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Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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Cohen, Daniel | Black Death 1347-1351, The | 1974 | Sp 75 | 29 | ||||||
Lenhoff, Howard M. | Black Jews, Jews, and Other Heroes: How Grassroots Activism Led to the Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews | 2007 | N/D 07 | 31, 33 | ||||||
Landing, James E. | Black Judaism: Story of an American Movement | 2002 | S/O 04 | 19 | ||||||
Glowinski, Michal, Shore, Marci | Black Seasons, The | 2005 | N/D 05 | 27 | ||||||
Walker, Rebecca | Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self | 2001 | N/D 02 | 16 | ||||||
Cohen, Kitty O. | Black-Jewish Relations: The View from the State Capitols | 1988 | F/M 89 | 6 | ||||||
Brimner, Larry Dane | Blacklisted: Hollywood, the Cold War, and the First Amendment | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 17 | Quay, Alex | Book | Juvenile | |||
Abramson, Glenda | Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present | 1989 | F/M 90 | 14 | ||||||
Bea, Holly, Howard, Kim | Bless Your Heart | 2001 | F/M 02 | 39 | ||||||
Cohen, Jeffrey H. | Blessed Are You: A Comprehensive Guide to Jewish Prayer | 1993 | S/O 93 | 17-18 | ||||||
Edwards, Michelle | Blessed Are You: Traditional Everyday Hebrew Prayers | 1993 | M/J 93 | 16 | ||||||
Grossman, Roberta | Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh (VIDEO) | 2009 | S/O 09 | 49 | ||||||
Bayer, Linda | Blessing and the Curse, The | 1988 | N/D 88 | 8 | ||||||
Polacco, Patricia | Blessing Cup, The | 2013 | S/O13 | 2 | ||||||
Mandell, Sherri | Blessing of a Broken Heart, The | 2003 | N/D 03 | 14 | ||||||
Rosen, Michael | Blessing of the Animals, The | 2000 | F/M 01 | 16 | ||||||
Rosen, Michael | Blessing of the Animals, The | 2000 | M/J 01 | 16 | ||||||
Plain, Belva | Blessings | 1989 | F/M 90 | 18 | ||||||
Kellerman, Faye | Blindmans Bluff | 2009 | N/D 09 | 27 | ||||||
Otto, Friedrich | Blood and Iron: From Bismarck to Hitler The Von Moltke Familys Impact on German History | 1996 | F/M 97 | 16 | ||||||
Weisman, John | Blood Cries | 1987 | N/D 87 | 15 | ||||||
Elon, Amos | Blood Diamond Tide, A | 1997 | M/J 99 | 7 | ||||||
Balberg, Mira | Blood for Thought: The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 21 | Belinfante, Randall C. | Book | Adult | |||
Israeli, Raphael | Blood Libel and its Derivatives: The Scourge of Anti-Semitism | 2012 | N/D12 | 34-35 | ||||||
Sinclair, Clive | Blood Libels | 1986 | S/O 86 | 10 | ||||||
Krich, Rochelle | Blood Money | 1999 | F/M 99 | 15 | ||||||
Konigsberg, Eric | Blood Relations | 2005 | M/J 06 | 28 | ||||||
Silman, Roberta | Blood Relations | 1977 | Sp77 | 26 | ||||||
Lasky, Kathryn | Blood Secret | 2004 | N/D 04 | 15-16 | ||||||
Haddad, C. A. | Bloody September | 1976 | Sp77 | 25 | ||||||
Bloom, Harold | Blooms Modern Critical Views: David Mamet | 2004 | F/M 04 | 14-15 | ||||||
Appelfeld, Aharon, Green, Jeffrey M. | Blooms of Darkness | 2010 | M/J 10 | 25 | ||||||
Rosner, Elizabeth | Blue Nude: A Novel | 2006 | S/O 06 | 33 | ||||||
Feldman, Ruth Tenzer | Blue Thread | 2012 | M/J 12 | 6 | ||||||
Lissy, Jessica, Kanemoto, Dan, Oxley, Jennifer | Blues Clues Chanukah (#14), A | 2003 | F/M 04 | 36 | ||||||
Krich, Rochelle | Blues in the Night | 2002 | N/D 02 | 18 | ||||||
Kotlowitz, Robert | Boardwalk, The | 1976 | Sp77 | 25 | ||||||
Lewis, J. Patrick | Boat of Many Rooms: The Story of Noah in Verse, The | 1997 | F/M 98 | 16 | ||||||
Earl, Maureen | Boat of Stone | 1993 | M/J 93 | 15 | ||||||
Rabinovich, Abraham | Boats of Cherbourg: The Secret Israeli Operation that Revolutionized Naval Warfare, The | 1988 | S/O 88 | 8 | ||||||
Alper, Bob | Bob Alper: Rabbi / Stand-up Comic (Really) (AUDIO) | 1992 | N/D 93 | 15-16 | ||||||
Rogovoy, Seth | Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet | 2009 | N/D 10 | 22 | ||||||
Roberts, Jeremy | Bob Dylan: Voice ofa Generation | 2005 | S/O 05 | 10 | ||||||
Dublin, Anne | Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything | 2004 | S/O 04 | 44 | ||||||
Morris, Bob | Bobby Wonderful: an Imperfect Son Buries his Parents | 2015 | F/M 2016 | 28 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Bogen, Nancy | Bobe Mayse: A Tale of Washington Square | 1993 | M/J 9? | 13 | ||||||
Vincent, Isabel | Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas | 2005 | M/J 06 | 31 | ||||||
Lazar, David | Body of Brooklyn, The | 2003 | M/J 04 | 18 | ||||||
Wyschogrod, Michael | Body of Faith: God and the People of Israel, The | 1996 | M/J 97 | 9 | ||||||
Cohen, Nancy J. | Body Wave | 2002 | Bad Hair Day Mysteries | N/D 02 | 17 | |||||
Cohen, Nancy J. | Body Wave | 2002 | F/M 03 | 21 | ||||||
Black, Joe, Brown, Rick | Boker Tov! Good Morning! | 2009 | N/D 09 | 17 | ||||||
Walfish, Miriam | Bold as a Leopard ( The Chronicles of Meir ben Yaakov) | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 10 | Levine, Joyce | Book | Juvenile | |||
Fishbane, Simcha | Boldness of an Halakhist: an Analysis of the Writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein the Arukh Hashulhan: A Collection of Social-Anthropological Essays, The | 2008 | F/M 09 | 9 | ||||||
Karpin, Michael | Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclear and What That Means for the World, The | 2006 | F/M 06 | 34 | ||||||
Bitton, Simone, dir. | Bombing, The (VIDEO) | 1999 | N/D 01 | 18 | ||||||
Fine, Marcia | Bomerang: When Lifes Comes Back to Bite Your | 2003 | N/D 03 | 8 | ||||||
Roth, Irving, Roth, Edward | Bondis Brother | 2004 | F/M 07 | 14-15 | ||||||
Davis, Aubrey | Bone Button Borscht | 1995 | F/M 97 | 13 | ||||||
Shaman, Nathan | Bone to the Bone | 1993 | S/O 94 | 7 | ||||||
Doblmeier, Martin | Bonhoeffer (VIDEO) | 2003 | F/M 04 | 13-14 | ||||||
Ringgold, Faith | Bonjour Lonnie | 1996 | N/D 97 | 18 | ||||||
Kurlansky, Mark | Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue: A Novel of Pastry, Guilt and Music | 2005 | S/O 05 | 39 | ||||||
Halivni, David Weiss | Book and the Sword: A Life of Learning in the Shadow of Destruction, The | 1996 | F/M 99 | 13 | ||||||
Gries, Zeev | Book in the Jewish World 1700-1900, The | 2007 | F/M 08 | 39 | ||||||
Halter, Marek, Bair, Lowell | Book of Abraham, The | 1986 | S/O 86 | 9 | ||||||
Hajdu, Andre | Book of Challenges (AUDIO) | 2006 | F/M 08 | 47 | ||||||
Margoshes, Dave | Book of Great Worth, A | 2012 | M/J13 | 40 | ||||||
Scharfstein, Sol | Book of Haftarot for Shabbat, Festivals and Fast Days: An Easy-To-Read Translation with Commentary, The | 2006 | N/D 07 | 37 | ||||||
Ginsberg, H. L., Gross, Chaim | Book of Isaiah, The | 1974 | D 74 | 28 | ||||||
Frank, Ruth, Sollheim, William | Book of Jewish Books: A Readers Guide to Judaism, The | 1986 | N/D 86 | 5 | ||||||
Lutske, Harvey | Book of Jewish Customs, The | 1986 | N/D 86 | 6 | ||||||
Bioch, Abraham P. | Book of Jewish Ethical Concetps: Biblical and Postbiblical, A | 1985 | N/D 85 | 41702 | ||||||
Cahn-Lipman, David E. | Book of Jewish Knowledge: 613 Basic Facts About Judaism, The | 1991 | F/M 92 | 18 | ||||||
Kula, Irwin, Ochs, Vanessa L. | Book of Jewish Sacred Practices: CLALs Guide to Everyday & Holiday Rituals & Blessings, The | 2001 | F/M 02 | 22 | ||||||
Telushkin, Joseph | Book of Jewish Values: A Day by Day Guide to Ethical Living, The | 2000 | M/J 00 | 16 | ||||||
Tarnor, Norman | Book of Jewish Women’s Prayers, A | 1995 | N/D 95 | 5 | ||||||
Kraus, Donald | Book of Job: Annotated & Explained, The | 2012 | M/J13 | 27-28 | ||||||
Kushner, Harold S. | Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person, The | 2012 | M/J13 | 28 | ||||||
Slavitt, David R. | Book of Lamentations: A Meditation and Translation, The | 2001 | F/M 02 | 27-28 | ||||||
Potok, Chaim | Book of Lights, The | N/D 81 | 14 | |||||||
Kushner, Lawrence | Book of Miracles: A Young Peoples Guide to Jewish Spirituality, The | 1987 | F/M 88 | 6 | ||||||
Stern, Steve | Book of Mischief: New and Selected Stories, The | 2012 | N/D12 | 44 | ||||||
Latner, Helen | Book of Modern Jewish Etiquette, The | M/J 82 | 2 | |||||||
Gregory, Jill, Tintori, Karen | Book of Names: A Novel, The | 2007 | M/J 07 | 31 | ||||||
Gur, Janna | Book of New Israeli Food, The: A Culinary Journey | 2007 | N/D 08 | 13 | ||||||
Van Doren, Mark, Samuel, Maurice | Book of Praise, The: Dialogues on the Psalms | 1974 | D 74 | 30 | ||||||
Lichtenstein, Aaron | Book of Psalms in Plain English: A Contemporary Reading of Tehillim, The | 2006 | M/J 07 | 27-28 | ||||||
Alter, Robert | Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary, The | 2007 | M/J 08 | 32 | ||||||
Leahy, Syrell Rogovin | Book of Ruth, A | 1975 | Sp75 | 25 | ||||||
Papernick, Jonathan | Book of Stone, The | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 25 | Gremillion, Yossi | |||||
David, Jo, Syme, Daniel B. | Book of the Jewish Life, The | 1997 | M/J 98 | 19-20 | ||||||
Keats, Jonathan | Book of the Unknown, The: Tales of the Thirty-Six | 2009 | N/D 08 | 7 | ||||||
Ibn Ezra, Abraham, Sela, Shlomo | Book of the World: A Prallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Two Versions of the Text, The | 2010 | Etudes sur le Judaisme Medieval, t. 39 | N/D 10 | 20-21 | |||||
Lieberman, Leanne | Book of Trees, The | 2010 | N/D 10 | 41955 | ||||||
Wadlman, Bess | Book of Tziril | S/O 81 | 3 | |||||||
Kushner, Lawrence | Book of Words, The | 1993 | M/J 94 | 9 | ||||||
Agnon, S. Y. | Book That Was Lost: Thirty-Five Stories, A | 2008 | F/M 09 | 20 | ||||||
Zusak, Markus | Book Thief, The | 2006 | S/O 06 | 10 | ||||||
Bogot, Howard I. | Books are Treasures | N/D 82 | 7 |