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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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Weissler, Chava | Voices of the Matriarchs: Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women | 1998 | S/O 00 | 31-32 | ||||||
Kubar, Zofia S. | Double Indemnity: A Memoir | 1989 | S/O 90 | 13-14 | ||||||
Alkow, Jacob M. | In Many Worlds | 1985 | A/M 86 | 3 | ||||||
Vygodskaia, Anna Pavlovna, Avrutin, Eugene M., Greene, Robert H. | Story of a Life: Memoirs of a Young Jewish Woman in the Russian Empire | 2012 | N/D12 | 38 | ||||||
Markel, Michelle, Sweet, Melissa | Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers Strike of 1909 | 2013 | FM13 | 3-4 | ||||||
Appelfeld, Aharon | Retreat, The | S/O 84 | 4 | |||||||
Domaratius, Louise | Writing the Book of Ester | 2003 | S/O 03 | 11 | ||||||
Rose, Or | Abraham Joshua Heschel: Man of Spirit, Man of Action | 2003 | N/D 03 | 25 | ||||||
Goldin, Barbara Diamond | One Hundred and One Jewish Read-Aloud Stories | 2001 | F/M 03 | 46 | ||||||
Groner, Judy, Wikler, Ladeline, Kahn, Katherine Janus | My First Seder | 1986 | N/D 86 | 7 | ||||||
Rau, Dana Meachen | Harry Houdini: Master Magician | 2001 | Book Report Biographies Series | S/O 01 | 40-41 | |||||
Alper, Janice P. | Learning Together: A Source Book on Jewish Family Education | 1987 | N/D 87 | 5 | ||||||
Gruber, Ruth | Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story | 2007 | M/J 07 | 25 | ||||||
Agushewitz, Reuven, Steiner, Mark | Faith and Heresy | 2006 | F/M 07 | 30 | ||||||
Kitov, Eliyahu | Jew and His Home, The | 1976 | Sp78 | 23 | ||||||
Levine, Abby, Bin-Frye, Paige | This is the Dreidel | 2003 | N/D 03 | 29 | ||||||
Wolfson, Jill | Cold Hands, Warm Heart | 2009 | S/O 09 | 19 | ||||||
Abramson, Glenda | Hebrew Writing of the First World War | 2008 | N/D 08 | 8, 10 | ||||||
Cragg, Kenneth | Semitism: The When and Whither - How Dear Are Your Counsels | 2005 | F/M 06 | 31 | ||||||
Schwartz, Howard, Olson, Arielle North | Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World | 1999 | S/O 99 | 17 | ||||||
Gilletz, Norene | Pleasures of Your Processor, The | M/J 83 | 4 | |||||||
Kertzer, David I. | Old Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the West | 2005 | M/J 06 | 28 | ||||||
Grossman, Sylvia B. | Making Peace with My Mother | 1992 | S/O 92 | 18 | ||||||
Ross, Mandy | Funerals | 2004 | Rites of Passage Series | S/O 04 | 53 | |||||
Maisel, L. Sandy, Forman, Ira N. | Jews in American Politics | 2001 | N/D 01 | 41892 | ||||||
Schoenbaum, David | United States and the State of Israel, The | 1993 | F/M 94 | 11 | ||||||
Rubinowicz, David | Diary of David Rubinowicz, The | N/D 82 | 6 | |||||||
Lyke, Larry L. | I Will Espouse You Forever: The Song of Songs and the Theology of Love in the Hebrew Bible | 2007 | F/M 08 | 41 | ||||||
Cooper, Alexandra, Gevry, Claudine | Spin the Dreidel | 2004 | N/D 04 | 18 | ||||||
Comins, Mike | Making Prayer Real: Leading Jewish Spiritual Voices on Why Prayer is Difficult and What to Do About It | S/O 10 | 30 | |||||||
Aleichem, Sholem, Shevrin, Aliza | Further Adventures of Menachem-Mendl: New York - Warsaw - Vienna - Yehupetz, The | 2001 | S/O 01 | 31 | ||||||
Malamed, Sandra | Jews in Early America: A Chronicle of Good Taste and Good Deeds, The | 2003 | S/O 03 | 22 | ||||||
Lustig, Arnost | Unloved: From the Diary of Perla S., The | 1985 | S/O 86 | 9 | ||||||
Kacer, Kathy | Diary of Lauras Twin, The | 2008 | Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers, A | N/D 08 | 33 | |||||
Hillman, Laura | I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindlers List Survivor | 2005 | M/J 05 | 25-26 | ||||||
Hampshire, Stuart | Spinoza and Spinozism | 2005 | M/J 06 | 27 | ||||||
Cohen, Nancy J. | Body Wave | 2002 | Bad Hair Day Mysteries | N/D 02 | 17 | |||||
Tauber, Rhea | Rehas World | 1986 | F/M 87 | 5 | ||||||
Larner, Nancy, Ballenger, Pegi | Mouse in the Rabbis Study, A | 2008 | S/O 08 | 54, 56 | ||||||
Moss, Marissa | Hannahs Journal | 2000 | N/D 00 | 17 | ||||||
Gordon, Mark | Kunner Aliyah, The | F/M 82 | 5 | |||||||
Kassow, Samuel D | Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive | 2007 | S/O 08 | 19 | ||||||
Evening with Herschel Bernardi, An | 1995 | S/O 96 | 16 | |||||||
Kropf, Latifa Berry, Cohen, Tod | Its Challah Time! | 2002 | N/D 02 | 26 | ||||||
Friedman, Lauri S. | Terorrism: Introducing Issues with Opposing Viewpoints | 2005 | F/M 06 | 21-22 | ||||||
Rabinovitch, Lara, Goren, Shiri, Pressman, Hanna S. | Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture | 2013 | M/J13 | 32 | ||||||
Greenberg, Joanne | Season of Delight, A | S/O 82 | 6 | |||||||
Zucker, Jonny, Cohen, Jan Barger | Apples and Honey: A Rosh Hashanah Story | 2002 | Barrons Educational Festival Time Series | M/J 03 | 31 | |||||
Rabinyan, Dorit | Persian Brides | 1998 | M/J 98 | 18 | ||||||
Figley, Marty, Riggio, Anita | Noahs Wife | 1998 | F/M 99 | 17 | ||||||
Eisenberg, Azriel | Lost Generation, The: Children in the Holocaust | N/D 82 | 2 | |||||||
Palatnik, Lori | Friday Night and Beyond: The Shabbat Experience Step by Step | 1994 | S/O 94 | 41860 | ||||||
Marcus, Audrey F. | Jewish Teachers Handbook, V. III | S/O 82 | 4 | |||||||
Matas, Carol | Turned Away: The World War II Diary of Devorah Bernstein | 2005 | Dear Canada Series | F/M 06 | 12 | |||||
Kemelman, Harry | Day the Rabbi Resigned, the | 1992 | M/J 92 | 21 | ||||||
Zeiger, Genie | How I Find Her: A Mothers Dying and a Daughters Life | 2001 | S/O 01 | 23 | ||||||
Levine, Faye | Solomon and Sheba | F/M 81 | 5 | |||||||
Waskow, David | Biblical Israel: One Land, One People / Rabbinic Judaism: One People, Many Lands | 2000 | Torah of the Earth: Exploring 4000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought | M/J 01 | 12 | |||||
Arendt, Hannah, Weissberg, Liliane, Winston, Clara | Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess | 1997 | S/O 98 | 6 | ||||||
Aviner, Shlomo | Moadim LeSimcha: Exploration into the Jewish Holidays | 2002 | M/J 03 | 41986 | ||||||
Santa Maria, Jack | Greek Vegetarian Cookery | N/D 85 | 4 | |||||||
Polacco, Patricia | Keeping Quilt, The | 1988 | N/D 88 | 10 | ||||||
Shalant, Phyllis | When Pirates Came to Brooklyn | 2002 | N/D 03 | 27 | ||||||
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen | Encyclopedia of World Scriptures | 2001 | F/M 02 | 28 | ||||||
Israel and American Jewish Interaction: Report of a Task Force | 1978 | W78 | 27 | |||||||
Jacobs, Louis | Talmudic Argument, The | 1984 | N/D 87 | 5 | ||||||
Simon, Rachel | Change within Tradition Among Jewish Women in Libya | 1992 | F/M 93 | 25 | ||||||
Rouss, Sylvia A., Kahn, Katherine Janus | Sammy Spider's First Trip to Israel | 2002 | S/O 03 | 54 | ||||||
Ringer-Nenner, Brigitee | Angel of Poetry: A Poetic Perspective on Living Through the Holocaust, The | 2003 | N/D 03 | 16 | ||||||
Marx, David F. | Passover | 2001 | Rookie Read-About Holidays Series | F/M 02 | 40 | |||||
Taylor, L. B. | New Right, The | F/M 83 | 4 | |||||||
Sime, Ruth Lewin | Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics | 1996 | California Studies in the History of Science, 13 | M/J 96 | 18 | |||||
Ben-Amos, Dan | Folktales of the Jews. Volume 2: Tales from Eastern Europe | 2007 | N/D 07 | 28 | ||||||
Grunberg, Arnon, Garrett, Sam | Jewish Messiah, The | 2008 | S/O 09 | 33 | ||||||
Landau, Melanie | Tradition and Equality in Jewish Marriage: Beyond the Sanctification of Subordination | 2012 | Continuum Studies in Jewish Thought | S/O13 | 32-33 | |||||
Seroussi, Edwin | Cute Boy, Charming Girl: Childrens Songs of the Modern Hebrew Nation (1882-1948) | 2013 | Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel Series; 22 | S/O13 | 53 | |||||
Taitz, Emily | Holocaust Survivors: A Biographical Dictionary | 2007 | F/M 08 | 45 | ||||||
Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism, The | 1986 | S/O 86 | 8 | |||||||
Cohen, Barbara | Benny | 1977 | Sp77 | 31 | ||||||
Meyerhoff, Jenny | Queen of Secrets | 2010 | M/J 10 | 11 | ||||||
Fine, Irene | Midlife and Its Rite of Passage Ceremony | S/O 83 | 2 | |||||||
Sokol, David | Golem of Church Street, The: An Artists Reflection on the New Anti-Semitism | 2008 | M/J 09 | 29 | ||||||
Gerstenfeld, Manfred | Judaism, Environmentalism and the Environment: Mapping and Analysis | 1998 | N/D 99 | 8 | ||||||
Hasan-Rokem, Galit, Stein, Batya | Web of Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature | 2000 | S/O 01 | 14 | ||||||
Wagner, Heather Lehr | Elie Wiesel: Messenger for Peace | 2007 | Modern Peacemakers Series | S/O 07 | 14 | |||||
Kepnes, Steven | Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age | 1996 | M/J 96 | 8 | ||||||
Wiesenthal, Simon | Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness, The | 1997 | S/O 97 | 26 | ||||||
Hassenfeld, H. Daniel | Call of the Shofar | 1995 | S/O 96 | 8 | ||||||
Matas, Carol | Rosie in Los Angeles: Action! | 2004 | S/O 04 | 45-46 | ||||||
Prose, Francine, Podwal, Mark | You Never Know: A Legend fo the Lamed-Vavniks | 1998 | M/J 99 | 18 | ||||||
Groner, Judy, Wikler, Madeline | All About Hanukkah | 1988 | M/J 89 | 10 | ||||||
Out of Babylon: The Music of Baghdadi-Jewish Migrations into Asia and Beyond (AUDIO) | 2007 | F/M 08 | 49 | |||||||
Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg, Anderson, Bethanne | Naamah, Noahs Wife | 2002 | M/J 03 | 27-28 | ||||||
Narkiss, Uzi | Liberation of Jerusalem: The Battle of 1967 | M/J 84 | 3 | |||||||
Myrowitz, Catherine Hall | Finding A Home for the Soul: Interviews with Converts to Judaism | 1995 | N/D 96 | 11 | ||||||
Cardozo, Arlene Rossen | Jewish Family Celebrations | N/D 82 | 11 | |||||||
Sender, Ruth Minsky | To Life | 1988 | S/O 89 | 9 | ||||||
Epstein, Lawrence J. | Conversion to Judaism: A Guidebook | 1994 | N/D 94 | 7 | ||||||
Aronson, Marc | History Beyond Black and White, A | 2007 | F/M 08 | 19 | ||||||
Diamond, Shani, Teleshevsky, Sarah Baila, Niasoff, Nissa | Sharing and Caring | 2002 | Mish and Mush, book 6 | N/D 02 | 29 |