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Title | Author/Editor | Series | Publisher | Year | Issue | P |
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When God Judged and Men Died | Sherman, Arnold | Bantam | 1973 | Ap 74 | 26 | ||
Jewish Enlightenment, The | Feiner, Shmuel, Naor, Chaya | University of Pennsylvania | 2004 | S/O 04 | 16 | ||
Adventure in Latkaland: A Hanukkah Story, An | Fisman, Karen, McAteer, Thomas | JoRa Books | 2009 | N/D 09 | 11 | ||
Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Guide for Christians | Kushner, Lawrence | Jewish Lights Publishing | 2001 | S/O 02 | 21 | ||
Masada: The Last Fortress | Miklowitz, Gloria D. | Eerdams | 1998 | F/M 99 | 19-20 | ||
Pageant | Lasky, Kathryn | Four Winds Press | 1986 | F/M 87 | 7 | ||
Fall of the Sun God | Meyer, Henye | Pitspopany | 2004 | S/O 05 | 11 | ||
Secret Life of God: Discovering the Divine within You, The | Aaron, David | Shambhala | 2004 | S/O 04 | 12 | ||
To Everything There is a Season | Daly, Jude | Eerdmans | 2006 | M/J 06 | 8 | ||
Ike and Mama and the Once-a-year Suit | Snyder, Carol | Ma 79 | 7 | ||||
Dictionary of Ancient Rabbis: Selections from the Jewish Encyclopaedia | Neusner, Jacob | Hendrickson | 2003 | M/J 04 | 18-19 | ||
Chanukkah Guest | Kimmel, Eric A., Carmi, Giora | Holiday | 1990 | F/M 91 | 23 | ||
Baghdad Twist (VIDEO) | Balass, Joe | Icarus Films | 2007 | F/M 09 | 23 | ||
Kibbutz in Israel, A | Taylor, Allegra | Families the World Over Series | Lerner | 1987 | M/J 89 | 10 | |
My Gaze is Turned Inward: Letters, 1934-1943 | Kolmar, Gertrud, Woltmann, Johanna, Goldstein, Brigitte | Northwestern University Press | 2004 | M/J 05 | 37 | ||
Purim Goodies | Hoffman, Amalia | Gefen | 2007 | M/J 07 | 13-14 | ||
Genizah Psalms: A Study of MS798 of the Antonin Collection, The | Stec, David M. | Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, 5 | Brill | 2013 | N/D13 | 38 | |
Sound of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible, The | Falk, Marcia, Moser, Barry | Harper | 1990 | M/J 91 | 9 | ||
War Within, The: a Novel of the Civil War | Matas, Carol | Simon & Schuster | 2001 | F/M 02 | 34 | ||
Jerusalem Anthology,: A Literary Guide, The | Hammer, Reuven | JPS | 1995 | N/D 95 | 7 | ||
House on Prague Street, The | Demetz, Hana | O 80 | 12 | ||||
Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Prayer | Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman N. | Jewish Lights Publishing | 2012 | M/J13 | 33 | ||
Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling, A | Roskies, David G. | Harvard University Press | 1995 | N/D 95 | 41860 | ||
Lone Star: Based on a True Story | Rosen, Devorah | Sapir Press | 2008 | S/O 09 | 35 | ||
On Shabbat | Fishman, Cathy Goldberg, Hall, Melanie G. | Atheneum | 2001 | F/M 02 | 39 | ||
Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right | Balint, Benjamin | Public Affairs | 2010 | S/O 10 | 29 | ||
Harpsichord Music by Israeli Composers (AUDIO) | Minkin, Marina | Albany Records | 2007 | S/O 08 | 36 | ||
Terrible, Terrible! A Folktale Retold | Bernstein, Robin, Kawasaki, Shauna | Kar-Ben | 1998 | N/D 98 | 13, 15 | ||
Writing on the Wall, The | Garfield, Leon | S/O 83 | 5 | ||||
Arguments for the Sake of Heaven | Sacks, Jonathan | Emergeng Trends in Traditional Judaism | Aronson | 1991 | M/J 91 | 15 | |
Judaism and Science: A Historical Introduction | Effron, Noah J. | Greenwood Guide to Science and Religion | Greenwood | 2007 | M/J 07 | 23 | |
Mornings and Mournign: A Kaddish Journal | Broner, E. M. | Harper | 1994 | N/D 94 | 9 | ||
Popes Jews, The | Waagenar, Sam | Open Court | 1974 | D 74 | 30 | ||
From a World Apart: A Little Girl in the Concentration Camps | Christophe, Francine | University of Nebraska Press | 2000 | S/O 00 | 9, 11 | ||
Simon Wiesenthal: A Life in Search of Justice | Pick, Hella | Northeastern University Press | 1996 | F/M 97 | 18 | ||
Unto Death: Two Novellas: Crusade and Late Love | Oz, Amos, de Lange, Nicholas | Harcourt | 1975 | Sp76 | 22 | ||
Israel Unleashed: The Very Best Metal and Rock from the Holy Land (AUDIO) | Jewish Music Group | 2007 | F/M 08 | 47 | |||
Enemy Has a Face, The | Miklowitz, Gloria D. | Eerdmans | 2003 | N/D 03 | 27 | ||
Hitlers Children (VIDEO) | Maya Productions | 2012 | N/D13 | 46 | |||
Court of Blue Shadows | Allington, Maynard | Brasseys | 1995 | S/O 95 | 9 | ||
Blooms Modern Critical Views: David Mamet | Bloom, Harold | Chelsea House Publishers | 2004 | F/M 04 | 14-15 | ||
Lieberman’s Choice | Kaminsky, Stuart M. | St. Martins | S/O 93 | 16 | |||
Nobody Knows Me in Miami | Kass, Sheila S. | S/O 81 | 9 | ||||
Restoring the Jews to their Homeland: Nineteen Centuries in the Quest for Zion | Adler, Joseph | Aronson | 1997 | N/D 97 | 6 | ||
Haggadah, English and Hebrew: A Passover Haggadah | Weisel, Elie, Podwal, Mark | Touchstone | 1992 | M/J 93 | 12 | ||
Take My Life, Please | Youngman, Henny | Morrow | 1991 | M/J 92 | 21 | ||
Wine, Women, and Death: Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life | Scheindlin, Raymond P. | JPS | 1986 | M/J 87 | 4 | ||
Angel of Death | Krich, Rochelle Majer | Mysterious Press | 1994 | N/D 94 | 11 | ||
Jews of the Yemen, 1800-1914, The | Nini, Yehuda | Harwood Academic Publishers | 1991 | N/D 92 | 24 | ||
Mihu the Detective | Halpern, Chaiky | Feldheim | 1979 | Sp79 | 25 | ||
Pharaoh and the Fabulous Frog Invasion | Werner, Osher | Judaia Press | 2007 | N/D 07 | 17 | ||
Flight from Commitment: An Explanation of Paradoxes in Jewish Life | Rozwaski, Chaim Z. | Aronson | 1996 | S/O 97 | 21 | ||
Shalom, Geneva Peace | Shalant, Phyllis | Dutton | 1992 | M/J 93 | 17 | ||
Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba | Engle, Margarita | Holt | 2009 | S/O 09 | 13 | ||
Inside, Outside | Wouk, Herman | Little Brown | 1985 | S/O 85 | 4 | ||
Eight Nights of Chanukah, The | Newman, Leslea, Savadier, Elivia | Harry A. Abrams | 2005 | S/O 05 | 15 | ||
Here and Now: History, Nationalism and Realism in Modern Hebrew Fiction | Hasak-Lowy, Todd | Syracuse University Press | 2008 | M/J 09 | 23 | ||
Colors of My Jewish Yeare, The | Gold-Vukson, Marji E., Wikler, Madeline | Kar-Ben | 1998 | S/O 98 | 32 | ||
Between Foreigners and Shiis: Nineteenth-Century Iran and Its Jewish Minority | Tsadik, Daniel | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture | Stanford University Press | 2007 | M/J 08 | 28 | |
Learn Torah, Love Torah, Live Torah: HaRav Mordechai Imchas Teitz, The Quintessential Rabbi | Blau, Rivkah | Ktav | 2001 | S/O 01 | 9 | ||
Never-Ending Greenness, The | Waldman, Neil | Morrow | 1997 | F/M 98 | 16, 18 | ||
Rebbe Mendel Presents the Secret of the Red Pearl | Sternfeld, Nathan, Bichman, David, Bloom, Sandy | Feldheim | 2005 | M/J 06 | 14 | ||
Good and Evil After Auschwitz: Ethical Implications for Today | Bemporad, Jack, Pawlikowski, John, Sievers, Joseph | Ktav | 2000 | S/O 01 | 8 | ||
Stranger in the Woods | Fried, Leah | Hamodia | 2006 | M/J 07 | 41860 | ||
When the Hurricane Came | Liss-Levinson, Nechama | CreateSpace | 2012 | N/D12 | 4 | ||
Jewish Holiday Crafts for Little Hands | Brinn, Ruth Esrig | Kar-Ben | 1993 | S/O 93 | 21 | ||
Agricultural Utopias in America, 1880-1910 | Herscher, Uri D. | Wayne State University Press | 1981 | F 81 | 14 | ||
Jewish Travel Guide | Vallentine Mitchell | 2004 | M/J 05 | 37 | |||
Mazel Tov! Youre Middle Aged | Vorspan, Albert | Doubleday | 1974 | Ap 74 | 26 | ||
Parnas of Cologne | Bar Am, Meir | Feldheim | 1986 | M/J 87 | 6 | ||
Faraway Home | Taylor, Marilyn | O'Brien Press | 1999 | F/M 01 | 18 | ||
Seeds From Our Past, Planting for the Future: Jewish Stories and Folktales | Stavish, Corinne | B'nai B'rith Center for Jewish Identity | 1997 | S/O 98 | 32, 34 | ||
Too Big, Too Little, Just Right | Hodes, Loren | Judaica Press | 2002 | F/M 03 | 43 | ||
Immigrant Kids | Freedman, Russel | O 80 | 12 | ||||
Dita Saxova | Lustig, Arnost | Ma 80 | 4 | ||||
Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews | Duran, Khalid, Hechiche, Abdelwahab | Ktav | 2001 | N/D 01 | 41797 | ||
Bay Area Jewish Forum Haggadah, The | Kramer, Ralph | s.n. | M/J 86 | 4 | |||
Kings and Carpenters: One Hundred Bible Land Jobs You Might Have Praised or Panned | Coulter, Laurie, Newbigging, Martha | Jobs in History Series | Annick Press | 2010 | M/J 10 | 12 | |
My Noahs Ark | Goffstein, M. B. | Ma 79 | 7 | ||||
Quilting Path: A Guide to Spiritual Discovery Through Fabric, Thread and Kabbalah, The | Silk, Louise | Skylight Paths | 2006 | F/M 07 | 36 | ||
Ghetto Diary | Korczak, Janusz | Ma 79 | 6 | ||||
Spiritual Awakenings: Illuminations on Shabbat and the Holidays | Rubin, Yehoshua | Urim | 2003 | M/J 04 | 21 | ||
Wayward Moon, The | Weizman, Janice | Yotzeret Publishing | 2012 | S/O13 | 49 | ||
Jew of New York: A Historical Romance, The | Katchor, Ben | Pantheon | 1998 | S/O 99 | 14 | ||
"Am I a Murderer?" Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman | Perechodnik, Calel | Westview | 1996 | M/J 96 | 15 | ||
Jewish Life in Mr. Lincolns City | Apelbaum, Laura Cohen, Uziel, Claire | Jeiwsh Historical Society of Greater Washington | 2009 | S/O 10 | 27, 29 | ||
Yossi Tries to Help God | Chaikin, Miriam, Saldutti, Denise | Harper & Row | 1987 | S/O 87 | 10 | ||
Magic Menorah: A Modern Chanukah Tale, The | Zalben, Jane Breskin, Diamond, Donna | Simon & Schuster | 2001 | N/D 01 | 21 | ||
Orchestra of Exiles (VIDEO) | Aronson, Josh | First Run Features | 2012 | S/O13 | 50 | ||
Every Persons Guide to the High Holy Days | Isaacs, Ronald H. | Aronson | 1999 | N/D 99 | 41892 | ||
Sarah Laughs | Jules, Jacqueline, Ugliano, Natascia | Kar-Ben | 2008 | F/M 08 | 9 | ||
Thought of High Windows, The | Kositsky, Lynne | Kids Can Press | 2004 | M/J 04 | 37 | ||
How Tzipi the Bird Got Her Wings | Zlotowitz, Bernard M., Maiben, Dina, Veksler, Vitaly | NightinGale Resources | 1995 | N/D 95 | 16 | ||
Days of Deliverance: Essays on Purim and Hanukkah | Soloveitchik, Joseph B., Clark, Eli D., Wolowelsky, Joel B., Ziegler, Reuven | Ktav | 2007 | M/J 07 | 29 | ||
Brownsville | Kleid, Neil, Allen, Jake | NBM ComicsLit | 2006 | S/O 06 | 31-32 | ||
Car that Goes Far, A | Mermelstein, Yael, Grossman, Vasily, Romanenko, Vitaliy | Hachai | 2009 | M/J 09 | 17 | ||
Lost and Found and Other Stories | Yaffe, Rachel, Waldman, Bryna | Merkos | 2002 | N/D 02 | 29 | ||
One Baby Step at a Time: Seven Secrets of Jewish Motherhood | Weisberg, Chana | Urim | 2007 | M/J 08 | 42 | ||
Sacred Joruney: The Jewish Quest for a Perfect World, A | Elcott, David | Aronson | 1995 | F/M 96 | 14-15 | ||
Have You No Shame? And Other Regrettable Stories | Shukert, Rachel | Villard Books | 2008 | F/M 09 | 22 |