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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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Pomerantz, Barbara | Who Will Lead Kiddush? | M/J 86 | 6 | |||||||
Senesh, Hannah | Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary. The first complete edition | 2004 | F/M 05 | 23 | ||||||
Friedman, Saul S. | Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich, The | 1993 | S/O 93 | 18 | ||||||
Ungar, Richard | Even Higher | 2007 | S/O 07 | 19 | ||||||
Rubin, Susan Goldman | Searching for Anne Frank: Letters from Amsterdam to Iowa | 2003 | M/J 04 | 34-35 | ||||||
Kagan, Jeremy | Choice to Be: A Jewish Path to Self and Spirituality, The | 2012 | M/J13 | 26 | ||||||
Yonay, Ehud | No Margin for Error | 1993 | F/M 94 | 12 | ||||||
Cohen, Nancy J. | Permed to Death Hair | 1999 | Bad Hair Day Mysteries | N/D 02 | 17 | |||||
Schram, Peninnah, Davis, Rachayl Eckstein, Lee, Wendy W. | Apple Trees Discovery, The | 2012 | M/J 12 | 9 | ||||||
Soloveitchik, Joseph B. | Lonely Man of Faith, The | 1997 | M/J 97 | 8 | ||||||
Olitzky, Kerry M., Judson, Daniel | Jewish Ritual: A Brief Introduction for Christians | 2005 | M/J 05 | 40-41 | ||||||
Auslander, Shalom | Hope: a Tragedy | 2012 | N/D12 | 41 | ||||||
Topek, Susan Remick | Turn for Noah, A: a Hanukkah Story | 1992 | M/J 93 | 17 | ||||||
Rice, Emanuel | Freud and Moses: the Long Journey Home | 1990 | M/J 91 | 15 | ||||||
Bryan, Diane Brenda | Soldier of God | 2001 | N/D 03 | 7 | ||||||
Schwartz, Howard | Day the Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic, The | 2000 | S/O 00 | 17, 19 | ||||||
Derwin, Susan | Rage is the Subtext: Readings in Holocaust Literature and Film | 2012 | FM13 | 22 | ||||||
Feldman, Emanuel | Biblical Echo: Reflectiosn on Bible, Jews and Judaism, The | 1986 | M/J 87 | 3 | ||||||
Spector, Shoshannah, Phalieros, Theo | Miraculous Rescue at Entebbe, The | 1978 | Sp79 | 26 | ||||||
Bonder, Nilton | Kabbalah of Food: Conscious Eating for Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Health, The | 1997 | M/J 98 | 6 | ||||||
Silten, R. Gabriele S. | Is the War Over?: Postwar Years of a Child Survivor of the Holocaust | 2004 | M/J 04 | 22 | ||||||
Goldstein, Stephen L. | When My Mother No Longer Knew My Name: A Sons "Course" in "Rational" Caregiving | 2012 | M/J13 | 24 | ||||||
Fleming, K. E. | Greece: A Jewish History | 2008 | S/O 08 | 15 | ||||||
Abrams, Judith Z. | Talmud for Beginners, The: vol. 1 Prayer | 1991 | M/J 91 | 8 | ||||||
Bender, Sara, Lucien Lazare, eds. | Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust | 2003 | France | M/J 06 | 27 | |||||
Rouss, Sylvia A., Kahn, Katherine Janus | Sammy Spider's First Simhat Torah | 2010 | S/O 10 | 15-16 | ||||||
Bogacki, Tomek | Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak, The | 2009 | S/O 09 | 12 | ||||||
Never Say Die! A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters | 1981 | Contributions to the Sociology of Language, no. 30 | W82 | 11 | ||||||
Greenfeld, Howard, Grove, E. | Passover | 1978 | W78 | 28 | ||||||
Krich, Rochelle Majer | Angel of Death | 1994 | N/D 94 | 11 | ||||||
Buxbaum, Yitzhak | Light and Fire of the Baal Shem Tov, The | 2005 | S/O 06 | 36 | ||||||
Jewish Intellectual History in the Middle Ages | 1995 | Binah: Sutdies in Jewish History, Thought and Culture, vol. 3 | N/D 95 | 5 | ||||||
Shevrin, Aliza | Holiday Tales of Sholom Aleichem | 1979 | W 79 | 25 | ||||||
Haas, Gerda | Tracking the Holocaust | 1995 | N/D 95 | 6 | ||||||
Bohlman, Philip V.,, Holzapfel, Otto | Folk Songs of Ashkenaz, The | 2001 | F/M 02 | 18-19 | ||||||
Sacks, Jonathan | Sidur Koren = The Koren Siddur | 2009 | M/J 10 | 39, 41 | ||||||
Langer, Ruth | Cursing the Christians? A History of the Birkat HaMinim | 2012 | M/J 12 | 34 | ||||||
Moscowitz, Moshe, Sokoloff, David, Carter, Jon | Queen of Persia, The | 2004 | M/J 04 | 36 | ||||||
Abramson, Ruth | Benjamin: Journey of a Jew | 1987 | S/O 87 | 6 | ||||||
Kellerman, Faye | Mercedes Coffin, The | 2008 | S/O 08 | 13-14 | ||||||
Keene, Michael | Judaism | 2006 | Religions of the World Series | N/D 06 | 15-16 | |||||
Gelbwasser, Margie | Inconvenient | 2010 | N/D 10 | 9 | ||||||
Carlson, Lewis H. | We Were Each Others Prisoners: An Oral History of World War II: American and German Prisoners of War | 1997 | S/O 97 | 6 | ||||||
Wisniewski, David | Golem | 1996 | M/J 97 | 13 | ||||||
Hull, Eleanore | Summer People, The | S/O 84 | 8 | |||||||
Franciosi, Robert | Elie Wiesel: Conversations | 2002 | M/J 03 | 15 | ||||||
Drucker, Malka | Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Sweet Beginnings | S/O 81 | 9 | |||||||
Sachs, Marilyn | Call Me Ruth | N/D 82 | 7 | |||||||
Goetz, Bracha, Wolf, Malka | My Very Own Mitzvah Feet | 2013 | M/J13 | 4 | ||||||
Hessel, Carolyn S. | Our Story: The Jews of Sepharad - A Resource Guide | 1992 | S/O 92 | 18 | ||||||
Meir, Mira | Alina: A Russian Girl Comes to Israel | N/D 82 | 8 | |||||||
Antler, Joyce | You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother | 2007 | F/M 08 | 35 | ||||||
Benenfeld, Rikki | Lets Go to the Farm | 2010 | F/M 10 | 17 | ||||||
Helmreich, William B., Rosenblum, Mark, Schimmel, David | Jewish Condition, The: Challenges and Responses, 1938-2008 | 2008 | N/D 08 | 15 | ||||||
Walker, Fay, Rosen, Leo | Hidden: A Sister and Brother in Nazi Poland | 2002 | S/O 03 | 15-16 | ||||||
Friedman, Daniel | To Kill and Take Possession: Law, Morality and Society in Biblical Stories | 2002 | M/J 04 | 14 | ||||||
Labinsky, Baruch | Financial Guide to Aliyah and Life in Israel | 2012 | FM13 | 29 | ||||||
Blacker Cohen, Sarah, Koch, Joanne B. | Shared Stages: Ten American Dramas of Blacks and Jews | 2007 | SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture | M/J 08 | 19-20 | |||||
Wiesel, Elie, Heffner, Richard D., Vinciguerra, Thomas J. | Conversations with Elie Wiesel | 2001 | N/D 02 | 16 | ||||||
Silva, Daniel | Prince of Fire | 2005 | M/J 05 | 30 | ||||||
Kramer, Ralph | Bay Area Jewish Forum Haggadah, The | M/J 86 | 4 | |||||||
Traub, Barbara Fischman | Matrushka Doll, The | Ma 80 | 5 | |||||||
Black, Gerry | JFS: A History of the Jews Free School, London, Since 1732 | 1998 | M/J 00 | 7 | ||||||
Litvin, Martin | Impresario, The | 1995 | S/O 95 | 9 | ||||||
Braunstein, Leah Levy, Katz, Avi | Waiting Wall, The | 2009 | N/D 09 | 15 | ||||||
Winecki, Christine | Girl in the Check Coat: Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland and a New Life in Australia, The | 2007 | The Library of Holocaust Testimonies | F/M 08 | 45 | |||||
Silberg, Francis Berry, Britt, Stephanie McFetridge | Story of Passover for Children, The | 1989 | M/J 89 | 10 | ||||||
Lasky, Kathryn | Dreams in the Golden Country | Dear America series | F/M 99 | 19 | ||||||
Bialik, Hayyim Nahman | Revealment and Concealment: Five Essays | 2000 | S/O 01 | 9 | ||||||
Roskies, David G. | Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling, A | 1995 | N/D 95 | 41860 | ||||||
Englander, Marlene S., Saul, Hilda Zarkey | My Dear Hindalla Remember Me, Letters from a Lost World, May 1937-January 1940 | 2012 | FM13 | 23 | ||||||
Katz, Josef, Reach, Hilda | One Who Came Back: The Diary of a Jewish Survivor | 2006 | F/M 07 | 33 | ||||||
Michelson, Richard, Lewis, E. B. | Across the Alley | 2006 | S/O 06 | 22 | ||||||
Kidd, Ronald | Year of the Bomb, The | 2009 | N/D 09 | 11 | ||||||
Laws in These Parts, The (VIDEO) | 2012 | FM13 | 43 | |||||||
Guggenheimer, Heinrich W. | Jerusalem Talmud = Talmud Yerushalmi (Shabat and Eruvin), The | 2012 | Studia Judaica 68 | FM13 | 27 | |||||
Wolowelsky, Joel B. | Women at the Seder: A Passover Haggadah | 2005 | M/J 05 | 42 | ||||||
Rabinowicz, Tzvi M. | Hasidism in Israel: A History of the Hasidic Movement and Its Masters in the Holy Land | 2000 | N/D 00 | 12 | ||||||
Schiffman, Lawrence H. | Hebrew Bible, The (AUDIO) | 2008 | N/D 09 | 27 | ||||||
Shollar, Leah, Mekibel, Shoshana | Thread of Kindness: A Tzedaka Story, A | 2000 | F/M 01 | 17 | ||||||
Kellerman, Faye | False Prophet | 1992 | S/O 92 | 21 | ||||||
Kellerman, Faye | Serpents Tooth | 1997 | S/O 97 | 26-27 | ||||||
Shires, Linda M. | Coming Home: A Womans Story of Conversion to Judaism | 2003 | F/M 04 | 20 | ||||||
Silton, Faye | Of Heroes, Hooks, and Heirlooms | 1997 | M/J 97 | 14 | ||||||
Keller, Tsipi | Poets on the Edge: An Anthology of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry | 2008 | F/M 09 | 21 | ||||||
Swinsky, Michael | At the Threshold: Jewish Meditations on Death | 1995 | S/O 96 | 12 | ||||||
Dobbs-Weinstein, Idit, Goodman, Lenn E. | Maimonides and His Heritage | 2009 | SUNY Series in Jewish Philosophy | S/O 09 | 36-37 | |||||
Brown, Michael | Jews and Judaism in Canada: A Bibliography of Works Published Since 1965 | 2000 | Canadian Jewish Studies Special Issue, vol. 7/8 | F/M 01 | 9 | |||||
Bogot, Howard I. | I Learn About God | N/D 82 | 7 | |||||||
Siegal, Aranka | Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary - 1939-1944 | 1981 | W82 | 15 | ||||||
Aidinoff, Elsie | Garden, The | 2004 | N/D 04 | 14 | ||||||
Cowen, Ida | Spy for Freedom: The Story of Sarah Aaronsohn | N/D 84 | 7 | |||||||
Levinas, Emmanuel | Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism | 1998 | N/D 98 | 8, 10 | ||||||
Seixas, Gershom Mendes | Religious Discourse, A: Thanskgiving Day Sermon Nov. 26 1789 | 1977 | W77 | 28 | ||||||
Gries, Zeev | Book in the Jewish World 1700-1900, The | 2007 | F/M 08 | 39 | ||||||
Lichtenstein, Mosheh | Moses: Envoy of God, Envoy of His People | 2008 | S/O 08 | 41860 | ||||||
Zim, Paul | Kooky Cookie Kids, The (AUDIO) | N/D 93 | 16 | |||||||
Wadimoff, Nicolas, Warin, Clothilde | Israel-Palestine, Two Peoples, Two States for One Peace … (VIDEO) | 2009 | N/D 10 | 26 | ||||||
Kurshan, Ilana | Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? "The Four Questions" Around the World | 2008 | M/J 08 | 37 | ||||||
Potts, Steve | Hanukkah | 2005 | N/D 05 | 17 |