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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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Werner, Aviva | Around the Clock: A Jewish Child Learns to Tell Time | 2014 | M/J 15 | 16 | Levine, Joyce | |||||
Graudin, Ryan | Wolf by Wolf | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 8 | Levine, Joyce | |||||
Wiseman, Eva | World Outside, The | S/O14 | 38-39 | Levine, Joyce | ||||||
Dublin, Anne | A Cage Without Bars | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 9-10 | Levine, Joyce | Book | Juvenile | |||
Walfish, Miriam | Bold as a Leopard ( The Chronicles of Meir ben Yaakov) | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 10 | Levine, Joyce | Book | Juvenile | |||
Halperin, Joan Arnay | My Sister’s Eyes: a Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 15 | Levine, Joyce | Book | Juvenile | |||
Someck, Ronny, Inbar, Hana, Manaster, Robert | Milk Underground, The | 2015 | F/M 2016 | 28 | Levine, Joyce | |||||
Unger, Nissi, Rosner, Hersh | Let's Meet a Hatzalah Member | 2018 | Our Community | M/J 2019 | 18 | Levine, Joyce | Book | Juvenile | ||
Aroeste, Sarah | Ora de Despertar | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 40 | Levine, Joyce | |||||
Gentin, Reyna Marder | Unreasonable Doubts | 2018 | N/D 2019 | 35 | Levine, Joyce | Book | Adult | |||
Killcoyne, Hope Lourie | Anne Frank: Heroic Diarist of the Holocaust | 2016 | Britannica Beginner Bios | N/D 2016 | 4 | Krasner, Barbara | ||||
Banki, Danna, Spira, Susan | Dreams Are Forbidden | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 5 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Goldsmith, Martin | Alex’s Wake: A Voyage of Betrayal and a Journey of Remembrance | 2014 | F/M 16 | 10 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Mendelsohn, Martha | Bromley Girls | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 3 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Freedman, Russell | We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement that Defied Adolf Hitler | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 35 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Appelfeld, Aharon, Mintzi, Vali, Green, Jeffrey | Long Summer Nights | 2019 | N/D 2019 | 10 | Krasner, Barbara | Book | Juvenile | |||
Gottesfeld, Jeff, McCarty, Peter | The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank's Window | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 36 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Simon, Andrea | Esfir Is Alive | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 6-7 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Rubenstein, Eli | Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 36 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Kacer, Kathy | Shanghai Escape | 2013 | F/M14 | 9 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Ehrlich, Esther | Nest | 2014 | N/D 14 | 2 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Leatherdale, Mary Beth, Shakespeare, Eleanor | Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 16 | Krasner, Barbara | Book | Juvenile | |||
Kacer, Kathy | Magician of Auschwitz, the | 2014 | N/D 14 | 8 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Clark, Kathy | The Choice | 2015 | A Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers | M/J 15 | 11 | Krasner, Barbara | ||||
Deem, James M. | Prisoners of Breendonk: Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 33 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Blankman, Anne | Prisoner of Night and Fog | = | S/O14 | 41-42 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Perl, Lila | Isabel’s War. | 2014 | N/D 14 | 9 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Reef, Catherine | Leonard Bernstain and American Music | Modern Music Masters | S/O14 | 34-35 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Halahmy, Miriam | Saving Hanno: The Story of a Refugee Dog | 2019 | M/J 2019 | 12-13 | Krasner, Barbara | Book | Juvenile | |||
Prins, Marcel, Steenhuis, Peter Henk | Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival | 2014 | M/J 15 | 12 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Blankman, Anne | Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke | 2015 | F/M 16 | 38 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Lehmann, Devra | Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker | 2014 | M/J 15 | 5-6 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Steinkellner, Teddy | Trash Can Days: A Middle School Saga | 2013 | F/M14 | 5 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Rosenbaum, Andria Warmflash, Shleifer, Maya | Hand in Hand | 2019 | M/J 2019 | 14 | Krasner, Barbara | Book | Juvenile | |||
Kopelman, Judy Tal | Grandpa's Third Drawer; Unlocking Holocaust Memories | S/O14 | 43-44 | Krasner, Barbara | ||||||
Perl, Lila | Lilli’s Quest | 2015 | F/M 16 | 39 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Wilson, Kip | White Rose | 2019 | M/J 2019 | 14 | Krasner, Barbara | Book | Juvenile | |||
Don Nardo | Hitler in Paris | Captured World History Series | S/O14 | 44 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Kowitz, Mitchell | Kosher Cuisine for a New Generation | 2014 | N/D 14 | 25 | Feder, Debbie | |||||
Kaplan, Ron | Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 8 | Feder, Debbie | |||||
Natasegara, Joanna | Price of Kings: Shimon Peres, The | N/D 14 | 43 | Feder, Debbie | ||||||
Jews in America and Divine Destiny | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 46 | Feder, Debbie | ||||||
Kokotlin, David and Joey Allaham | Prime Grill Cookbook, The | 2013 | S/O14 | 16 | Feder, Debbie | |||||
Lewando, Fania | Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook: Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today’s Kitchen | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 10 | Feder, Debbie | |||||
Stories of a Young Nation: Israeli Comedies and Drama and Everything In-Between | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 47 | Feder, Debbie | ||||||
Afro-Semitic Experience | Jazz Souls on Fire | 2013 | S/O 2015 | 27 | Feder, Debbie | |||||
Yeshiva Me'on Hatorah | Taste of Pesach: Trusted Favorites, Simple Preparation, Magnificent Results | S/O14 | 26 | Feder, Debbie | ||||||
Kipnes, Paul, November, Michelle | Jewish Spiritual Parenting: Wisdom, Activities, Rituals and Prayers for Raising Children with Spiritual Balance and Emotional Wholeness | 2015 | F/M 16 | 13 | Feder, Debbie | |||||
Cohen, Herbert J. | Kosher Movies: A Film Critic Discovers Life Lessons at the Cinema | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 4 | Feder, Debbie | |||||
ulberg, Davdi J. | Life Transforming Diet, The | S/O14 | 27 | Feder, Debbie | ||||||
Schapira, Leah, Dweck, Victoria | Secret Restaurant Recipes from the World’s Top Kosher Restaraunts | 2014 | M/J 15 | 38 | Feder, Debbie | |||||
Frakes, Jerold D. | Early Yiddish Epic | 2014 | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art | N/D 2015 | 17 | Seigel, Amanda | ||||
Gilbert, Joanne | Women of Valor: Polish Resisters to the Third Reich | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 18 | Seigel, Amanda | |||||
Wengeroff, Pauline | Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century | 2014 | M/J 15 | 42 | Seigel, Amanda | |||||
Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron | Prodigal children in the house of G-d | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 38 | Seigel, Amanda | Book | Adult | |||
Bollati, Milvia, Cassen, Flora, Epstein, Marc Michael, De Hamel, Christopher, Hindman, Sandra | The Lombard Haggadah | 2019 | F/M 2020 | 22 | Berger, Shulamith | Book | Adult | |||
Burstyn, Rochel | Where Are My Shoes? | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 35 | Lurie, Aimee | |||||
Kacer, Kathy | Stones on a Grave | 2015 | Secrets | S/O 2016 | 33 | Lurie, Aimee | ||||
Marks, Allison, Marks, Wayne, Peluso, Martina | Og's Ark | 2016 | F/M 16 | 34 | Lurie, Aimee | |||||
Tarshis, Lauren | I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944. | 2014 | I Survived series | N/D 14 | 10 | Lurie, Aimee | ||||
Gehl, Laura | Hare and Tortoise Race Across Israel | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 34 | Lurie, Aimee | |||||
Newman, Tracy, Garafoli, Viviana | Passover is Coming! | 2016 | Very First Board Books | F/M 16 | 44 | Lurie, Aimee | ||||
Sarvas, Mark | Memento Park | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 38 | Weisman, Yaffa | Book | Adult | |||
Ridley, Barbara | When It’s Over | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 39 | Wallerstein, Jane | Book | Adult | |||
Press, Judy, Hall, Mary | Bubbe’s Got the Beat | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 19 | Tilman, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
Kimmel, Eric A., Stevanovic, Ivica | Scarlett and Sam Search for the Shamir | 2018 | Scarlett and Same | M/J 2018 | 13 | Tilman, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | ||
Olizky, Kerry, Tompkins, Abigail | Where's the Potty on this Ark? | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 3-4 | Tilman, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
Scheerger, Sarah Lynn, Melmon, Deborah | Mitzvah Pizza | 2019 | M/J 2019 | 16 | Tilman, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
Solomon, Carol | Imagining Katherine | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 9 | Tilman, Ellen | |||||
Jones, Carrie | Spy Who Played Baseball, The | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 8 | Tilman, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
Cohan, Medeia, Walsh, Sarah | Hats of Faith | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 6 | Tilman, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
Tarcov, Susan, Sanchez, Sonia | Raisins and Almonds: A Yiddish Lullaby | 2019 | M/J 2019 | 20 | Tilman, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
Stauffer, Lisa Lowe, Scudamore, Angelika | Two by Two | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 7 | Tilman, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
Olitzky, Kerry M. | Welcome to the Seder: A Passover Haggadah for Everyone | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 27 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
Twerski, Abraham J. | Shame Borne in Silence: Spousal Abuse in the Jewish Community. 2nd edition. | 2015 | N/D 2016 | 22 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Lichtenstein, Dovid | Headlines: Halachic Debates of Current Events | 2014 | M/J 15 | 31 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Anderson, Gary A., Clements, Ruth A., Satran, David | New Approaches to the Study of Biblical Interpretation in Judaism of the Second Temple Period and in Early Christianity: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literatur | 2013 | N/D 14 | 14 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Ben David, Aryeh | Becoming a Soulful Educator: How to Bring Jewish Learning from Our Minds and Hearts to Our Souls- and into Our Lives | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 4 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
Feldman, Daniel Z., Halpern, Stuart W. | Weekday Prayers: Essays / by the Rabbis & Professors of Yeshiva University, The | 2014 | F/M 16 | 9 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Schwartz, Richard H. | Who Stole My Religion? Revitalizing Judaism and Applying Jewish Values to Help Heal our Imperiled Planet | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 20 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
Drazin, Israel | Unusual Bible Interpretations | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 17 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Bauckham, Richard, Davila, James R., Panayotiv, Alexander | Old Testament Pseudepigrapha | 2013 | S/O14 | 4 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Drazin, Israel | Unusual Bible Interpretations: Ruth, Esther, and Judith | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 5 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
Enoch, Reuvan | Passover Haggadah in Judaeo-Georgian : a critical edition., The | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 17 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Kushner, Yosef | Commerce and Shabbos: The Laws of Shabbos as They Apply to Today’s Hi-Tech Business World. | 2013 | N/D 14 | 25 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Levitan, Chana | That's Why I Married You: How to Dance with Personality Differences | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 14 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
Taylor, Derek | Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler: The Forgotten Founder. | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 34 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
Endelman, Todd M., Moore, Deborah Dash | Crisis and Creativity Between World Wars, 1918-1939 | 2020 | The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Volume 8 | S/O 2020 | 27-28 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | ||
Yadin-Israel, Azzan | Scripture and Tradition: Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 40 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Wagner, Stanley M. and Israel Drazin | What's Beyond the Bible Text: Thought Provoking Comments on the Bible that Stimulate and Stretch the Imagination | 2013 | S/O14 | 25 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
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. | |||||
Weinberger, Moshe, Wolf, Binyomin | Sparks from the fire : Shabbos Drashos Delivered at Keillas Aish Kodesh | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 32 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
Kanarfogel, Ephraim, Schwartz, Dov | Scholarly Man of Faith: Studies in the Thought and Writings of Rabbi Josephy B. Soloveitchik | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 28-29 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
Siegel, Richard, Geller, Laura | Getting Good at Getting Older | 2019 | F/M 2020 | 30 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
Kwall, Roberta Rosenthal | Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition, The | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 24 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Zion, Noam Sachs | The Rabbinic Family Disrupted by Love of Torah: Absentee Husbands and Fathers | 2018 | Talmud Marital Dramas volume 4 | N/D 2019 | 32 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | ||
Hasan-Rokem, Galit, Gruenwald, Ithamar | Louis Ginzberg’s Legends of the Jews: Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered | 2014 | M/J 15 | 28 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Hermelin, Sarah | Journey Together: 49 Steps to Transforming a Family | 2014 | M/J 15 | 28 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Rotenberg, Mordechai | Psychology of Tzimtzum: Self, Other and God, The | 2015 | N/D 2016 | 20 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Stone, D.Z. | No Past Tense: Love and Survival in the Shadow of the Holocaust | 2019 | F/M 2020 | 31 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult |