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Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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Crawford, Dorothy Lamb | Windfall of Musicians: Hitlers Emigres and Exiles in Southern California, A | 2009 | N/D 10 | 17-18 | ||||||
Dunn, James David, Snyder, Nathan | Window of the Soul: The Kabbalah of Rabbi Isaac Luria | 2008 | S/O 08 | 26 | ||||||
Orenstein, Walter | Window to the Siddur: An Analysis of the Themes in Jewihs Prayer, A | 2009 | S/O 10 | 36 | ||||||
Stessel, Zahava Szasz | Wine and Thorns in Tokay Valley: Jewish Life in Hungary: The History of Abaujszanto | 1995 | M/J 96 | 18 | ||||||
Stessel, Zahava Szasz | Wine and Thorns in Tokay Valley: Jewish Life in Hungary: The History of Abaujszanto | 1995 | F/M 96 | 13 | ||||||
Nemirovsky, Irene | Wine of Solitude, The | 2012 | FM13 | 41-42 | ||||||
Kallus, HaRav Shraga, Rabbi Abraham Chaim Slansky | Wine, Whisky & Halacha | 2018 | Second Edition | N/D 2018 | 28 | Chava,Pinchuck | Book | Adult | ||
Scheindlin, Raymond P. | Wine, Women, and Death: Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life | 1986 | M/J 87 | 4 | ||||||
Rsten, Norman, Zemach, Kaethe | Wineglass, The: A Passover Story | 1978 | W78 | 28 | ||||||
Wenning, Kenneth | Winning Cooperation from Your Child: A Comprehensive Method to Stop Defiant and Aggressive Behavior in Children | 1996 | M/J 96 | 12 | ||||||
Kerr, Philip | Winter Horses, The | S/O14 | 43 | Marks, Allison | ||||||
Winter in Jerusalem | 1986 | S/O 86 | 41860 | |||||||
Bauman, Janina | Winter in the Morning: A Young Girls Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond, 1939-1945 | 1986 | S/O 86 | 7 | ||||||
Evans, Clay | Winter Witch, The | 2005 | N/D 05 | 16-17 | ||||||
Mandel, Scott | Wired into Teaching Torah: An Internet Companion | 2001 | S/O 01 | 41 | ||||||
Oberman, Sheldon, Waldman, Neil | Wisdom Bird: A Tale of Solomona nd Sheba, The | 2000 | F/M 01 | 16 | ||||||
Saks, Jeffrey, Handelman, Susan A. | Wisdom From All My Teachers: Challenges and Initiatives in Contemporary Torah Education | 2003 | Academy for Torah Initiatives and Directions | F/M 04 | 19 | |||||
Friedman, Cary A. | Wisdom from the Batcave: How to Live a Super, Heroic Life | 2006 | M/J 07 | 24 | ||||||
Wimpfheimer, Barry S. | Wisdom of Bat Sheva: The Dr. Beth Samuels Memorial Volume | 2009 | F/M 10 | 40 | ||||||
Salwak, Dale | Wisdom of Judaism, The | 1997 | M/J 98 | 17 | ||||||
Elkins, Dov Peretz | Wisdom of Judaism: An Introduction to the Values of the Talmud | 2007 | S/O 07 | 46 | ||||||
Hoffman, Edward | Wisdom of Maimonides: The Life and Writings of the Jewish Sage, The | 2008 | M/J 09 | 23 | ||||||
Browne, Lewis | Wisdom of the Jewish People, The | 1988 | S/O 88 | 9 | ||||||
Hurwitz, Yitzhak Shimon | Wisdom of the Jews: Using Rationality and Practicality to Make Sense of Life | 2012 | S/O13 | 30-31 | ||||||
Boteach, Shmuley | Wisdom, Understanding and Knowledge: Basic Concepts of Hasidic Thought | 1996 | S/O 96 | 4 | ||||||
Cowan, Rachel, Thal, Linda | Wise Aging, Living with Joy, Resilience, & Spirit | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 5 | Freiband, Susan | |||||
Gershator, Phillis, Ginsburg, Alexa | Wise … and Not So Wise: Ten Tales from the Rabbis | 2004 | N/D 04 | 22 | ||||||
Thong, Rosanne, Kleven, Elisa | Wish: Wishing Traditions Around the World | 2008 | F/M 09 | 42-43 | ||||||
Pastor, Melanie Joy, Grantford, Jacqui | Wishes for One More Day | 2006 | N/D 06 | 16 | ||||||
Abramovitsch, S. Y. (Mendele Moykher Sforim), Wex, Michael | Wishing-Ring, The: A Novel | 2003 | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art | S/O 03 | 11 | |||||
Bulka, Reuven P. | Wit and Wisdom of the Talmud | S/O 83 | 2 | |||||||
Temchin, Michael | Witch Doctor | S/O 83 | 4 | |||||||
Ehrlich, Amy | With a Mighty Hand: The Story in the Torah | 2013 | F/M14 | 3 | Malen, Michal Hoschander | |||||
Mostowicz, Arnold, Polonsky, Henia, Polonsky, Nochem | With a Yellow Star and a Red Cross: A Doctor in the Lodz Ghetto | 2005 | Library of Holocaust Testimonies | N/D 05 | 30 | |||||
Asher, Sandy | With All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories About Growing Up Jewish | 1999 | M/J 00 | 20 | ||||||
With All My Heart, With All My Soul | 1993 | S/O 94 | 41828 | |||||||
Gordon, Julie K. | With All Your Heart: A Shabbat and Festival Companion | 2006 | F/M 07 | 12 | ||||||
Davis, Moshe, Ben-Arieh, Yehoshua | With Eyes Towards Zion-III: Western Societies and the Holy Land | 1991 | N/D 91 | 11 | ||||||
Skaggs, Calvin, Taylor, David Van | With God On Our Side: George Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right | 2004 | M/J 06 | 20 | ||||||
Skaggs, Calvin, Taylor, David Van | With God on Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right (VIDEO) | 2004 | M/J 06 | 20 | ||||||
Jaffe, Daniel M. | With Signs & Wonders: An International Anthology of Jewish Fabulist Fiction | 2001 | M/J 02 | 16-17 | ||||||
Friedman, Saul S. | Without Future: The Plight of Syrian Jewry | 1989 | F/M 90 | 15 | ||||||
Saperstein, Harold I. | Witness from the Pulpit: Topical Sermons, 1933-1980 | 2000 | 41609 | |||||||
Saperstein, Harold I. | Witness from the Pulpit: Topical Sermons, 1933-1980 | 2000 | N/D 00 | 41986 | ||||||
Berenbaum, Michael | Witness to the Holocaust: An Illustrated Documentary History of the Holocaust in the Words of Its Vicitms, Perpetrators and Bystanders | 1997 | S/O 97 | 26 | ||||||
Berenbaum, Michael | Witness to the Holocaust: An Illustrated Documentary History of the Holocaust in the Words of Its Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders | 1997 | M/J 97 | 17 | ||||||
Leapman, Michael | Witness to War: Eight True-Life Stories of Nazi Persecution | 1998 | F/M 99 | 16 | ||||||
Gruber, Ruth | Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story | 2007 | M/J 07 | 25 | ||||||
Rubenstein, Eli | Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 36 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Meszler, Joseph B., Goldstein, Elyse | Witnesses to the One: The Spiritual History of the Shma | 2006 | F/M 07 | 33-34 | ||||||
Leapman, Michael | Witnesses to War: Eight True-Life Stories of Nazi Persecution | 1998 | F/M 99 | 16 | ||||||
Graudin, Ryan | Wolf by Wolf | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 8 | Levine, Joyce | |||||
Berkowitz, Ira T. | Wolf in the Soul, A | S/O14 | 36-37 | Bloomfield, Kathy | ||||||
Fredman, John | Wolf of Masada, The | 1979 | Sp80 | 17 | ||||||
Boteach, Shmuley | Wolf Shall Lie Down with the Lamb: The Messiah in Hassidic Thought, The | 1993 | S/O 93 | 17 | ||||||
Topol, Allan | Woman of Valor, A | 1980 | Sp80 | 17 | ||||||
Kaufman, Sybil | Woman of Valor: A Guide to Setting Up Home in Israel | 1973 | Sp 75 | 26 | ||||||
Goldstein, Elyse | Womans Haftarah Commentary: New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Haftarah Portions, the 5 Megillot & Special Shabbatot, The | 2004 | M/J 04 | 15 | ||||||
Weiner, Marcella Bakur, Blema Feinstein | Womans Voice: Biblical Women: Divine Wisdom Transformed into Action for Todays Woman, A | 2001 | F/M 03 | 39 | ||||||
Bohannon, Lisa Frederiksen | Womans Work: The Story of Betty Friedan | 2004 | F/M 05 | 27 | ||||||
Nadell, Pamela S.,, Sarna, Jonathan D. | Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives | 2001 | F/M 02 | 24 | ||||||
Lacks, Roslyn | Women and Judaism: Myth, History and Sturggle | 1980 | W80 | 16 | ||||||
Greenspahn, Frederick E. | Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship | 2009 | Jewish Studies in the 21st Century | M/J 10 | 31 | |||||
Harvey, Elizabeth | Women and the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization | 2003 | F/M 04 | 17 | ||||||
Wolowelsky, Joel B. | Women and the Study of Torah | 2001 | N/D 01 | 15 | ||||||
Wolowelsky, Joel B. | Women at the Seder: A Passover Haggadah | 2005 | M/J 05 | 42 | ||||||
English, Betty Lou | Women at their Work | 1977 | W77 | 31 | ||||||
McIntosh, Kenneth | Women in North Americas Religious World | 2005 | M/J 06 | 19 | ||||||
Lixl-Purcell, Andreas | Women of Exile: German-Jewish Autobiographies Since 1933 | 1988 | Contributions in Womens Studies, no. 91 | S/O 88 | 8 | |||||
Rivera, Sheila | Women of the Middle East | 2004 | World in Conflict Series | N/D 03 | 32-33 | |||||
Adler, Ruth P. | Women of the Shtetl | N/D 81 | 13 | |||||||
Ronson, Barbara L. Thaw | Women of the Torah: Commentaries from the Talmud, Midrash, and Kabbalah, The | 1999 | M/J 99 | 41828 | ||||||
Chester, Phyllis, Haut, Rivka | Women of the Wall: Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaisms Holy Site | 2003 | M/J 03 | 13 | ||||||
Segal, Sheila | Women of Valor | 1996 | F/M 97 | 8 | ||||||
Gilbert, Joanne | Women of Valor: Polish Resisters to the Third Reich | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 18 | Seigel, Amanda | |||||
Segal, Sheila | Women of Valor: Stories of Great Jewish Women Who Helped Shape the Twentieth Century | 1996 | M/J 97 | 41986 | ||||||
Cohn Spiegel, Marcia, Kremsdorf, Deborah Lipton | Women Speak to God: The Prayers and Poems of Jewish Women | 1987 | S/O 87 | 8 | ||||||
Goldstein, Elyse | Womens Haftarah Commentary: New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Haftarah Portions, the 5 Megillot & Special Shabbatot, The | 2004 | M/J 04 | 15 | ||||||
Kremer, S. Lillian | Womens Holocaust Writing, Memory and Imagination | 1999 | S/O 99 | 12 | ||||||
Ragen, Naomi | Womens Minyan: A Play | 2006 | S/O 06 | 33 | ||||||
Anisfeld, Sharon Cohen | Womens Passover Companion, The: Womens Reflections on the Festival of Freedom | 2003 | S/O 03 | 16 | ||||||
Byrne, Beverly | Womens Rites | 1985 | S/O 85 | 3 | ||||||
Palacio, RJ | Wonder | 2012 | S/O12 | 9 | ||||||
Schwartz, Howard, Rush, Barbara | Wonder Child and Other Jewish Fairy Tales, The | 1996 | M/J 97 | 13 | ||||||
Grossman, Miriam | Wonder of Becoming You, The | 1988 | F/M 89 | 13 | ||||||
Zakutinsky, Ruth, Backman, Aidel | Wonder Worm, The | 1991 | M/J 92 | 23 | ||||||
Kimmel, Eric A. | Wonders and Miracles; A Passover Companion | 2004 | S/O 04 | 47-48 | ||||||
Stampler, Ann Redisch, Liddiment, Carol | Wooden Sword, The | 2012 | M/J 12 | 3 | ||||||
Brook, Vincent and Marat Grinberg, eds. | Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen | S/O14 | 6 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | ||||||
Baer, Edith, Teis, Kyra | Words Are Like Faces | 2007 | F/M 09 | 48 | ||||||
Levine, Herbert | Words for Blessing the World: Poems in Hebrew and English | 2017 | Jewish Poetry Project | M/J 2018 | 36 | Pinchuck, Chava | Book | Adult | ||
Telushkin, Joseph | Words That Hurt, Words That Heal | 1996 | M/J 97 | 41860 | ||||||
Greenberg, Sidney | Words to Live By | 1990 | M/J 91 | 12 | ||||||
Goldin, Aliza | Wordwatch: A Shemiras Haloshon Lesson-A-Day for Teens | 2012 | FM13 | 11 | ||||||
Silverman, Elisa | Working Together: Economy, Technology, and Careers in Israel | 2015 | Voices from Israel | N/D 2015 | 7 | Rapp, Andrea | ||||
Gutfreund, Amir, Cohen, Jessica | World a Moment Later, The | 2008 | F/M 09 | 21 | ||||||
Downing, David | World Almanac Library of the Holocaust (series) | 2006 | S/O 06 | 41924 | ||||||
Margoshes, Joseph, Margolis, Rebecca, Robinson, Ira | World Apart: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century Galicia, A | 2008 | F/M 09 | 15 | ||||||
Freeman, Cynthia | World Full of Strangers, A | 1975 | Sp76 | 22 | ||||||
Edelheit, Hershel, Edelheit, Abraham J. | World in Turmoil: An Integrated Chronology of the Holocaust and World War II, A | 1991 | M/J 92 | 15 |