Book Review Index
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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication |
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Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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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 | |||
Walfish, Miriam | Bold as a Leopard ( The Chronicles of Meir ben Yaakov) | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 10 | Levine, Joyce | Book | Juvenile | |||
Brimner, Larry Dane | Blacklisted: Hollywood, the Cold War, and the First Amendment | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 17 | Quay, Alex | Book | Juvenile | |||
Kallus, HaRav Shraga, Rabbi Abraham Chaim Slansky | Wine, Whisky & Halacha | 2018 | Second Edition | N/D 2018 | 28 | Chava,Pinchuck | Book | Adult | ||
Weisman, Jonathan | (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in the Age of Trump | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 35 | Lieberman, Eli | Book | Adult | |||
Jones, Carrie | Spy Who Played Baseball, The | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 8 | Tilman, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
Muller, Helmut | The Women of Obernheide: Forced Jewish Women Labourers in Bremen, 1944-1945 | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 32 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | Book | Adult | |||
Lane, Tamsin | Yael and the Party of the Year | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 10 | Quay, Alex | Book | Juvenile | |||
Mash, Yenta | On the Landing: Stories | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 39-40 | Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron | Book | Adult | |||
Goldman-Ida, Batsheva | Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah | 2018 | (Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies, Volume 59 | M/J 2018 | 23 | Levy, David B | Book | Adult | ||
Wolner, Tzipie | Welcome Back, Madame Chamberlaine | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 11 | Pinchuk, Chava | Book | Juvenile | |||
Shainman, Amy Byer | Resurrection Lily: The BRCA Gene, Hereditary Cancer & Lifesaving Whispers from the Grandmother I Never Knew; a Memoir | 2018 | F/M 2020 | 30 | Schutzman, Laura | Book | Adult | |||
Gefen, Shira, Polonsky, David [nid:52283], illustrator | The Heart Shaped Leaf | 2018 | N/D 2019 | 18-19 | Bloomfield, Kathy | Book | Juvenile | |||
Schonfeld, Rifka, Judowitz, Yoel | Social Skills Around the Clock | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 17-18 | Citrin, Rena | Book | Juvenile | |||
Kanarfogel, Ephraim, Schwartz, Dov | Scholarly Man of Faith: Studies in the Thought and Writings of Rabbi Josephy B. Soloveitchik | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 28-29 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
Brook, Kevin Alan | The Jews of Khazaria 3rd Edition | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 25 | Randall C. Belinfante [nid:51578] and Anne-Marie Belinfante | Book | ||||
Sherman, Jill | Gal Gadot: Soldier, Model, Wonder Woman. | 2018 | Gateway Biographies | M/J 2018 | 9 | Dublin, Anne | Book | Juvenile | ||
Munkacsi, Erno | How It Happened: Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 34 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | Book | Adult | |||
Liberman, Judith Weinshall, Davis, Gail | Ben and the Bishop | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 10-11 | Silver, Linda R. | Book | Juvenile | |||
Popkin, Nathaniel | Everything is Borrowed: A Novel | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 40 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | Book | Adult | |||
Forman, Gayle | I Have Lost My Way | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 11 | Gershowitz, Elissa | Book | Juvenile | |||
Unger, Nissi, Rosner, Hersh | Let's Meet a Hatzalah Member | 2018 | Our Community | M/J 2019 | 18 | Levine, Joyce | Book | Juvenile | ||
Kaufman, Michael | Am I My Body's Keeper? Torah, Science, Diet and Fitness- for Life. | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 29 | Quinn, Arthur G. | Book | Adult | |||
Fraser, David | Anti-Shechita Prosecutions in the Anglo-American World 1855-1913: A Major Attack on Jewish Freedoms | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 25-26 | Randall C. Belinfante [nid:51578] and Anne-Marie Belinfante | Book | ||||
Chisvin, Heather | A Fist Around the Heart | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 36 | Lieberman, Eli | Book | Adult | |||
Adler, David A., Ackerman, Dena | Me and My Dog and the Homework Mystery | 2018 | Me and my dog | M/J 2018 | 9 | Pinchuck, Chava | Book | Juvenile | ||
Goldberg, David Richard | Amazing Jewish Heroes Down through the Ages | 2018 | S/O 2020 | 28-29 | Wolfe, Nira | Book | Adult | |||
Zion, Noam Sachs | The Rabbinic Family Disrupted by Love of Torah: Absentee Husbands and Fathers | 2018 | Talmud Marital Dramas volume 4 | N/D 2019 | 32 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | ||
Riemer, Jack | The Day I Met Father Isaac at the Supermarket: Lesson in how to live from the Jewish Tradition | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 34 | Isaac, Fred | Book | Adult | |||
Cook, Stephen L. | Ezekiel 38-48: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary | 2018 | S/O 2019 | 13 | Knafl, Anne K. | Book | Adult | |||
Reich, Tova | Mother India | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 40-41 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | Book | Adult | |||
Wallace, Sandra Neil, Wallace, Rich, Nowicka, Agata | First Generation: 36 Trailblazing Immigrants and Refugees Who Make America Great | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 5-6 | Quay, Alex | Book | Juvenile | |||
Green, Gila | Passport Control | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 11-12 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | Book | Juvenile | |||
Trigere, Jane, Vincent, Lu | What's a Grandparent? | 2018 | N/D 2019 | 19-20 | Levitan, Rebecca | Book | Juvenile | |||
Walder, Chaim, Benedict, Devorah | Kids Speak 10 | 2018 | Kids Speak | M/J 2019 | 18 | Glasser, Rachel | Book | Juvenile | ||
Kfir, Uriah | A Matter of Geography: A New Perspective on Medieval Hebrew Poetry | 2018 | Etudes sur le Judaisme Medieval, 74 | N/D 2018 | 29 | David B. Levy | Book | Adult | ||
Lieberman, Allan | We Want Mashgiach Now! Tales from a Kosher Cop | 2018 | N/D 2019 | 26 | Sukenic, Harvey | Book | Adult | |||
Friedman, Avraham Peretz | Setting A Table for Two: Enhancing Relationships, Achieving Intimacy | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 26 | Pinchuck, Chava | Book | ||||
Nadelson, Scott | The Four Corners of the World, Stories | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 36 | Freiband, Susan | Book | Adult | |||
Simkovitch, Malka Z. | Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 34-35 | Finkelman, Yoel | Book | Adult | |||
Liberman, Judith Weinshall, Gau Family Studio | Queen Esther: A Bible Story Retold | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 10-11 | Silver, Linda R. | Book | Juvenile | |||
Stamper, Vesper | What the Night Sings | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 17 | Silver, Linda R. | Book | Juvenile | |||
Tidhar, Lavie | Unholy Land | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 41 | Isaac, Fred | Book | Adult | |||
Cohan, Medeia, Walsh, Sarah | Hats of Faith | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 6 | Tilman, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
Locke, Katherine | The Spy with the Red Balloon | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 12 | Bloomfield, Kathy | Book | Juvenile | |||
Sarvas, Mark | Memento Park | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 38 | Weisman, Yaffa | Book | Adult | |||
Liberman, Judith Weinshall, Davis, Gail | Rokitno Square | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 10-11 | Silver, Linda R. | Book | Juvenile | |||
Yolen, Jane | Mapping the Bones | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 17 | Silver, Linda R. | Book | Juvenile | |||
Amit, Hila | A Queer Way Out: The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel | 2018 | F/M 2019 | 1 | Lieberman, Eli | Book | Adult | |||
Membrino, Anna, Burke, Fatti | I Look Up to... Ruth Bader Ginsberg | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 6 | Colodny, Debbie | Book | Juvenile | |||
Lavee, Moshe | The Rabbinic Conversion of Judaism: the Unique Perspective of the Bavli on Conversion and the Construction of Jewish Identity. | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 26 | Scheide, Daniel | Book | Adult | |||
Carter, Mary E. | I, Sarah Steinway | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 35 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | Book | Adult | |||
Levison, Deborah Vadas | The Crate: A Story of War, a Murder, and Justice | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 30 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | Book | Adult | |||
Goldstein, Riki | Solomon Schonfeld: Hero of the Kindertransport | 2018 | Great Jewish Lives | F/M 2020 | 41 | Chava,Pinchuck | Book | Juvenile | ||
Mnookin, Robert | The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World | 2018 | N/D 2019 | 27 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | Book | Adult | |||
Gurock, Jeffrey S. | Conversations with Colleagues: On Becoming an American Jewish Historian | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 28 | Levy, David B | Book | ||||
Seigel, Tom | The Astronaut's Son: A Novel | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 38 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | Book | Adult | |||
Liberman, Judith Weinshall | The Sinking of the Patricia | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 11 | Silver, Linda R. | Book | Juvenile | |||
Bemon, Jimmy, Boudet, Emilie, McGuinness, Nanette | Superman Isn't Jewish ( But I Am....Kinda) | 2018 | F/M 2019 | 2 | Lieberman, Eli | Book | Adult | |||
Rubabshi, Leah, Wummer, Amy | My Sometimes Feelings | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 19-20 | Colodny, Debbie | Book | Juvenile | |||
Lieber, Laura Suzanne | Jewish Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity: Translations and Commentaries | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 30 | Levy, David B | Book | Adult | |||
Grunstein, Rabbi Yehoshua C. | Beyond Routine: Turning Ritual into Meaningful Jewish Practice | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 28-29 | Pinchuck, Chava | Book | ||||
Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron | Prodigal children in the house of G-d | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 38 | Seigel, Amanda | Book | Adult | |||
Troy, Gil | The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland- Then, Now, Tomorrow | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 36 | Levy, David B | Book | Adult | |||
Liberman, Judith Weinshall | The Visit to Latrun | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 11 | Silver, Linda | Book | Juvenile | |||
Berger, Natalia | The Jewish Museum: History and Memory, Identity and Art from Vienna to the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem | 2018 | Jewish Identities in a Changing World; 29 | F/M 2019 | 2 | Kohn, Roger S. | Book | Adult | ||
Scudamore, Angelika | Noah's Art Animal ABCs | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 7 | Kamin, Rachel | Book | Juvenile | |||
Tibbits, Tim | Echo Still: Is there more to life than making the team? | 2018 | N/D 2019 | 14 | Levitan, Rebecca | Book | Juvenile | |||
Hoffer, Rinat | Shani's Shoebox | 2018 | N/D 2019 | 21 | Levitan, Rebecca | Book | Juvenile | |||
Herring, Rabbi Basil | Siddur Avodat Halev | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 29 | Gordon, Ilka | Book | ||||
Berkowitz, Leah Rachel, Fabbri, Daniele | The World Needs Beautiful Things | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 6-7 | Cole, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
Ciddor, Anna | Family with Two Front Doors, The | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 11 | Dublin, Anne | Book | Juvenile | |||
Gentin, Reyna Marder | Unreasonable Doubts | 2018 | N/D 2019 | 35 | Levine, Joyce | Book | Adult | |||
Warburg, A Yehudah | Rabbinic Authority: The Vision and the Reality; Halakhic Family, the Child's Welfare and the Agunah; Beit Din Decisions in English Vol 4 | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 36 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | Book | Adult | |||
Patterson, James, Grabenstein, Chris, Johnson, Bev | Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 11 | Dublin, Anne | Book | Juvenile | |||
Persano, Thomas | Israel | 2018 | Countries we come from | M/J 2018 | 18 | Rapp, Andrea | Book | Juvenile | ||
Freedland, Michael | Ben Helfgott: The Story of One of the Boys | 2018 | S/O 2019 | 15 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | Book | Adult | |||
Blair, Sara | How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images | 2018 | F/M 2019 | 2-3 | Bibel, Barbara M. | Book | Adult | |||
Stauffer, Lisa Lowe, Scudamore, Angelika | Two by Two | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 7 | Tilman, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
Zalben, Jane Breskin, Amini, Mehrdokht | A Moon For Moe and Mo | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 20-21 | Citrin, Rena | Book | Juvenile | |||
Rabkin, Anna | From Krakow to Berkeley: Coming Out of Hiding. An Immigrant's Search for Identity and Belonging | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 31 | Bibel, Barbara M. | Book | Adult | |||
Goetz, Bracha, Younger, Devora | The Courage Club | 2017 | N/D 2018 | 7 | Chava,Pinchuck | Book | Juvenile | |||
Fagan, Cary | Mort Ziff Is Not Dead | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 11 | Cole, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
Wachsler, Leah | Building | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 19 | Levitan, Rebecca | Book | Juvenile | |||
Levine, Herbert | Words for Blessing the World: Poems in Hebrew and English | 2017 | Jewish Poetry Project | M/J 2018 | 36 | Pinchuck, Chava | Book | Adult | ||
Behar, Ruth | Lucky Broken Girl | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 4 | Cole, Ellen | Book | Juvenile | |||
Goodman, Carol | Metropolitans, The | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 12 | Silver, Linda R. | Book | Juvenile | |||
Drazin, Israel | Nachmanides: An Unusual Thinker | 2017 | F/M 2019 | 3 | Levy, David B | Book | Adult | |||
Potok, Andrew | 13 Stradomska Street: a Memoir of Exile and Return | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 28 | Smith, Sonia | Book | Adult | |||
Levinson, David Samuel | Tell Me How This Ends Well. | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 37 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | Book | Adult | |||
Iturbe, Antonio, Thwaites, Lilit | Librarian of Auschwitz, The | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 5 | Gershowitz, Elissa | Book | Juvenile | |||
Rosenfeld, Dina H., Nodel, Norman | Yossi and Laibel’s Shabbos Surprise | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 20 | Silver, Linda R. | Book | Juvenile | |||
Sackson, Adrian | Joseph ibn Kaspi: Portrait of a Hebrew Philosopher in Medieval Provence | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 28 | Levy, David B | Book | Adult | |||
Medved, Jane | Deep Calls to Deep | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 37 | Freiband, Susan | Book | Adult | |||
Laskin, Pamela | Ronit & Jamil | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 5 | Citrin, Rena | Book | Juvenile | |||
May, Andrew | Albert Einstein: Scientist | 2017 | N/D 2018 | 8 | Gershowitz, Elissa | Book | Juvenile | |||
Balberg, Mira | Blood for Thought: The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 21 | Belinfante, Randall C. | Book | Adult | |||
Ridley, Barbara | When It’s Over | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 39 | Wallerstein, Jane | Book | Adult | |||
Locke, Katherine | Girl with the Red Balloon, The | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 6 | Bloomfield, Kathy | Book | Juvenile | |||
Waxman, Zoe | Anne Frank: Writer | 2017 | N/D 2018 | 8 | Gershowitz, Elissa | Book | Juvenile |