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| Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication |
Year |
Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Von Konigslow, Alexis | The Capacity for Infinite Happiness | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 43 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
| Bikont, Anna, Valles, Alissa | Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne, the | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 15 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
| Polak, Joseph | After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 12 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
| Brown, Monica | Lola Levine is Not Mean! | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 6 | Quay, Alex | |||||
| Aron, Lewis, Henik, Libby | Answering a Question with a Question: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought: a Tradition of Inquiry, v.2 | 2015 | F/M 16 | 2 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
| Nathan Wolski | The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume 10 | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 26 | David B. Levy | |||||
| Rouss, Sylvia A., Naim, Asher | Yosef’s Dream | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 11 | Levine, Joyce | |||||
| Meyer, Susan Lynn | Skating with the Statue of Liberty | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 32 | Marks, Allison | |||||
| Goren, Michal | Mitzvah Kids: Learning and Laughing Throughout the Jewish Year | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 12-13 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
| Wolfe, Greg | Shmelf the Hanukkah Elf | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 38-39 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |||||
| Rouss, Sylvia A., Kahn, Katherine Janus | A Holiday for Ari Ant | 2016 | F/M 16 | 45 | Kamin, Rachel | |||||
| Band, Debra, Scheindlin, Raymond P. | Kabbalat Shabbat: The Great Unification | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 4 | Share, Ellen | Book | ||||
| Lawrence Kaplan | Maimonides: Between Philosophy and Halakhah: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Lectures on the Guide of the Perplexed | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 11-12 | Yoel Finkelman | |||||
| Epstein, Lawrence J. | Dream of Zion: The Story of the First Zionist Congress | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 6 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
| Avi Sagi | After the Death of God, a Phenomenological Study of Hebrew Literature | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 19 | David Tesler | |||||
| Backer, Ivan | My Train to Freedom: A Jewish Boy’s Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism. | 2016 | F/M 16 | 2 | Levine, Joyce | |||||
| Steinberg, Jessica, Pike, Amanda | Not This Turkey! | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 11-12 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |||||
| Patterson, Jose | My Aunt Manya | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 32-33 | Marks, Allison | |||||
| Ben-Gur, Naomi, Kober, Shahar | The Cricket and the Ant: A Shabbat Story | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 39 | Dublin, Anne | |||||
| Ruben, Kelly Easton, Friar, Joanne | A Place for Elijah | 2016 | F/M 16 | 45-46 | Feit, Shelly | |||||
| 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 | |||
| Collins, John J. | The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature. 3rd edition | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 14 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
| Tidhar, Lavie | Central Station | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 41 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
| Simeon Schreiber | From Mouring to Morning: A Comprehensive Guide to Mourning, Grieving, and Bereavement with Special Emphasis on the Shiva Call | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 20 | Nathan Rosen | |||||
| Killcoyne, Hope Lourie | Anne Frank: Heroic Diarist of the Holocaust | 2016 | Britannica Beginner Bios | N/D 2016 | 4 | Krasner, Barbara | ||||
| Pummer, Reinhar | Samaritans: A Profile. | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 13 | Belinfante, Randall C. | |||||
| Not This Turkey! | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 11-12 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | ||||||
| Pressberg, Dava | Anti-Semitism: Jewish Immigrants Seek Safety in America (1881-1914) | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 13 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |||||
| Marks, Allison, Marks, Wayne | A Gefilte Fishy Tale | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 39-40 | Citrin, Rena | |||||
| Paul Bogdanor | Kaszner's Crime | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 4 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
| Feldman, Lawrence H. | Franco’s Refugees: Records of the Jews Who Came Through Spain and Portugal to New York City 1940-1941: Volume I, June–October 1940 | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 15 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
| Andreas Kilcher, Gabriella Safran | Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 12 | Beth Dwoskin | |||||
| Zakheim, Dov S. | Recovering a Voice: West European Jewish Communities after the Holocaust | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 23 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
| Greenberg, Irving | Sage Advice: Pirkei Avot | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 6 | Sukenic, Harvey | |||||
| 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 | |||
| Arato, Rona | Ship to Nowhere: On Board the Exodus, The | 2016 | Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers - Book 15 | N/D 2016 | 4-5 | Pinchuck, Chava | ||||
| Stern, Ariella, Argoff, Patti | Pesach Guess Who? A Lift-the-Flap Book | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 12 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |||||
| Israel Drazin | Jonah and Amos | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 5 | Arthur G. Quinn | |||||
| Bernstein, Leonard | Symphony No. 3 ‘Kaddish’ | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 42 | Wolfe, Nira | |||||
| Dinezon, Jacob, Peppler, Jane | Hershele, a Jewish Love Story | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 24 | Dwoskin, Beth | |||||
| Huss, Boaz | Zohar: Reception and Impact. | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 8 | Scheide, Daniel | |||||
| Holub, Robert C | Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 31 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
| Raz Segal | Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 20 | ||||||
| Banki, Danna, Spira, Susan | Dreams Are Forbidden | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 5 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
| Kimmel, Eric A., Surducan, Maria | Gabriel's Horn | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 27 | Kamin, Rachel | |||||
| Wiseman, Eva | Another Me | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 34 | Dublin, Anne | |||||
| Zoldan, Yael, Salanitro, Robert | Shimmy Shambone Will Not Go to Bed! | 2016 | F/M 16 | 41 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
| Drazin, Israel | Unusual Bible Interpretations: Ruth, Esther, and Judith | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 5 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
| Fishbane, Simcha | Impact of Culture and Cultures Upon Jewish Customs and Rituals; Collected Essays | 2016 | Judaism and Jewish Life | N/D 2016 | 15-16 | Tesler, David | ||||
| Nathan Laufer | Rendevous with God; Revealing the Meaning of the Jewish Holidays and their Mysterious Rituals | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 14 | David Tesler | |||||
| Foer, Jonathan Safran | Here I Am | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 24 | Gremillion, Yossi | |||||
| Jabotinsky, Vladimir, Horowitz, Brian, Katsis, Leonid | Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Story of My Life | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 31 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
| Irene Shaland | The Dao of Being Jewish and Other Stories, Seeking Jewish Narrative All Over the World | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 21 | Freiband, Susan | |||||
| Braun, Eric | Trapped Behind Enemy Lines: The Story of the U.S. Army Air Force 807th Medical Evacuation Squadron | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 5 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |||||
| Kimmel, Eric A., Gutierrez, Monica | Little Red Rosie | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 27-28 | Quay, Alex | |||||
| Marks, Allison, Marks, Wayne, Peluso, Martina | Og's Ark | 2016 | F/M 16 | 34 | Lurie, Aimee | |||||
| undefined | The Boy at the Top of the Mountain | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 35 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
| Zasloff, Doni | Sing-Along Alef Bet | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 14-15 | Dublin, Anne | |||||
| Wayland, April Halprin, Kath, Katie | More than Enough: A Passover Story | 2016 | F/M 16 | 47 | Eskin, Marcie | |||||
| Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, Anne E. Pettit | For those left behind : A Jewish Anthology of Comfort and Healing | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 5 | Nathan Rosen | |||||
| Foster, Steven, Foster, Joyce, Brovsky, Cindy | Rabbi and Senator Sleep Together: Marrying Religion and Politics. | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 16 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
| Levitan, Chana | That's Why I Married You: How to Dance with Personality Differences | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 14 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
| Lempel, Blume, Cassedy, Ellen, Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron | Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 24-25 | Dwoskin, Beth | |||||
| Kellner, Menachem | Gam hem ḳeruyim adam : ǂb ha-nokhri be-ʻene ha-Rambam = They too are called human : gentiles in the eyes of Maimonides | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 8 | Scheide, Daniel | |||||
| Jordan, James | From Nuremberg to Hollywood: The Holocaust and the Courtroom in American Fictive Film. | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 31 | Schutzman, Laura | |||||
| Elana Shapira | Style and Seducation: Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siecle Vienna | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 21 | Hallie Cantor | |||||
| Grant, Michael | Front Lines | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 5-6 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |||||
| Newman, Tracy, Garofoli, Viviana | Rosh Hashanah Is Coming! | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 28 | Kamin, Rachel | |||||
| Rozen, Abigail, Hammerman, Lisa Cain | The Sparkling Gift: the Story of the Miraculous Mon | 2016 | F/M 16 | 35 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
| Freedman, Russell | We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement that Defied Adolf Hitler | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 35 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
| Roy, Jennifer, Owenson, Meg | Jars of Hope: How One Woman Helped Save 2,500 Children during the Holocaust | 2016 | F/M 16 | 42 | Lenson, Heather | |||||
| Shir, Smadar | Miriam’s Song: The Story of Miriam’s Peretz | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 15 | Share, Ellen | |||||
| Yaakov Feder | The Sefiros and the Self: A Divine Blueprint for Self-Discovery and Personal Growth | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 6 | Nira Wolfe | |||||
| Fox, Pam, Mattuck, Israel Isidor | Architect of Liberal Judaism | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 16 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
| Tatjana Lichtenstein | Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 14-15 | Hallie Cantor | |||||
| Koval, Ruchi | Conversations with God: Prayers for Jewish Women. | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 8 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
| Packer, Rachel Ornstein, Zemke, Deborah | Sky-High Sukkah | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 28 | Cole, Ellen | |||||
| Freedman, Leora | Daughter Who Got Away, The | 2016 | F/M 2016 | 28 | Schutzman, Laura | |||||
| Gottesfeld, Jeff, McCarty, Peter | The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank's Window | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 36 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
| Williams, Brian, Williams, Brenda | Saving the Persecuted | 2016 | Heroes of World War II Series | F/M 16 | 42-43 | Isaac, Fred | ||||
| Wouk, Herman | Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 38 | Share, Ellen | |||||
| Etsy Frankel-Fersel | Converting Masters: World Famous Masterpieces with a Jewish Twist | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 6 | Nira Wolfe | |||||
| Jacobson, Maxine | Orthodoxy in American Judaism; The Era of Rabbi Leo Jung | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 18 | Tesler, David | |||||
| Aizenberg, Edna | On the Edge of the Holocaust, The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 1 | Freiband, Susan | |||||
| Richard A. Light | Jewish Rites of Death: Stories of Beauty and Transformation | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 15 | Nathan Rosen | |||||
| Rabbi Jeremy D. Sher | Growth through Governance: What Every Jewish Nonprofit Leader Needs to Know | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 22 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
| Simon, Andrea | Esfir Is Alive | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 6-7 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
| Tarcov, Susan, Ochoa, Anna | Maya Prays for Rain | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 29 | Kamin, Rachel | |||||
| Rubenstein, Eli | Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 36 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
| Throp, Claire, Williams, Brian, Williams, Brenda | Resisting the Nazis | 2016 | Heroes of World War II Series | F/M 16 | 42-43 | Isaac, Fred | ||||
| Zalkin, Mordechai | Modernizing Jewish Education in Nineteenth Century Eastern Europe: The School as the Shrine of the Jewish Enlightenment | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 38 | Levy, David B | |||||
| Joel Hecker | The Zohar: Pritzker Edition Volume 11 | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 6 | David B. Levy | |||||
| Leibowitz, Daniella, Gliksman, Devora | Rebbetzin Vichna Kaplan: The Founder of the Bais Yaakov Movement in America | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 18 | Levy, David B | |||||
| Borowitz, Mark | Finding Recovery and Yourself in Torah | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 2 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
| Kushner, David | Alligator Candy: A Memoir | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 9 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
| Margalit Shilo | Girls of Liberty: The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 22 | Dr. Yaffa Weisman | |||||
| Blau, Sara, Leff, Tova | Baby of Our Own | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 7 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
| Lumer, Marc, Burston, Chaim, Naiditch, DovBer | Babel | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 29 | Cole, Ellen | |||||
| Molchadsky, Yael, Bergman, Orit | The Chameleon That Saved Noah's Ark | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 30 | Gershowitz, Elissa | |||||
| Balsley, Tilda, Poole, Helen | ABC Passover Hunt | 2016 | F/M 16 | 43 | Citrin, Rena |
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