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Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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Fisher, Leonard Everett | To Bigotry No Sanction: The Story of the Oldest Synagogue in America | 1998 | M/J 99 | 11 | ||||||
Zakim, Eric | To Build and Be Built: Landscape, Literature, and the Construction of Zionist Identity | 2006 | S/O 06 | 45-46 | ||||||
To Comfort the Bereaved: A Guide for Mournesr and Those Who Visit Them | 1994 | S/O 94 | 11 | |||||||
Belmont, Yemima | To Cross the Line with a Bridge. | 2015 | F/M 16 | 4 | Gremillion, Yossi | |||||
Livingston, Harold | To Die in Babylon | 1993 | F/M 94 | 7 | ||||||
Livinston, Harold | To Die in Babylon | 1993 | N/D 93 | 7 | ||||||
Daly, Jude | To Everything There is a Season | 2006 | M/J 06 | 8 | ||||||
Dillon, Leo, Dillon, Diane | To Everything There is a Season: Verses from Ecclesiastes | 1998 | F/M 99 | 16-17 | ||||||
Shapira, Kalonymus Kalman, Starrett, Yehoshua | To Heal the Soul: The Spiritual Journal of a Chasidic Rebbe | 1995 | N/D 95 | 10 | ||||||
Bellow, Saul | To Jerusalem and Back | 1976 | Sp77 | 27 | ||||||
Friedman, Daniel | To Kill and Take Possession: Law, Morality and Society in Biblical Stories | 2002 | M/J 04 | 14 | ||||||
Sender, Ruth Minsky | To Life | 1988 | M/J 89 | 9 | ||||||
Sender, Ruth Minsky | To Life | 1988 | S/O 89 | 9 | ||||||
Barer-Stein, Thelma, Schwartz, Esther., Vandersluis, Risa. | To Life! | 1996 | N/D 96 | 4 | ||||||
Weisbarth, Bracha | To Live and Fight Another Day: The Story of a Jewish Partisan Boy | 2004 | M/J 04 | 37 | ||||||
Saks, Jeffrey, Wolowelsky, Joel B. | To Mourn a Child: Jewish Responses to Neonatal and Childhood Death | 2013 | S/O13 | 36 | ||||||
Szer, Wlodzimier | To Our Children: Memoirs of Displacement: A Jewish Journey of Hope and Survival in Twentieth-Century Poland and Beyond | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 22 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
Donin, Hayim Halevy | To Raise a Jewish Child | 1977 | W77 | 26 | ||||||
Horenstein, Gail A. | To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World: The Life of Freida Fromm-Reichmann | 2000 | S/O 03 | 20-21 | ||||||
Ben Amotz, Dahn, Shapiro, Ziva | To Remember, to Forget | 1974 | D 74 | 26 | ||||||
Dobin, Joel C. | To Rule Both Day and Night: Astrology in the Bible, Midrash, Talmud | 1977 | Sp78 | 22 | ||||||
Greenblatt, Rachel L. | To Tell Their Children: Jewish Communal Memory in Early Modern Prague | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture | S/O14 | 13 | Sukenic, Harvey | |||||
Grossman, David, Cohen, Jessica | To the End of the Land | 2010 | N/D 10 | 15 | ||||||
Gonen, Rivka | To the Ends of the Earth: the Quest for the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel | 2002 | S/O 03 | 19-20 | ||||||
Appelfeld, Aharon, Green, Jeffrey M. | To the Land of the Cattails | 1986 | M/J 87 | 5 | ||||||
Agnon, S. Y., Halkin, Hillel | To This Day | 2008 | M/J 08 | 18 | ||||||
Lopman, MK Dov | To Unify a Nation: My Vision for the Future of Israel | S/O14 | 16 | Pinchuck, Kathe | ||||||
Benisch, Pearl | To Vanguish the Dragon | 1991 | M/J 92 | 14 | ||||||
Ozarowski, Joseph S. | To Walk in Gods Ways: Jewish Pastoral Perspectives on Illness and Bereavement | 1995 | N/D 95 | 41828 | ||||||
Lankin, Eliahu, Hershberg, Ariziah | To Win the Promised Land: Story of a Freedom Fighter | 1992 | N/D 92 | 24 | ||||||
Langer, Ruth | To Worship God Properly: Tensions Between Liturgical Custom and Halakhah in Judaism | 1998 | F/M 99 | 11 | ||||||
Lamm, Norman | Toah: Torah for Torahs Sake in the Works of Hayyim of Volozhin and His Contemporaries | 1989 | F/M 90 | 16 | ||||||
Mark, Michael | Toba at the Hands of a Thief | 1985 | F/M 86 | 7 | ||||||
Pushker, Gloria Teles, Tarman, Mel, Henriquez, Emile | Toby Belfer Learns about Heroes and Martyrs | 2009 | S/O 09 | 21 | ||||||
Pushker, Gloria Teles, Hierstein, Judith | Toby Belfer Visits Ellis Island | 2003 | F/M 04 | 39 | ||||||
Hays, David | Today I Am a Boy | 2000 | N/D 01 | 7 | ||||||
Vinick, Barbara, Reinharz, Shulamit | Today I am a Woman: Stories of Bat Mitzvah Around the World | 2012 | M/J 12 | 45 | ||||||
Heller, Linda, Jay, Alison | Today is the Birthday of the World | 2009 | M/J 09 | 14 | ||||||
Kwitney, Alisa, Jones, Joelle | Token | 2008 | M/J 09 | 32 | ||||||
Meerson, Michael, Schafer, Peter | Toldot Yeshu: The Life Story of Jesus. (2 vol.) | 2015 | Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism; 159 | S/O 2015 | 14 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | ||||
Sokol, Moshe | Tolerance, Dissent, and Democracy: Philosophical, Historical and Halakhic Perspective | 2002 | F/M 03 | 39 | ||||||
Goodman, Martin | Toleration Within Judaism | 2013 | N/D13 | 27-28 | ||||||
Hodes, Loren | Too Big, Too Little, Just Right | 2002 | F/M 03 | 43 | ||||||
Wasserman, Mira, Carolan, Christine | Too Much of a Good Thing | 2004 | N/D 03 | 30 | ||||||
Michelson, Richard, Waldman, Neil | Too Young for Yiddish | 2002 | F/M 02 | 34 | ||||||
Abrams, Judith Z. | Torah & Company: The Weekly Portion of Torah, Accompanied by Generous Helpings of Mishnah and Gemara, Served up with Discussion Questions to Spice up Your Sabbath Table | 2005 | S/O 06 | 34 | ||||||
Ettinger, Steven | Torah 24/7 | 2003 | S/O 04 | 16 | ||||||
Sattler, Stefen | Torah and Color: Color as Your Key to the Parsha | 2009 | F/M 10 | 38-39 | ||||||
Scharfstein, Sol | Torah and Commentary: The Five Books of Moses: Translation, Rabbinic and Contemporary Commentary | 2008 | F/M 09 | 17 | ||||||
Linzwer, Judith | Torah and Dharma: Jewish Seekers in Eastern Religions | 1996 | M/J 97 | 6 | ||||||
Cato, Vivienne | Torah and Judaism, The | 2003 | Sacred Texts Series | M/J 05 | 27 | |||||
Soloviechik, Meir Y., Halpern, Stuart W., Zuckier, Shlomo | Torah and Western Thought: Intellectual Portraits of Orthodoxy and Modernity | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 16 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Segal, Nechamy, Lumer, Marc | Torah Book of Opposites, The | 2012 | FM13 | 4 | ||||||
Yasgur, Benjamin S. | Torah Conversations with Nechama Leibowitz | 2013 | S/O13 | 46-47 | ||||||
Slifkin, Natan | Torah Encyclopedia of the Animal Kingdom: Vol. One: Chayot / Wild Animals | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 36 | Tesler, David | |||||
Gaer, Joseph | Torah for Family Reading, The | 1986 | N/D 86 | 4 | ||||||
Cohen, Jeffrey M. | Torah for Teens: Growing Up Spiritually with the Weekly Sidrah | 2008 | S/O 08 | 47 | ||||||
Jaffe, Martin S. | Torah in the Mouth: Writing and Oral Tradition in Palestinian Judaism, 200 BCE-400 CE | 2001 | N/D 01 | 8 | ||||||
Cowan, Paul, Cowan, Rachel | Torah is Written, A | 1986 | F/M 87 | 5 | ||||||
Gold, Shefa | Torah Journeys: The Inner Path to the Promised Land | 2006 | M/J 07 | 24 | ||||||
Waskow, David | Torah of the Earth: Exploring 4000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought (Vol. 1: Biblical Israel: One Land, One People / Rabbinic Judaism: One People, Many Lands) | 2000 | F/M 01 | 12 | ||||||
Drinkwater, Gregg, Shneer, David | Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible | 2009 | S/O 10 | 30-31 | ||||||
Torah Tapestries: Words of Wisdom Woven from teh Weekly Parashah - Vayikra | 2013 | Smiles, Shira | M/J13 | 34 | ||||||
Smiles, Shira | Torah Tapestries: Words of Wisdom Woven from the Weekly Parashah - Shemos | 2012 | FM13 | 37 | ||||||
Smiles, Shira | Torah Tapestries: Words of Wisdom Woven from the Weekly Parashah —Bamidbar | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 32 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Adahan, Miriam, Halberstadt, Menachem | Torah Tigers | 2009 | S/O 09 | 24 | ||||||
Bobker, Joe | Torah with a Twist of Humor | 2004 | S/O 05 | 42 | ||||||
Jacobovitz, Rabbi Avraham | Torah: Beauty Beyond Belief: Insightful Responses to Challenging Questions | 2014 | M/J 15 | 30 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
Lamm, Norman | Torah: Torah for Torahs Sake in the Works of Hayyim of Volozhin | F/M 90 | 16 | |||||||
Staub, Michael E. | Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America | 2002 | F/M 03 | 39 | ||||||
Banks, Lynne Reid | Torn Country: An Oral History of the israeli War of Independence | N/D 82 | 11 | |||||||
Neusner, Jacob | Tosefta, The: Translated from the Hebrew with a New Introduction | 2002 | M/J 03 | 21 | ||||||
Kress, Camille | Tot Shabbat | 1996 | F/M 97 | 12 | ||||||
Slonim, Rivkah, ed. | Total Immersion: A Mikvah Anthology | 1996 | M/J 96 | 41955 | ||||||
Frieze, Donna-Lee | Totally Unoffiia: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin | 2013 | N/D13 | 25 | ||||||
Lavovitz, Annette, Labovitz, Eugene | Touch of Heaven: Eternal Stories for Jewish Living, A | 1990 | N/D 90 | 10 | ||||||
Sollish, Ari, Becker, Baruch | Touch of Passover, A | 2004 | A Touch and Feel Book Series | S/O 05 | 15 | |||||
Glazer, Devorah, Seva | Touch of the High Holidays, A | 2002 | Touch and Feel Book Series, A | N/D 02 | 26 | |||||
Borowitz, Eugene B., Schwartz, Frances W. | Touch of the Sacred, A: A Theologians Informal Guide to Jewish Belief | 2007 | N/D 08 | 11 | ||||||
Oz, Amos, de Lange, Nicholas | Touch the Water, Touch the Wind | 1974 | Sp75 | 25 | ||||||
Roth-Hane, Renee | Touch Wood: A Girlhood in Occupied France | 1988 | N/D 88 | 9 | ||||||
Watts, Irene N. | Touched by Fire | 2013 | N/D13 | 2 | ||||||
Gold, Sholom | Touching History: From Williamsburg to Jerusalem | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 8 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Vorspan, Albert, Saperstein, David | Tough Choices: Jewish Perspectives on Social Justice | 1992 | F/M 93 | 26 | ||||||
Cohen, Rich | Tough Jews | 1998 | S/O 98 | 7 | ||||||
Feinstein, Edward | Tough Questions Jews Ask: A Young Adults Guide to Building a Jewish Life | 2003 | S/O 03 | 53 | ||||||
Meltzer, Milton | Tough Times | 2007 | F/M 08 | 13 | ||||||
Society of Friends of Touro Synagogue | Touro Synagogue of Congregation Jeshuat Israel, Newport, Rhode Island | 1948 | Sp 75 | 15-16 | ||||||
Langmuir, Gavni I. | Toward a Definition of Anti-Semitism | 1990 | M/J 91 | 14 | ||||||
Breslauer, S. Daniel | Toward a Jewish (M)orality: Speaking of a Postmodern Jewish Ethics | 1998 | N/D 98 | 7 | ||||||
Prager, Yossi | Toward a Renewed Ethic of Jewish Philanthropy | 2010 | Orthodox Forum | N/D 10 | 22 | |||||
Markowitz, Fran, Sharot, Stephen, Shokeid, Moshe | Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel | 2015 | M/J 15 | 32 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
Downing, David | Toward Genocide | 2006 | World Almanac Library of the Holocaust | S/O 06 | 11 | |||||
Shalom, A., Katz, Tova | Toward the Flames of Aleppo | 2002 | M/J 02 | 20-21 | ||||||
Gadot, A. S., Rebora, Cecilia | Tower of Babel | 2010 | S/O 10 | 10, 12 | ||||||
Hirsh, Marilyn | Tower of Babel, The | A/M 81 | 8 | |||||||
Greengard, Alison, Racklin-Siegel, Carol | Tower of Babel: Excerpted from the Book of Genesis, The | 2001 | M/J 03 | 27 | ||||||
Gillman, Neil | Traces of God: Seeing God in Torah, History and Everyday Life | 2006 | S/O 06 | 39 | ||||||
Sagan, Miriam, Evans, Beth | Tracing Our Jewish Roots | 1993 | The American Origins Series | N/D 93 | 14 | |||||
Skalka, Lois Martin | Tracing, Charting and Writing Your Family History | 1975 | W76 | 19 |