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Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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Shapiro, Nathan | Spot the Difference - Shabbos | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 38 | Silverman, Lisa | |||||
Person, Katarzyna | Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943 | 2014 | M/J 15 | 34-35 | Cantor, Hallie | |||||
Eynikel, Eric, Nicklas, Tobias | Samson: Hero or Fool? The Many Faces of Samson | 2014 | N/D 14 | 17 | ||||||
Reifler, David M. | Days of Ticho: Empire, Mandate, Medicine, and Art in the Holy Land | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 18 | Simon, Rachel | |||||
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 | |||||
Snyder, Elaine | Anna & Solomon | 2014 | M/J 15 | 4 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |||||
Lightman, Sarah | Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews | 2014 | N/D 14 | 26 | Bergson, Steven M. | |||||
Adams, Peter | Politics, Faith, and the Making of American Judaism | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 11 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Bejarano, Margalit | Jewish Community of Cuba: Memory and History, the | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 2 | Smith, Sonia | |||||
Rubin, Susan Goldman | Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi | 2014 | M/J 15 | 10 | Lenson, Heather | |||||
Sperber, Daniel | On the Relationship of Mitzvot Between Man and His Neighbor and Man and His Maker | 2014 | N/D 14 | 34 | Tesler, David | |||||
Gold, Betty, Hodermarsky, Mark | Beyond Trochenbrod: The Betty Gold Story | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 18 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Sabbag, Galia | Miracle for Shira: A Chanukah Story | 2014 | Shira's series | M/J 15 | 17 | Feit, Shelly | ||||
Ehrlich, Esther | Nest | 2014 | N/D 14 | 2 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Kuznitz, Cecile Esther | YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 24 | Dwoskin, Beth | |||||
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 | |||||
Kacer, Kathy | Magician of Auschwitz, the | 2014 | N/D 14 | 8 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Milevsky, Chaya L. | Will I Ever be Happy Again? | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 9 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Knowles, Anne Kelly, Cole, Tim, Giordano, Alberto | Geographies of the Holocaust | 2014 | Spacial Humanities | S/O 2015 | 12 | Wolfe, Nira | ||||
Phillips, Denise | The Gourmet Jewish Cookbook: More Than 200 Recipes From Around the World | 2014 | M/J 15 | 35 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Ziv, Guy | Why Hawks Become Doves: Shimon Peres and Foreign Policy Change in Israel | 2014 | M/J 2016 | 38 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
Ben-Rafael, Eliezer, Liwerant, Judit Bokser, Gorny, Yosef | Reconsidering Israel-Diaspora Relations | 2014 | F/M 16 | 5 | Wolfe, Nira | |||||
Feingold, Henry L. | American Jewish Political Culture and the Liberal Persuasion | 2014 | Modern Jewish History | N/D 14 | 17 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | ||||
Shapiro, Rami M. | Embracing the Divine Feminine: Finding God through the Ecstasy of Physical Love—The Song of Songs. Annotated and Explained | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 31 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Scult, Mel | Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan, The | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 19 | Finkelman, Yoel | |||||
Berger, Sande Boritz | The Sweetness: A Novel | 2014 | M/J 15 | 42 | Schutzman, Laura | |||||
Berger, Joseph | Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America, the | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 2 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Steinsaltz, Adin | My Rebbe | 2014 | N/D 14 | 35 | Cantor, Hallie | |||||
Knafo, Asher | Teh im nana (Tea with Mint: The Book of Mirth and Zest of Moroccan Jews) | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 11 | Simon, Rachel | |||||
Knott, Marie Luise | Unlearning With Hannah Arendt | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 11 | Merowitz, Morton J. | |||||
Altein, Chani | Oif Der Aleph-Bais Shif | 2014 | M/J 15 | 18 | Dublin, Anne | |||||
Krasner, Barbara | Goldie Takes a Stand: Golda Meir’s First Crusade. | 2014 | N/D 14 | 2 | Dublin, Anne | |||||
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. | |||||
McKay, Sharon | End of the Line, The | 2014 | N/D 14 | 8 | ||||||
Robinson, James T. | The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Eli the Karaite on the Book of Joshua | 2014 | M/J 15 | 35-36 | Belinfante, Randall C. | |||||
Simonsohn, Shlomo | Jews of Italy: Antiquity, The | 2014 | Brill Series in Jewish Studies | N/D 2015 | 32 | Levy, David B | ||||
Tabory, Joseph, Atzmon, Arnon | Midrash Esther Rabbah: Critical Edition Based on Manuscripts with an Introduction, References, Variant Readings and Commentary. | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 19 | Roth, Pinchas | |||||
Bernstein, Leonard S. | Death by Pastrami | 2014 | M/J 15 | 43 | Bibel, Barbara M. | |||||
Kalmin, Richard | Migrating Tales: The Talmud’s Narratives and Their Historical Context | 2014 | F/M 16 | 12 | Rosenbloom, Jim | |||||
Mirsky, Yehuda | Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution | 2014 | N/D 14 | 27 | Tesler, David | |||||
Drew, Cynthia | Red Mansions: A Novel | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 41 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Angel, Hayyim | Jewish Holiday Companion, Insights into the Meaning of the Holidays, Their Prayers, Symbols and Biblical Readings, A | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 13 | Freiband, Susan | |||||
Bock, Jerry, Stein, Joseph, Harnick, Sheldon, Aleichem, Sholem | Fiddler on the Roof: Based on Sholem Aleichem’s Stories | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 4 | Share, Ellen | |||||
Krasner, Barbara | Liesl’s Ocean Rescue | 2014 | M/J 15 | 11 | Dublin, Anne | |||||
Wright, Jacob L. | David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory | 2014 | N/D 14 | 35 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
Greenstein, David | Utopia: The Walking Stories of the Zohar | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 19 | Levy, David B | |||||
Adams, Jenni | The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature | 2014 | M/J 15 | 19 | Darrow, Sheila | |||||
Smith, Brendan Powell | Daniel in the Lions’ Den: The Brick Bible for Kids | 2014 | N/D 14 | 3 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Legrand, Thierry, Joosten, Jan | Targums in the Light of Traditions of the Second Temple Period, The | 2014 | Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism | N/D 2015 | 25 | Levy, David B | ||||
Moskowitz, Leib & Gittel | Kuzmino Chronicles: Memoirs of Teenage Holocaust Survival | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 33 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Hermelin, Sarah | Journey Together: 49 Steps to Transforming a Family | 2014 | M/J 15 | 28 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Perl, Lila | Isabel’s War. | 2014 | N/D 14 | 9 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
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 | |||||
Rovner, Adam | In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel | 2014 | M/J 15 | 36 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
Breuer, Yael, Shavit, Eyal, Smith, Aubrey | Hilarious Hebrew: The Fun and Fast Way to Learn the Language | 2014 | F/M 16 | 5 | Bibel, Barbara M. | |||||
Skolnick, Vivian B. | Biblical Path to Psychological Maturity: Psychological Insights into the Weekly Torah Readings | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 32 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Tropper, Yosef | Aishes Chayil Song: Discover how each verse illuminates a unique and exceptional Woman of Valor from Tanach, The | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 21 | Schutzman, Laura | |||||
Gold, Nora | Fields of Exile | 2014 | M/J 15 | 43 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
Goldlist, Marcia | Enjoying Genesis: The Bible in Rhyme Workbook Volume 1 | 2014 | The Bible in Rhyme series | M/J 15 | 5 | Pinchuck, Kathe | ||||
Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan | Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe, The | 2014 | N/D 14 | 28 | Tesler, David | |||||
Hajaj, Claire | Ishmael’s Oranges | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 42 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Carasso, Lucienne | Growing up Jewish in Alexandria: The Story of a Sephardic Family’s Exodus from Egypt | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 4 | Simon, Rachel | |||||
Appelbaum, Peter C. | Loyal Sons: Jews in the German Army during the Great War | 2014 | M/J 15 | 19-20 | Simon, Rachel | |||||
Smith, Brendan Powell | Jonah and the Whale: The Brick Bible for Kids | 2014 | N/D 14 | 3 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Tarshis, Lauren | I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944. | 2014 | I Survived series | N/D 14 | 10 | Lurie, Aimee | ||||
Lieber, Laura | A Vocabulary of Desire: The Song of Songs in the Early Synagogue | 2014 | e Brill Reference Library of Judaism, 40 | N/D 2015 | 26 | Rosenbloom, Jim | ||||
Vidro, Nadia, Zweip, Irene E., Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith | Universal Art: Hebrew Grammar Across Disciplines and Faiths | 2014 | Studies in Jewish History and Culture; 46 | F/M 2016 | 25 | Smailes, Suzanne | ||||
Grinberg, Lev Luis | Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: Politics, Economy and Society in Israel/Palestine 1931-2013 | 2014 | Israel: Society, Culture, and History | S/O 2015 | 13 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | ||||
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 | ||||
Freedman, Harry | Talmud, A Biography: Banned, Censored and Burned. The Book They Couldn’t Suppress, The | 2014 | N/D 14 | 18 | Smith, Sonia | |||||
Tropper, Yosef | Aishes Chayil Song: Discover how each verse illuminates a unique and exceptional Woman of Valor from Tanach, The | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 21 | Schutzman, Laura | |||||
Kellerman, Faye | Murder 101: A Decker/Lazarus Novel | 2014 | M/J 15 | 43 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Goldlist, Marcia | Enjoying The Book of Esther: The Bible in Rhyme | 2014 | The Bible in Rhyme series | M/J 15 | 5 | Pinchuck, Kathe | ||||
Hope, Jessamyn | Safekeeping | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 42 | Gremillion, Yossi | |||||
Prins, Marcel, Steenhuis, Peter Henk | Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival | 2014 | M/J 15 | 12 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Anton, Maggie | Enchantress: A Novel of Rav Hisda’s Daughter | 2014 | N/D 14 | 36 | Gremillion, Yossi | |||||
Zvuloon Dub | Anbessa Dub | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 48 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Baumgarten, Elisheva | Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance | 2014 | M/J 15 | 20 | Chesner, Michelle | |||||
Taylor, Sydney | More all-of-a-Kind Family. | 2014 | N/D 14 | 3 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Ellis, Deborah | Cat at the Wall, The | 2014 | N/D 14 | 10 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |||||
Maghen, Ze'ev | John Lennon and the Jews: a Philosophical Rampage | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 26 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
Mandel, Maud | Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict. | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 13 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
Saperstein, Marc | Leadership and Conflict, Tensions in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture | 2014 | M/J 15 | 37 | Tesler, David | |||||
Wagner, Mark | Jews and Islamic Law in early 20th Century Yemen | 2014 | Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies | S/O 2015 | 21 | Belinfante, Randall C. | ||||
Lazar, Zachary | I Pity the Poor Immigrant | 2014 | M/J 15 | 43-44 | Gremillion, Yossi | |||||
Lehmann, Devra | Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker | 2014 | M/J 15 | 5-6 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Prochnik, George | Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the end of the World, The | 2014 | N/D 14 | 409 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Lamstein, Sarah | Breathless | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 43 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Braude, Benjamin | Christians & Jews in the Ottoman Empire: the Abridged Edition with a New Introduction | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 14 | Simon, Rachel | |||||
Cohen, Richard I. | Israel: Is It Good for the Jews? | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 5 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
Clayton, John J. | Many Seconds into the Future: 10 Stories | 2014 | N/D 14 | 38 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Hattin, Michael | Joshua: The Challenge of the Promised Land | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 21 | Tesler, David | |||||
Angleberger, Tom | Poop Fountain! | 2014 | The Qwikpick Papers Series | S/O 2015 | 29 | Citrin, Rena | ||||
Berkovitz, Jay R | Protocols of Justice: the Pinkas of the Metz Rabbinic Court 1771-1789 | 2014 | Studies in Jewish History and Culture | M/J 15 | 20-21 | Kohn, Roger S. | ||||
Taylor, Sydney | All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown | 2014 | N/D 14 | 3 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Holzer, David | The Medieval Haggadah Anthology with the Commentary of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. | 2014 | M/J 15 | 29-30 | Tesler, David | |||||
Martin-Contreras, Elvira, Miralles-Macia, Lorena | Text of the Hebrew Bible: From the Rabbis to the Masoretes | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 27 | Levy, David B | |||||
Mazuz, Haggai | Religious and Spiritual Life of the Jews of Medina, The | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 14 | Gottschalk, Haim | |||||
Schweid, Eliezer | On Personal and Public Concerns: Essays in Jewish Philosophy | 2014 | Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History | M/J 15 | 37-38 | Levy, David B | ||||
Getter, Shia | Everything You Need to Know about Buying Real Estate in Israel | 2014 | N/D 14 | 20 | Share, Ellen |