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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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Stuchner, Joan Betty | Bagels Come Home! | 2014 | M/J 15 | 6 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |||||
Ungar, Richard | Yitzi and the Giant Menorah | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 3 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |||||
Korngold, Jamie S. | Sadie's Lag Ba'Omer Mystery | S/O14 | 50 | |||||||
Rocklin, Joanne | I Say Shehechiyanu | 2015 | M/J 15 | 10 | ||||||
Joffo, Joseph | A Bag of Marbles | 2013 | F/M14 | 2 | ||||||
Greene, Jacqueline Dembar | Growing Suspicion: A Rebecca Mystery | American Girl series | S/O14 | 35-36 | ||||||
Ansh, Tamar | Let My Children Cook! A Passover Cookbood for Kids | S/O14 | 35 | Boomfield, Kathy | ||||||
Feinstein, Edward | Chutzpah Imperative: Empowering Today’s Jews for a Life That Matters., the | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 6 | Stein, Marion M | |||||
Caputo, Nina, Hart, Mitchell B. | On the Word of a Jew: Religion, Reliability, and the Dynamics of Trust | 2019 | S/O 2019 | 11-12 | Stein, Marion M | Book | Adult | |||
Golick, Margie | Let There Be light: Stories from Genesis in Verse | 2013 | S/O14 | 33 | Stein, Marion M | |||||
Green, Arthur | The Heart of the Matter: Studies in Jewish Mysticism and Theology | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 19 | Stein, Marion M | |||||
Meyer, Susan Lynn | Skating with the Statue of Liberty | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 32 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Stavans, Ilan | Golemito | 2013 | F/M14 | 13-14 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Falken, Linda | Noah’s Ark: From Genesis Chapters 6-9 | 2015 | N/D 2016 | 4 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Goldblatt, Mark | Finding the Worm | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 6-7 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Patterson, Jose | My Aunt Manya | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 32-33 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Rosner, Jennifer | The Mitten String | 2014 | M/J 15 | 15 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Rosen, Lev | Woundabout | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 7 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Rockliff, Mara | Chick Chak Shabbat | S/O14 | 51 | Marks, Allison | ||||||
Guthrie, Woody, Horowitz, Dave | Honeyky Hanukah | 2014 | N/D 14 | 5 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Albertalli, Becky | Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 7 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Poulsen, David | Numbers | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 33-34 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Pinkwater, Daniel | Beautiful Yetta’s Hanukkah Kitten | 2014 | N/D 14 | 6 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Jules, Jacquleine | Never Say a Mean Word Again: A Tale from Medieval Spain | S/O14 | 32 | Marks, Allison | ||||||
McGinty, Alice B | Rabbi Benjamin's Buttons | S/O14 | 32 | Marks, Allison | ||||||
Dublin, Anne | 44 Hours or Strike! | 2015 | F/M 16 | 36 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Berne, Jennifer | On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein | 2013 | S/O14 | 33 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Heiligman, Deborah | The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos | 2013 | F/M14 | 3 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Smith, Brendan Powell | Daniel in the Lions’ Den: The Brick Bible for Kids | 2014 | N/D 14 | 3 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Ben Izzy, Joel | Dreidels on the Brain. | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 1 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Brown, Barbara | Hanukkkah in Alaska | 2013 | S/O14 | 49 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Smith, Brendan Powell | Jonah and the Whale: The Brick Bible for Kids | 2014 | N/D 14 | 3 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Brown, Barbara | Hanukah in Alaaska | 2013 | S/O14 | 49 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Kerr, Philip | Winter Horses, The | S/O14 | 43 | Marks, Allison | ||||||
Levy-Bertherat, Deborah, Hunter, Adriana | The Travels of Daniel Ascher | 2015 | F/M 16 | 38-39 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Kimmel, Eric A. | Simon and the Bear: A Hanukkah Take | S/O14 | 50 | Marks, Allison | ||||||
Metheny, Pat | Tap | 2013 | S/O14 | 30 | Schiede, Daniel | |||||
Alpert, Michael, Kytasty, Julian | Night Songs from a Neighboring Village: Ballads of the Ukrainian and Yiddish Heartland | 2014 | M/J 2016 | 42 | Pinnolis, Judith S. | |||||
Kita, Caroline A. | Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna: Composing Compassion in Music and Biblical Theater | 2019 | F/M 2020 | 26-27 | Pinnolis, Judith S. | Book | Adult | |||
Hamui Sutton, Silvia | Lyrical Eroticism in Judeo-Spanish Songs | 2017 | F/M 2019 | 4 | Pinnolis, Judith S. | Book | Adult | |||
Cohen, Judith M. | Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack | 2019 | S/O 2019 | 12 | Pinnolis, Judith S. | Book | Adult | |||
Tucholsky, Kurt | Rheinsberg, a Storybook for Lovers and Among City Wizards | S/O14 | 27 | Batzdorff, Susanne M. | ||||||
Vidro, Nadia | Medieval Karaite Pedagogical Grammar of Hebrew: A Critical Edition and English Translation of Kitab al- 'Uqud fiTasarif al-Luga al-'Ibraniyya | 2013 | S/O14 | 23 | ||||||
Veidlinger, Jeffrey | In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in the Soviet Ukraine | 2013 | S/O14 | 23 | Seigel, Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) | |||||
Tabachnick, Stephen E. | Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel | S/O14 | 22 | Berenson, Steven M. | ||||||
Ruebner, Josh | Shattered Hopes: Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace | 2013 | S/O14 | 21 | ||||||
Sugarman, Martin | Under the Heel of Bushido: Last Voices of the Jewish POWs of the Japanese in the Second World War | SO/14 | 21-22 | |||||||
Rossner, Rena | Eating the Bible: Over 50 Delicious Recipes to Feed Your Body and Nourish Your Soul | 2013 | S/O14 | 19 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Hirsch, Samson Raphael | Hirsch Pirkei Avos: Chapters of the Fathers, The | 2014 | N/D 14 | 23 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Ben-David, Lenny | American Interests in the Holy Land Revealed in Early Photographs | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 21 | Gordon, Ilka | Book | Adult | |||
Fruchter, Yaffa | Waste Not, Want Not: Kosher Cookbook | 2019 | N/D 2019 | 23-24 | Gordon, Ilka | Book | Adult | |||
Leviant, Curt | Katz or Cats of How Jesus Became My Rival in Love | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 39 | Gordon, Ilka | Book | Adult | |||
Gugenheim, Claude-Annie | Letters from Mir: A Torah World in the Shadow of the Shoah, The Correspondence of Ernest Gugenheim | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 9 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Kugel, James L. | The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times | M/J 2019 | 32 | Gordon, Ilka | Book | Adult | ||||
Ophir, Natan | Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach: Life, Mission, and Legacy | Modern Jewish Lives | M/J 15 | 34 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Palmer, Michael Craig | Eric Mendelsohn's Synagogues in America | 2019 | F/M 2020 | 30 | Gordon, Ilka | Book | Adult | |||
Ginsburg, Shai P. | Rhetoric and Nation: The Formation of Hebrew National Culture, 1880-1990 | 2014 | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art | N/D 2015 | 18 | Gordon, Ilka | ||||
Gugenheim, Claude-Annie | Letters from Mir: A Torah World in the Shadow of the Shoah, The Correspondence of Ernest Gugenheim | 2014 | M/J 15 | 26 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Berger, Joseph | Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America, the | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 2 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Willig, Mordechai | Laws of Cooking and Warming Food on Shabbat, The | 2013 | S/O14 | 25-26 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Koren Mahzor for Yom Haatsma’ut and Yom Yerushalayim | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 12 | Gordon, Ilka | ||||||
Tabory, Binyamin | Weekly Mitzva | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 18 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Aarons, Victoria, Patt, Avinoam J., Shechner, Mark | New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 39 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Dershowitz, Alan M. | Defending Israel: The Story of My Relationship with My Most Challenging Client | 2019 | F/M 2020 | 23 | Gordon, Ilka | Book | Adult | |||
Hardiman, Richard | Gematria of Genesis and Jewish Holy Days and Festivals | 2019 | S/O 2020 | 29 | Gordon, Ilka | Book | Adult | |||
Telushkin, Joseph | Rebbe : the Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History . | 2014 | F/M 2016 | 25 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Eisenberg, Ronald L. | Jews in Medicine: Contributions to Health and Healing Through the Ages | 2019 | S/O 2019 | 14 | Gordon, Ilka | Book | Adult | |||
Kellerman, Faye | Murder 101: A Decker/Lazarus Novel | 2014 | M/J 15 | 43 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Lichtenstein, Aaron | Reading the Sacred Text: What the Torah Tells Us | 2015 | F/M 16 | 14 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Diamond, Shani | Mish and Mush Series | 2013 | S/O14 | 49 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Gelagotis Lee, Donna | Intersection on Neptune | 2019 | N/D 2019 | 34-35 | Gordon, Ilka | Book | Adult | |||
Newhouse, Alana | The 100 Most Jewish Foods | 2019 | N/D 2019 | 28 | Gordon, Ilka | Book | Adult | |||
Herring, Rabbi Basil | Siddur Avodat Halev | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 29 | Gordon, Ilka | Book | ||||
Astaire, Libi | 36 Candles: Chassidic Tales for Channukah | 2013 | S/O14 | 27 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Sela, Shlomo | Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meir. Abraham ibn Ezra on Nativities and Continuous Horoscopy: A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Book of Nativities and the Book of Revolution | 2014 | Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Writings, 4; Etudes sur le Judaisme Medieval, 59 | N/D 14 | 33 | |||||
Katsis, L. F. and Helen Tolstoy, eds., Rochlin, Elen, trans. | Jewishness in Russian Culture: WIthin and Wihtout | Studia Judaeoslavica, 7 | S/O14 | 15 | ||||||
Eynikel, Eric, Nicklas, Tobias | Samson: Hero or Fool? The Many Faces of Samson | 2014 | N/D 14 | 17 | ||||||
Lundbom, Jack R. | Deuteronomy: A Commentary | 2013 | N/D 14 | 27 | ||||||
Fontaine, Resianne, Freudenthal, Gad | Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies | 2013 | Studies in Jewish History and Culture; 39-40 | N/D 14 | 18 | |||||
Kahn, Ava F., Mendelsohn, Adam M. | Transnational Traditions: New Perspectives on American Jewish History | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 23 | Sukenic, Harvey | |||||
Eliezrie, David | Secret of Chabad: Inside the World’s Most Successful Jewish Movement, T he | 2015 | F/M 16 | 8 | Sukenic, Harvey | |||||
Greenberg, Irving | Sage Advice: Pirkei Avot | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 6 | Sukenic, Harvey | |||||
Greenblatt, Rachel L. | To Tell Their Children: Jewish Communal Memory in Early Modern Prague | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture | S/O14 | 13 | Sukenic, Harvey | |||||
Bashevkin, David | Sin:a:gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought | 2019 | F/M 2020 | 20-21 | Sukenic, Harvey | Book | Adult | |||
Wasserman, Mira | Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud after the Humanities | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 32 | Sukenic, Harvey | Book | Adult | |||
Lieberman, Allan | We Want Mashgiach Now! Tales from a Kosher Cop | 2018 | N/D 2019 | 26 | Sukenic, Harvey | Book | Adult | |||
Ruderman, David B. | A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era: The Book of the Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy | 2014 | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies | M/J 15 | 36-37 | Sukenic, Harvey | ||||
Epstein, Benjamin | Living in the Presence: A Jewish Mindfulness Guide to Everyday Life | 2019 | S/O 2019 | 14 | Sukenic, Harvey | Book | Adult | |||
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 | |||
Weinberg, David H. | Recovering a Voice: West European Jewish Communities after the Holocaust | 2015 | N/D 2016 | 23 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
Zerubavel, Yael | Desert in the Promised Land | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 37 | Kohn, Roger S. | Book | Adult | |||
Magid, Shaul | Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern Judaism | 2014 | M/J 15 | 32 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
Schotz, Leslie | Shalom: A Congregational Guide to Jewish Meditation | 2014 | N/D 14 | 31 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
Rabinovitch, Simon | Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 29 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
Volozhiner, Chaim ben Isaac, Fraenkel, Avinoam | Nefesh HaTzimTzum=Contracted Soul | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 37 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
Densmore, Dana | Reb Zalman Gathers Figs: A Study of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s Reading of Biblical Text to Re-Vision Judaism for the Present Day. | 2013 | N/D 14 | 16 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
Weiss, Avraham | Journey to Open Orthodoxy | 2019 | N/D 2019 | 31 | Kohn, Roger S. | Book | Adult | |||
Raphael, Simcha Paull | Grief Journey and the Afterlife: Jewish Pastoral Care for Bereavement, The | 2015 | Jewish Life, Death, and Transition | S/O 2015 | 108 | Kohn, Roger S. | ||||
Labendz, Jacob Ari, Yanklowitz, Shmuly | Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism: Studies and New Directions | 2019 | N/D 2019 | 25-26 | Kohn, Roger S. | Book | Adult | |||
Kushelevsky, Rella, Ruchie Avital, Chaya Naor, Elisheva Baumgarten | Tales in context: Sefer ha-Ma'sim in medieval Northern France | 2017 | Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Ms. Bodl, Or. 135 | N/D 2018 | 29-30 | Kohn, Roger S. | Book | Adult |