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Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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Belsky, Judy | Who Is Annie White (Fish)? | 2014 | M/J 15 | 7 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
Schapira, Leah, Dwek, Victoria | Dairy Made Easy: Triple Tested Recipes for Every Day | 2014 | N/D 14 | 30 | Schutzman, Laura | |||||
Falk, Marcia | Days Between, Blessings, Poems and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season, the | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 6 | Freiband, Susan | |||||
Gold, Nora | Fields of Exile | 2014 | N/D 14 | 40 | Gremillion, Yossi | |||||
Greene, Jacqueline Dembar | Lights, Camera, Rebecca! | 2014 | American Girl Series | S/O 2015 | 29-30 | Dublin, Anne | ||||
Broyde, J. Michael, Bedzow, Ira | The Codification of Jewish Law and an Introduction to the Jurisprudence of the Mishna Berura | 2014 | M/J 15 | 22 | Tesler, David | |||||
Sullivan, Laura L. | Love by the Morning Star | 2014 | F/M 16 | 40 | Feit, Shelly | |||||
Fischer, Ellen, Beeke, Tiphanie | Latke, the Lucky Dog | 2014 | N/D 14 | 4 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |||||
Ehrlich-Klein, Tzvia | I Live with My Mommy | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 35 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Lichtenstein, Dovid | Headlines: Halachic Debates of Current Events | 2014 | M/J 15 | 31 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Gellman, Ellie | Netta and Her Plant | 2014 | F/M14 | 14 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |||||
Simonsohn, Shlomo | The Jews of Italy: Antiquity | 2014 | M/J 15 | 38-39 | Belinfante, Randall C. | |||||
Hilton, Michael | Bar Mitzvah: A history | 2014 | N/D 14 | 22 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Shrayer-Petrov, David | Dinner with Stalin and other Stories | 2014 | M/J 15 | 45 | Freiband, Susan | |||||
Feldbrand, Sarah | Esperanza, A Novel | 2014 | M/J 15 | 7-8 | Feit, Shelly | |||||
Shoham-Steiner, Ephriam, Watzman, Haim | On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability Among the Jews of Medieval Europe. | 2014 | N/D 14 | 31 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Feinstein, Edward | Chutzpah Imperative: Empowering Today’s Jews for a Life That Matters., the | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 6 | Stein, Marion M | |||||
Rosner, Jennifer | The Mitten String | 2014 | M/J 15 | 15 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Goldschmidt, Saskia | Hormone Factory, The | 2014 | N/D 14 | 40 | Bibel, Barbara M. | |||||
Greene, Jacqueline Dembar | The Glow of the Spotlight: My Journey with Rebecca | 2014 | American Girl Series | S/O 2015 | 29-30 | Dublin, Anne | ||||
Carter, Mary E. | A Non-Swimmer Considers Her Mikvah: On Becoming Jewish After Fifty | 2014 | M/J 15 | 22-23 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
Guthrie, Woody, Horowitz, Dave | Honeyky Hanukah | 2014 | N/D 14 | 5 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Magid, Shaul | Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern Judaism | 2014 | M/J 15 | 32 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
Sabbag, Galia, Taylor, Erin | Shira, Detective - CHAMETZ Detective! | 2014 | Shira's Series | F/M 16 | 46 | Citrin, Rena | ||||
Chernoff, Rena Margulies, Chernoff, Allan | Tailors of Tomaszow: a Memoir of Polish Jews, The | 2014 | N/D 14 | 14 | Smith, Sonia | |||||
Oestermann, Richard | Me and the Middle East: Firsthand Reporting on Israel’s Most Dramatic Days | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 28 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
Nakhimovsky, Alice, Newman, Roberta | Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America. | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 16 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Soloveitchik, Haym | Collected Essays II | 2014 | M/J 15 | 39 | Tesler, David | |||||
Alpert, Michael, Kytasty, Julian | Night Songs from a Neighboring Village: Ballads of the Ukrainian and Yiddish Heartland | 2014 | M/J 2016 | 42 | Pinnolis, Judith S. | |||||
Agnon, S. Y. | From Foe to Friend & Other Stories | 2014 | M/J 15 | 1 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |||||
Feldman, Daniel Z., Halpern, Stuart W. | Weekday Prayers: Essays / by the Rabbis & Professors of Yeshiva University, The | 2014 | F/M 16 | 9 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Hirsch, Samson Raphael | Hirsch Pirkei Avos: Chapters of the Fathers, The | 2014 | N/D 14 | 23 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Libin, Barry M. | Mystery of the Milton Manuscript: A Novel, The | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 25 | Bibel, Barbara M. | |||||
Steinitz, Richard | Kaplan’s Quest | 2014 | M/J 15 | 45 | Jefferson, Rebecca | |||||
Schotz, Leslie | Shalom: A Congregational Guide to Jewish Meditation | 2014 | N/D 14 | 31 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
Grjasnowa, Olga | All Russians Love Birch Trees | 2014 | N/D 14 | 40 | Gremillion, Yossi | |||||
Kestin, Hesh | Lie, The | 2014 | N/D 14 | 41 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |||||
Matas, Carol | Tucson Jo | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 30 | Levine, Joyce | |||||
Zoldan, Yael | Shimmy Shambone Will Not Take a Bath | 2014 | F/M 16 | 41 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Kober, Shahar | Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel! | 2014 | N/D 14 | 5 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |||||
Newman, Tracy | Shabbat is Coming! | 2014 | F/M14 | 15 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |||||
Chiswick, Carmel U. | Judaism in Transition; How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition | 2014 | N/D 14 | 14 | Tesler, David | |||||
Pincus, Shimshon Dovid | Moadei HaShanah: Elul and Rosh HaShanah. | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 28 | Levy, David B | |||||
Lipszyc, Carol | Saviour Shoes and Other Stories, The | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 25 | Freiband, Susan | |||||
Wex, Michael | Shlepping the Exile | 2014 | M/J 15 | 45 | Gremillion, Yossi | |||||
Karp, Raphael N. | The Cats of J-Town: A Clash of Colonies | 2014 | M/J 15 | 8 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
Drazin, Israel | Unusual Bible Interpretations | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 17 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Stern, Ariella | Bracha Do You Know? | 2014 | M/J 15 | 15 | Pastcan, Ben | |||||
Gurwith, Annabelle | I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50 | 2014 | S/O14 | 13 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Garb, Jonathan | Kabbalist in the Heart of the Storm: R. Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto | 2014 | M/J 15 | 23-24 | Wolfe, Nira | |||||
Nathan, Simone Bloom, Barber, Brian | Eight Candles and a Tree | 2014 | N/D 14 | 5 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |||||
Meyerstein, Israela | Bridge to Healing: Finding Strength to Cope with Illness | 2014 | M/J 15 | 32-33 | Wolfe, Nira | |||||
Rabinovitch, Simon | Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 29 | Kohn, Roger S. | |||||
Taube, Herman | Uzbekistan Stories: A Jewish Medic During WWII | 2014 | M/J 15 | 40 | Simon, Rachel | |||||
Goldsmith, Martin | Alex’s Wake: A Voyage of Betrayal and a Journey of Remembrance | 2014 | F/M 16 | 10 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Kowitz, Mitchell | Kosher Cuisine for a New Generation | 2014 | N/D 14 | 25 | Feder, Debbie | |||||
Valman, Nadia | Jewish Women Writers in Britain | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 38 | Dwoskin, Beth | |||||
Sela, Shlomo | Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meir. Abraham ibn Ezra on Nativities and Continuous Horoscopy: A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Book of Nativities and the Book of Revolution | 2014 | Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Writings, 4; Etudes sur le Judaisme Medieval, 59 | N/D 14 | 33 | |||||
Enoch, Reuvan | Passover Haggadah in Judaeo-Georgian : a critical edition., The | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 17 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |||||
Gold, Sholom | Touching History: From Williamsburg to Jerusalem | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 8 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Werner, Aviva | Around the Clock: A Jewish Child Learns to Tell Time | 2014 | M/J 15 | 16 | Levine, Joyce | |||||
The Koren Children’s Siddur | 2014 | The Magerman Edition | S/O 2015 | 32-33 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Glick, Rabbi Yoel | Living the Life of Jewish Meditation: A Comprehensive Guide to Practice and Experience. | 2014 | M/J 15 | 24 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
Pinkwater, Daniel | Beautiful Yetta’s Hanukkah Kitten | 2014 | N/D 14 | 6 | Marks, Allison | |||||
Moore, Deborah Dash | Urban Origins of American Judaism | 2014 | M/J 15 | 33 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Roth, Pinchas | Masorah and Text Criticism in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Moses ibn Zabara and Menahem de Lonzano. | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 17 | Roth, Pinchas | |||||
Torrey, Seland | Reading Philo: A Handbook to Philo of Alexandria | 2014 | M/J 15 | 40 | Levy, David B | |||||
LaMarche, Una | Like No Other | 2014 | M/J 15 | 2-3 | Lenson, Heather | |||||
Reshef, Yaron | Out of the Shoebox. | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 2014 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Azar, François | The Jewish Parrot and Other Judeo-Spanish Tales | 2014 | M/J 15 | 9 | Dublin, Anne | |||||
Frakes, Jerold D. | Early Yiddish Epic | 2014 | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art | N/D 2015 | 17 | Seigel, Amanda | ||||
Zoldan, Yael | We Can Do Mitzvos Around the Jewish Year | 2014 | M/J 15 | 16 | Pastcan, Ben | |||||
Bergson, Steven M. | Jewish Comix Anthology: a collection of tales, stories and myths told and retold in comic book form, The. Volume 1. | 2014 | F/M 2016 | 26 | Gold, Etta | |||||
Gmach, Jacqueline Semha, Liber, Hillary Selese | From Bomboloni to Bagel, A Story of Two Worlds | 2014 | M/J 15 | 24 | Freiband, Susan | |||||
Nakhimovsky, Alice, Newman, Roberta | Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America | 2014 | M/J 15 | 33-34 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Eisenberg, Ronald Lee | Essential Figures in Jewish Scholarship | 2014 | N/D 14 | 16 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Rutman, Joel Yehudah | Why Evolution Matters: a Jewish Approach. | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 30 | Dwoskin, Beth | |||||
Rakeffet-Rothkoff, Aaron | Bernard Revel: Builder of American Jewish Orthodoxy. | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 18 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Tscholkowsky, Esther | Picture This!: A Photo Journal of Holy Times, Holy Work, and Holy Places in Eretz Yisrael | 2014 | M/J 15 | 41 | Wolfe, Nira | |||||
Weiss, Erica | Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 40 | Smith, Sonia | |||||
Wineberg, Ronna | On Bittersweet Place. | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 27 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |||||
Alroey, Gur | Unpromising Land: Jewish Migration to Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century, an | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 1 | Cantor, Hallie | |||||
Friedman, Debbie | Lullaby | 2014 | M/J 15 | 10 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Shiff, Ofer | Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel, The | 2014 | N/D 14 | 33 | Isaac, Fred | |||||
Gilbert, Joanne | Women of Valor: Polish Resisters to the Third Reich | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 18 | Seigel, Amanda | |||||
Gugenheim, Claude-Annie | Letters from Mir: A Torah World in the Shadow of the Shoah, The Correspondence of Ernest Gugenheim | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 9 | Gordon, Ilka | |||||
Zebrina (musical group) | Hamidbar Medaber (The Desert Speaks) | 2014 | N/D 14 | 43 | Pinchuck, Kathe | |||||
The Koren Ani Tefilla Siddur: A Summer Camp Siddur and Humash for Reflection, Connection, and Learning | 2014 | The Magerman Edition | S/O 2015 | 32-33 | Pinchuck, Chava | |||||
Stampler, Ann Redisch | Afterparty | 2014 | F/M14 | 8-9 | Lenson, Heather | |||||
Hammer, Jill, Cohen, Zoe | Garden of Time, the | 2014 | N/D 14 | 7 | Pastcan, Ben | |||||
Eraqi Klorman, Bat-Zion | Traditional Society in Transition: The Yemeni Jewish Experience | 2014 | N/D 14 | 17 | Simon, Rachel | |||||
Schwartz, Daniel | Judeans and Jews: Four Faces of Dichotomy in Ancient Jewish History | 2014 | N/D 2015 | 30 | Tesler, David | |||||
Vidas, Moulie | Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud | 2014 | M/J 15 | 41-42 | Roth, Pinchas | |||||
Rocklin, Joanne | Fleabrain Loves Franny | 2014 | M/J 15 | 3-4 | Dublin, Anne | |||||
Baumgarten, Elisheva | Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance. | 2014 | S/O 2015 | 2 | Chesner, Michelle | |||||
Sniegon, Tomas | Vanished History: The Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture | 2014 | Making Sense of History: Studies in Historical Cultures; 18 | N/D 14 | 34 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | ||||
Ginsburg, Shai P. | Rhetoric and Nation: The Formation of Hebrew National Culture, 1880-1990 | 2014 | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art | N/D 2015 | 18 | Gordon, Ilka | ||||
Agosin, Marjorie, White, Lee, O'Conner, E.M. | I Lived on Butterfly Hill | 2014 | N/D14 | 1 | Dublin, Anne | |||||
Grodin, Michael A. | Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust | 2014 | M/J 15 | 26 | Bibel, Barbara M. | |||||
Neinstein, Larry, Bubar, Lorraine | Zeide, Why Are You Wearing White Tennis Shoes on Yom Kippur? | 2014 | N/D 14 | 8 | Pinchuck, Kathe |