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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Hurwitz, Johanna | Rabbis Girls, The | M/J 82 | 7 | |||||||
Zones, Jane Sprague | Taking the Fruit | F/M 82 | 9 | |||||||
Fine, Lawrence | Safed Spirituality: Rules of Mystical Piety | M/J 86 | 3 | |||||||
Schwartz, Howard, Bush, Barbara | Diamond Tree, The: Jewish Tales from Around the World | F/M 92 | 22 | |||||||
Kohner, Hann & Walter | Hanna and Walter: A Love Story | M/J 84 | 2 | |||||||
Lev, Michael | Yordim | N/D 86 | 6 | |||||||
Birmingham, Stephen | Rest of Us, The | N/D 84 | 2 | |||||||
Netanyahu, Jonathan | Self-Portrait of a Hero | A/M 81 | 4 | |||||||
Dream of a Thousand Years (VIDEO) | N/D 90 | 12 | ||||||||
Hanover, Nathan | Abyss of Despair | S/O 83 | 3 | |||||||
Drucker, Malka | Sukkot: A Time to Rejoice | S/O 82 | 9 | |||||||
Greenfeld, Howard | Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur | Ma 80 | 7 | |||||||
Kampf, Avram | Jewish Experience in the Art of the 20th Century | N/D 84 | 5 | |||||||
Ginsburgh, Judy Caplan | Chanukah Favorites (AUDIO) | N/D 92 | 26 | |||||||
Adoff, Arnold | All the Colors of the Race | S/O 82 | 9 | |||||||
Hammer, Richard | Mr. Jacobsons War | S/O 81 | 7 | |||||||
Raynor, Thomas P. | Terrorism: Past, Present, Future | W83 | 13 | |||||||
Schotter, Roni | Northern Fried Chicken | S/O 84 | 9 | |||||||
Haramati, Shlomo | Havanat Hanikra Bassidur UVamikra | S/O 86 | 6 | |||||||
Criden, Yosef, Gelb, Saadia | Kibbutz Experience, The: Dialogue at Kfar Blum | Ap 74 | 26 | |||||||
Milgram, Goldie | Reclaiming Bar/Bat Mitzvah as a Spiritual Rite of Passage: An Empowering Guide for Students, Families, Educators and Clergy | S/O14 | 17 | Isaac, Fred | ||||||
Harvey, John F. | Church and Synagogue Libraries | N/D 81 | 12 | |||||||
Neusner, Jacob | Midrash: An Introduction, The | S/O 90 | 14 | |||||||
Lazewnik, Libby | Judge, The | F/M 01 | 12 | |||||||
Wolff, Glenn, ill. | Welcome to the World: A Jewish Babys Record Book | S/O 86 | 6 | |||||||
Lifson, David S. | Epic Folk Plays from the Yiddish Theatre | Ap 74 | 24 | |||||||
Meltzer, Milton | Jewish Americans | F/M 83 | 2 | |||||||
Skolsky, Mindy Warshaw | Carnival and Kopeck and More About Hannah | Ma 80 | 8 | |||||||
Raboff, Ernest | Marc Chagall | Art for Children Series | N/D 82 | 4 | ||||||
Lancaster, Fidelity | Bedouin, The | W83 | 13 | |||||||
Portnoy, Mindy Avra | Mommy Never Went to Hebrew School | N/D 89 | 14 | |||||||
Ginsburg, Marvell | Tattooed Torah, The | S/O 84 | 8 | |||||||
Stewertka, Eve, Stewertka, Albert | Genetic Engineering | W83 | 13 | |||||||
Gottlieb, Yaffa Leba, Nodel, Norman | "Uh Uh, Not Now" Said the Cow: The Cow That Wouldnt Work on Shabbos | F/M 97 | 13 | |||||||
Romm, J. Leonard | Swastika on the Synagogue Door, The | S/O 84 | 9 | |||||||
Agel, Jerome | Deliverance in Shanghai | N/D 83 | 7 | |||||||
Wiesel, Elie | Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle Against Melancholy | O 79 | 7 | |||||||
Barford, Carol | Let Me Hear Music | Ma 80 | 8 | |||||||
Fisher, Eugene J. | Pope John Paul II on Jews and Judaism | O 79 | 6 | |||||||
Werin, Raymond A. | Marriage in Jewish Life and Tradition | M/J 83 | 8 | |||||||
Dolinger, Leah | Very Special Yarmulke, A | S 80 | 10 | |||||||
Wagner, Eliot | My America! | A/M 81 | 5 | |||||||
Olitzky, Kerry M. | Aging and Judaism | M/J 83 | 8 | |||||||
Reef, Catherine | Leonard Bernstain and American Music | Modern Music Masters | S/O14 | 34-35 | Krasner, Barbara | |||||
Rosten, Leo | Hooray for Yiddish | F/M 83 | 3 | |||||||
Figiel, Caroline | Miracles of Chanukah (AUDIO) | F/M 10 | 19 | |||||||
Gutwirth, Israel | Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism, The | S/O 87 | 7 | |||||||
Gillman, Neil | Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew | S/O 90 | 12 | |||||||
Fass, David E. | Shofar that Lost Its Voice, The | S/O 82 | 9 | |||||||
Greenberg, Blu | On Women and Judaism | F/M 82 | 6 | |||||||
Helmreich, William B. | World of the Yeshiva, The | S/O 82 | 7 | |||||||
Franklin, Rena | Soups of Kakafri | F/M 82 | 6 | |||||||
Keneally, Thomas | Schindlers List | N/D 82 | 11 | |||||||
Berlin Wolf | Florida-James, Mark | S/O14 | 43 | |||||||
Senger, Valentin | No. 12 Kaiserhofstrasse | O 80 | 15 | |||||||
Tokayer, Marvin | Fugu Plan, The | O 79 | 7 | |||||||
Schwartz, Howard, Bush, Barbara | Diamond Tree: Jewish Tales from Around the World, The | F/M 92 | 22-23 | |||||||
Marzynski, Marian | Shtetl: A Documentary Video (VIDEO) | M/J 96 | 14 | |||||||
Green, Gerald | Chains, The | O 80 | 14 | |||||||
Kraft, Betsy H. | Oil and Natural Gas (rev. ed.) | W83 | 13 | |||||||
Friedlander, Saul | When Memory Comes | Ma 80 | 6 | |||||||
Elman, Miriam Fendius, Oded Haklai, and Henrik Spuyt (eds). | Democracy and Conflict Resolution: The Dilemmas of Israel's Peacemaking | Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution | S/O14 | 10 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |||||
Stone, Marilyn | Chosen: Appetizers & Desserts, The | S/O 82 | 8 | |||||||
Jews College, London | LEylah, A Journal of Judaism Today | S/O 90 | 17 | |||||||
Benjacob, Isaac ben Jacob | Medaber Tahapukhoth | M/J 86 | 4 | |||||||
One People, Many Stories (AUDIO) | S/O 02 | 48 | ||||||||
Tawil, Raymonda Hawa | My Home, My Prison | S 80 | 8 | |||||||
Fast, Howard | Legacy, The | M/J 82 | 2 | |||||||
Stein, Arlene C. | Olive Tree, The | M/J 94 | 41892 | |||||||
Derogy, Jacques | Untold History of Israel, The | Ma 80 | 6 | |||||||
Berger, Gilda | Religion: A Reference First Book | S/O 83 | 4 | |||||||
Yehoshua, A. B. | Mr. Mani | F/M 93 | 27 | |||||||
Reisman, Arnold | Welcome Tomorrow | F/M 83 | 3 | |||||||
Neuwirth, Yehoshua Y. | Shemirath Sabbath | N/D 84 | 5 | |||||||
Schneider, Gertrude | Journey into Terror | O 80 | 16 | |||||||
Herzberger, Magda | Waltz of the Shadows, The | S/O 84 | 7 | |||||||
Meltzer, Milton | Jewish Americans | M/J 84 | 4 | |||||||
Dupuy, Trevor | Elusive Victory - The Arab-Israeli Wars | Ma 79 | 6 | |||||||
Brym, Robert J | Jews of Moscow, Kiev, and Minsk, the: Identity, Anti-Semitism… | F/M 95 | 8 | |||||||
Bohm-Duchen, Monica | After Auschwitz: Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art | M/J 96 | 14-15 | |||||||
Matt, Danie C., trans. and comm. | Zohar: Pritzker Edition, volume 8 | S/O14 | 26-27 | |||||||
What, Leslie | Sweet and Sour Tongue: Stories, The | S/O 01 | 31-32 | |||||||
Firer, Benzion | Saadiah Weissman | M/J 83 | 8 | |||||||
Lyttle, Richard B. | Nazi Hunting | S/O 82 | 8 | |||||||
Cuyler, Margery | Jewish Holidays | Ma 79 | 8 | |||||||
Roll, Yisroel | Step Up to the Plate: Bseball, Judaism & How to Win the Game of Life | S/O 10 | 36-37 | |||||||
Nordon, Haskell | Education of a Polish Jew, The | S/O 83 | 3 | |||||||
Granit, Arthur | I Am From Brownsville | M/J 86 | 4 | |||||||
Ansh, Tamar | Let My Children Cook! A Passover Cookbood for Kids | S/O14 | 35 | Boomfield, Kathy | ||||||
Gilfond, Henry | Syria | W83 | 13 | |||||||
Cowan, Paul | Orphan in History | S/O 82 | 5 | |||||||
Lazewnik, Libby | Enchanted Circle, The | F/M 90 | 18 | |||||||
Herscher, Uri D. | Century of Memories, 1883-1982 | N/D 83 | 8 | |||||||
Haddad, Heskel M. | Flight from Babylon, Iraq, etc. | N/D 86 | 4 | |||||||
Greenberg, Blu | On Women and Judiasm | S/O 82 | 7 | |||||||
Mitosky, Dina | Jerusalem Rock | S 80 | 7 | |||||||
Marcus, Audrey F. | But This Night is Different | A/M 81 | 8 | |||||||
Samuels, Gertrude | Of David and Eva | Ma 79 | 5 | |||||||
Kerr, Philip | Winter Horses, The | S/O14 | 43 | Marks, Allison | ||||||
Aricha, Amos | Hour of the Clown | M/J 82 | 2 |