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| Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication |
Year |
Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graudin, Ryan | Wolf by Wolf | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 8 | Levine, Joyce | |||||
| Mendelsohn, Martha | Bromley Girls | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 3 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
| Baily, Virginia | Early One Morning | 2015 | F/M 2016 | 26 | Gremillion, Yossi | |||||
| Rauch, Georg, Rauch, Phyllis | Unlikely Warrior | 2015 | F/M 16 | 41-42 | Malen, Michal Hoschander | |||||
| Zohar, Gil | The Experience of Israel: Sights and Cities | 2015 | Voices from Israel | N/D 2015 | 7 | Rapp, Andrea | ||||
| Schaposchnik, Ana E. | Lima Inquisition: the Plight of Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Peru | 2015 | F/M 2016 | 21 | Belinfante, Randall C. | |||||
| Levinson, Cynthia | Watch Out for Flying Kids! How Two Circuses, Two Countries, and Nine Kids Confront Conflict and Build Community | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 37 | Rapp, Andrea | |||||
| Rudin, A. James | Pillar of Fire: A Biography of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 14 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
| Volozhiner, Chaim ben Isaac, Fraenkel, Avinoam | Nefesh HaTzimTzum=Contracted Soul | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 37 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
| Seidenberg, David Mevorach | Kabbalah and Ecology: God’s Image in the More-Than-Human World | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 43-44 | ||||||
| Goldstein, Niles Elliot | Eight Questions of Faith: Biblical Challenges That Guide and Ground Our Lives. | 2015 | F/M 16 | 11 | Wolfe, Nira | |||||
| Wacks, David A. | Double diaspora in Sephardic literature: Jewish cultural production before and after 1492 | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 38 | Belinfante, Randall C. | |||||
| Goodman, Micah | Maimonides and the book that changed Judaism: Secrets of the Guide for the Perplexed. P | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 8 | Belinfante, Randall C. | |||||
| Nelson, Suzanne | Serendipity's Footsteps | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 8-9 | Gershowitz, Elissa | |||||
| Sharenow, Robert | The Girl in the Torch | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 4 | Dublin, Anne | |||||
| The Koren Youth Siddur | 2015 | The Magerman Edition | S/O 2015 | 32-33 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
| Barash, Chris | Is It Hanukkah Yet? | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 15 | McMahon, Martha | |||||
| Zohar, Gil | Culture, Customs, and Celebrations in Israel | 2015 | Voices from Israel | N/D 2015 | 8 | Rapp, Andrea | ||||
| Schatt, Stan | Daniel Silva: A Reader’s Guide | 2015 | F/M 2016 | 21 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
| Gellman, Ellie B. | Tamar's Sukkah | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 37 | Kamin, Rachel | |||||
| Woolf, Jeffrey | Fabric of Religious Life in Medieval Ashkenaz (1000-1300). | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 37 | Tesler, David | |||||
| Bar, Doron | אידאולוגיה ונוף סמלי: קבורתם בשנית של אנשי שם יהודיים באדמת ארץ ישראל | 2015 | F/M 16 | 4 | Wolfe, Nira | |||||
| Newman, Tracy | Uncle Eli’s Wedding | 2015 | M/J 15 | 3 | Cole, Ellen | |||||
| Granatstein, Melvin | Meditations at Twilight on Genesis | 2015 | F/M 16 | 11 | Share, Ellen | |||||
| Appelfeld, Aharon | Adam & Thomas | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 1 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |||||
| Israeli Passion: Love, Jealousy and Crime | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 46 | Bibel, Barbara M. | ||||||
| Noah Shenker | Reframing Holocaust Testimony | 2015 | F/ M 2017 | 21-22 | Joy Kingsolver | |||||
| Hopkinson, Deborah | Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark | 2015 | N/D 2016 | 6 | Eskin, Marcie | |||||
| Barash, Chris | Is It Passover Yet? | 2015 | M/J 15 | 16 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |||||
| Kimmel, Eric A. | Scarlett and Sam: Escape from Egypt | 2015 | M/J 15 | 17 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |||||
| Solomon, Carol | Imagining Katherine | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 9 | Tilman, Ellen | |||||
| Cerrito, Angela | The Safest Lie | 2015 | F/M 16 | 35 | Dublin, Anne | |||||
| Fishman, Karen | Nonna’s Hanukkah Surprise | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 4 | Feit, Shelly | |||||
| Goda, Norman J.W. | To the Gates of Jerusalem: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1945-1947 | 2015 | M/J 15 | 26 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford Celebrates Hanukkah | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 15 | Kamin, Rachel | |||||
| Zohar, Gil | Israel and the Arab World | 2015 | Voices from Israel | N/D 2015 | 8 | Rapp, Andrea | ||||
| Shapiro, Marc B. | Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism rewrites its History | 2015 | F/M 2016 | 21 | Belinfante, Randall C. | |||||
| Marshall, Linda Elovitz | Talia and the Very Yum Kippur | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 37-38 | Kamin, Rachel | |||||
| Simon, Marie Jalowicz | Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 15 | Cantor, Hallie | |||||
| Baretz, Julie | Bible on Location: Off the Beaten Path in Ancient & Modern Israel, The | 2015 | F/M 16 | 4 | Bibel, Barbara M. | |||||
| 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. | ||||
| Grobman, Svetlana | Education of a Traitor: Growing Up in Cold War Russia, The | 2015 | F/M 16 | 11 | Cantor, Hallie | |||||
| Yadin-Israel, Azzan | Scripture and Tradition: Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 40 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
| Abraham-Klein, Dahlia | Spiritual Kneading Through the Jewish Months: Building the Sacred through Challah | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 11 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
| Kroke | Ten (CD) | 2015 | N/D 2016 | 26 | Dwoskin, Beth | |||||
| Koenigsberg, Zvi | Lost Temple of Israel. rev. ed. | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 9 | Share, Ellen | |||||
| Rocklin, Joanne | I Say Shehechiyanu | 2015 | M/J 15 | 10 | ||||||
| Crowder, Melanie | Audacity | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 2 | Dublin, Anne | |||||
| Jerusalem Stories: Visions of a Holy City | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 46 | Share, Ellen | ||||||
| Homolka, Walter | Jesus Reclaimed: Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 9 | Quinn, Arthur G. | |||||
| Koffsky, Ann D. | Shabbat Shalom Hey! | 2015 | M/J 15 | 17 | Cole, Ellen | |||||
| Burakowski, Ella | Hidden Gold: A True Story of the Holocaust | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 9-10 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |||||
| Deutsch, Barry | Hereville: How Mirka Caught a Fish | 2015 | Hereville | F/M 16 | 36 | Pinchuck, Chava | ||||
| Martin, David | Hanukkah Lights | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 4-5 | Kamin, Rachel | |||||
| Morris, Bob | Bobby Wonderful: an Imperfect Son Buries his Parents | 2015 | F/M 2016 | 28 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
| Rose, Daniel | A Guide to the Koren Children’s Siddur: An Educator’s Companion | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 32-33 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
| Holzman, Lori | Chaim Ephraim and the Shabbos Guests | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 15-16 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
| Korngold, Jamie | Sadie and Ori and the Blue Blanket | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 8-9 | Eskin, Marcie | |||||
| Shindler, Colin | Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron | 2015 | F/M 2016 | 22 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
| Soloviechik, Meir Y., Halpern, Stuart W., Zuckier, Shlomo | Torah and Western Thought: Intellectual Portraits of Orthodoxy and Modernity | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 16 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
| Belmont, Yemima | To Cross the Line with a Bridge. | 2015 | F/M 16 | 4 | Gremillion, Yossi | |||||
| Seidenberg, David Mevorach | Kabbalah and Ecology: God’s Image in the More-Than-Human World | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 31 | Levy, David B | |||||
| Hammer, Jill, Shere, Taya | Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Woman’s Spiritual Leadership, T he | 2015 | F/M 16 | 12 | Freiband, Susan | |||||
| Zemel, Carol | Looking Jewish: Visual Culture and Modern Diaspora. | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 40 | Freiband, Susan | |||||
| The Koren Succot Mahzor Hebrew/English edition | 2015 | F/ M 2017 | 15 | David Tesler | ||||||
| Kroke | Ten (CD) | 2015 | N/D 2016 | 26 | Dwoskin, Beth | |||||
| Rosenfeld, Shterni | Tuky: Story of a Hidden Child | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 2-3 | Silverman, Lisa | |||||
| Jews in America and Divine Destiny | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 46 | Feder, Debbie | ||||||
| Jikeli, Gunther | European Muslim Antisemitism: Why Young Males Don’t Like Jews | 2015 | Studies in Antisemitism | S/O 2015 | 9 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | ||||
| Lowenstein-Malz, Ronit | Escape in Time | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 10 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |||||
| Dublin, Anne | 44 Hours or Strike! | 2015 | F/M 16 | 36 | Marks, Allison | |||||
| Someck, Ronny, Inbar, Hana, Manaster, Robert | Milk Underground, The | 2015 | F/M 2016 | 28 | Levine, Joyce | |||||
| Rose, Daniel | A Guide to the Koren Youth Siddur: An Educator’s Companion | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 32-33 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
| Silverman, Erica | Returning Home: Journeys to Israel | 2015 | Voices from Israel | S/O 2016 | 36-37 | Quay, Alex | ||||
| Kobrin, Rebecca, Teller, Adam | Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History. | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 32 | Levy, David B | |||||
| Spitz, Elie Kaplan | Increasing Wholeness: Jewish Wisdom &Guided Meditations to Strengthen & Calm Body, Heart, Mind & Spirit . | 2015 | F/M 2016 | 23 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
| Jockusch, Laura, Finder, Gabriel N. | Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust. | 2015 | F/M 16 | 12 | Smith, Sonia | |||||
| Ziegler, Yael | Ruth: From Alienation to Monarchy. | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 40 | Tesler, David | |||||
| Alexander, Edward | Jews Against Themselves | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 13 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
| Lewando, Fania | Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook: Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today’s Kitchen | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 10 | Feder, Debbie | |||||
| Clark, Kathy | The Choice | 2015 | A Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers | M/J 15 | 11 | Krasner, Barbara | ||||
| Nights of Tel Aviv: Israeli Detective Stories | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 47 | Bibel, Barbara M. | ||||||
| Green, Arthur | The Heart of the Matter: Studies in Jewish Mysticism and Theology | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 19 | Stein, Marion M | |||||
| Blau, Sara, Romanenko, Vasillisa | If I Went to the Moon | 2015 | N/D 2016 | 7 | Citrin, Rena | |||||
| Thor, Annika | Deep Sea | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 10 | Lenson, Heather | |||||
| Meyer, Henye | Starlight | 2015 | F/M 16 | 37 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
| Kwall, Roberta Rosenthal | Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition, The | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 24 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
| Thorne, T.K. | Angels at the Gate | 2015 | F/M 2016 | 29 | Jefferson, Rebecca | |||||
| Deem, James M. | Prisoners of Breendonk: Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 33 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
| Zohar, Gil | Americans in the Holy Land | 2015 | Voices from Israel | S/O 2016 | 36-37 | Quay, Alex | ||||
| Koplik, Sara A. | Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan | 2015 | Series in Jewish Studies; 54 | M/J 2016 | 32 | Simon, Rachel | ||||
| Newman, Leslea | Ketzel, the Cat Who Composed | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 9 | Silverman, Lisa | |||||
| Teege, Jennifer, Sellmair, Nikola, Sommer, Carolin | My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers her Family’s Nazi Past . | 2015 | F/M 2016 | 23 | Wolfe, Nira | |||||
| Koren Mahzor for Yom Haatsma’ut and Yom Yerushalayim | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 12 | 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 | |||||
| Bliumis, Alina, Bliumis, Jeff | From Selfie to Groupie | 2015 | F/M 16 | 5 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
| Gold, Dina | Stolen Legacy: Nazi Theft and the Quest for Justice at Krausenstrasse 17/18 Berlin | 2015 | F/ M 2017 | 8 | Schutzman, Laura | Book | Adult | |||
| Orlov, Andrei A. | . Divine Scapegoats: Demonic Mimesis in Early Jewish Mysticism | 2015 | N/D 2016 | 19 | Belinfante, Randall C. | |||||
| Abrams, Ruth, Mushka, Tia | Hanukkah Lullaby | 2015 | N/D 2016 | 1 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |||||
| Lieberman, Dovid | How Free Will Works: The Blueprints to Take Charge of Your Life, Health, and Happiness. | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 10 | Wolfe, Nira |
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