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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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Sofsky, Wolfgang, Templer, William | Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp, The | 1997 | S/O 97 | 23 | ||||||
Schiffman, Lawrence H. | Hebrew Bible, The (AUDIO) | 2008 | N/D 09 | 27 | ||||||
Michelson, Richard, Colon, Raul | As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschels Amazing March Toward Freedom | 2008 | M/J 08 | 8 | ||||||
Silton, Faye | Of Heroes, Hooks, and Heirlooms | 1997 | M/J 97 | 14 | ||||||
Terrier, Samuel | Til the Heart Sings | F/M 86 | 5 | |||||||
Dobbs-Weinstein, Idit, Goodman, Lenn E. | Maimonides and His Heritage | 2009 | SUNY Series in Jewish Philosophy | S/O 09 | 36-37 | |||||
Buloff, Joseph, Singer, Joseph | From the Old Marketplace | 1991 | M/J 91 | 8 | ||||||
Zwerin, Raymond A. | Shabbat Can Be | O 80 | 13 | |||||||
Brown, Michael | Jews and Judaism in Canada: A Bibliography of Works Published Since 1965 | 2000 | Canadian Jewish Studies Special Issue, vol. 7/8 | F/M 01 | 9 | |||||
Flanders, Elle | Zero Degrees of Separation (VIDEO) | 2005 | S/O 07 | 56 | ||||||
Orgel, Doris | Devil in Vienna, The | 1978 | Sp79 | 27 | ||||||
Mintz, Alan L. | Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America | 2001 | N/D 01 | 10 | ||||||
Bogot, Howard I. | I Learn About God | N/D 82 | 7 | |||||||
Bloom, Harold | Blooms Modern Critical Views: David Mamet | 2004 | F/M 04 | 14-15 | ||||||
Gerber, Merrill Joan | Victory Gardens of Brooklyn, The: A Novel | 2007 | Library of Modern Jewish Literature | N/D 08 | 7 | |||||
Lichtenstein, Mosheh | Moses: Envoy of God, Envoy of His People | 2008 | S/O 08 | 41860 | ||||||
Levine, Karen, Sher, Emil | Hanas Suitcase on Stage | 2007 | Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers Series | M/J 07 | 15 | |||||
Stepping Stones to Further Jewish-Christian Relations | F/M 82 | 6 | ||||||||
Zim, Paul | Kooky Cookie Kids, The (AUDIO) | N/D 93 | 16 | |||||||
Lerner, Anne Lapidus | Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry | 2007 | Brandeis Series on Jewish Women | S/O 08 | 8 | |||||
Agamben, Giogio | Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive | 2000 | S/O 00 | 7 | ||||||
Wadimoff, Nicolas, Warin, Clothilde | Israel-Palestine, Two Peoples, Two States for One Peace … (VIDEO) | 2009 | N/D 10 | 26 | ||||||
Dwork, Deborah | Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe | 1991 | S/O 91 | 18 | ||||||
Reitter, Paul | On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred | 2012 | N/D13 | 35 | ||||||
Chatanow, Gerald, Schwartz, Bernard | Another Time, Another Place: A Neighborhood Remembered | 2000 | S/O 01 | 41892 | ||||||
Bauman, Janina | Winter in the Morning: A Young Girls Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond, 1939-1945 | 1986 | S/O 86 | 7 | ||||||
dePaola, Tomie | Noah and the Ark | S/O 84 | 8 | |||||||
Jacobs, Jill | There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice Through Jewish Law & Tradition | 2009 | M/J 10 | 34 | ||||||
Ricci, Regolo | Lord is My Shepherd, The | 2007 | N/D 07 | 8 | ||||||
Lowenstein, Steven M. | Frankfurt on the Hudson: The German-Jewish Community of Washington Heights, 19339-1983, Its Structure and Culture | 1989 | N/D 90 | 10 | ||||||
Zim, Paul | Seder Nights (AUDIO) | 1994 | F/M 95 | 14 | ||||||
Solomon, Lewis D. | Jewish Spirituality: Revitalizing Judaism for the Twenty-First Century | 2000 | F/M 01 | 11 | ||||||
Estraikh, Gennady, Krutikov, Mikhail | Yiddish in the Contemporary World: Papers of the First Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish | 1999 | M/J 00 | 10 | ||||||
Gal, Alon, Siegel, David S. | David Ben-Gurion and the American Alignment for a Jewish State | 1991 | N/D 92 | 23 | ||||||
Gavron, Daniel | Pilgrims: A Novel | 2000 | F/M 01 | 13 | ||||||
Schotter, Roni, Widener, Terry | House of Joyful Living, The | 2008 | M/J 09 | 16-17 | ||||||
Collins, John J. | Bible After Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age, The | 2005 | F/M 07 | 31-32 | ||||||
Kaltner, John, MckKenzie, Steven, Kilpatrick, Joel | Uncensored Bible, The: The Bawdy and Naughty Bits of the Good Book | 2008 | M/J 09 | 24 | ||||||
Weiss, Eric, Stern, Shira | Mishkan Rfuah: Where Healing Resides | 2013 | N/D13 | 41 | ||||||
Hoffman, Charles | Gray Dawn: The Jews of Eastern Europe in the Post-Communist Era | 1992 | S/O 92 | 18 | ||||||
Khanga, Yelena, Jacoby, Susan | Soul to Soul: The Story of a Black-Russian American Family, 1865-1992 | 1992 | M/J 93 | 15 | ||||||
Yellin, Tamar | Kafka in Bronteland and Other Stories | 2006 | F/M 06 | 28 | ||||||
Fuchs, Ester | Encounters with Israeli Authors | F/M 83 | 3 | |||||||
Berger, David | Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference, The | 2001 | M/J 02 | 9 | ||||||
Green, Jen | Israel | 2001 | Nations of the World Series | M/J 01 | 15 | |||||
Kramer, Aaron | Century of Yiddish Poetry, A | 1989 | F/M 90 | 14 | ||||||
Sparks, Kenton L. | Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible: A Guide to the Background Literature | 2005 | F/M 06 | 37 | ||||||
Kacer, Kathy, McKay, Sharon E. | Whisperers from the Ghettos | 2009 | N/D 09 | 8 | ||||||
Schwartz, Howard, Raznick, Barbara | New Harvest: Jewish Writing in St. Louis, 1998-2005 | 2005 | S/O 06 | 43-44 | ||||||
Erps, Yitzy | Tell Me a Tale: 8 Great Stories | 2005 | M/J 06 | 12 | ||||||
Novack, Judith Mandel | Lilac Bush, The | 1989 | M/J 90 | 12 | ||||||
Berger, Shalom Z., Daniel Jacobson,, Waxman, Chaim I. | Flipping Out?: Myth or Fact?: The Imapct of the "Year in Israel" | 2007 | M/J 08 | 28-29 | ||||||
Spero, Moshe Halevi, Gaash, Elisheva | Saying Goodbye to Grandma | 1997 | N/D 98 | 16 | ||||||
Greenberg, Martin H. | Jewish Lists | 1979 | Sp80 | 13 | ||||||
Edelheit, Hershel, Edelheit, Abraham J. | World in Turmoil: An Integrated Chronology of the Holocaust and World War II, A | 1991 | M/J 92 | 15 | ||||||
Nissimi, Hilda | Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: the Shaping of Religious and Communal Identity in their Journey from Iran to New York | 2007 | S/O 07 | 52-53 | ||||||
Elmer, Robert | Peace Rebel | 2000 | Promise of Zion Series | S/O 01 | 34 | |||||
Bauer, Yehuda | Holocaust in Historical Perspective | O 79 | 6 | |||||||
Faber, Doris | Bella Abzug | 1976 | W76 | 20 | ||||||
Ackroyd, Peter | Trial of Elizabeth Cree: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders, The | 1995 | N/D 95 | 41986 | ||||||
Schechter, Joel | Messiahs of 1933: How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity through Satire | 2008 | F/M 09 | 17-18 | ||||||
Bruder, Judith | Going to Jerusalem | Ma 80 | 4 | |||||||
Kay, Devora, Vand, Rochel | Sleep Sheep Book, The | 2013 | S/O13 | 11 | ||||||
Jacobs, Louis | Judaism and Theology: Essays on the Jewish Religion | 2005 | N/D 05 | 27-28 | ||||||
Kanfer, Stefan | Eighth Sin, The | 1978 | W78 | 23 | ||||||
Stern, David, Mirsky, Mark J. | Rabbinic Fantasies: Imaginative Narratives from Classical Hebrew Literature | 1990 | M/J 92 | 21 | ||||||
Stern, Karen B | Inscribing Devotion and Death: Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Populations of North Africa | 2008 | Religions of in the Graeco-Roman World, v. 161 | F/M 09 | 19 | |||||
Polacco, Patricia | Butterfly, The | 2000 | ||||||||
Speregen-Newberger, Devra | Albert Einstein: The Jewish Man Behind the Theory | 2006 | N/D 06 | 41860 | ||||||
Cohen, Naomi W. | What the Rabbis Said: The Public Discourse of Nineteenth-Century American Rabbis | 2008 | F/M 09 | 8 | ||||||
Rosen, Devorah | Mystery in Spain | 2009 | F/M 10 | 11 | ||||||
Appelfeld, Aharon, Appelfeld, Meir | Table for One: Under the Light of Jerusalem, A | 2005 | S/O 05 | 41 | ||||||
Schapiro, Raya, Weinberg, Helga | Letters from Prague 1939-1941 | 1991 | N/D 91 | 12 | ||||||
Wishnia, Kenneth | Fifth Servant, The | 2010 | M/J 10 | 26 | ||||||
Isaacs, Ronald H., Olitzky, Kerry M. | Sacred Moments: Tales from the Jewish Life Cycle | 1995 | N/D 95 | 9 | ||||||
Ofrat, Gideon, Kidron, Peretz | Jewish Derrida, The | 2001 | F/M 03 | 36-37 | ||||||
Suleiman, Susan Rubin, Forgecs, Eva | Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary: An Anthology | 2003 | Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World Series | S/O 04 | 41892 | |||||
Edwards, Michelle, Schuett, Stacey | Papas Latkes | 2004 | N/D 04 | 18-19 | ||||||
Adler, David A., Ritz, Karen | Hilde and Eli: Children of the Holocaust | 1994 | M/J 95 | 18 | ||||||
Metter, Bert | Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah | S/O 84 | 10 | |||||||
Adahan, Miriam, Halberstadt, Menachem | Torah Tigers | 2009 | S/O 09 | 24 | ||||||
Berkow, Ira | Maxwell Street: Survival in a Bazaar | 1977 | Sp78 | 21 | ||||||
Penn, Malka, Black, Theodor | Ghosts and Golems: Haunting Tales of the Supernatural | 2001 | F/M 02 | 34-35 | ||||||
Milgram, Abraham E. | Short History of Jerusalem, A | 1998 | F/M 99 | 12 | ||||||
Brodsky, Beverly | Jonah, an Old Testament Story | 1977 | Sp78 | 25 | ||||||
Tal, Eve | Double Crossing: A Jewish Immigration Story | 2005 | N/D 05 | 14 | ||||||
Geller, Uri, Boteach, Shmuley | Psychic and the Rabbi: A Remarkable Correspondence, The | 2001 | F/M 02 | 20-21 | ||||||
Alkow, Jacob M. | In Many Worlds | M/J 86 | 3 | |||||||
Alma, Ann | Brave Deeds: How One Family Saved Many from the Nazis | 2008 | F/M 09 | 39-40 | ||||||
Abraham Isaac Kook | F/M 82 | 9 | ||||||||
Hoffman, Lawrence A. | Way into Jewish Prayer, The | 2000 | S/O 01 | 15 | ||||||
dePaola, Tomie | My First Passover | 2008 | M/J 08 | 12 | ||||||
MacLeod, Elizabeth | Harry Houdini: A Magical Life | 2005 | S/O 05 | 10 | ||||||
Berlin, Charles | Studies in Jewish Bibliography, History, and Literature | 26085 | 14 | |||||||
Peters, Simi | Learning to Read Midrash | 2004 | F/M 04 | 18-19 | ||||||
Lehmann, Marcus, Teomim, Joseph | Faith and Courage | 2009 | S/O 10 | 18-19 | ||||||
Kaniuk, Yoram, Flantz, Richard | Rockinghorse | 1977 | Sp78 | 21 | ||||||
Pinsky, Mark I. | Jew Among the Evangelicals, A: A Guide for the Perplexed | 2006 | F/M 07 | 34 | ||||||
Corenthal, Michael G. | Cohen on the Telephone: A Hisotry of Jewish Recorded Humor and Popular Music, 1892-1942 | 1984 | N/D 86 | 4 | ||||||
Kavanaugh, Sarah | ORT, the Second World War and the Rehabilitation of Holocaust Survivors | 2008 | M/J 09 | 26 |