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Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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Rieger, Aleena | I Didn’t Tell Them Anything: The Wartime Secrets of An American Girl | 2015 | f/ | 19 | Schutzman, Laura | |||||
Spitz, Elie Kaplan | Increasing Wholeness: Jewish Wisdom &Guided Meditations to Strengthen & Calm Body, Heart, Mind & Spirit . | 2015 | F/M 2016 | 23 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Polak, Joseph | After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 12 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Avner, Yehuda, Rees, Matt | Ambassador, The | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 39 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Birstein, Yossel, Birstein, Margaret, Inbar, Hana, Manaster, Robert | And so is the Bus: Jerusalem Stories | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 40 | Share, Ellen | |||||
Killcoyne, Hope Lourie | Anne Frank: Heroic Diarist of the Holocaust | 2016 | Britannica Beginner Bios | N/D 2016 | 4 | Krasner, Barbara | ||||
Hoffman, Bruce | Anonymous Soldiers: the Struggle for Israel 1917-1947 | 2015 | M/J 15 | 29 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
Fox, Pam, Mattuck, Israel Isidor | Architect of Liberal Judaism | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 16 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Ausubel, Chana Bunim Rubin | As Long as the Candle Burns, The Memoir of Chana Bunim Rubin Ausubel | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 14 | Freiband, Susan | |||||
Borovaya, Olga | Beginnings of Ladino Literature: Moses Almosnino and his Readers | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 22 | Belinfante, Randall C. | Book | Adult | |||
Skolnick, Vivian B. | Biblical Path to Psychological Maturity: Psychological Insights into the Weekly Torah Readings | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 32 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Hurvitz, Avi | Concise Lexicon of Late Biblical Hebrew: Linguistics in the Writings of the Second Temple Period | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 22 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Mermelstein, Ari | Creation, Covenant, and the Beginnings of Judaism: Reconceiving Historical Time in the Second Temple Period | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 27 | Tesler, David | |||||
Szilagyi, Anca L. | Daughters of the Air | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 39 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | Book | Adult | |||
Wacks, David A. | Double diaspora in Sephardic literature: Jewish cultural production before and after 1492 | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 38 | Belinfante, Randall C. | |||||
Ben Izzy, Joel | Dreidels on the Brain. | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 1 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Grobman, Svetlana | Education of a Traitor: Growing Up in Cold War Russia | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 43 | ||||||
Sciarcon, Jonathan | Educational Oases in the Desert: the Alliance Israélite Universelle’s Girls’ Schools in Ottoman Iraq, 1895-1915 | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 30 | Simon, Rachel | Book | Adult | |||
Shapiro, Rami M. | Embracing the Divine Feminine: Finding God through the Ecstasy of Physical Love—The Song of Songs. Annotated and Explained | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 31 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Aronson, Marc, Budhos, Marina | Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 8 | Quay, Alex | Book | Juvenile | |||
Sutton, Claudette E. | Farewell, Aleppo: My Father, My People, and Their Long Journey Home | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 35 | Dwoskin, Beth | |||||
Feldman, Lawrence H. | Franco’s Refugees: Records of the Jews Who Came Through Spain and Portugal to New York City 1940-1941: Volume I, June–October 1940 | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 15 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
Rubin, Susan Goldman | Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi | 2014 | M/J 15 | 10 | Lenson, Heather | |||||
Michaelson, Jay | Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 11 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
Locke, Katherine | Girl with the Red Balloon, The | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 6 | Bloomfield, Kathy | Book | Juvenile | |||
Carasso, Lucienne | Growing up Jewish in Alexandria: The Story of a Sephardic Family’s Exodus from Egypt | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 4 | Simon, Rachel | |||||
Glickman, Jeffrey., Krackow, Eric | Have You Heard?: a Child’s Introduction to the Ten Commandments | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 7 | McMahon, Martha | Book | Juvenile | |||
Emanuel, Simha | Hidden Treasures from Europe. v.1 | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 5 | Wolfe, Nira | |||||
Schweid, Eliezer, Levin, Leonard | History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 35 | Levy, David B | |||||
Mooney, Carla, Casteel, Tom | Holocaust: Racism and Genocide in World War II, The | 2017 | Inquire and Investigate | M/J 2018 | 16 | Isaac, Fred | Book | Juvenile | ||
Carter, Mary E. | I, Sarah Steinway | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 35 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | Book | Adult | |||
Karmon, Robert | Inspired by a True Story: Isaac | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 36 | Bibel, Barbara M. | Book | Adult | |||
Barash, Chris | Is It Passover Yet? | 2015 | M/J 15 | 16 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |||||
Hajaj, Claire | Ishmael’s Oranges | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 42 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Starr, Joyce | Israel’s Impossible Era: The Human Element in U.S.-Israel Relations | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 35 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
Bergson, Steven M. | Jewish Comix Anthology: a collection of tales, stories and myths told and retold in comic book form, The. Volume 1. | 2014 | F/M 2016 | 26 | Gold, Etta | |||||
Rabinovitch, Simon | Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 29 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
Simonsohn, Shlomo | Jews of Italy: Antiquity, The | 2014 | Brill Series in Jewish Studies | N/D 2015 | 32 | Levy, David B | ||||
Maghen, Ze'ev | John Lennon and the Jews: a Philosophical Rampage | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 26 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
Sackson, Adrian | Joseph ibn Kaspi: Portrait of a Hebrew Philosopher in Medieval Provence | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 28 | Levy, David B | Book | Adult | |||
Schwartz, Daniel | Judeans and Jews: Four Faces of Dichotomy in Ancient Jewish History | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 30 | Tesler, David | |||||
Seidenberg, David Mevorach | Kabbalah and Ecology: God’s Image in the More-Than-Human World | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 31 | Levy, David B | |||||
Samson, Polly | Kindness, a Novel | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 41 | Freiband, Susan | |||||
Rabb, Margo | Kissing in America | 2015 | M/J 15 | 8-9 | Levine, Joyce | |||||
Herzfeld, Shmuel | Liberman Open Orthodox Haggadah, The | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 22 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Iturbe, Antonio, Thwaites, Lilit | Librarian of Auschwitz, The | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 5 | Gershowitz, Elissa | Book | Juvenile | |||
Chapman, Fern Schumer, Greensfelder, Tom | Like Finding My Twin: How an Eighth-Grade Class Reunited Two Holocaust Refugees | 2015 | F/M 16 | 32 | Colodny, Debbie | |||||
Enszer, Dr. Julie R. | Liliths’s Demons | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 40 | Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron | |||||
Burkhart, Kiersi, Keyser, Amber | Long Trail Home, The | 2017 | Quartz Creek Ranch | M/J 2018 | 11 | McMahon, Martha | Book | Juvenile | ||
Koenigsberg, Zvi | Lost Temple of Israel. rev. ed. | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 9 | Share, Ellen | |||||
Hasan-Rokem, Galit, Gruenwald, Ithamar | Louis Ginzberg’s Legends of the Jews: Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered | 2014 | M/J 15 | 28 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Appelbaum, Peter C. | Loyal Sons: Jews in the German Army during the Great War | 2014 | M/J 15 | 19-20 | Simon, Rachel | |||||
Yolen, Jane | Mapping the Bones | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 17 | Silver, Linda R. | Book | Juvenile | |||
Tidhar, Lavie | Martian Sands | 2013 | M/J 2014 | 48 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Sussman, Jeffrey | Max Baer and Barney Ross: Jewish Heroes of Boxing | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 32 | Share, Ellen | Book | Adult | |||
Oestermann, Richard | Me and the Middle East: Firsthand Reporting on Israel’s Most Dramatic Days | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 28 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
Goodman, Carol | Metropolitans, The | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 12 | Silver, Linda R. | Book | Juvenile | |||
Someck, Ronny, Inbar, Hana, Manaster, Robert | Milk Underground, The | 2015 | F/M 2016 | 28 | Levine, Joyce | |||||
Brody, Robert | Mishnah and Tosefta Studies | 2014 | M/J 15 | 21 | Roth, Pinchas | |||||
Pollak, M., Simons, S. | Morasha Kehillat Yaakov: Essays in honour of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks | 2014 | S/O 2016 | 12 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Dean, Arthur | My Two Cents: A Collection of Short Stories | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 40 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Aarons, Victoria, Patt, Avinoam J., Shechner, Mark | New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 39 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Olitzky, Kerry M., Olitzky, Avi S. | New Membership & Financial Alternatives for the American Synagogue: From Traditional Dues to Fair Share to Gifts from the Heart | 2015 | F/M 2016 | 18 | Wolfe, Nira | |||||
Alpert, Michael, Kytasty, Julian | Night Songs from a Neighboring Village: Ballads of the Ukrainian and Yiddish Heartland | 2014 | M/J 2016 | 42 | Pinnolis, Judith S. | |||||
Falken, Linda | Noah’s Ark: From Genesis Chapters 6-9 | 2015 | N/D 2016 | 4 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Brandes, Yochi, Libenson, Daniel | Orchard, The | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 35 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | Book | Adult | |||
Brandes, Yochi | Orchard, The | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 35 | Pinchuck, Chava | Book | Adult | |||
Mandel, Paul D. | Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to Text, The | 2017 | Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, vol. 180 | M/J 2018 | 26 | Levy, David B | Book | Adult | ||
Jacobson, Maxine | Orthodoxy in American Judaism; The Era of Rabbi Leo Jung | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 18 | Tesler, David | |||||
Sorek, Tamir | Palestinian Commemoration in Israel: Calendars, Monuments, and Martyrs | 2015 | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Societies) | N/D 2015 | 34 | Simon, Rachel | ||||
Berger, Joseph | Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America, the | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 2 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Amichai, Yehuda, Alter, Robert | Poetry of Yehuda Amichai | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 39 | Dwoskin, Beth | |||||
Soyer, Francois | Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early modern Spain and its Empire: Francisco de Torrejoncillo and the Centinela contr Judios (1674) | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 34 | Belinfante, Randall C. | |||||
Baumgarten, Elisheva | Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance. | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 2 | Chesner, Michelle | |||||
Kobrin, Rebecca, Teller, Adam | Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History. | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 32 | Levy, David B | |||||
Foster, Steven, Foster, Joyce, Brovsky, Cindy | Rabbi and Senator Sleep Together: Marrying Religion and Politics. | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 16 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Galas, Michal | Rabbi Marcus Jastrow and his Vision for the Reform of Judaism: A Study in the History of Judaism in the Nineteenth Century | 2013 | M/J 15 | 23 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Smollett, Brian M., Wiese, Christian | Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience: Essays in Honor of Robert M. Seltzer | 2015 | Brill Reference Library of Judaism, 44 | N/D 2015 | 33 | Rosenbloom, Jim | ||||
Kimmel, Eric A. | Scarlett and Sam: Escape from Egypt | 2015 | M/J 15 | 17 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |||||
Yadin-Israel, Azzan | Scripture and Tradition: Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 40 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Twerski, Abraham J. | Shame Borne in Silence: Spousal Abuse in the Jewish Community. 2nd edition. | 2015 | N/D 2016 | 22 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Leatherdale, Mary Beth, Shakespeare, Eleanor | Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 16 | Krasner, Barbara | Book | Juvenile | |||
Keener, Jessica | Strangers in Budapest | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 36 | Gremillion, Yossi | Book | Adult | |||
Legrand, Thierry, Joosten, Jan | Targums in the Light of Traditions of the Second Temple Period, The | 2014 | Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism | N/D 2015 | 25 | Levy, David B | ||||
Martin-Contreras, Elvira, Miralles-Macia, Lorena | Text of the Hebrew Bible: From the Rabbis to the Masoretes | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 27 | Levy, David B | |||||
Robinson, James T. | The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Eli the Karaite on the Book of Joshua | 2014 | M/J 15 | 35-36 | Belinfante, Randall C. | |||||
Ganzel, Tova, Yehuda Brandes, Chayuta Deutsch | The Believer and Modern Study of the Bible | 2019 | S/O 2020 | 28 | Tesler, David | Book | Adult | |||
Feuerman, Ruchama King | The Mountain Jews and the Mirror | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 3 | Cole, Ellen | |||||
Loew, Yehudah ben Bezalel, Widmonte, Ramon | Tiferet Yisrael: Translation and Commentary: Volume 1: Introduction and Chapters 1-9. | 2016 | M/J 2018 | 26 | David B. Levy | Book | Adult | |||
Ogren, Brian | Time and Eternity in Jewish Mysticism: That Which is Before and That Which is After | 2015 | Studies in Jewish History and Culture; 48 | N/D 2015 | 28 | Levy, David B | ||||
Goda, Norman J.W. | To the Gates of Jerusalem: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1945-1947 | 2015 | M/J 15 | 26 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
Kahn, Ava F., Mendelsohn, Adam M. | Transnational Traditions: New Perspectives on American Jewish History | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 23 | Sukenic, Harvey | |||||
Boyarin, Daniel | Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 2 | Finkelman, Yoel | |||||
Vidro, Nadia, Zweip, Irene E., Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith | Universal Art: Hebrew Grammar Across Disciplines and Faiths | 2014 | Studies in Jewish History and Culture; 46 | F/M 2016 | 25 | Smailes, Suzanne | ||||
Zank, Michael, Anderson, Ingrid | Value of the Particular: Lessons from Judaism and the Modern Jewish Experience: Festschrift for Steven T. Katz on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday | 2015 | Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy; v. 25 | S/O 2016 | 18 | Levy, David B | ||||
Navon, Emmanuel | Victory of Zionism: Reclaiming the Narrative about Israel’s Domestic, Regional, and International Challenges, The | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 27 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |||||
Fertziger, Adam S., Miri Freud-Kandel, Bayne, Steven | Yitz Greenberg and Modern Orthodoxy: The Road Not Taken | 2019 | S/O 2020 | 28 | Belinfante, Randall C. & Anne Marie | Book | Adult | |||
Levy, David | Zionist Entity: The Jewish State in the 21st Century, The | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 25 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
Perechodnik, Calel | "Am I a Murderer?" Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman | 1996 | M/J 96 | 15 | ||||||
Baumel, Judith Tydor, Ordan, Dena | "Berson Boys" and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy, The | 2005 | M/J 06 | 22 |