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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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Grunblatt, Joseph | Exile and Redemption: Meditations on Jewish History | 1988 | S/O 88 | 7 | ||||||
Rovit, Rebecca,, Goldfarb, Alvin | Theatrical Performances During the Holocaust: Texts, Documents, Memoirs | 1999 | S/O 00 | 19 | ||||||
Cinnamon and Myrrh | 1994 | N/D 94 | 7 | |||||||
Abrams, Judith Z. | Secret World of Kabbalah, The | 2006 | N/D 06 | 15 | ||||||
Sacks, Jonathan | Arguments for the Sake of Heaven | 1991 | Emergeng Trends in Traditional Judaism | M/J 91 | 15 | |||||
Adler, David A., Adler, Michael, Collins, Matt | Picture Book of Harry Houdini, A | 2009 | F/M 10 | 7 | ||||||
Cheshire, Gerald, Hammond, Paula | Middle East, The | 2003 | Cultures and Costumes: Symbols of Their Period | M/J 04 | 38 | |||||
Zakar, Susan M. | Judaism Online: Confronting Spirituality on the Internet | 1998 | F/M 99 | 14 | ||||||
Petsonk, Judy | Intermarriage Handbook, The | 1988 | N/D 88 | 7 | ||||||
Kaes, Anton | From Hitler to Helmat: The Return of History as Film | 1989 | M/J 92 | 16 | ||||||
Gavison, Ruth | Two-State Solution: The UN Partition Resolution of Mandatory Palestine - Analysis and Sources, The | 2013 | N/D13 | 27 | ||||||
Hirsh, Marilyn | Deborah the Dybbuk: A Ghost Story | 1978 | W78 | 28 | ||||||
Simchovich, Simcha | Song Will Remain, A | 1996 | M/J 98 | 18-19 | ||||||
Lustig, Arnost | Bitter Smell of Almonds: Selected Fiction, The | 2001 | M/J 02 | 17 | ||||||
Epstein, Lawrence J. | Readings on Conversion to Judaism | 1995 | N/D 96 | 5 | ||||||
Lieberman, Sherman | Mystics and Missionaries: The Jews in Palestine, 1799-1840 | 1992 | S/O 93 | 19 | ||||||
Walfish, Miriam | Libas Palace | 2012 | Jewish Girls Around the World | S/O13 | 4 | |||||
Nason, Ruth | Jewish Faith, The | 2005 | Start-Up Religion Series | N/D 05 | 20 | |||||
Gutterman, Bella, Morgenstern, Naomi | Gurs Haggadah: Passover in Perdition, The | 2003 | N/D 03 | 12 | ||||||
Bergman, Tamar, Modan, Ruti | Where Is? | 2002 | F/M 03 | 43 | ||||||
Solomon, Norman | Historical Dictionary of Judaism | 1998 | S/O 99 | 14 | ||||||
Lichtman, Moshe D. | Eretz Yisrael in the Parashah: Essays on the Centrality of the Land of Israel in the Torah | 2006 | M/J 07 | 28 | ||||||
Minken, Jacob S. | Teachings of Maimonides, The | N/D 87 | 6 | |||||||
Rosen, Chaya | Chaverim Boys Choir Live!, The | 2009 | N/D 09 | 11 | ||||||
Grunberg, Slawomir, Podgursky, Robert | Saved by Deportation: An Unknown Odyssey of Polish Jews (VIDEO) | 2007 | S/O 08 | 38 | ||||||
Tridenti, Lina, Thorne, Stephen | Anne Frank | 1985 | Why They Became Famous | A/M 86 | 6 | |||||
Katz, Robert L. | Pastoral Care and the Jewish Tradition: Empathic Process and Religious Counseling | 1985 | Theology and Pastoral Care Series | F/M 85 | 5 | |||||
Rosner, Fred | Medical Encyclopedia of Moses Maimonides | 1998 | F/M 99 | 41986 | ||||||
Klawans, Jonathan | Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism | 2012 | N/D13 | 30 | ||||||
Goldberg, Lester | In Siberia It Is Very Cold | 1987 | N/D 87 | 6 | ||||||
Friesova, Jana Renee, Morrisby, Elinor, Rosendorf, Ladislav | Fortress of My Youth: Memoirs of a Terezin Survivor | 2002 | M/J 03 | 15 | ||||||
Epstein, Lawrence J. | Treasury of Jewish Anecdotes, A | 1989 | F/M 90 | 14 | ||||||
Taylor, Sydney | Danny Loves a Holiday | F/M 81 | 6 | |||||||
Flam, Gila | Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto 1940-1945 | 1992 | M/J 92 | 15 | ||||||
Tsadik, Daniel | Between Foreigners and Shiis: Nineteenth-Century Iran and Its Jewish Minority | 2007 | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture | M/J 08 | 28 | |||||
Appel, Allan | Rabbi of Casino Boulevard, The | 1986 | M/J 87 | 5 | ||||||
Koffsky, Ann D. | My Jewish Holiday Fun Book | 2000 | S/O 00 | 36 | ||||||
Grief, Howard | Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel Under International Law, The: A Treatise on Jewish Sovereignty Over the Land of Israel | 2008 | S/O 09 | 39 | ||||||
Kaufman, David E. | Jewhooing the Sixties: America Celebrity and Jewish Identity | 2012 | S/O13 | 31-32 | ||||||
Watts, Irene N., Shoemaker, Kathryn E. | Good-Bye Marianne: The Graphic Novel | 2008 | N/D 08 | 33-34 | ||||||
Jaffe, Azriela | What Do You Mean, You Cant Eat in My Home?: A Guide to How Newly Observant Jews and Their Less-Observant Relatives Can Still Get Along | 2005 | N/D 05 | 28 | ||||||
Bellow, Saul | Henderson, The Rain King | 1965 | Sp77 | 30 | ||||||
Brenner, Michael, Ruveni, Gideon | Emancipation through Muscles: Jews and Sports in Europe | 2006 | S/O 07 | 45-46 | ||||||
Goodman, Arnold | Sweet Words to God: A Childs Book of Jewish Prayers | 2001 | N/D 01 | 21 | ||||||
Goberman, David | Carved Memories: Heritage in Stone from the Russian Jewish Pale | 2000 | S/O 00 | 41986 | ||||||
Sabbath Garden, The | 1993 | M/J 94 | 11 | |||||||
Goodman, Naomi | On Borrowed Time: Poems of Two Centuries | 2005 | F/M 06 | 26 | ||||||
Andryszewski, Tricia | Amazing Life of Moe Berg: Catcher, Scholar, Spy, The | 1996 | M/J 97 | 11 | ||||||
Brennan, Marcia | Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics | 2001 | M/J 02 | 9 | ||||||
Flanders, Elle | Zero Degrees of Separation (VIDEO) | 2005 | S/O 07 | 56 | ||||||
Kranzler, David | Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz, The: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerlands Finest Hour | 2000 | S/O 01 | 17 | ||||||
Stillman, Norman A. | Jews of Arab Lands, The | 1979 | W80 | 16 | ||||||
Lehrer, Alice Becker | If We Could Hear Them Now: Encounters with Legendary Jewish Heroines | 2009 | M/J 10 | 35 | ||||||
Schwartz, Howard, Raznick, Barbara | First Harvest: Jewish Writing in St. Louis 1991-1997 | 1997 | S/O 98 | 31 | ||||||
Ettinger, Steven | Torah 24/7 | 2003 | S/O 04 | 16 | ||||||
Wright, Jill Gold | Creating America on Stage: How Jewish Composers and Lyricists Pioneered American Musical Theater | 2009 | F/M 10 | 40-41 | ||||||
Citron, Sterna, Eydel, Igor | Shlomos Little Joke | 2007 | S/O 08 | 52 | ||||||
Ben-Zvi, Rachel Yanait, Shurin, Sandra | Before Golda: Manya Shochat: A Biography | 1989 | S/O 89 | 8 | ||||||
Keller, Tsipi | Prophet of Tenth Street, The | 2012 | N/D12 | 43 | ||||||
Bellow, Saul | Mr. Sammlers Planet | 1970 | Sp77 | 30 | ||||||
Hecht, Jacob J. | Lag BOmer Book | S/O 83 | 4 | |||||||
Creiger, Joyce, Serfaty, Raphaella | Izzy Iguana is Invited to Israel | 2009 | S/O 09 | 21 | ||||||
Heschel, Abraham Joshua | God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism | 1987 | N/D 87 | 5 | ||||||
Rosenthal, Monroe, Mozeson, Isaac | Wars of the Jews | 1990 | M/J 90 | 41986 | ||||||
Ellis, Julie | East Wind | M/J 84 | 6 | |||||||
Wells, Rosemary, Andreasen, Dan | Streets of Gold | 1999 | M/J 00 | 22 | ||||||
Kleid, Neil, Allen, Jake | Brownsville | 2006 | S/O 06 | 31-32 | ||||||
Jenks, Kathleen | River and the Stone: Moses Early Years in Egypt, The | 1977 | Sp77 | 28 | ||||||
Shenker, Israel | Noshing is Sacred: The Joys and Oys of Jewish Food | 1979 | Sp80 | 15 | ||||||
Fremont, Helen | After Long Silence | 1999 | S/O 99 | 8 | ||||||
Sofsky, Wolfgang, Templer, William | Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp, The | 1997 | S/O 97 | 23 | ||||||
Estraikh, Gennady, Krutikov, Mikhail | Yiddish in the Contemporary World: Papers of the First Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish | 1999 | M/J 00 | 10 | ||||||
Pitman, Walter | Louis Applebaum: A Passion for Culture | 2002 | N/D 03 | 15-16 | ||||||
Jewish Travel Guide 2007 International Edition | 2007 | F/M 08 | 40 | |||||||
Weiner, Ellis, Davilman, Barbara | How to Raise a Jewish Dog | 2007 | M/J 08 | 40, 42 | ||||||
Hurwitz, Johanna, Azarian, Mary | Faraway Summer | 1998 | M/J 99 | 15 | ||||||
Terrier, Samuel | Til the Heart Sings | F/M 86 | 5 | |||||||
Gordon, Paul | Concrete Solution | 2001 | M/J 01 | 13 | ||||||
Zwerin, Raymond A. | Shabbat Can Be | O 80 | 13 | |||||||
Baal Teshuva Survival Guide, The | 2009 | N/D 09 | 20 | |||||||
Mintz, Alan L. | Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America | 2001 | N/D 01 | 10 | ||||||
Breuer, Mordechai, Petuchowski, Elizabeth | Modernity within Tradition: The Social History of Orthodox Jewry in Imperial Germany | 1992 | F/M 93 | 21 | ||||||
Feltquate, Barbara, Post, Tom | Kiddish Yiddish: Jewish Tradition and Culture and Rhyme | 2008 | N/D 08 | 35-36 | ||||||
Bard, Mitchell | Israel Matters: Understand the Past-Look to the Future | 2012 | N/D12 | 9-10 | ||||||
Patterson, David | Genocide in Jewish Thought | 2012 | N/D13 | 32, 34 | ||||||
Gerber, Merrill Joan | Victory Gardens of Brooklyn, The: A Novel | 2007 | Library of Modern Jewish Literature | N/D 08 | 7 | |||||
Rubin, Laurie | Do You Dream in Color? | 2012 | M/J13 | 3 | ||||||
Stepping Stones to Further Jewish-Christian Relations | F/M 82 | 6 | ||||||||
Agnon, S. Y. | Book That Was Lost: Thirty-Five Stories, A | 2008 | F/M 09 | 20 | ||||||
Agamben, Giogio | Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive | 2000 | S/O 00 | 7 | ||||||
Schwatz, Howard, Waldman, Neil | Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Stories | 1996 | N/D 95 | 16-17 | ||||||
Solomon, Estie, Solomon, David | 101 Reasons to Visit Israel (& Perhaps Make Aliyah) | 2007 | F/M 08 | 45 | ||||||
Reitter, Paul | On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred | 2012 | N/D13 | 35 | ||||||
Edelheit, Hershel, Edelheit, Abraham J. | World in Turmoil: An Integrated Chronology of the Holocaust and World War II, A | 1991 | M/J 92 | 15 | ||||||
Margolin, Miriam, Ryback, Issachar | Little Stories for Little Children | 1986 | F/M 87 | 8 | ||||||
Danan, Julie Hilton | Jewish Parents Almanac, The | 1993 | S/O 94 | 9 | ||||||
Roth, Susan | Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah | 2004 | N/D 04 | 20 | ||||||
Bauman, Janina | Winter in the Morning: A Young Girls Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond, 1939-1945 | 1986 | S/O 86 | 7 | ||||||
Wood, Angela Gluck | Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People | 2007 | N/D 07 | 10 | ||||||
Galens, Judy | Experiencing the Holocaust: Novels, Nonfiction Books, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Films and Music | 2003 | S/O 03 | 50 |