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Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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Soldat-Jaffe, Tatjana | Twenty-first Century Yiddishism: Language, Identity, and the New Jewish Studies | 2012 | N/D12 | 37 | ||||||
Goldblatt, Mark | Twerp | 2013 | F/M14 | 4-5 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
Twerski, Abraham J. | Twersky on Spirituality | 1998 | N/D 99 | 15 | ||||||
Hareven, Shulamith | Twilight and Other Stories | 1992 | M/J 94 | 7 | ||||||
Caudill, Mark A | Twilight in the Kingdom: Understanding the Saudis | 2006 | F/M 07 | 31 | ||||||
Kater, Michael H. | Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich, The | 1997 | M/J 97 | 17 | ||||||
Waldman, Neil | Two Brothers, The: A Legend of Jerusalem | 1997 | N/D 97 | 18 | ||||||
Stauffer, Lisa Lowe, Scudamore, Angelika | Two by Two | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 7 | Tilman, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
Winch, John | Two by Two | 2004 | N/D 04 | 13-14 | ||||||
Allen, Jonathan | Two by Two by Two | 1995 | F/M 96 | 15 | ||||||
Araten, Harry | Two by Two: Favorite Bible Stories | 1991 | S/O 91 | 22 | ||||||
Batterman, Lee, Wattling, James | Two Cents and a Milk Bottle | 1997 | M/J 98 | 21 | ||||||
Hays, Peter, Rozen, Beti | Two Continents, Four Generations: One Hundred Years, Two Stories | 2010 | S/O 10 | 13 | ||||||
Biro, Adam, Tihanyi, Catherine | Two Jews on a Train: Stories from the Old Country and the New | 2001 | N/D 01 | 16-17 | ||||||
Jacobs, Fishel | Two Kings: Lets Go Play (vol. 1) | 2008 | F/M 09 | 48 | ||||||
Hoffenberg, Esther | Two Lives of Eva, The | 2005 | F/M 07 | 37 | ||||||
Hoffenberg, Esther | Two Lives of Eva, The (VIDEO) | 2005 | F/M 07 | 37 | ||||||
Werber, Millie, Keller, Eve | Two Rings: A Story of Love and War | 2012 | N/D12 | 39 | ||||||
Schama, Simon | Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel | 1978 | Sp79 | 25 | ||||||
Zafrani, Haim | Two Thousand Years of Jewish Life in Morocco | 2005 | M/J 06 | 31 | ||||||
Ruby, Lois | Two Truths in My Pocket | N/D 82 | 8 | |||||||
Gavison, Ruth | Two-State Solution: The UN Partition Resolution of Mandatory Palestine - Analysis and Sources, The | 2013 | N/D13 | 27 | ||||||
Elliot, William | Tying Rocks to Clouds: Meetings and Conversations with Wise and Spiritual People | 1995 | S/O 96 | 5 | ||||||
Katz, Susan B. | Tylers Hill | 2009 | N/D 10 | 41892 | ||||||
Greene, Michael, Birk, Surry | Tzadakah and the Precious Pushke: With CD Sounds of Sharing and Caring (AUDIO with Book) | 2001 | F/M 02 | 32 | ||||||
Schochet, Jacob Immanuel | Tzavat Harivash: the Testament of Rabbi Isarel Baal Shem Tov | 1998 | M/J 99 | 8 | ||||||
Greene, Michael | Tzekakah and the Precious Pushke: With CD Sounds of Sharing and Caring | 2001 | F/M 02 | 32 | ||||||
Appelfeld, Aharon | Tzili: The Story of a Life | M/J 83 | 3 | |||||||
Feintuch, Yossi | U.S. Policy on Jerusalem | 1987 | S/O 90 | 16 | ||||||
Kreimeier, Klaus, Kimber, Rober, Kimber, Rita | UFA Story: A History Of Germanys Greatest Film Company 1918-1945, The | 1996 | F/M 97 | 18 | ||||||
Ayal, Ora, Naka, Naomi Low | UGBU | 1979 | W79 | 24 | ||||||
Channen, Don | Uh! Oh! Hanukkah: Hidden Objects Youll [almost] Never Find | 1993 | N/D 93 | 14 | ||||||
Bernard, Robert | Ullman Code, The | 1975 | Sp 75 | 24 | ||||||
Cohen, Jayne, Weinrott, Lori | Ultimate Bar/Bat Mitzvah Celebration Book, The: A Guide to Inspiring Ceremonies and Joyous Festivities | 2004 | S/O 04 | 53 | ||||||
Trew, Anthony | Ultimatum | 1976 | Sp77 | 26 | ||||||
Oertelt, Henry A.,, Samuels, Stephanie Oertelt | Unbroken Chain, An: My Journey through the Nazi Holocaust | 2000 | S/O 01 | 19 | ||||||
Mendelevich, Yosef | Unbroken Spirit: A Heroic Story of Faith, Courage and Survival | 2012 | S/O13 | 33 | ||||||
Kaltner, John, MckKenzie, Steven, Kilpatrick, Joel | Uncensored Bible, The: The Bawdy and Naughty Bits of the Good Book | 2008 | M/J 09 | 24 | ||||||
Markus, Julia | Uncle | 1978 | Sp79 | 24 | ||||||
Segal, Eliezer Lorne, Gordon-Lucas, Bonnie | Uncle Elis Special-for-Kids, Most Fun Ever, Under-the-Table Passover Haggadah | 1999 | M/J 00 | 20 | ||||||
Newman, Tracy | Uncle Eli’s Wedding | 2015 | M/J 15 | 3 | Cole, Ellen | |||||
Kushner, Don | Uncle Jacobs Ghost Story | 1986 | A/M 86 | 5 | ||||||
Brooks, Jerome | Uncle Mikes Boy | 1973 | D 74 | 31 | ||||||
Shabtai, Yaakov | Uncle Peretz Takes Off: Short Stories | 2004 | F/M 05 | 11 | ||||||
Rosner, Bernat, Tubach, Frederic C., Tubach, Sally Patterson | Uncommon Friendship: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust, An | 2001 | N/D 02 | 14-15 | ||||||
Molnar, Haya Leah | Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania | 2010 | M/J 10 | 11 | ||||||
Almagor, Gila, Schenker, Hillel | Under the Domim Tree | 1995 | F/M 96 | 17 | ||||||
Sugarman, Martin | Under the Heel of Bushido: Last Voices of the Jewish POWs of the Japanese in the Second World War | SO/14 | 21-22 | |||||||
Schonfield, Jeremy | Undercurrents of Jewish Prayer | 2006 | M/J 07 | 28 | ||||||
Weizman, David | Underfoot | 1976 | Sp77 | 30 | ||||||
Simon, Marie Jalowicz | Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany | 2015 | S/O 2016 | 15 | Cantor, Hallie | |||||
Kacer, Kathy | Underground Reporters, The | 2004 | F/M 05 | 32 | ||||||
Blohm, Craig E. | Understand Judaism | 2019 | Understanding World Religions | M/J 2019 | 17 | Bloomfield, Kathy | Book | Juvenile | ||
Kornblatt, Marc | Understanding Buddy | 2001 | S/O 01 | 35 | ||||||
Freund, Richard A. | Understanding Jewish Ethics | 1990 | M/J 91 | 41923 | ||||||
Bayme, Steve | Understanding Jewish History: Texts and Commentaires | 1997 | N/D 97 | 6 | ||||||
Resnicoff, Steven H. | Understanding Jewish Law | 2012 | M/J13 | 33 | ||||||
Blumenthal, David | Understanding Jewish Mysticism: A Source Reader | N/D 82 | 2 | |||||||
Wagner, Stanley M., Drazin, Israel | Understanding Onkelos: the Greatest Bible Translator | 2012 | M/J13 | 37 | ||||||
Kastner, Bernie | Understanding the Afterlife in This Life | 2007 | N/D 07 | 31 | ||||||
Rabin, Elliot | Understanding the Hebrew Bible: A Readers Guide | 2006 | S/O 06 | 42-43 | ||||||
Frank, Mitch | Understanding the Holy Land: Answering Questions about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | 2005 | S/O 05 | 18 | ||||||
Frank, Mitch | Understanding the Holy Land: Answering Questions about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | 2005 | M/J 05 | 26-27 | ||||||
Neusner, Jacob | Understanding the Talmud: A Dialogic Approach | 2004 | S/O 04 | 21 | ||||||
Boraz, Edward S. | Understanding the Talmud: A Modern Readers Guide for Study | 1996 | F/M 97 | 3 | ||||||
Henkin, Yehuda | Understanding Tzniut: Modern Controversies in the Jewish Community | 2008 | M/J 09 | 23 | ||||||
Krakowski, Shmuel | Unequal Victims: Poles and Jews During World War II | 1987 | N/D 87 | 5 | ||||||
Zalben, Jane Breskin | Unfinished Dreams | 1996 | F/M 97 | 14 | ||||||
Schneider, Gertrude | Unfinished Road: Jewish Survivors of Latvia Look Back, The | 1991 | M/J 92 | 19 | ||||||
Tidhar, Lavie | Unholy Land | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 41 | Isaac, Fred | Book | Adult | |||
Stevens, Serita | Unholy Orders: Mystery Stories with a Religious Twist | 2000 | S/O 01 | 31 | ||||||
Cohen, Barbara | Unicorns in the Rain | S 80 | 9 | |||||||
Phillips, William M. | Unillustrious Alliance: The African American and Jewish American Communities, An | 1992 | N/D 93 | 41923 | ||||||
Jaffe, Nina | Uninvited Guest, The | 1993 | F/M 94 | 14 | ||||||
Ben-Zul, Abraham | United States and Israel: The Limits of the Special Relationship, The | 1993 | M/J 94 | 8 | ||||||
Schoenbaum, David | United States and the State of Israel, The | 1993 | F/M 94 | 11 | ||||||
Knott, Marie Luise | Unlearning With Hannah Arendt | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 11 | Merowitz, Morton J. | |||||
Rauch, Georg, Rauch, Phyllis | Unlikely Warrior | 2015 | F/M 16 | 41-42 | Malen, Michal Hoschander | |||||
Goldin, Shmuel, Goldin, Shifra | Unlocking the Haggada: The Complete Haggadah with In-Depth Commentary | 2019 | F/M 2020 | 24 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
Lustig, Arnost | Unloved: From the Diary of Perla S., The | 1985 | S/O 86 | 9 | ||||||
Maier, Charles S. | Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, The | 1988 | M/J 90 | 12 | ||||||
Mirsky, Norman B. | Unorthodox Judaism | 1978 | Sp79 | 24 | ||||||
Alroey, Gur | Unpromising Land: Jewish Migration to Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century, an | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 1 | Cantor, Hallie | |||||
Baldini, Michelle, Biederman, Lynn | Unraveling | 2008 | N/D 08 | 30 | ||||||
Gentin, Reyna Marder | Unreasonable Doubts | 2018 | N/D 2019 | 35 | Levine, Joyce | Book | Adult | |||
Welsh, T. K. | Unresolved, The | 2006 | F/M 07 | 11 | ||||||
Bennett, Roger | Unscrolled: 54 Writers and Artists Wrestle with the Torah | 2013 | F/M14 | 24 | Stein, Marion | |||||
Aronson, Marc | Unsettled: The Problem of Loving Israel | 2008 | N/D 08 | 34-35 | ||||||
Alphin, Elaine Marie | Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank, An | 2010 | S/O 10 | 9 | ||||||
Rabb, M. E. | Unsuspecting Gourmet, The | 2004 | Missing Persons Series | N/D 04 | 17 | |||||
Corman, Leela | Unterzakhn | 2012 | S/O12 | 53 | ||||||
Roseman, Kenneth | Until the Messiah Comes | 1999 | The Do-It-Yourself Jewish Adventures Series | F/M 00 | 11 | |||||
Oz, Amos, de Lange, Nicholas | Unto Death: Two Novellas: Crusade and Late Love | 1975 | Sp76 | 22 | ||||||
Derogy, Jacques | Untold History of Israel, The | Ma 80 | 6 | |||||||
Drazin, Israel | Unusual Bible Interpretations | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 17 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Drazin, Israel | Unusual Bible Interpretations: Ruth, Esther, and Judith | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 5 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
Widmer, Eleanor | Up from Orchard Street | 2005 | N/D 05 | 23 | ||||||
Siegal, Aranka | Upon the Head of the Goat | M/J 82 | 8 | |||||||
Siegal, Aranka | Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary - 1939-1944 | 1981 | W82 | 15 | ||||||
Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Uprising | 2007 | F/M 08 | 13 |