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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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Isaacman, Clara | Claras Story | 1984 | S/O 85 | 6 | ||||||
Guggenheimer, Heinrich W. | Jerusalem Talmud = Talmud Yerushalmi (Shabat and Eruvin), The | 2012 | Studia Judaica 68 | FM13 | 27 | |||||
Ofek, Uriel, Taslit, Israel I., Bloom, Lloyd | Smoke over Golan | 1979 | W79 | 25 | ||||||
Rubin, Susan Goldman | Art Against the Odds: From Slave Quilts to Prison Paintings | 2004 | N/D 04 | 13 | ||||||
Schiffman, Lawrence H. | Hebrew Bible, The (AUDIO) | 2008 | N/D 09 | 27 | ||||||
Dresner, Samuel H. | Rachel | 1994 | S/O 96 | 5 | ||||||
Silton, Faye | Of Heroes, Hooks, and Heirlooms | 1997 | M/J 97 | 14 | ||||||
Antin, Mary | From Plotzk to Boston | M/J 86 | 3 | |||||||
Dobbs-Weinstein, Idit, Goodman, Lenn E. | Maimonides and His Heritage | 2009 | SUNY Series in Jewish Philosophy | S/O 09 | 36-37 | |||||
Schur, Maxine Rose, Pinkney, Brian | When I Left My Village | 1996 | M/J 97 | 13 | ||||||
Probst, Christopher J. | Demonizing the Jews: Luther and Protestant Church in Nazi Germany | 2012 | S/O13 | 35-36 | ||||||
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 | |||||
Stiffel, Frank | Tale of the Ring: A Kaddish, The | 1994 | M/J 94 | 10 | ||||||
Polacco, Patricia | Blessing Cup, The | 2013 | S/O13 | 2 | ||||||
Bogot, Howard I. | I Learn About God | N/D 82 | 7 | |||||||
Lau, Binyamin | Sages: Character, Context & Creativity, The | 2013 | N/D13 | 31 | ||||||
Hameiri, Avigdor, Penalosa, Fernando | Parodies of An-skys "The Dybbuk" | 2012 | N/D13 | 43 | ||||||
Rave, Ligia | Hahahs Paradise | 2009 | N/D 10 | 16 | ||||||
Lichtenstein, Mosheh | Moses: Envoy of God, Envoy of His People | 2008 | S/O 08 | 41860 | ||||||
Fine, Lawrence | Essenital Papers on Kabbalah | 1995 | S/O 95 | 7 | ||||||
Zim, Paul | Kooky Cookie Kids, The (AUDIO) | N/D 93 | 16 | |||||||
Vorspan, Albert, Saperstein, David | Tough Choices: Jewish Perspectives on Social Justice | 1992 | F/M 93 | 26 | ||||||
Cohen, Sharon Kangisser | Child Surviviors of the Holocaust in Israel: Finding Their Voice: Social Dynamics and Post-War Experiences | 2005 | F/M 06 | 31 | ||||||
Wadimoff, Nicolas, Warin, Clothilde | Israel-Palestine, Two Peoples, Two States for One Peace … (VIDEO) | 2009 | N/D 10 | 26 | ||||||
Bokrullen, Flygande | Shuff! (AUDIO) | 2007 | N/D 08 | 24 | ||||||
Hermann, Spring | Anne Frank: Hope in the Shadows of the Holocaust | 2005 | Holocaust Heroes and Nazi Criminals Series | M/J 06 | 17 | |||||
Schotter, Roni | Purim Play | 1998 | F/M 98 | 16 | ||||||
dePaola, Tomie | Noah and the Ark | S/O 84 | 8 | |||||||
Ansky, S., Penalosa, Fernando | Four Plays: Day and Night, Father and Son, In a Conspiratorial Apartment, The Grandfather | 2013 | N/D13 | 43 | ||||||
Ricci, Regolo | Lord is My Shepherd, The | 2007 | N/D 07 | 8 | ||||||
Kacer, Kathy | We Are Their Voice: Young People Respond to the Holocaust | 2012 | FM13 | 9 | ||||||
Ross, Lillian Hammer, Teis, Kyra | Daughters of Eve: Strong Women of the Bible | 2000 | N/D 00 | 17 | ||||||
Solomon, Lewis D. | Jewish Spirituality: Revitalizing Judaism for the Twenty-First Century | 2000 | F/M 01 | 11 | ||||||
Bar-El, Dan, Manders, John | Such a Prince | 2007 | N/D 07 | 15 | ||||||
Rappaport, Doreen | Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust | 2012 | S/O12 | 12 | ||||||
Schotter, Roni, Widener, Terry | House of Joyful Living, The | 2008 | M/J 09 | 16-17 | ||||||
Fierman, Floyd S. | Roots and Boots: From Crypto-Jew in New Spain to Community Leader in the American Southwest | 1987 | M/J 88 | 11 | ||||||
Kerr, Judith | Other Way Round, The | W75 | 29-30 | |||||||
Ruelle, Karen Gray, DeSaix, Deborah Durland | Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews during the Holocaust, The | 2009 | N/D 09 | 14 | ||||||
Weiss, Eric, Stern, Shira | Mishkan Rfuah: Where Healing Resides | 2013 | N/D13 | 41 | ||||||
Florence, Ronald | Emissary of the Doomed: Bargaining for Lives in the Holocaust | 2010 | S/O 10 | 31, 33 | ||||||
Yellin, Tamar | Kafka in Bronteland and Other Stories | 2006 | F/M 06 | 28 | ||||||
Kopelev, Lev, Austin, Anthony | To B Preserved Forever | 1977 | Sp78 | 23 | ||||||
Roth, Irene | Cecil Roth: Historian Without Tears | F/M 83 | 3 | |||||||
Green, Jen | Israel | 2001 | Nations of the World Series | M/J 01 | 15 | |||||
Sofer, Barbara | Shalom Haver | 1996 | S/O 96 | 16 | ||||||
Bauer, Jehuda | American Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945 | 1981 | F/M 90 | 14 | ||||||
Shimoni, Gideon | Zionist Ideology, The | 1995 | Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series | N/D 95 | 41892 | |||||
Cohn, Bariel H., Fisch, Harold | Prayer in Judaism | 1996 | S/O 96 | 11 | ||||||
Schwartz, Howard, Raznick, Barbara | New Harvest: Jewish Writing in St. Louis, 1998-2005 | 2005 | S/O 06 | 43-44 | ||||||
Alter, Robert | Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary, The | 2004 | S/O 05 | 40 | ||||||
Novack, Judith Mandel | Lilac Bush, The | 1989 | M/J 90 | 12 | ||||||
Wallerstein, Jane | Voices from the Paterson Silk Mills | 2000 | S/O 01 | 21-22 | ||||||
Safran, Eliyahu | Crisis & Hope: Reflections on the Contemporary American Jewish Condition | 1986 | N/D 87 | 6 | ||||||
Greenberg, Martin H. | Jewish Lists | 1979 | Sp80 | 13 | ||||||
Josephson, Erland, Greenwald, Roger | Story About Mr. Silberstein, A | 1995 | S/O 96 | 15 | ||||||
Toll, Nelly S. | Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood | 1993 | F/M 94 | 14 | ||||||
Bauer, Yehuda | Holocaust in Historical Perspective | O 79 | 6 | |||||||
Hoffman, Lawrence A. | Rethinking Synagogues: A New Vocabulary for Congregational Life | 2006 | M/J 07 | 26 | ||||||
Schleimer, Sarah M., Klineman, Harvey | One Good Turn | 1990 | N/D 90 | 41955 | ||||||
Berkovits, Eliezer | God, Man and History | 2004 | F/M 05 | 12 | ||||||
Schechter, Joel | Messiahs of 1933: How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity through Satire | 2008 | F/M 09 | 17-18 | ||||||
Leapman, Michael | Witness to War: Eight True-Life Stories of Nazi Persecution | 1998 | F/M 99 | 16 | ||||||
Zakon, Miriam Stark | Egyptian Star | M/J 83 | 9 | |||||||
Jacobs, Louis | Judaism and Theology: Essays on the Jewish Religion | 2005 | N/D 05 | 27-28 | ||||||
Hepker, Sue, Wummer, Amy | This Is the Challah | 2012 | FM13 | 14-15 | ||||||
Schwartz, Moshe, Lees, Susan, Kressel, Gideon M. | Burial Cooperatives in Socialist Utopia: Thirty Years of Moshav Development in Israel | 1995 | M/J 96 | 11 | ||||||
Stern, Karen B | Inscribing Devotion and Death: Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Populations of North Africa | 2008 | Religions of in the Graeco-Roman World, v. 161 | F/M 09 | 19 | |||||
Anidjar, Gil | Semites: Race, Religion, Literature | 2008 | Cultural Memory in the Present | M/J 08 | 32-33 | |||||
Herscher, Uri D. | Agricultural Utopias in America, 1880-1910 | 1981 | F 81 | 14 | ||||||
Shrayer, Maxim D. | Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories | 2009 | Library of Modern Jewish Literature | S/O 10 | 26 | |||||
Feldman, Stephen M. | Please Dont Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State | 1997 | S/O 97 | 7 | ||||||
Rosen, Devorah | Mystery in Spain | 2009 | F/M 10 | 11 | ||||||
Sanfield, Steve, Magil, Mikhail | Feather Merchantes and Other Tales of the Fools of Chelm, The | 1991 | M/J 92 | 23 | ||||||
Schapiro, Raya, Weinberg, Helga | Letters from Prague 1939-1941 | 1991 | N/D 91 | 12 | ||||||
Ben-Zul, Abraham | United States and Israel: The Limits of the Special Relationship, The | 1993 | M/J 94 | 8 | ||||||
Schulweis, Harold M. | Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey | 2008 | F/M 09 | 18 | ||||||
Ofrat, Gideon, Kidron, Peretz | Jewish Derrida, The | 2001 | F/M 03 | 36-37 | ||||||
Geppert, Edyta, Kroke | Spiewam Zyce - I Sing Life (AUDIO) | 2006 | N/D 08 | 24 | ||||||
Balass, Joe | Baghdad Twist (VIDEO) | 2007 | F/M 09 | 23 | ||||||
Adler, David A., Ritz, Karen | Hilde and Eli: Children of the Holocaust | 1994 | M/J 95 | 18 | ||||||
Burgan, Michael | Refusing to Crumble: The Danish Resistance in World War II | 2010 | M/J 10 | 16 | ||||||
Celenza, Anna Harwell, Kitchel, JoAnn | Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue | 2006 | N/D 06 | 17 | ||||||
Berkow, Ira | Maxwell Street: Survival in a Bazaar | 1977 | Sp78 | 21 | ||||||
Pomerantz, Barbara | Who Will Lead Kiddush? | M/J 86 | 6 | |||||||
Gillman, Neil | Doing Jewish Theology: God, Torah and Israel in Modern Judaism | 2008 | M/J 09 | 22 | ||||||
Brodsky, Beverly | Jonah, an Old Testament Story | 1977 | Sp78 | 25 | ||||||
Friedman, Saul S. | Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich, The | 1993 | S/O 93 | 18 | ||||||
Hannam, Charles | Boy in That Situation, A | S 78 | 5 | |||||||
Alkow, Jacob M. | In Many Worlds | M/J 86 | 3 | |||||||
Rubin, Susan Goldman | Searching for Anne Frank: Letters from Amsterdam to Iowa | 2003 | M/J 04 | 34-35 | ||||||
Spiegel, Murray, Stein, Rickey | 300 Ways to Ask the Four Questions | 2008 | N/D 08 | 13, 15 | ||||||
Henkin, Joshua | World Without You, The | 2012 | M/J13 | 39 | ||||||
Cohen, Nancy J. | Permed to Death Hair | 1999 | Bad Hair Day Mysteries | N/D 02 | 17 | |||||
Capucilli, Alyssa Satin, Schories, Pat | Happy Hanukah, Biscuit! | 2002 | N/D 02 | 25 | ||||||
dePaola, Tomie | My First Passover | 2008 | M/J 08 | 12 | ||||||
Schwarz, Yom Tov | Eyes to See: Recovering Ethical Torah Principles Lost in the Holocaust | 2004 | S/O 05 | 51-52 | ||||||
Peters, Simi | Learning to Read Midrash | 2004 | F/M 04 | 18-19 | ||||||
Topek, Susan Remick | Turn for Noah, A: a Hanukkah Story | 1992 | M/J 93 | 17 | ||||||
Isaacs, Ronald H. | Close Encounters: Jewish Views About God | 1996 | N/D 96 | 10 |