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Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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Durango, Julia, Pohrt, Tom | Walls of Cartagena, The | 2008 | N/D 08 | 30 | ||||||
Lesberg, Sandy, Canetti, Nicolai | Walls of Jerusalem, The | 1976 | W77 | 27 | ||||||
Echenberg, Eva Neisser, Rasminsky, Judy Sklar | Walter’s Welcome: The Intimate Story of a German-Jewish Family Flight from the Nazis to Peru | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 23 | Share, Ellen | Book | Adult | |||
Herzberger, Magda | Waltz of the Shadows, The | S/O 84 | 7 | |||||||
Dicker, Herman | Wanderers and Settlers in the Far East | 1962 | Ap 74 | 24 | ||||||
Namztlas, Judith | Wanderers Reflections, A | F/M 83 | 3 | |||||||
Dann, Jack | Wandering Stars | 1974 | Ap 74 | 25 | ||||||
Blum, Howard | Wanted!: The Search for Nazis in America | 1976 | Sp77 | 27 | ||||||
Halberstam, Michael | Wanting of Levine, The | 1978 | W78 | 23 | ||||||
Klein, Leah | War | 1991 | The B. Y. Times, no. 4 | M/J 92 | 23 | |||||
Burstein, Shmuel | War Against God and his People: a Guide to the Holocaust for Young People, The | 2000 | F/M 02 | 36-37 | ||||||
Dawidowicz, Lucy S. | War Against the Jews, The | 1975 | W75 | 27 | ||||||
War and Peace in the Jewish Tradition | 2007 | Orthodox Forum Series | S/O 07 | 53-54 | ||||||
Rogan, Eugene L., Shlaim, Avi | War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948, The | 2001 | F/M 02 | 25 | ||||||
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker | War I Finally Won, The | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 10 | Colodny, Debbie | Book | Juvenile | |||
Hampton, Wilborn | War in the Middle East: A Reporters Story Black September and the Yom Kippur War | 2007 | N/D 07 | 21 | ||||||
Krakowski, Shmuel | War of the Doomed: Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942-1944, The | 1984 | F/M 85 | 6 | ||||||
Mattson, Phyllis Helene | War Orphan in San Francisco: Letters Link a Family Scattered by World War II | 2005 | S/O 05 | 48 | ||||||
Edelman, Gwen | War Story: A Novel | 2001 | F/M 03 | 21 | ||||||
Matas, Carol | War Within, The: a Novel of the Civil War | 2001 | F/M 02 | 34 | ||||||
Farrar, David | Warburgs, The: The Story of a Family | 1975 | W75 | 28 | ||||||
Olshan, Joseph | Warmer Season, A | 1987 | F/M 88 | 6 | ||||||
Zissman, Harold | Warriors, The: My Life as a Jewish Soviet Partisan | 2005 | M/J 06 | 31-32 | ||||||
Rosenthal, Monroe, Mozeson, Isaac | Wars of the Jews | 1990 | M/J 90 | 41986 | ||||||
Czerniakow, Adam | Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow, The | Ma 80 | 5 | |||||||
Katsh, Abraham I. | Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan, The, 2nd ed. | 1974 | D 74 | 29 | ||||||
Zelnert, Karen | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, The | 1993 | M/J 94 | 41986 | ||||||
Engelking, Barbara, Leociak, Jacek | Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City, The | 2009 | S/O 10 | 31 | ||||||
Warsaw Ghetto: the 45th Anniversary of the Uprising, The | 1990 | M/J 90 | 13 | |||||||
Holmgren, Beth | Warsaw is My Country: The Story of Krstyna Bierzynska | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 30 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | Book | ||||
Dynner, Glenn, Guesnet, Francois | Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis: Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky. | 2015 | F/M 16 | 6 | Levy, David B | |||||
Litewka, Albert | Warsaw: A Novel of Resistance | 1989 | F/M 90 | 18 | ||||||
Ascher, Abraham | Was Hitler a Riddle? Western Democracies and National Socialism | 2012 | M/J13 | 16 | ||||||
Kochmanski, Bronislaw, Rosen, Sara, Weingarten, Bernice | Was I a Spy? | 2002 | M/J 03 | 18 | ||||||
Rounds, Glen | Washday on Noahs Ark | 1985 | S/O 85 | 6 | ||||||
Fruchter, Yaffa | Waste Not, Want Not: Kosher Cookbook | 2019 | N/D 2019 | 23-24 | Gordon, Ilka | Book | Adult | |||
Levinson, Cynthia | Watch Out for Flying Kids! How Two Circuses, Two Countries, and Nine Kids Confront Conflict and Build Community | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 37 | Rapp, Andrea | |||||
Levinson, Riki | Watch the Stars Come Out | M/J 86 | 5 | |||||||
Levinson, Riki, Goode, Diane | Watch the Stars Come Out | 1985 | A/M 86 | 5 | ||||||
Moriarty, Chris, Edward Geyer, Mark | Watcher in the Shadows, The | 2013 | S/O13 | 4 | ||||||
Rouss, Sylvia A., Iosa, Ann | Watermelon in the Sukkah, A | 2013 | S/O13 | 14 | ||||||
Burstein, Chaya M. | Wats an Israel? | N/D 83 | 10 | |||||||
Gillman, Neil | Way into Encountering God in Judaism, The | 2000 | S/O 01 | 13 | ||||||
Hoffman, Lawrence A. | Way into Jewish Prayer, The | 2000 | S/O 01 | 15 | ||||||
Benstein, Jeremy | Way into Judaism and the Environment, The | 2007 | S/O 07 | 44 | ||||||
Fishman, Sylvia Barack | Way into the Varieties of Jewishness | 2007 | The Way Into Series | S/O 07 | 47 | |||||
Dorff, Elliot N. | Way into Tikkun Olam, The | 2005 | Repairing the World | M/J 06 | 25 | |||||
Cohen, Norman J. | Way Into Torah, The | 2000 | S/O 01 | 10 | ||||||
Harris, Constance | Way Jews Lived: Five Hundred Years of Printed Word and Images, The | 2009 | M/J 10 | 33 | ||||||
Jaffe, Nina | Way Meat Loves Salt, The: A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition | 1998 | F/M 99 | 18 | ||||||
Hoffman, Edward | Way of Splendor: Jewish Mysticism and Modern Psychology (updated 25th ed.), The | 2007 | Jewish Mysticism and Modern Psychology | S/O 08 | 24 | |||||
Winkler, Gershon | Way of the Boundary Crosser, The: An Introduction to Jewish Flexidoxy | 1998 | S/O 98 | 30-31 | ||||||
Shulman, Goldie, Romanenko, Vitaliy | Way too Much Challah Dough | 2006 | N/D 06 | 13-14 | ||||||
Ginsburg, Bernard L. | Wayfarer in a World in Upheaveal, A | 1993 | Studies in Judaica and the Holocaust, 12 | F/M 95 | 19 | |||||
Tower, Stuart F. | Wayfarers, The | 2003 | S/O 04 | 10 | ||||||
Weizman, Janice | Wayward Moon, The | 2012 | S/O13 | 49 | ||||||
Cassedy, Ellen | We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust | 2012 | M/J13 | 21 | ||||||
Rosenbloom, Fiona | We Are So Chrashing Your Bar Mitzvah! | 2007 | S/O 07 | 17 | ||||||
Borchard, Ruth | We are Strangers Here: An Enemy Alien in Prison in 1940 | 2008 | F/M 09 | 20 | ||||||
Kacer, Kathy | We Are Their Voice: Young People Respond to the Holocaust | 2012 | FM13 | 9 | ||||||
Boas, Jacob | We Are Witnesses: The Diaries of Five Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust | 1995 | N/D 95 | 17 | ||||||
Liphshitz, Arye, Louvish, Misha | We Built Jerusalem: Tales of Pioneering Days | 1985 | S/O 85 | 3 | ||||||
Thompson, Gare | We Came Through Ellis Island: The Immigrant Adventures of Emma Markowitz | 2003 | I Am American Series | S/O 03 | 47-48 | |||||
Zoldan, Yael | We Can Do Mitzvos Around the Jewish Year | 2014 | M/J 15 | 16 | Pastcan, Ben | |||||
Zoldan, Yael, Allen, Shira | We Can Do Mitzvos from Aleph to Tav | 2009 | F/M 10 | 19 | ||||||
Rosenfeld, Dina H., Wummer, Amy | We Can Find A Way: A Hachnosas Orchim Inclusion Story | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 16 | Levitan, Rebecca | Book | Juvenile | |||
Hughes, Susan, Ohm-Ericksen, Cecilia | We Celebrate Hanukkah | 1986 | Bobbie Kalman The Holidays and Festival Series | M/J 87 | 6 | |||||
Heller, David | We Gave the World Moses and Bagels: Art and Wisdom of Jewish Children | 2000 | F/M 01 | 13 | ||||||
Rosenzweig, Efraim M. | We Jews | O 79 | 6 | |||||||
Steinsaltz, Adin | We Jews: Who are We and What Should We Do? | 2005 | S/O 05 | 52-53 | ||||||
Rifai, Amal | We Just Want to Live Here: A Palestinian Teenager, an Israeli Teenager an Unlikely Friendship | 2003 | F/M 04 | 41 | ||||||
Levine, Gemma | We Live in Israel | S/O 84 | 10 | |||||||
Shabi, Rachel | We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israels Jews from Arab Lands | 2008 | N/D 10 | 23-24 | ||||||
Sofer, Rachel | We Need to Talk: What Happens When Looking Thin Becomes an Obsesion | 2008 | S/O 09 | 18 | ||||||
Adler, David A. | We Remember the Holocaust | 1989 | M/J 90 | 14 | ||||||
Diner, Hasia R. | We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945-1962 | 2009 | N/D 09 | 21 | ||||||
Zim, Paul | We Shall Live: Yiddish Songs of the Holocaust (AUDIO) | 1990 | S/O 94 | 12 | ||||||
Lieberman, Allan | We Want Mashgiach Now! Tales from a Kosher Cop | 2018 | N/D 2019 | 26 | Sukenic, Harvey | Book | Adult | |||
Carlson, Lewis H. | We Were Each Others Prisoners: An Oral History of World War II: American and German Prisoners of War | 1997 | S/O 97 | 6 | ||||||
Freedman, Russell | We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement that Defied Adolf Hitler | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 35 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Zediker, Rose Ross | Wealth in Biblical Times | 2010 | S/O 09 | 14 | ||||||
Hasan-Rokem, Galit, Stein, Batya | Web of Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature | 2000 | S/O 01 | 14 | ||||||
Strom, Yale, Prosmitsky, Jenya | Wedding that Saved a Town, The | 2008 | S/O 08 | 53 | ||||||
Mason, Paul | Weddings | 2004 | Rites of Passage Series | S/O 04 | 53 | |||||
Kemelman, Harry | Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet | 1976 | W76 | 17 | ||||||
Feldman, Daniel Z., Halpern, Stuart W. | Weekday Prayers: Essays / by the Rabbis & Professors of Yeshiva University, The | 2014 | F/M 16 | 9 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Tabory, Binyamin | Weekly Mitzva | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 18 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Sandell, Lisa Ann | Weight of the Sky, The | 2006 | F/M 06 | 19 | ||||||
Gaines, Ann, Witing, Jim | Weinberg and the Search for the Cause of Cancer | 2002 | Unlocking the Secrets of Science | M/J 04 | 30-31 | |||||
Prudovsky, Leon, Yacov-Mecklberg, Estee, Mecklberg, Haim | Welcome and ... Our Condolences (VIDEO) | 2012 | S/O13 | 50-51 | ||||||
Wolner, Tzipie | Welcome Back, Madame Chamberlaine | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 11 | Pinchuk, Chava | Book | Juvenile | |||
Schemenauer, Elma | Welcome to Israel | 2008 | Welcome to the World Series | N/D 07 | 21-22 | |||||
Sonnheim, Moshe | Welcome to the Club: The Art of Jewish Grandparenting | 2004 | F/M 05 | 24 | ||||||
Shenker, Louis Sussman | Welcome to the Family! Opening Doors to the Jewish Experience | 2001 | N/D 02 | 15-16 | ||||||
Olitzky, Kerry M. | Welcome to the Seder: A Passover Haggadah for Everyone | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 27 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
Wolff, Glenn, ill. | Welcome to the World: A Jewish Babys Record Book | S/O 86 | 6 | |||||||
Reisman, Arnold | Welcome Tomorrow | F/M 83 | 3 | |||||||
Shapiro, Zachary, Davis, Jack E. | Were All in the Same Boat | 2009 | M/J 09 | 9 | ||||||
Rothstein, Gidon | Were Missing the Point: Whats Wrong with the Orthodox Jewish Community and How to Fix it | 2012 | S/O12 | 46 | ||||||
Zakutinsky, Ruth, Richter, Sharon | Were Really Going Home | 1979 | Sp80 | 21 |