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Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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Lempel, Blume, Cassedy, Ellen, Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron | Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 24-25 | Dwoskin, Beth | |||||
Kellner, Menachem | Gam hem ḳeruyim adam : ǂb ha-nokhri be-ʻene ha-Rambam = They too are called human : gentiles in the eyes of Maimonides | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 8 | Scheide, Daniel | |||||
Jordan, James | From Nuremberg to Hollywood: The Holocaust and the Courtroom in American Fictive Film. | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 31 | Schutzman, Laura | |||||
Elana Shapira | Style and Seducation: Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siecle Vienna | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 21 | Hallie Cantor | |||||
Grant, Michael | Front Lines | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 5-6 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |||||
Newman, Tracy, Garofoli, Viviana | Rosh Hashanah Is Coming! | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 28 | Kamin, Rachel | |||||
Rozen, Abigail, Hammerman, Lisa Cain | The Sparkling Gift: the Story of the Miraculous Mon | 2016 | F/M 16 | 35 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Freedman, Russell | We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement that Defied Adolf Hitler | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 35 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Roy, Jennifer, Owenson, Meg | Jars of Hope: How One Woman Helped Save 2,500 Children during the Holocaust | 2016 | F/M 16 | 42 | Lenson, Heather | |||||
Shir, Smadar | Miriam’s Song: The Story of Miriam’s Peretz | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 15 | Share, Ellen | |||||
Yaakov Feder | The Sefiros and the Self: A Divine Blueprint for Self-Discovery and Personal Growth | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 6 | Nira Wolfe | |||||
Fox, Pam, Mattuck, Israel Isidor | Architect of Liberal Judaism | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 16 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Tatjana Lichtenstein | Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 14-15 | Hallie Cantor | |||||
Koval, Ruchi | Conversations with God: Prayers for Jewish Women. | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 8 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Packer, Rachel Ornstein, Zemke, Deborah | Sky-High Sukkah | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 28 | Cole, Ellen | |||||
Freedman, Leora | Daughter Who Got Away, The | 2016 | F/M 2016 | 28 | Schutzman, Laura | |||||
Gottesfeld, Jeff, McCarty, Peter | The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank's Window | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 36 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Williams, Brian, Williams, Brenda | Saving the Persecuted | 2016 | Heroes of World War II Series | F/M 16 | 42-43 | Isaac, Fred | ||||
Wouk, Herman | Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 38 | Share, Ellen | |||||
Etsy Frankel-Fersel | Converting Masters: World Famous Masterpieces with a Jewish Twist | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 6 | Nira Wolfe | |||||
Jacobson, Maxine | Orthodoxy in American Judaism; The Era of Rabbi Leo Jung | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 18 | Tesler, David | |||||
Aizenberg, Edna | On the Edge of the Holocaust, The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 1 | Freiband, Susan | |||||
Richard A. Light | Jewish Rites of Death: Stories of Beauty and Transformation | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 15 | Nathan Rosen | |||||
Rabbi Jeremy D. Sher | Growth through Governance: What Every Jewish Nonprofit Leader Needs to Know | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 22 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Simon, Andrea | Esfir Is Alive | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 6-7 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Tarcov, Susan, Ochoa, Anna | Maya Prays for Rain | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 29 | Kamin, Rachel | |||||
Rubenstein, Eli | Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 36 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Throp, Claire, Williams, Brian, Williams, Brenda | Resisting the Nazis | 2016 | Heroes of World War II Series | F/M 16 | 42-43 | Isaac, Fred | ||||
Zalkin, Mordechai | Modernizing Jewish Education in Nineteenth Century Eastern Europe: The School as the Shrine of the Jewish Enlightenment | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 38 | Levy, David B | |||||
Joel Hecker | The Zohar: Pritzker Edition Volume 11 | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 6 | David B. Levy | |||||
Leibowitz, Daniella, Gliksman, Devora | Rebbetzin Vichna Kaplan: The Founder of the Bais Yaakov Movement in America | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 18 | Levy, David B | |||||
Borowitz, Mark | Finding Recovery and Yourself in Torah | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 2 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Kushner, David | Alligator Candy: A Memoir | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 9 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Margalit Shilo | Girls of Liberty: The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 22 | Dr. Yaffa Weisman | |||||
Blau, Sara, Leff, Tova | Baby of Our Own | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 7 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Lumer, Marc, Burston, Chaim, Naiditch, DovBer | Babel | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 29 | Cole, Ellen | |||||
Molchadsky, Yael, Bergman, Orit | The Chameleon That Saved Noah's Ark | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 30 | Gershowitz, Elissa | |||||
Balsley, Tilda, Poole, Helen | ABC Passover Hunt | 2016 | F/M 16 | 43 | Citrin, Rena | |||||
Soomekh, Saba | Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America. The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review of the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life. Volume 13. | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 16 | Bibel, Barbara M. | |||||
Yaffa Ganz | The Jewish Fact Finder: A Bookful of Important Torah Facts and Handy Jewish Information | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 8 | Nira Wolfe | |||||
Oksman, Tahneer | “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 18 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Boyarin, Daniel | Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 2 | Finkelman, Yoel | |||||
Stuart M. Matlins | The Jewish Book of Grief and Healing: A Spiritual Companion for Mourning | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 16 | Nathan Rosen | |||||
Schikker wi Lot, Lehman, Shmuel | Ganovim-Lider | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 26 | Dwoskin, Beth | |||||
Savit, Gavriel | Anna and the Swallow Man | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 3 | Malen, Michal Hoschander | |||||
Susan Silverman | Casting Lots : Creating a Family in a Beautiful Broken World | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 24 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Parks, Peggy J. | Anne Frank | 2016 | Influential Women | S/O 2016 | 31 | Citrin, Rena | ||||
Barash, Chris, Mai-Wyss, Tatjana | One Fine Shabbat | 2016 | F/M 16 | 43 | Kamin, Rachel | |||||
Tabory, Binyamin | Weekly Mitzva | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 18 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Keim, Katharina E. | Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer: Structure, Coherence, Intertextuality | 2016 | M/J 2018 | 25 | Levy, David B | Book | Adult | |||
Brenner, Naomi | Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact | 2016 | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art | S/O 2016 | 2 | Dwoskin, Beth | ||||
Meir, Jonatan | Literary Hasidism: The Life and Works of Michael Levi Rodkinson | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 16 | Scheide, Daniel | Book | Adult | |||
Joseph Skibell | Six Memos form the Last Millennium: A Novelist Reads the Talmud | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 24 | Issac, Fred | |||||
Gordon, Meryl G., Clifton-Brown, Holly | Flower Girl Wore Celery, The | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 8 | Cole, Ellen | |||||
Hammerstein, David, Shems, Ed | Kelev's Journey: A Jewish Dog Wanders Home | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 31 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |||||
Raum, Elizabeth | Stealing Nazi Secrets in World War II: An Interactive Espionage Adventure | 2016 | You Choose Spies Series | F/M 16 | 37 | Isaac, Fred | ||||
Goldman, Judy, Batori, Susan | Kopecks for Blintzes | 2016 | F/M 16 | 43 | Silverman, Lisa | |||||
Pick, Shlomo H. | . Moadei HaRav: Public Lectures on the Festivals by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 20 | Levy, David B | |||||
Casteel, Sarah Phillips | Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination | 2016 | Literature Now | S/O 2016 | 4 | Dwoskin, Beth | ||||
Alan Metnic | Captured in Memory: Photographs and Thoughts on Poland | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 16 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
Ben Izzy, Joel | Dreidels on the Brain. | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 1 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Matt, Daniel C. | Zohar: Pritzker Edition. Vol. 9. | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 11 | Levy, David B | |||||
Stavans, Ilan, Ballen, Gloria Abella | The New World Haggadah | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 24 | Smailes, Suzanne | Book | Adult | |||
Nardo, Don | Massacre in Munich: How Terrorists Changed the Olympics and the World | 2016 | Captured Sports History series | N/D 2016 | 8 | Dublin, Anne | ||||
Carlson, Claudia | Avi the Ambulance to the Rescue | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 9 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Hermelin, Aviva | The Grizzbears Discover the Golan | 2016 | Animals Build Character Series: Listen and Learn from the Animals | S/O 2016 | 31-32 | Pinchuck, Chava | ||||
Marshall, Linda Elovitz, Golubeva, Evgenia | Shh... Shh... Shabbat | 2016 | F/M 16 | 44 | Kamin, Rachel | |||||
Ruth Bader Ginsburg | My Own Words | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 9 | Rachel Simon | |||||
Cohen, Pinchas | Practical Guide to the Laws of Kashrut | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 4 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
Cary Nelson | Dreams Deferred: A Concise Guide to the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict & the Movement to Boycott Israel | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 18 | Marion M. Stein | |||||
Newman, Leslea, Husband, Amy | Hanukkah Delight!. | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 2 | Colodny, Debbie | |||||
Mernick, Moe | Gift of Stuttering: Confronting Life’s Challenges: A Personal Journey | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 11 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Conkling, Winifred | Radioactive! How Irene Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 4-5 | Lenson, Heather | |||||
Amy Stopniki | Kosher Taste | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 25 | Debbie Feder | |||||
Chaput, Rachel | Alef-Bet Hebrew Letter Primer. | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 10 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |||||
Hermelin, Aviva | The Grizzbears Make New Friends | 2016 | Animals Build Character Series: Listen and Learn from the Animals | S/O 2016 | 31-32 | Pinchuck, Chava | ||||
Balsley, Tilda | Shalom, Everybodeee! Grover's Adventures in Israel | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 11-12 | Colodny, Debbie | |||||
Krohn, Genendel, Cohen, Avigayil | Honorable Mentschen: A Torah-Based Guide to Derech Eretz and Social Skills | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 37 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Milhander, Laura Aron, Chernyak, Inna | Not for All the Hamantaschen in Town | 2016 | F/M 16 | 44 | Cole, Ellen | |||||
Abraham-Klein, Dahlia | Necessary Mourning: Healing the Loss of a Parent through Jewish Ritual | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 1 | Nathan Rosen | |||||
Aroeste, Sarah | Ora de Despertar | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 40 | Levine, Joyce | |||||
Birstein, Yossel, Birstein, Margaret, Inbar, Hana, Manaster, Robert | And so is the Bus: Jerusalem Stories | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 40 | Share, Ellen | |||||
Loew, Yehudah ben Bezalel, Widmonte, Ramon | Tiferet Yisrael: Translation and Commentary: Volume 1: Introduction and Chapters 1-9. | 2016 | M/J 2018 | 26 | David B. Levy | Book | Adult | |||
Sylvie Anne Goldberg, Benjamin Ivry | Clepsydra: Essay on the Plurality of Time in Judaism | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 9-10 | Roger S. Kohn | |||||
Roth, Jeff | Me, Myself & God: A Theology of Mindfulness | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 20 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
Lori Palatnik, Yaakov Palatnik | Remember my Soul: What to Do in Memory of A Loved One; A Path of Reflection and Inspiration for Shiva, the Stages of Jewish Mourning and Beyond | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 18 | Nathan Rosen | |||||
Schnur, Susan, Schnur-Fishman, Anna, Steele-Morgan, Alex | Potatoes at Turtle Rock. | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 2 | Quay, Alex | |||||
Martin Sugarman | Jewish Participation in the Fire Service in the Second World War: Last Voices | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 25 | Marlene Schiffman | |||||
Edwards, Michelle, Karas, G. Brian | Hat for Mrs. Goldman: A Story about Knitting and Love. | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 10 | Dublin, Anne | |||||
Hermelin, Aviva | Momo Fox Learns How to Be a Good Neighbor | 2016 | Animals Build Character Series: Listen and Learn from the Animals | S/O 2016 | 31-32 | Pinchuck, Chava | ||||
Edgar, Sherra G. | Israel | 2016 | One World, Many Countries | M/J 2016 | 12 | Rapp, Andrea | ||||
Ofanansky, Allison, Alpern, Eliyahu | How It's Made: Torah Scroll | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 37-38 | Lisa Silverman | |||||
Newman, Tracy, Garafoli, Viviana | Passover is Coming! | 2016 | Very First Board Books | F/M 16 | 44 | Lurie, Aimee | ||||
Angel, Marc D. | The Wisdom of Solomon and Us: The Quest for Meaning, Morality, and a Deeper Relationship with God | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 2 | Sukenic, Harvey | Book | Adult | |||
Anton, Maggie | . Fifty Shades of Talmud: What the First Rabbis Had to Say About You-Know-What | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 13 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Susan J. Gordon | Because of Eva: A Jewish Genealogical Journey | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 10 | Barbara Krasner | |||||
Seidman, Naomi | e Marriage Plot: or How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and Literature, The | 2016 | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture | N/D 2016 | 22 | Kohn, Roger S. | ||||
Stein, Joel, Vavouri, Elisa | Hanukkah with Mazel. | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 3 | McMahon, Martha | |||||
Frank Vajda | Saved to Remember: Raoul Wallenberg, Budapest 1944 and After | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 25-26 | Nira Wolfe | |||||
Mayer, Pamela, Melmon, Deborah | Chicken Soup, Chicken Soup | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 10-11 | McMahon, Martha |