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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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Steinsaltz, Adin | Teshuvah: A Guide for the Newly Observant Jew | N/D 96 | 12 | |||||||
Faber, Doris | Bella Abzug | 1976 | W76 | 20 | ||||||
Freedman, Paula J. | My Basmati Bat Mitzvah | 2013 | N/D13 | 4 | ||||||
Hunt, Linda | Secret Agenda: United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945-1990 | 1991 | S/O 91 | 19 | ||||||
Arato, Rona | Last Train: A Holocaust Story, The | 2013 | M/J13 | 10 | ||||||
Neusner, Jacob | Pharisees: Rabbinic Perspectives, The | 1985 | F/M 86 | 4 | ||||||
Gellman, Ellie, Friedman, Judith | Jeremys Dreidel | 1992 | M/J 93 | 16 | ||||||
Davis, Adam | Hearing the Call across Traditions: Readings on Faith and Service | 2009 | N/D 10 | 18 | ||||||
Bruder, Judith | Going to Jerusalem | Ma 80 | 4 | |||||||
Kanfer, Stefan | Eighth Sin, The | 1978 | W78 | 23 | ||||||
Caudill, Mark A | Twilight in the Kingdom: Understanding the Saudis | 2006 | F/M 07 | 31 | ||||||
Polacco, Patricia | Butterfly, The | 2000 | ||||||||
Gold-Vukson, Marji E., Oeltjenbruns, Joni | Numbers of My Jewish Year, The | 2006 | M/J 06 | 16 | ||||||
Gilman, Phoebe | Something for Nothing | 1993 | N/D 93 | 12 | ||||||
Speregen-Newberger, Devra | Albert Einstein: The Jewish Man Behind the Theory | 2006 | N/D 06 | 41860 | ||||||
Plaut, W. Gunther | Magen David: How the Six-Pointed Star Became an Emblem for the Jewish People, The | 1991 | S/O 91 | 20 | ||||||
Rossman, Avraham, Linsider, Joel | Rashi | 2012 | FM13 | 25-26 | ||||||
Berger, David | Jewish-Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages: A Critical Edition of the Nizzahon Vetus | 1996 | S/O 96 | 6, 8 | ||||||
Weiss, Bernard P. | I Am Jewish (rev. ed.) | 2003 | Religions of the World Series | N/D 03 | 34 | |||||
Wishnia, Kenneth | Fifth Servant, The | 2010 | M/J 10 | 26 | ||||||
Nutkis, Phyllis, Argoff, Patti | When the World Was Quiet | 2004 | M/J 04 | 29 | ||||||
Suleiman, Susan Rubin, Forgecs, Eva | Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary: An Anthology | 2003 | Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World Series | S/O 04 | 41892 | |||||
Rabinowitz, Abraham Hirsch | Taryag: A Study of the Tradition that the Written Torah Contains 613 Mitzvot | 1996 | F/M 97 | 6 | ||||||
Metter, Bert | Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah | S/O 84 | 10 | |||||||
Herman, Debbie, Koffsky, Ann D., Lane, Nancy | More than Matzah: A Passover Feast of Fun, Facts, and Activities | 2006 | M/J 06 | 16 | ||||||
Simhaee, Rebeka, Weber, Michael | Sara Finds a Mitzva | 2010 | N/D 10 | 13 | ||||||
Mundill, Robin R. | Kings Jews: Money, Massacre and Exodus in Medieval England, The | 2010 | N/D 10 | 21 | ||||||
Schotter, Roni, Hafner, Marilyn | Passover Magic | 1995 | F/M 96 | 18 | ||||||
Tronik, Ruth | Israeli Periodicals and Serials in English & Other European Languages: A Classified Bibliography | 1974 | Ap 74 | 22-23 | ||||||
Penn, Malka, Black, Theodor | Ghosts and Golems: Haunting Tales of the Supernatural | 2001 | F/M 02 | 34-35 | ||||||
Tal, Eve | Double Crossing: A Jewish Immigration Story | 2005 | N/D 05 | 14 | ||||||
Robinson, Ira | Translating a Tradition: Studies in American Jewish History | 2008 | F/M 09 | 16-17 | ||||||
Alma, Ann | Brave Deeds: How One Family Saved Many from the Nazis | 2008 | F/M 09 | 39-40 | ||||||
Yonay, Ehud | No Margin for Error | 1993 | F/M 94 | 12 | ||||||
Leeds, Constance | Silver Cup, The | 2007 | S/O 07 | 9 | ||||||
Abraham Isaac Kook | F/M 82 | 9 | ||||||||
Soloveitchik, Joseph B. | Lonely Man of Faith, The | 1997 | M/J 97 | 8 | ||||||
Schiffman, Lawrence H. | Qumran and Jerusalem: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism | 2010 | N/D 10 | 23 | ||||||
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 | ||||||
MacLeod, Elizabeth | Harry Houdini: A Magical Life | 2005 | S/O 05 | 10 | ||||||
Lehmann, Marcus, Teomim, Joseph | Faith and Courage | 2009 | S/O 10 | 18-19 | ||||||
Zakutinsky, Ruth, Richter, Sharon | Were Really Going Home | 1979 | Sp80 | 21 | ||||||
Corenthal, Michael G. | Cohen on the Telephone: A Hisotry of Jewish Recorded Humor and Popular Music, 1892-1942 | 1984 | N/D 86 | 4 | ||||||
Senderk, Cath | Surviving the Holocaust | 2006 | On the Front Line Series | F/M 07 | 15 | |||||
Brown, Danit | Ask for a Convertible | 2008 | M/J 09 | 31 | ||||||
Spector, Shoshannah, Phalieros, Theo | Miraculous Rescue at Entebbe, The | 1978 | Sp79 | 26 | ||||||
Checinski, Michael Moshe | Running the Gauntlet of Anti-Semitism: From Polish Counter-Intelligence to the Marshall Center | 2004 | M/J 05 | 33 | ||||||
Bonder, Nilton | Kabbalah of Food: Conscious Eating for Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Health, The | 1997 | M/J 98 | 6 | ||||||
Green, Arthur, Holtz, Barry W. | Your Word a Fire: The Hasidic Masters on the Contemplative Prayer | 1977 | F/M 86 | 3 | ||||||
Helfgott, Margaret, Gross, Tom | Out of Tune: David Helfgott and the Myth of Shine | 1998 | S/O 98 | 9 | ||||||
Silten, R. Gabriele S. | Is the War Over?: Postwar Years of a Child Survivor of the Holocaust | 2004 | M/J 04 | 22 | ||||||
Koren, Yeshayahu | Funeral at Noon | 1996 | S/O 96 | 13 | ||||||
Leviant, Curt | Diary of an Adulterous Woman: A Novel: Including an ABC Directory that Offers Alphabetical Tidbits and Surprises | 2001 | F/M 02 | 30 | ||||||
Lankin, Eliahu, Hershberg, Ariziah | To Win the Promised Land: Story of a Freedom Fighter | 1992 | N/D 92 | 24 | ||||||
Lazar, David | Body of Brooklyn, The | 2003 | M/J 04 | 18 | ||||||
Never Say Die! A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters | 1981 | Contributions to the Sociology of Language, no. 30 | W82 | 11 | ||||||
Salamon, Michael J. | Shidduch Crisis: Cuases and Cures, The | 2008 | M/J 09 | 28 | ||||||
Buxbaum, Yitzhak | Light and Fire of the Baal Shem Tov, The | 2005 | S/O 06 | 36 | ||||||
Vogiel, Eva | Problem Called Chavi, A | 1985 | F/M 86 | 7 | ||||||
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 | ||||||
Senesh, Hannah | Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary. The first complete edition | 2004 | F/M 05 | 23 | ||||||
Ungar, Richard | Even Higher | 2007 | S/O 07 | 19 | ||||||
Dann, Jack | Wandering Stars | 1974 | Ap 74 | 25 | ||||||
Kagan, Jeremy | Choice to Be: A Jewish Path to Self and Spirituality, The | 2012 | M/J13 | 26 | ||||||
Berkovic, Sally | Straight Talk: My Dilemma as a Modern Orthodox Jewish Woman | 1999 | S/O 00 | 8 | ||||||
Schram, Peninnah, Davis, Rachayl Eckstein, Lee, Wendy W. | Apple Trees Discovery, The | 2012 | M/J 12 | 9 | ||||||
Kellerman, Faye | Mercedes Coffin, The | 2008 | S/O 08 | 13-14 | ||||||
Salkin, Jeffrey K. | Righteous Gentiles in the Hebrew Bible: Ancient Role Models for Sacred Relationships | 2008 | S/O 09 | 43-44 | ||||||
Keene, Michael | Judaism | 2006 | Religions of the World Series | N/D 06 | 15-16 | |||||
Leviant, Curt | Yemenite Girl, The | 1977 | Sp77 | 26 | ||||||
Wolfson, Elliot R. | Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson | 2009 | S/O 10 | 40 | ||||||
Gelbwasser, Margie | Inconvenient | 2010 | N/D 10 | 9 | ||||||
Rice, Emanuel | Freud and Moses: the Long Journey Home | 1990 | M/J 91 | 15 | ||||||
Schwartz, Howard | Day the Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic, The | 2000 | S/O 00 | 17, 19 | ||||||
Ladin, Joy | Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders | 2012 | S/O12 | 40 | ||||||
Feldman, Emanuel | Biblical Echo: Reflectiosn on Bible, Jews and Judaism, The | 1986 | M/J 87 | 3 | ||||||
Goetz, Bracha, Wolf, Malka | My Very Own Mitzvah Feet | 2013 | M/J13 | 4 | ||||||
Cohen, Deborah Bodin, Hall, Melanie G. | Seventh Day, The | 2005 | M/J 05 | 15-16 | ||||||
Benenfeld, Rikki | Lets Go to the Farm | 2010 | F/M 10 | 17 | ||||||
Taubes, Jacob, Assmann, Aleida, Hollander, Dana | Political Theology of Paul, The | 2004 | M/J 04 | 23-24 | ||||||
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 | ||||||
Fleming, K. E. | Greece: A Jewish History | 2008 | S/O 08 | 15 | ||||||
Bender, Sara, Lucien Lazare, eds. | Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust | 2003 | France | M/J 06 | 27 | |||||
Berger, Marshall J. | Vatican-Israel Accords, The: Political, Legal, and Theological Contexts | 2004 | M/J 05 | 32 | ||||||
Bogacki, Tomek | Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak, The | 2009 | S/O 09 | 12 | ||||||
Schapira, Leah, Dwek, Victoria | Starters & Sides Made Easy | 2013 | N/D13 | 37 | ||||||
Krich, Rochelle Majer | Angel of Death | 1994 | N/D 94 | 11 | ||||||
Traub, Barbara Fischman | Matrushka Doll, The | Ma 80 | 5 | |||||||
Finkelstein, Norman H., Hokanson, Lois, Hokanson, Lars | Remember Not to Forget: A Memory of the Holocaust | 1985 | A/M 86 | 6 | ||||||
Black, Gerry | JFS: A History of the Jews Free School, London, Since 1732 | 1998 | M/J 00 | 7 | ||||||
Anisfeld, Sharon Cohen | Womens Passover Companion, The: Womens Reflections on the Festival of Freedom | 2003 | S/O 03 | 16 | ||||||
Tolley, Jacquelyn | On Our Spiritual Journey: A Creative Shabbat Service | N/D 84 | 5 | |||||||
Litvin, Martin | Impresario, The | 1995 | S/O 95 | 9 | ||||||
Bohlman, Philip V.,, Holzapfel, Otto | Folk Songs of Ashkenaz, The | 2001 | F/M 02 | 18-19 | ||||||
Kotkowski, Itzhak | Wiles of Destiny: The Memoirs of Itzhak Kotkowski, The | 1995 | M/J 96 | 18 | ||||||
Langer, Ruth | Cursing the Christians? A History of the Birkat HaMinim | 2012 | M/J 12 | 34 | ||||||
Rovit, Rebecca,, Goldfarb, Alvin | Theatrical Performances During the Holocaust: Texts, Documents, Memoirs | 1999 | S/O 00 | 19 |