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| Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
Review Author |
Review format | Review type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Membrino, Anna, Burke, Fatti | I Look Up to... Ruth Bader Ginsberg | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 6 | Colodny, Debbie | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Newman, Leslea, Husband, Amy | Hanukkah Delight!. | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 2 | Colodny, Debbie | |||||
| Balsley, Tilda | Shalom, Everybodeee! Grover's Adventures in Israel | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 11-12 | Colodny, Debbie | |||||
| Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker | War I Finally Won, The | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 10 | Colodny, Debbie | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Rubabshi, Leah, Wummer, Amy | My Sometimes Feelings | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 19-20 | Colodny, Debbie | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Levy, Debbie, Gardner, Whitney | Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Journey to Justice | 2019 | F/M 2020 | 41-42 | Colodny, Debbie | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Kimmel, Eric A., Gutierrez, Monica | Little Red Rosie | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 27-28 | Quay, Alex | |||||
| Capetta, Amy Rose | Echo After Echo | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 14 | Quay, Alex | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Aronson, Marc, Budhos, Marina | Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 8 | Quay, Alex | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Brimner, Larry Dane | Blacklisted: Hollywood, the Cold War, and the First Amendment | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 17 | Quay, Alex | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Lane, Tamsin | Yael and the Party of the Year | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 10 | Quay, Alex | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Silverman, Erica | Returning Home: Journeys to Israel | 2015 | Voices from Israel | S/O 2016 | 36-37 | Quay, Alex | ||||
| Zohar, Gil | Americans in the Holy Land | 2015 | Voices from Israel | S/O 2016 | 36-37 | Quay, Alex | ||||
| 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 | |||
| Zohar, Gil | Israel: Holy Land to Many | 2015 | Voices from Israel | S/O 2016 | 36-37 | Quay, Alex | ||||
| Stein, Rachel, Katz, Tova | A Whale of a Time and More Stories for Thinking Kids! | 2015 | F/M 16 | 37-38 | Quay, Alex | |||||
| Zohar, Gil | Israel: Stories of Conflict and Resolution, Love and Death | 2015 | Voices from Israel | S/O 2016 | 36-37 | Quay, Alex | ||||
| Schnur, Susan, Schnur-Fishman, Anna, Steele-Morgan, Alex | Potatoes at Turtle Rock. | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 2 | Quay, Alex | |||||
| Engle, Margarita | Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 5 | Quay, Alex | |||||
| Brown, Monica | Lola Levine is Not Mean! | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 6 | Quay, Alex | |||||
| Sarason, Richard S. | Divrei Mishkan T’filah: Delving into the Siddur | 2018 | M/J 2018 | 28 | Smailes, Suzanne | Book | Adult | |||
| Appelbaum, Peter C. , Scott, James W | Broken Carousel: German Jewish Soldier-Poets of the Great War | 2017 | N/D 2018 | 36 | Smailes, Suzanne | Book | Adult | |||
| Stavans, Ilan, Ballen, Gloria Abella | The New World Haggadah | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 24 | Smailes, Suzanne | Book | Adult | |||
| Vidro, Nadia, Zweip, Irene E., Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith | Universal Art: Hebrew Grammar Across Disciplines and Faiths | 2014 | Studies in Jewish History and Culture; 46 | F/M 2016 | 25 | Smailes, Suzanne | ||||
| Andreas Kilcher, Gabriella Safran | Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 12 | Beth Dwoskin | |||||
| Simeon Schreiber | From Mouring to Morning: A Comprehensive Guide to Mourning, Grieving, and Bereavement with Special Emphasis on the Shiva Call | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 20 | Nathan Rosen | |||||
| Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, Anne E. Pettit | For those left behind : A Jewish Anthology of Comfort and Healing | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 5 | Nathan Rosen | |||||
| Richard A. Light | Jewish Rites of Death: Stories of Beauty and Transformation | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 15 | Nathan Rosen | |||||
| Stuart M. Matlins | The Jewish Book of Grief and Healing: A Spiritual Companion for Mourning | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 16 | Nathan Rosen | |||||
| Abraham-Klein, Dahlia | Necessary Mourning: Healing the Loss of a Parent through Jewish Ritual | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 1 | Nathan Rosen | |||||
| Lori Palatnik, Yaakov Palatnik | Remember my Soul: What to Do in Memory of A Loved One; A Path of Reflection and Inspiration for Shiva, the Stages of Jewish Mourning and Beyond | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 18 | Nathan Rosen | |||||
| Ethan B. Katz | The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France | 2015 | F/ M 2017 | 12 | Randall C. Belinfante | |||||
| Ben Nisan, Hakham Moredechai, Gabriel Wasserman | Royal Attire: On Karaite and Rabbanite Beliefs | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 2 | Randall C. Belinfante | |||||
| Becker, Pamela | Memoirs of a False Messiah | 2019 | F/M 2020 | 34 | Lieberman, Eli | Book | Adult | |||
| Bleich, Judith | Defenders of the Faith: Studies in Nineteenth-and-Twentieth Century Orthodoxy and Reform | 2020 | S/O 2020 | 26 | Lieberman, Eli | Book | Adult | |||
| Stokes, Ryan | The Satan: How God's Executioner Became God's Enemy | 2019 | N/D 2019 | 31 | Lieberman, Eli | Book | Adult | |||
| Kestin, Hesh | The Siege of Tel Aviv | 2019 | M/J 2019 | 39 | Lieberman, Eli | Book | Adult | |||
| Weisman, Jonathan | (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in the Age of Trump | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 35 | Lieberman, Eli | Book | Adult | |||
| Chisvin, Heather | A Fist Around the Heart | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 36 | Lieberman, Eli | Book | Adult | |||
| Amit, Hila | A Queer Way Out: The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel | 2018 | F/M 2019 | 1 | Lieberman, Eli | Book | Adult | |||
| Bemon, Jimmy, Boudet, Emilie, McGuinness, Nanette | Superman Isn't Jewish ( But I Am....Kinda) | 2018 | F/M 2019 | 2 | Lieberman, Eli | Book | Adult | |||
| Nakagaki, T.K. | The Buddhist Swastika and Hitler's Cross: Rescuing a Symbol of Peace from the Forces of Hate | 2019 | N/D 2019 | 27-28 | Lieberman, Eli | Book | Adult | |||
| Israel Drazin | Jonah and Amos | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 5 | Arthur G. Quinn | |||||
| Yaakov Feder | The Sefiros and the Self: A Divine Blueprint for Self-Discovery and Personal Growth | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 6 | Nira Wolfe | |||||
| Etsy Frankel-Fersel | Converting Masters: World Famous Masterpieces with a Jewish Twist | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 6 | Nira Wolfe | |||||
| Yaffa Ganz | The Jewish Fact Finder: A Bookful of Important Torah Facts and Handy Jewish Information | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 8 | Nira Wolfe | |||||
| Olga Gilburd | Happiness the Jewish Way: A Practical Guide to Happiness through the Lens of Jewish Wisdom | 2015 | F/ M 2017 | 8-9 | Nira Wolfe | |||||
| Frank Vajda | Saved to Remember: Raoul Wallenberg, Budapest 1944 and After | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 25-26 | Nira Wolfe | |||||
| Nathan Wolski | The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume 10 | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 26 | David B. Levy | |||||
| Joel Hecker | The Zohar: Pritzker Edition Volume 11 | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 6 | David B. Levy | |||||
| 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 | ||
| Loew, Yehudah ben Bezalel, Widmonte, Ramon | Tiferet Yisrael: Translation and Commentary: Volume 1: Introduction and Chapters 1-9. | 2016 | M/J 2018 | 26 | David B. Levy | Book | Adult | |||
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | My Own Words | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 9 | Rachel Simon | |||||
| Aronson, Peter | Bronislaw Huberman | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 7 | Barbara Krasner | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Susan J. Gordon | Because of Eva: A Jewish Genealogical Journey | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 10 | Barbara Krasner | |||||
| Sylvie Anne Goldberg, Benjamin Ivry | Clepsydra: Essay on the Plurality of Time in Judaism | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 9-10 | Roger S. Kohn | |||||
| Alina Gromova, Felix Heinert, Sebastian Voigt | Jewish and Non-Jewish Spaces in the Urban Context | 2015 | F/M 2017 | 10 | Pinchas Roth | |||||
| Lawrence Kaplan | Maimonides: Between Philosophy and Halakhah: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Lectures on the Guide of the Perplexed | 2016 | F/M 2017 | 11-12 | Yoel Finkelman | |||||
| Nelly Las, Ruth Morris | Jewish Voices in Feminism: Transnational Perspectives | 2015 | F/ M 2017 | 13 | Suzanne Smailes | |||||
| Avi Sagi | After the Death of God, a Phenomenological Study of Hebrew Literature | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 19 | David Tesler | |||||
| Nathan Laufer | Rendevous with God; Revealing the Meaning of the Jewish Holidays and their Mysterious Rituals | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 14 | David Tesler | |||||
| Gafni, Isaiah M. | Jews and Judaism in the Rabbinic Era: Image and Reality - History and Historiography | 2019 | S/O 2020 | 27-28 | David Tesler | Book | Adult | |||
| The Koren Succot Mahzor Hebrew/English edition | 2015 | F/ M 2017 | 15 | David Tesler | ||||||
| Elana Shapira | Style and Seducation: Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siecle Vienna | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 21 | Hallie Cantor | |||||
| Tatjana Lichtenstein | Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 14-15 | Hallie Cantor | |||||
| Cary Nelson | Dreams Deferred: A Concise Guide to the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict & the Movement to Boycott Israel | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 18 | Marion M. Stein | |||||
| Noah Shenker | Reframing Holocaust Testimony | 2015 | F/ M 2017 | 21-22 | Joy Kingsolver | |||||
| Snir, Reuven | Arab-Jewish Literature: The Birth and Demise of the Arab Short Story | 2019 | N/D 2019 | 30 | Dr. Yaffa Weisman | Book | Adult | |||
| Margalit Shilo | Girls of Liberty: The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 22 | Dr. Yaffa Weisman | |||||
| Yudkoff, Sunny S. | Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern Jewish Writing | 2019 | N/D 2019 | 32 | Dr. Yaffa Weisman | Book | Adult | |||
| Radomski, Kassandra | Anne Frank: Get to Know the Girls Beyond Her Diary | 2019 | M/J 2019 | 5 | Issac, Fred | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Marsico, Katie | Genius Physicist: Albert Einstein | 2017 | N/D 2019 | 11-12 | Issac, Fred | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Joseph Skibell | Six Memos form the Last Millennium: A Novelist Reads the Talmud | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 24 | Issac, Fred | |||||
| Amy Stopniki | Kosher Taste | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 25 | Debbie Feder | |||||
| Martin Sugarman | Jewish Participation in the Fire Service in the Second World War: Last Voices | 2016 | F/ M 2017 | 25 | Marlene Schiffman | |||||
| Wachsler, Leah | Building | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 19 | Levitan, Rebecca | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Folman, Ari, Polonsky, David [nid:52283], illustrator | Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 1 | Levitan, Rebecca | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Rosenfeld, Dina H., Wummer, Amy | We Can Find A Way: A Hachnosas Orchim Inclusion Story | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 16 | Levitan, Rebecca | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Golabek, Mona , Cohen, Lee, Sher, Emil | Children of Willesden Lane: A True Story of Hope and Survival During World War II | 2017 | Young Readers Edition | M/J 2018 | 15 | Levitan, Rebecca | Book | Juvenile | ||
| Trigere, Jane, Vincent, Lu | What's a Grandparent? | 2018 | N/D 2019 | 19-20 | Levitan, Rebecca | 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 | |||
| Polak, Monique | Room For One More | 2019 | N/D 2019 | 16 | Flax, Shoshana | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Metsellar, Menno, Scarry, Harry | All About Anne | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 8-9 | Flax, Shoshana | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Greenwald, Lisa | 12 Before 13 | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 9 | Flax, Shoshana | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Chomer, Malka Nussbaum, Bolton, Bill | Feeling Better A to Z: A Book About Bikur Cholim | 2019 | N/D 2019 | 17-18 | Flax, Shoshana | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Ortiz, Victoria | Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Life and Work | 2019 | F/M 2020 | 42 | Flax, Shoshana | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Klagsbrun, Francine | Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel | 2017 | M/J 2018 | 25 | Eltman, George S. | Book | Adult | |||
| Goetz, Bracha, Younger, Devora | The Courage Club | 2017 | N/D 2018 | 7 | Chava,Pinchuck | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Sokol, Leah, Boroda, Joni Aliza | The King's Horse: A Purim Story | 2019 | M/J 2019 | 23 | Chava,Pinchuck | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Kallus, HaRav Shraga, Rabbi Abraham Chaim Slansky | Wine, Whisky & Halacha | 2018 | Second Edition | N/D 2018 | 28 | Chava,Pinchuck | Book | Adult | ||
| Adler, David A., Katz, Avi | One Yellow Daffodil: A Chanukah Story | 2019 | N/D 2019 | 12-13 | Chava,Pinchuck | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Goldstein, Riki | Solomon Schonfeld: Hero of the Kindertransport | 2018 | Great Jewish Lives | F/M 2020 | 41 | Chava,Pinchuck | Book | Juvenile | ||
| Trachtenberg, Eliezer A. | Thought and the Perception of Evil: Aristotle, Plato, the Hebrew Bible, and the Babylonian Talmud | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 34-35 | Randall C. Belinfante [nid:51578] and Anne-Marie Belinfante | 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Gorfinkel, Jordan B., Erez, Zadok | Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel | 2019 | M/J 2019 | 2 | Pinchuk, Chava | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Zakon, Rabbi Nachman, Zakon, Miriam | The Story of Rebbetzin Henny Machlis: Her Amazing Home and Family | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 9 | Pinchuk, Chava | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Wolner, Tzipie | Welcome Back, Madame Chamberlaine | 2018 | M/J 2019 | 11 | Pinchuk, Chava | Book | Juvenile | |||
| Liberman, Judith Weinshall | The Visit to Latrun | 2018 | N/D 2018 | 11 | Silver, Linda | Book | Juvenile |
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