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Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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Amichai, Yehuda | World is a Room, The | 1984 | S/O 86 | 8 | ||||||
Lipsitz, Edmond Y. | World Jewish Directory: Year 2000 Millenium Edition, Revised and Updated (3rd ed.) | 1999 | M/J 00 | 41986 | ||||||
Berenbaum, Michael | World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The (2nd ed.) | 2006 | S/O 06 | 36 | ||||||
Rouss, Sylvia A., Cohen, Greg | World of Blessings: Inspirational Stories for Jewish Children, A | 2013 | S/O13 | 10 | ||||||
Crown, Alan D., Weissbrem, Israel | World of Israel Weissbrem, The | 1993 | Modern Hebrew Classics | S/O 94 | 12 | |||||
Schlossberg, Eli W. | World of Orthodox Judaism, The | 1996 | S/O 97 | 21, 23 | ||||||
Howe, Irving, Libo, Kenneth | World of Our Fathers | 1976 | M/J 91 | 22 | ||||||
Howe, Irving | World of Our Fathers, The | 1976 | Sp76 | 22 | ||||||
Meltzer, Milton | World of Our Fathers: The Jews of Eastern Europe | 1974 | Sp 75 | 28 | ||||||
Munk, Elie | World of Prayer | 2007 | M/J 08 | 39 | ||||||
Brooks, Jeremy, Gomez, Elena | World of Prayers, A | 2006 | N/D 06 | 17-18 | ||||||
Helmreich, William B. | World of the Yeshiva, The | S/O 82 | 7 | |||||||
Wiseman, Eva | World Outside, The | S/O14 | 38-39 | Levine, Joyce | ||||||
Wyman, David S. | World Reacts to the Holocaust, The | 1996 | F/M 97 | 18 | ||||||
Neusner, Jacob | World Religions in America: An Introduction (3rd ed.) | 2003 | N/D 03 | 15 | ||||||
Price, Sean Stewart | World War II Spies | 2014 | N/D13 | 10 | ||||||
Raum, Elizabeth | World War II Timeline, A | Smithsonian War Time Lines | S/O14 | 45 | ||||||
Henkin, Joshua | World Without You, The | 2012 | M/J13 | 39 | ||||||
Tataz, Colin, Arnold, Peter, Heller, Gillian | Worlds Apart: The Re-Migration of South African Jews | 2007 | M/J 08 | 28 | ||||||
Safran, Gabriella, Zipperstein, Steven J. | Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century, The | 2006 | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture | F/M 07 | 34 | |||||
Edelstein, Dov Berel | Worlds Torn Assunder | 1985 | S/O 85 | 4 | ||||||
Brueggemann, Walter | Worship in Ancient Israel: An Essential Guide | 2005 | S/O 05 | 42 | ||||||
Soloveitchik, Joseph B., Carmy, Shalom | Worship of the Heart: Essays on Jewish Prayer | 2003 | S/O 03 | 26 | ||||||
Steele, D. Kelley, Rickenbaker, Becky Hyatt | Would You Salute?: One Childs Story of the Holocaust | 2006 | F/M 07 | 15 | ||||||
Rosen, Lev | Woundabout | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 7 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Firestone, Tirzah | Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma | 2019 | F/M 2020 | 24 | Kohn, Roger S. | Book | Adult | |||
Klitsner, Shmuel | Wrestling Jacob: Deception, Identity, and Freudian Slips in Genesis | 2007 | M/J 07 | 27 | ||||||
Clayton, John J. | Wrestling with Angels: New and Collected Stories | 2007 | S/O 08 | 12 | ||||||
Siegel, Richard, Sofer, Tamar | Writer in the Jewish Community: An Israeli-North American Dialogue, The | 1993 | N/D 94 | 11 | ||||||
Sherman, Joseph | Writers in Yiddish | 2007 | F/M 08 | 44 | ||||||
Mandell, Sherri Lederman | Writers of the Holocaust | 1999 | M/J 00 | 19 | ||||||
Shapiro, Rami M., Shapiro, Aaron | Writing - The Sacret Art, Beyond the Page to Spiritual Practice | 2012 | FM13 | 36-37 | ||||||
Young, James E. | Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation | 1990 | Jewish Literature and Culture Series | N/D 90 | 13 | |||||
Andreas Kilcher, Gabriella Safran | Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 12 | Beth Dwoskin | |||||
Garfield, Leon | Writing on the Wall, The | S/O 83 | 5 | |||||||
Garfield, Leon | Writing on the Wall, The | N/D 83 | 9 | |||||||
Liberman Mintz, Sharon, Seidler-Feller, Shaul, Wachtel, David | Writing on the Wall: A Catalogue of Judaica Broadsides from the Valmadonna Trust Library | 2015 | N/D 2015 | 25 | Cohen, Leah | |||||
Rubin, Steven J. | Writing Our Lives: Autobiographies of American Jews, 1890-1990 | 1991 | M/J 92 | 19 | ||||||
Domaratius, Louise | Writing the Book of Ester | 2003 | S/O 03 | 11 | ||||||
Lopes Cardozo, Nathan T. | Written and Oral Torah: A Comprehensive Introduction, The | 1997 | M/J 98 | 41892 | ||||||
Wolin, Jeffrey | Written in Memory: Portraits of the Holocaust | 1997 | M/J 97 | 18 | ||||||
Dublin, Anne, Woodend, Avril | Written on the Wind | 2001 | S/O 02 | 42 | ||||||
Mondry, Adela | Wyszkowo, A Shtetl on the Bug River | N/D 81 | 13 | |||||||
Wisemon, Tamar, Katz, Tova | Y.A. D. Investigators 2 | 2006 | M/J 07 | 12 | ||||||
Lane, Tamsin | Yael and the Party of the Year | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 10 | Quay, Alex | Book | Juvenile | |||
Naim, Yael, Donatien, David | Yael Naim and David Donatien (AUDIO) | 2007 | N/D 08 | 25 | ||||||
Madonna, Spirin, Gennady | Yakov and the Seven Thieves | 2004 | N/D 04 | 16 | ||||||
Weber, Elka, Gustavson, Adam | Yankee at the Seder, The | 2009 | F/M 09 | 38 | ||||||
Ellentuck, Shan | Yankel the Fool | 1973 | D 74 | 31 | ||||||
Dynner, Glenn | Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland | 2013 | S/O14 | 9 | Tesler, David | |||||
Bauman, Reuven | Yanky's Amazing Discovery | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 8 | Citrin, Rena | Book | Juvenile | |||
Herman, Edwin, Herman, Agnes | Yanov Torah, The | 1985 | N/D 85 | 5 | ||||||
Hendler, Lee Meyerhoff | Year Mom Got Religion: One Womans Midlife Journey into Judaism, The | 1998 | S/O 99 | 12 | ||||||
Levy, Debbie | Year of Goodbyes; A True Story of Friendship, Family, and Farewells, The | 2010 | M/J 10 | 17 | ||||||
Maisel, Grace Ragues, Shubert, Samantha, Keiser, Tammy | Year of Jewish Stories: 52 Tales for Children and Their Families, A | 2004 | N/D 04 | 19-20 | ||||||
Levitan, Sonia | Year of Sweet Senior Insanity, The | N/D 82 | 8 | |||||||
Kidd, Ronald | Year of the Bomb, The | 2009 | N/D 09 | 11 | ||||||
Forbes, Colin | Year of the Golden Ape | 1974 | Sp 75 | 25 | ||||||
Thomas, Diane Coulter | Year The Music Changed, The | 2005 | S/O 05 | 39 | ||||||
Fiedler, Jean | Year the World Was Out of Step with Jancy Fried, The | M/J 82 | 8 | |||||||
Glickman, Gary | Years From Now | 1987 | N/D 87 | 6 | ||||||
Halkin, Hillel | Yehuda Halevi | 2010 | Jewish Encounters | M/J 10 | 33 | |||||
Scharf Gold, Nili | Yehudah Amichai: The Making of Israels National Poet | 2008 | F/M 09 | 17 | ||||||
Yehudis Goes to Gan | F/M 82 | 2 | ||||||||
Yehudis Goes to Gan | S/O 82 | 9 | ||||||||
Roy, Jennifer | Yellow Star | 2006 | M/J 06 | 18 | ||||||
Unsdorfer, S. B. | Yellow Star, The, 3rd ed. | M/J 84 | 6 | |||||||
Deedy, Carmen Agra | Yellow Star: The Legend of Christian X of Denmark, The | 2000 | 16 | |||||||
Deedy, Carmen Agra, Sorensen, Henri | Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark, The | 2000 | N/D 00 | 16 | ||||||
Grossman, David | Yellow Wind, The | 1988 | S/O 88 | 7 | ||||||
Levi, Zion, Agabria, Hani | Yemenite Cookbook, The | 1988 | S/O 88 | 8 | ||||||
Scharz, Miriam, Madelung, Marianne | Yemenite Filigree | 2007 | S/O 07 | 43 | ||||||
Leviant, Curt | Yemenite Girl, The | 1977 | Sp77 | 26 | ||||||
Jaffee, Eliezer David | Yemin Moshe: The Story of a Jerusalem Neighborhood | 1988 | S/O 88 | 7 | ||||||
Lambert, Derek | Yermakov Transfer, The | Sp 75 | 25 | |||||||
Neusner, Jacob | Yerushalmi: The Talmud of the Land of Israel: An Introduction, The | 1993 | M/J 94 | 9 | ||||||
Stadler, Nurit | Yeshiva Fundamentalism: Piety, Gender, and Resistance in the Ultra-Orthodox World | 2009 | S/O 10 | 38 | ||||||
Grade, Chaim, Leviant, Curt | Yeshiva, The | 1976 | Sp77 | 25 | ||||||
Helfgot, Nathaniel | Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Tanakh Companion: The Book of Samuel | 2006 | F/M 07 | 33 | ||||||
Zunser, Miriam Shomer, Leider, Emily Wortis | Yesterday: A Memoir of a Russian Jewish Family | 1978 | Sp79 | 25 | ||||||
Snowbell-Hart, Sarah, Gallinger, Patty | Yesterdays Santa and the Chanukah Miracle | 2002 | F/M 03 | 45 | ||||||
Tennenbaum, Silvia | Yesterdays Streets | N/D 81 | 14 | |||||||
Zimmerman, Andrea G. | Yetta the Trickster | Ma 79 | 7 | |||||||
Schachter, Fishel, Mahr, Aryeh | Yibaneh Hamikdash: To Build the Beis HaMikdash: Stories to Build Ahavas Chinam | 2008 | M/J 09 | 17 | ||||||
Postman, Frederica | Yiddish Alphabet Book, The | 1979 | W80 | 16 | ||||||
Sternberg, Robert | Yiddish Cuisine: A Gourmets Approach to Jewish Cooking | 1993 | N/D 93 | 41955 | ||||||
Mlotek, Chana, Slobin, Mark | Yiddish Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin Archive | 2007 | F/M 08 | 41 | ||||||
Wolfe, Marjorie Gottlieb, Engelman, Earl W. | Yiddish for Dog & Cat Lover = Yidish far Libhobers fun Hint un Kats | 2007 | M/J 08 | 42 | ||||||
Estraikh, Gennady, Krutikov, Mikhail | Yiddish in the Contemporary World: Papers of the First Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish | 1999 | M/J 00 | 10 | ||||||
Goldsmith, Emanuel S. | Yiddish Literature in America 1870-2000: Anthology | 2000 | S/O 00 | 13 | ||||||
Goldsmith, Emanuel S., Zumoff, Barnett | Yiddish Literature in America: 1870-2000 | 2009 | N/D 10 | 19 | ||||||
Yiddish Lullabies for American Mothers (AUDIO) | 1991 | M/J 93 | 18-19 | |||||||
Chabon, Michael | Yiddish Policemens Union, The | 2007 | N/D 07 | 25 | ||||||
Howe, Irving, Greenberg, Eliezer | Yiddish Stories, Old & New | 1974 | Sp 75 | 27-28 | ||||||
Belling, Veronica Penkin | Yiddish Theatre in South Africa: A History From the Late Nineteenth Century to 1960 | 2008 | F/M 09 | 7 | ||||||
Berkowitz, Joel, ed. | Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches | 2003 | The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization | F/M 04 | 14 | |||||
Nickles, Sara, Swarner, Kristina, Meltzer, Rae | Yiddish Wisdom for Parents | 2001 | M/J 02 | 13-14 | ||||||
Rosenbaum, Samuel | Yiddish Word Book for English Speaking People, A | 1978 | W78 | 26 | ||||||
Weinstein, Miriam | Yiddish: A Nation of Words | 2001 | M/J 02 | 15 | ||||||
Yidishe Gauchos, The (VIDEO) | S/O 92 | 22 |