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Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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Wein, Elizabeth | Code Name Verity | 2012 | M/J13 | 10-11 | ||||||
Corenthal, Michael G. | Cohen on the Telephone: A Hisotry of Jewish Recorded Humor and Popular Music, 1892-1942 | 1984 | N/D 86 | 4 | ||||||
Wolfson, Jill | Cold Hands, Warm Heart | 2009 | S/O 09 | 19 | ||||||
Klug, Lisa Alcalay | Coll Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe | 2008 | F/M 09 | 13 | ||||||
Soloveitchik, Haym | Collected Essays II | 2014 | M/J 15 | 39 | Tesler, David | |||||
Rabin, A. I., Hazan, Bertha | Collective Education in the Kibbutz | 1973 | W75 | 28 | ||||||
Elliott, Alice | Collector of Bedford Street, The | 2005 | S/O 06 | 30 | ||||||
Elliott, Alice | Collector of Bedford Street, The (VIDEO) | 2005 | S/O 06 | 30 | ||||||
Grossman, Laurie, Byers, Helen | Colors of Israel | 2001 | N/D 01 | 22 | ||||||
Gold-Vukson, Marji E., Wikler, Madeline | Colors of My Jewish Yeare, The | 1998 | S/O 98 | 32 | ||||||
Niewyk, Donald, Nicosia, Francis | Columbia Guide to the Holocaust, The | 2000 | S/O 01 | 19 | ||||||
Hart-Green, Sharon | Come Back for Me | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 35 | Gremillion, Yossi | Book | Adult | |||
Glicksberg, Abraham A. | Come Back, Jewish Youth, Come Back Home | S/O 83 | 3 | |||||||
Manushkin, Fran | Come, Let Us Be Joyful: The Story of Hava Nagila | 2000 | S/O 00 | 36 | ||||||
Groner, Judyth, Wikler, Madeline | Come, Let Us Welcome Shabbat | 1999 | S/O 00 | 36 | ||||||
Salmon, Howard | Comic Book Siddur for Shabbat Morning Services | 2008 | N/D 08 | 36 | ||||||
Velde, Vivian | Coming Evil, A | 1998 | M/J 99 | 19 | ||||||
Taylor, Penina | Coming Full Circle: A Jewish Womans Journey Through Christianity and Back | 2009 | M/J 10 | 42 | ||||||
Orange, Wendy | Coming Home to Jerusalem: A Personal Journey | 2000 | S/O 00 | 11 | ||||||
Shires, Linda M. | Coming Home: A Womans Story of Conversion to Judaism | 2003 | F/M 04 | 20 | ||||||
Ross, Mandy | Coming of Age | 2004 | Rites of Passage Series | S/O 04 | 53 | |||||
Herman, Victor | Coming Out of the Ice | Ma 80 | 6 | |||||||
Kaniuk, Yoram, Simckes, Seymour | Commander of the Exodus | 1999 | F/M 01 | 10 | ||||||
Abrams, Nathan | Commentary Magazine 1945-59: A Journal of Significant Thought and Opinion | 2007 | F/M 08 | 34 | ||||||
Ibn Ezra, Abraham, Schachter, Jay F. | Commentary of Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch, The: Volume 5: Deuteronomy | 2003 | N/D 03 | 13 | ||||||
Carasik, Michael | Commentators Bible: The JPS Miqraot Gedolot: Exodus, The | 2005 | M/J 06 | 24 | ||||||
Kushner, Yosef | Commerce and Shabbos: The Laws of Shabbos as They Apply to Today’s Hi-Tech Business World. | 2013 | N/D 14 | 25 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Hacohen, Aviad | Commitment and Complexity: Jewish Wisdom in an Age of Upheaval: Selections from the Writings of Rabbi Yehuda Amital | 2008 | F/M 09 | 11 | ||||||
Waterford, Helen H. | Commitment to the Dead: One Womans Journey Toward Understanding | 1987 | F/M 88 | 5 | ||||||
Jungreis, Esther | Committed Life: Principles for Good Living from Our Timeless Past, The | 1998 | M/J 99 | 7 | ||||||
Engelmayer, Shammai, Ozarowski, Joseph S., Sofian, David M. | Common Ground | 1997 | S/O 98 | 7 | ||||||
Ascher, Abraham | Community Under Siege: The Jews of Breslau Under Nazism, A | 2007 | M/J 08 | 23 | ||||||
Soloveitchik, Joseph B., Helfgot, Netanel | Community, Covenant, and Commitment: Selected Letters and Communications of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (MeOtzar HoRav) | 2005 | S/O 05 | 52 | ||||||
Henze, Matthias | Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism | 2012 | S/O12 | 34 | ||||||
Gordon, Neil | Company You Keep, The | 2003 | N/D 03 | 8 | ||||||
Holub, Joan, Andriani, Renee | Companys Coming: A Passover Lift-the-Flap Book | 2002 | S/O 02 | 43 | ||||||
Sears, David | Compassion for Humanity in the Jewish Tradition | 1998 | N/D 99 | 12 | ||||||
Miller, Jonathan | Compassionate Community: Ten Values to Unite America, The | 2006 | N/D 07 | 33-34 | ||||||
Wolbram, Ricky | Complete Guide to Yarmulka Design, The | S/O 84 | 7 | |||||||
Olitzky, Kerry M., Isaacs, Ronald H. | Complete How to Handbook for Jewish Living, The | 2004 | N/D 04 | 9 | ||||||
Rose, Evelyn | Complete International Jewish Cookbook, The | 1976 | Sp77 | 29 | ||||||
Complete Jewish Party Music Collection, The (AUDIO) | M/J 93 | 19 | ||||||||
Luzzatto, Moshe Hayyim | Complete Mesillat Yesharim: Dialogue and Thematic Versions | 2007 | M/J 08 | 38 | ||||||
AvRutick, Frances R. | Complete Passover Cookbook, The | S/O 81 | 13 | |||||||
Mindel, Nissan, Schwartz, Michel | Complete Story of Passover | 1984 | M/J 85 | 5 | ||||||
Mindel, Nissan | Complete Story of Purim | F/M 83 | 5 | |||||||
Mindel, Nissan | Complete Story of Tishrei | N/D 82 | 6 | |||||||
Klein, Ernest D. | Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of Hebrew, A | 1987 | S/O 89 | 8 | ||||||
Davis, Enid | Comprehensive Guide to Childrens Literature with a Jewish Theme | 1981 | W 82 | 13 | ||||||
Beinfeld, Solon, Bochner, Harry | Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary = Arumnemik Yiddish-English verterbukh | 2013 | S/O13 | 21 | ||||||
Levin, Meyer | Compulsion: A Novel. | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 24 | Gremillion, Yossi | |||||
Nulman, Macy | Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music | 1975 | Sp77 | 30 | ||||||
Benz, Wolfgang, Dunlap, Thomas | Concise History of the Third Reich, A | 2006 | S/O 06 | 35-36 | ||||||
Gordon, Paul | Concrete Solution | 2001 | M/J 01 | 13 | ||||||
Seymour, Gerald | Condition Black | 1990 | S/O 92 | 22 | ||||||
Littman, Sarah Darer | Confessions of a Clost Catholic | 2005 | S/O 05 | 17-18 | ||||||
Cuniot, Denis | Confidential Klezmer (SOUND) | 2007 | F/M 09 | 22 | ||||||
Hartman, David | Conflicting Visions | 1990 | F/M 91 | 18 | ||||||
Benvenisti, Meron | Conflicts and Contradictions | 1986 | A/M 86 | 3 | ||||||
Downing, David | Conflicts of the Middle East | 2007 | World Almanac Library of the Middle East Series | N/D 07 | 20-21 | |||||
Downing, David | Conflicts of the Middle East | 2007 | World Almanacs Library of the Middle East | S/O 07 | 22-23 | |||||
Himel, Martin | Confrontation at Concordia (VIDEO) | 2003 | S/O 04 | 10 | ||||||
Laqueur, Walter | Confrontation: The Middle East and World Politics | 1974 | D 74 | 29 | ||||||
Rosenfeld, Alvin | Confronting the Holocaust | O 79 | 6 | |||||||
Koons, Jon, Schindler, S. D. | Confused Hanukkah: An Original Story of Chelm; A | 2004 | N/D 04 | 19 | ||||||
Levine, Morton, Kanto, Hal | Congregation, The | 1985 | N/D 86 | 6 | ||||||
Romain, Gemma | Connecting Histories: A Comparative Exploration of African-Caribbean and Jewish History and Memory in Modern Britain | 2006 | N/D 07 | 35 | ||||||
Ruderman, David B. | Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth-Century England | 2007 | F/M 08 | 43-44 | ||||||
Fogelman, Eva | Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust | 1994 | M/J 95 | 17 | ||||||
Schulweis, Harold M. | Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey | 2008 | F/M 09 | 18 | ||||||
Weiss, Erica | Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 40 | Smith, Sonia | |||||
Shapira, Kalonymus Kalman, Cohen-Kiener, Andrea | Conscious Community: A Guide to Inner Work | 1996 | F/M 97 | 8 | ||||||
Dorff, Elliot N. | Conservative Judaism: Our Ancestors to our Descendants | 1977 | Sp78 | 22 | ||||||
Elazar, Daniel J., Geffen, Rela Mintz | Conservative Movement in Judaism: Dilemmas and Opportunities, The | 2000 | SUNY Series in American Jewish Society in the 1990s | F/M 01 | 4 | |||||
Elazar, Daniel J., Geffen, Rela Mintz | Conservative Movement in Judaism: Dilemmas and Opportunities, The | 2000 | SUNY Series in American Jewish Society in the 1990s | M/J 01 | 41797 | |||||
Blankman, Anne | Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke | 2015 | F/M 16 | 38 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Gersten, Alan | Conspiracy of Indifference: The Reaoul Wallenberg Story, A | 2001 | F/M 02 | 21 | ||||||
Klugman, David | Conspiracy of the Righteous: The Silence of the Village of Prelenfrey-du-Gud Saved Jewish Children and Adults in 1944, The | 1995 | M/J 96 | 10 | ||||||
Roth, John K. | Consuming Fire, A: Encounters with Elie Wiesel and the Holocaust | 1979 | Sp80 | 16 | ||||||
Rosner, Fred | Contemporary Biomedical Ethical Issues and Jewish Law | 2006 | S/O 07 | 53 | ||||||
Bechhofer, Yosef Gavriel | Contemporary Eruv: Eruvin in Modern Metropolitan Areas, The | 1998 | S/O 98 | 41797 | ||||||
Bleich, J. David | Contemporary Halakhic Problems | 2012 | Contemporary Halakhic Problems; vol. VI | S/O12 | 27 | |||||
Furman, Andrew | Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: The Return of the Exiled | 2000 | N/D 01 | 7 | ||||||
Lorenz, Dagmar C. G. | Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology | 1999 | S/O 00 | 15 | ||||||
Vieira, Nelson | Contemporary Jewish Writing in Brazil: An Anthology | 2009 | Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World | S/O 10 | 27 | |||||
Cheyette, Brayn | Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland: An Anthology | 1998 | N/D 98 | 11 | ||||||
Greenstein, Michael | Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada: an Anthology | 2004 | S/O 04 | 8 | ||||||
Suleiman, Susan Rubin, Forgecs, Eva | Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary: An Anthology | 2003 | Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World Series | S/O 04 | 41892 | |||||
Stenberg, Peter | Contemporary Jewish Writing in Sweden: An Anthology | 2004 | Jewish Writings in the Contemporary World | M/J 05 | 30-31 | |||||
Shatzky, Joel, Taub, Michael | Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook | 1999 | S/O 00 | 20, 31 | ||||||
Shatzky, Joel, Taub, Michael | Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook | 1997 | N/D 97 | 41797 | ||||||
Contemporary Jewry: Studies in Honor of Moshe Davis | 1984 | F/M 87 | 4 | |||||||
Felton, John | Contemporary Middle East: A Documentary History, The | 2008 | M/J 08 | 30 | ||||||
Freundel, Barry | Contemporary Orthodox Judaisms Response to Modernity | 2004 | F/M 05 | 14, 16 | ||||||
Rosenberg, Alan, Watson, James R., Linke, Detlef | Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz: Philosophical Challenges | 2000 | S/O 00 | 18 | ||||||
Pelham, Abigail | Contested Creations in the Book of Job: the World-as-It-Ought-and-Ought-Not-to-Be | 2012 | FM13 | 33-34 | ||||||
Gonen, Rivka | Contested Holiness: Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Perspectives on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem | 2003 | F/M 04 | 16-17 | ||||||
Alderman, Geoffrey | Controversy and Crisis: Studies in the History of the Jews of Modern Britain | 2008 | Judaism and Jewish Life | F/M 09 | 7 | |||||
Wurzburger, Walter S., Jacobs, Eliezer L., Carmy, Shalom | Convenantal Imperatives: Esays on Jewish Law, Thought and Community | 2008 | M/J 09 | 30 | ||||||
Goldstein, Phyllis | Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism, A | 2012 | M/J 12 | 28 |