Kay, Devora, Vand, Rochel | Sleep Sheep Book, The | 2013 | S/O13 | 11 | ||||||
Nir, Yehuda | Lost Childhood, a World War II Memoir, The | 2002 | S/O 02 | 45-46 | ||||||
Stern, David, Mirsky, Mark J. | Rabbinic Fantasies: Imaginative Narratives from Classical Hebrew Literature | 1990 | M/J 92 | 21 | ||||||
Marcus, Audrey F. | Jewish Teachers Handbook | O 80 | 15 | |||||||
Sales, Amy L., Saxe, Leonard | How Goodly Are Thy Tents: Summer Camps as Jewish Socializing Experiences | 2004 | S/O 04 | 24 | ||||||
Heuvel, Eric, Miller, Lorraine T. | Family Secret, A | 2009 | N/D 09 | 41986 | ||||||
Sears, David | Compassion for Humanity in the Jewish Tradition | 1998 | N/D 99 | 12 | ||||||
Cohen, Naomi W. | What the Rabbis Said: The Public Discourse of Nineteenth-Century American Rabbis | 2008 | F/M 09 | 8 | ||||||
Stanislawksi, Michael | Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning | 2004 | F/M 05 | 24 | ||||||
Appelfeld, Aharon, Appelfeld, Meir | Table for One: Under the Light of Jerusalem, A | 2005 | S/O 05 | 41 | ||||||
Cowan, Paul, Cowan, Rachel | Mixed Blessings | 1987 | F/M 88 | 4 | ||||||
Isaacs, Ronald H., Olitzky, Kerry M. | Sacred Moments: Tales from the Jewish Life Cycle | 1995 | N/D 95 | 9 | ||||||
Sofer, Barbara | Keeping Israel Safe: Serving in the Israel Defense Forces | 2008 | M/J 08 | 14 | ||||||
Shimoni, Gideon | Zionist Ideology, The | 1995 | Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series | N/D 95 | 41892 | |||||
Edwards, Michelle, Schuett, Stacey | Papas Latkes | 2004 | N/D 04 | 18-19 | ||||||
Hintz, Martin | Israel (Rev. ed.) | 2006 | Enchantment of the World Series | S/O 06 | 20 | |||||
Lampert, Lisa | Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare | 2004 | S/O 04 | 19 | ||||||
Edelman, Marsha Bryan | Discovering Jewish Music | 2003 | S/O 04 | 15 | ||||||
Potok, Chaim | Book of Lights, The | N/D 81 | 14 | |||||||
Adahan, Miriam, Halberstadt, Menachem | Torah Tigers | 2009 | S/O 09 | 24 | ||||||
Millen, Rochelle L. | New Perspectives on the Holocaust: A Guide for Teachers and Scholars | 1996 | F/M 97 | 6 | ||||||
Perechodnik, Calel | "Am I a Murderer?" Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman | 1996 | M/J 96 | 15 | ||||||
Milgram, Abraham E. | Short History of Jerusalem, A | 1998 | F/M 99 | 12 | ||||||
Machlis, Joseph | Lisas Boy | M/J 83 | 9 | |||||||
Geller, Uri, Boteach, Shmuley | Psychic and the Rabbi: A Remarkable Correspondence, The | 2001 | F/M 02 | 20-21 | ||||||
Valensi, Lucette, Wachtel, Nathan | Jewish Memories | 1991 | N/D 91 | 14 | ||||||
Deutsch, Naftali | Holocaust Survivor, A: In the Footsteps of His Past | 2007 | S/O 08 | 18 | ||||||
Raabe, Emily | Hanukkah Holiday Cookbook, A | 2002 | F/M 03 | 45 | ||||||
Grunblatt, Joseph | Exile and Redemption: Meditations on Jewish History | 1988 | S/O 88 | 7 | ||||||
Cinnamon and Myrrh | 1994 | N/D 94 | 7 | |||||||
Hoffman, Lawrence A. | Way into Jewish Prayer, The | 2000 | S/O 01 | 15 | ||||||
Sacks, Jonathan | Arguments for the Sake of Heaven | 1991 | Emergeng Trends in Traditional Judaism | M/J 91 | 15 | |||||
Berlin, Charles | Studies in Jewish Bibliography, History, and Literature | 26085 | 14 | |||||||
Cheshire, Gerald, Hammond, Paula | Middle East, The | 2003 | Cultures and Costumes: Symbols of Their Period | M/J 04 | 38 | |||||
Kaniuk, Yoram, Flantz, Richard | Rockinghorse | 1977 | Sp78 | 21 | ||||||
Zakar, Susan M. | Judaism Online: Confronting Spirituality on the Internet | 1998 | F/M 99 | 14 | ||||||
Shrayer, Maxim D. | Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories | 2009 | Library of Modern Jewish Literature | S/O 10 | 26 | |||||
Kavanaugh, Sarah | ORT, the Second World War and the Rehabilitation of Holocaust Survivors | 2008 | M/J 09 | 26 | ||||||
Petsonk, Judy | Intermarriage Handbook, The | 1988 | N/D 88 | 7 | ||||||
Kaes, Anton | From Hitler to Helmat: The Return of History as Film | 1989 | M/J 92 | 16 | ||||||
Hirsh, Marilyn | Deborah the Dybbuk: A Ghost Story | 1978 | W78 | 28 | ||||||
Lustig, Arnost | Bitter Smell of Almonds: Selected Fiction, The | 2001 | M/J 02 | 17 | ||||||
Wiesel, Elie | Time of the Uprooted, The | 2005 | S/O 05 | 39-40 | ||||||
Lieberman, Sherman | Mystics and Missionaries: The Jews in Palestine, 1799-1840 | 1992 | S/O 93 | 19 | ||||||
Denenberg, Barry | Shadow Life: A Portrait of Anne Frank and Her Family | 2005 | N/D 05 | 18 | ||||||
Walfish, Miriam | Libas Palace | 2012 | Jewish Girls Around the World | S/O13 | 4 | |||||
Biale, David | Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History | F/M 82 | 5 | |||||||
Nason, Ruth | Jewish Faith, The | 2005 | Start-Up Religion Series | N/D 05 | 20 | |||||
Solomon, Norman | Historical Dictionary of Judaism | 1998 | S/O 99 | 14 | ||||||
Gutterman, Bella, Morgenstern, Naomi | Gurs Haggadah: Passover in Perdition, The | 2003 | N/D 03 | 12 | ||||||
Lichtman, Moshe D. | Eretz Yisrael in the Parashah: Essays on the Centrality of the Land of Israel in the Torah | 2006 | M/J 07 | 28 | ||||||
Rosen, Chaya | Chaverim Boys Choir Live!, The | 2009 | N/D 09 | 11 | ||||||
Kozodoy, Ruth, Sidorsky, David, Sultanik, Kalman | Vision Confonts Reality: Historical Perspectives on the Contemporary Jewish Agenda | 1989 | The Herzl Yearbook, no. 9 | F/M 90 | 18 | |||||
Tridenti, Lina, Thorne, Stephen | Anne Frank | 1985 | Why They Became Famous | A/M 86 | 6 | |||||
Londner, Renee, Aviles, Martha | Stones for Grandpa | 2013 | FM13 | 11 | ||||||
Rosner, Fred | Medical Encyclopedia of Moses Maimonides | 1998 | F/M 99 | 41986 | ||||||
Drucker, Malka, Block, Gay | Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust | M/J 93 | 11 | |||||||
Klawans, Jonathan | Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism | 2012 | N/D13 | 30 | ||||||
Henkin, Joshua | World Without You, The | 2012 | M/J13 | 39 | ||||||
Jules, Jacqueline, Kahn, Katherine | Once Upon a Shabbos | 1998 | M/J 99 | 15 | ||||||
Goldberg, Lester | In Siberia It Is Very Cold | 1987 | N/D 87 | 6 | ||||||
Friesova, Jana Renee, Morrisby, Elinor, Rosendorf, Ladislav | Fortress of My Youth: Memoirs of a Terezin Survivor | 2002 | M/J 03 | 15 | ||||||
Taylor, Sydney | Danny Loves a Holiday | F/M 81 | 6 | |||||||
Abramovitsch, S. Y. (Mendele Moykher Sforim), Wex, Michael | Wishing-Ring, The: A Novel | 2003 | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art | S/O 03 | 11 | |||||
Tsadik, Daniel | Between Foreigners and Shiis: Nineteenth-Century Iran and Its Jewish Minority | 2007 | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture | M/J 08 | 28 | |||||
Bedzow, Ira | Things Overheard in the Synagogue | 2012 | N/D12 | 16-17 | ||||||
Koffsky, Ann D. | My Jewish Holiday Fun Book | 2000 | S/O 00 | 36 |