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Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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Pearl, Sydelle, Iantorno, Danlyn | Books for Children of the World: The Story of Jella Lepman | 2007 | S/O 07 | 11, 14 | ||||||
Gross, Joel | Books of Rachel, The | 1979 | W79 | 23 | ||||||
Fine, Marcia | Boomerang: When Life Comes Back to Bite You | 2003 | N/D 03 | 8 | ||||||
Goldman, Dara | Boris and Stella and the Perfect Gift: A Christmas and Hanukkah Story | 2013 | F/M14 | 14 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |||||
Glaser, Linda | Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes, The | 1997 | N/D 97 | 17 | ||||||
Van Stockum, Hilda | Borrowed House, The | 1975 | W75 | 30 | ||||||
Hentoff, Nat | Boston Boy | 1986 | M/J 86 | 3 | ||||||
Hentoff, Nat | Boston Boy | 1986 | A/M 86 | 41702 | ||||||
Zenatti, Valerie | Bottle in the Gaza Sea, A | 2008 | F/M 08 | 15 | ||||||
Stahl, Samuel M. | Boundaries not Barriers: Some Uniquely Jewish Perspectives on Life | 2005 | M/J 06 | 30-31 | ||||||
Lubetski, Meir, Gottlieb, Claire, Keller, Sharon | Boundaries of the Ancient Near Eastern World: A Tribute to Cyrus H. Gordon | 1998 | Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series 273 | F/M 99 | 41955 | |||||
Jacobs, Laurie, Ephraim, Shelly Schonebaum | Box of Candles, A | 2005 | S/O 05 | 13 | ||||||
Bergman, Tamar, Halkin, Hillel | Boy from Over There, The | 1988 | M/J 89 | 11 | ||||||
Orgard, Dorit, Katz, Avi | Boy from Seville, The | 2007 | S/O 07 | 16-17 | ||||||
Hannam, Charles | Boy in That Situation, A | S 78 | 5 | |||||||
Boyne, John | Boy In the Striped Pajamas, The | 2006 | M/J 06 | 17 | ||||||
De Groot, Jan | Boy in War, A | 2008 | F/M 10 | 13 | ||||||
Leyson, Leon, Harran, Marilyn J., Leyson, Elisabeth B. | Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindlers List, The | 2013 | N/D13 | 9 | ||||||
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | Boy Who Dared: A Novel Based on the True Story of a Hitler Youth, The | 2008 | M/J 08 | 41986 | ||||||
Schotter, Roni, Potter, Giselle | Boy Who Loved Words, The | 2006 | N/D 06 | 6 | ||||||
Kalechofsky, Roberta | Boy, A Chicken, and the Lion of Judah: How Ari Became a Vegetarian, A | 1995 | F/M 96 | 17 | ||||||
Nobleman, Marc Tyler, MacDonald, Ross | Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman | 2008 | S/O 08 | 47, 49 | ||||||
Baldwin, Margaret | Boys who Saved the Children, The | F/M 82 | 2 | |||||||
Baldwin, Margaret | Boys who Saved the Children, The | M/J 82 | 7 | |||||||
Stern, Ariella | Bracha Do You Know? | 2014 | M/J 15 | 15 | Pastcan, Ben | |||||
Paluch, Beily, Argoff, Patti | Braid the Challah: A Playful Action Rhyme | 2004 | N/D 04 | 20 | ||||||
Damashek, Richard | Brand Plucked from the Fire: The Life of Rabbi Herman E. Schaalman, A | 2013 | N/D13 | 23-24 | ||||||
Setterington, Ken | Branded by the Pink Triangle | 2013 | N/D13 | 10 | ||||||
Mlynowski, Sarah | Bras and Broomsticks | 2005 | N/D 05 | 14 | ||||||
Kimmel, Eric A. | Brass Serpent, The | 2002 | N/D 02 | 23 | ||||||
Alma, Ann | Brave Deeds: How One Family Saved Many from the Nazis | 2008 | F/M 09 | 37-38 | ||||||
Alma, Ann | Brave Deeds: How One Family Saved Many from the Nazis | 2008 | F/M 09 | 39-40 | ||||||
Markel, Michelle, Sweet, Melissa | Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers Strike of 1909 | 2013 | FM13 | 3-4 | ||||||
Greengard, Alison, Racklin-Siegel, Carol | Brave Women Who Saved Moses, The | 2009 | F/M 10 | 10 | ||||||
Zytman, Leah, Diskind, Leah Malka | Bravest Fireman, The | 1998 | F/M 02 | 42 | ||||||
Zytman, Leah | Bravest Fireman, The | 1998 | N/D 98 | 16 | ||||||
Hoffman, Charles | Bray Dawn: the Jews of Eastern Europe in the Post-Communist Era | 1992 | S/O 92 | 18 | ||||||
Slonim, Rivkah, ed. | Bread and Fire: Jewish Women Find God in the Everyday | 2008 | S/O 08 | 26 | ||||||
Yezierska, Anzia | Bread Givers, The | 1975 | W75 | 27 | ||||||
Schiller, Martin | Bread, Butter and Sugar: A Boys Journey Through the Holocaust and Postwar Uerope | 2007 | N/D 07 | 35 | ||||||
Bober, Natalie S. | Breaking Tradition: The Story of Louise Nevelson | 1984 | M/J 85 | 6 | ||||||
Fishman, Sylvia Barack | Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community, A | 1995 | M/J 96 | 7 | ||||||
Lamstein, Sarah | Breathless | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 43 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Zalben, Jane Breskin, Chess, Victoria | Brenda Berman, Wedding Expert | 2009 | M/J 09 | 13 | ||||||
Nissen, Alex | Bret Harte: Prince and Pauper | 2000 | M/J 01 | 8 | ||||||
Nissen, Axel | Bret Harte: Prince and Pauper | 2000 | F/M 01 | 8 | ||||||
Ben-Zvi, Hava | Bride Who Argued with God, The: Tales from the Treasury of Jewish Folklore | 2006 | S/O 07 | 44-45 | ||||||
Hoberman, J. | Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds | 1991 | S/O 92 | 18 | ||||||
Roskies, David G. | Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling, A | 1995 | N/D 95 | 41860 | ||||||
Roskin, David G. | Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling, A | 1995 | F/M 96 | 7 | ||||||
Glaser, Linda | Bridge to America | 2005 | F/M 06 | 12 | ||||||
Kedar, Karyn D. | Bridge to Forgiveness: Stories and Prayers for Finding God and Restoring Wholeness, The | 2007 | M/J 08 | 37 | ||||||
Meyerstein, Israela | Bridge to Healing: Finding Strength to Cope with Illness | 2014 | M/J 15 | 32-33 | Wolfe, Nira | |||||
Teller, Hanoch | Bridges of Steel; Ladders of Gold | 1990 | S/O 90 | 15 | ||||||
Reinhardt, Dana | Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life, A | 2006 | M/J 06 | 13-14 | ||||||
Weiss, Moshe | Brief History of the Jewish People, A | 2004 | S/O 05 | 53 | ||||||
Benchley, Nathanial | Bright Candles | 1974 | D 74 | 26 | ||||||
Rosenfeld, Lulla | Bright Star of Exile: Jacob Adler & the Yiddish Theatre | 1977 | W77 | 28 | ||||||
Broner, E. M. | Bringing Home the Light: A Jewish Womans Handbook of Rituals | 1999 | N/D 01 | 6 | ||||||
Polish, Daniel F. | Bringing the Psalms to Life: How to Understand and Use the Book of Psalms | 2000 | S/O 01 | 19-20 | ||||||
Romberg, Henry C. | Bris Milah | F/M 83 | 4 | |||||||
Wasserstein, Bernard | Britain & the Jews of Europe | 1979 | Sp80 | 16 | ||||||
Wasserstein, Bernard | Britain & The Jews of Europe | 1979 | Sp 81 | 16 | ||||||
Bolchovez, Richard | British Jewry and the Holocaust | 2003 | N/D 03 | 10 | ||||||
Kranzler, Gershon | Broken Bracelet, The | 1986 | N/D 86 | 7 | ||||||
Banks, Lynne Reid | Broken Bridge | 1994 | N/D 95 | 14 | ||||||
Appelbaum, Peter C. , Scott, James W | Broken Carousel: German Jewish Soldier-Poets of the Great War | 2017 | N/D 2018 | 36 | Smailes, Suzanne | Book | Adult | |||
Arens, Moshe | Broken Covenant: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis Between the U.S. and Israel | 1995 | S/O 95 | 7 | ||||||
Jarausch, Konrad H. | Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 30 | Wolfe, Nira | Book | ||||
Douglas, Kirk | Broken Mirror, The | 1997 | N/D 97 | 11 | ||||||
Lasky, Kathryn | Broken Song | 2005 | M/J 05 | 21 | ||||||
Mikva, Rachel S. | Broken Tablets: Restoring the Ten Commandments and Ourselves | 1999 | N/D 00 | 9, 11 | ||||||
Kremer, Roberta S. | Broken Threads: The Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry in Germany and Austria | 2007 | M/J 08 | 26-27 | ||||||
Mendelsohn, Martha | Bromley Girls | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 3 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Aronson, Peter | Bronislaw Huberman | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 7 | Barbara Krasner | Book | Juvenile | |||
Simon, Kate | Bronx Primitive | S/O 82 | 4 | |||||||
Hesse, Karen | Brooklyn Bridge | 2008 | N/D 08 | 29 | ||||||
Levy, Yael | Brooklyn Love | 2012 | S/O13 | 6 | ||||||
Sprinzak, Ehud | Brother Against Brother: Violence and Extremism in Israeli Politics from Altalena to the Rabin Assassination | 1999 | M/J 99 | 9 | ||||||
Seldis, Chayym | Brothers | 1986 | S/O 86 | 10 | ||||||
Gur, David, Nezter, Eli, Fischer, Avri | Brothers for Resistance and Rescue: The Underground Zionist Youth Movement in Hungary during World War II | 2007 | M/J 07 | 25-26 | ||||||
Tunnell, Michael O. | Brothers in Valor: A Story of Resistance | 2001 | S/O 01 | 39 | ||||||
Harber, Frances, Wickstrom, Thor | Brothers Promise, The | 1998 | F/M 99 | 18 | ||||||
Binder, Mark, Blum, Zevi | Brothers Schlemiel, The | 2008 | M/J 08 | 9 | ||||||
Freedman, Florence B., Parker, Robert Andrew | Brothers: A Hebrew Legend | 1985 | F/M 86 | 6 | ||||||
Kleid, Neil, Allen, Jake | Brownsville | 2006 | S/O 06 | 31-32 | ||||||
Landesman, Alter F. | Brownsville: The Birth, Development and Passing of a Jewish Community in New York (2nd ed) | 1971 | W79 | 23 | ||||||
Kushner, Tony, Sendak, Maurice | Brundibar | 2003 | F/M 04 | 37 | ||||||
Ross, Lillian Hammer | Buba Leah and Her Paper Children | 1991 | S/O 92 | 23 | ||||||
Terwilliger, Kelly, Hornung, Phyllis | Bubbe Isabella and the Sukkot Cake | 2005 | S/O 05 | 15 | ||||||
Pinson, Isabel, Cis, Valeria | Bubbe’s Belated Bat Mitzvah | 2014 | N/D 14 | 12 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Press, Judy, Hall, Mary | Bubbe’s Got the Beat | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 19 | Tilman, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
Bloom, David Halevi, Meilichson, Alex | Bubbie and Zadie Come to My Hosue: A Story for Hanukkah | 2007 | F/M 07 | 12 | ||||||
Pomerantz, Barbara | Bubby, Me and Memories | N/D 83 | 9 | |||||||
Pomerantz, Barbara | Bubby, Me and Memories | S/O 84 | 9 | |||||||
Epstein, Sue | Budget Cooking: Elegant Dining | 1996 | N/D 96 | 5 | ||||||
Aroeste, Sarah, Rubio, Ayesha | Buen Shabat, Shabbat Shalom | 2020 | F/M 2020 | 43 | Silverman, Lisa | Book | Juvenile | |||
Wachsler, Leah | Building | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 19 | Levitan, Rebecca | Book | Juvenile | |||
Lubetski, Edith | Building a Judaica Library | N/D 83 | 10 | |||||||
Simon, Charles | Building a Succesful Volunteer Culture: Finding Meaning in Service in the Jewish Community | 2009 | S/O 10 | 37-38 |