Book Review Index
FULL TEXT REVIEWS:
Please note that this index does not link to the full text of the book reviews.
Digital copies of AJL Reviews are available back to the Nov/Dec 2007 issue of the AJL Newsletter.
Earlier print back issues are housed in Cincinnati, OH at the Hebrew Union College Library.
| Title | Author/Editor | Series | Publisher |
Year |
Issue | P | Review Author |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anna and the Swallow Man | Savit, Gavriel | Alfred A. Knopf | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 3 | Malen, Michal Hoschander | |
| Shimmy Shambone Will Not Go to Bed! | Zoldan, Yael, Salanitro, Robert | Feldheim | 2016 | F/M 16 | 41 | Pinchuck, Chava | |
| How It's Made: Torah Scroll | Ofanansky, Allison, Alpern, Eliyahu | Apples and Honey Press | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 37-38 | Lisa Silverman | |
| Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora | Boyarin, Daniel | University of Pennsylvania Press | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 2 | Finkelman, Yoel | |
| e Marriage Plot: or How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and Literature, The | Seidman, Naomi | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture | Stanford University Press | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 22 | Kohn, Roger S. |
| Hat for Mrs. Goldman: A Story about Knitting and Love. | Edwards, Michelle, Karas, G. Brian | Schwartz and Wade/Random House | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 10 | Dublin, Anne | |
| The Chameleon That Saved Noah's Ark | Molchadsky, Yael, Bergman, Orit | Penguin Random House | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 30 | Gershowitz, Elissa | |
| Shmulik Paints the Town | Rose, Lisa, Echeverri, Catalina | Kar-Ben | 2016 | F/M 16 | 45 | McMahon, Martha | |
| Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America. The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review of the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life. Volume 13. | Soomekh, Saba | Purdue University Press | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 16 | Bibel, Barbara M. | |
| The Wisdom of Solomon and Us: The Quest for Meaning, Morality, and a Deeper Relationship with God | Angel, Marc D. | Jewish Lights Publishing | 2016 | F/M 2017 | Harvey Sukenic | ||
| Ganovim-Lider | Schikker wi Lot, Lehman, Shmuel | Danzone | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 26 | Dwoskin, Beth | |
| Impact of Culture and Cultures Upon Jewish Customs and Rituals; Collected Essays | Fishbane, Simcha | Judaism and Jewish Life | Academic Studies Press | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 15-16 | Tesler, David |
| Trapped Behind Enemy Lines: The Story of the U.S. Army Air Force 807th Medical Evacuation Squadron | Braun, Eric | Capstone Young Readers | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 5 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |
| Israel | Garfinkle, Adam | Major Nations of the Modern Middle East | Mason Crest | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 12 | Rapp, Andrea |
| Another Me | Wiseman, Eva | Tundra | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 34 | Dublin, Anne | |
| Oy Vey! Life in a Shoe | Grubman, Bonnie | Apples and Honey Press | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 38 | Isaac, Fred | |
| Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact | Brenner, Naomi | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art | Syracuse University Press | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 2 | Dwoskin, Beth |
| To Our Children: Memoirs of Displacement: A Jewish Journey of Hope and Survival in Twentieth-Century Poland and Beyond | Szer, Wlodzimier | Academic Studies Press | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 22 | Silverburg, Sanford R. | |
| Chicken Soup, Chicken Soup | Mayer, Pamela, Melmon, Deborah | Kar-Ben | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 10-11 | McMahon, Martha | |
| My Train to Freedom: A Jewish Boy’s Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism. | Backer, Ivan | Skyhorse Publishing | 2016 | F/M 16 | 2 | Levine, Joyce | |
| Anne Frank | Parks, Peggy J. | Influential Women | ReferencePoint Press | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 31 | Citrin, Rena |
| A Holiday for Ari Ant | Rouss, Sylvia A., Kahn, Katherine Janus | Apples and Honey Press | 2016 | F/M 16 | 45 | Kamin, Rachel | |
| Weekly Mitzva | Tabory, Binyamin | Maggid/Koren Publishers | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 18 | Gordon, Ilka | |
| Royal Attire: On Karaite and Rabbanite Beliefs | Ben Nisan, Hakham Moredechai, Gabriel Wasserman | The Karaite Jews of America Press | 2016 | Randall C. Belinfante | |||
| Gam hem ḳeruyim adam : ǂb ha-nokhri be-ʻene ha-Rambam = They too are called human : gentiles in the eyes of Maimonides | Kellner, Menachem | Bar-Ilan University Press | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 8 | Scheide, Daniel | |
| The Boy at the Top of the Mountain | undefined | Henry Holt | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 35 | Pinchuck, Chava | |
| Rabbi and Senator Sleep Together: Marrying Religion and Politics. | Foster, Steven, Foster, Joyce, Brovsky, Cindy | Triple D Press | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 16 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |
| Front Lines | Grant, Michael | HarperCollins | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 5-6 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |
| Stealing Nazi Secrets in World War II: An Interactive Espionage Adventure | Raum, Elizabeth | You Choose Spies Series | Capstone | 2016 | F/M 16 | 37 | Isaac, Fred |
| Mitzvah Kids: Learning and Laughing Throughout the Jewish Year | Goren, Michal | Feldheim | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 12-13 | Pinchuck, Chava | |
| Jars of Hope: How One Woman Helped Save 2,500 Children during the Holocaust | Roy, Jennifer, Owenson, Meg | Capstone | 2016 | F/M 16 | 42 | Lenson, Heather | |
| Shmelf the Hanukkah Elf | Wolfe, Greg | Bloomsbury | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 38-39 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |
| Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination | Casteel, Sarah Phillips | Literature Now | Columbia University Press | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 4 | Dwoskin, Beth |
| Yosef’s Dream | Rouss, Sylvia A., Naim, Asher | Apples and Honey Press | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 11 | Levine, Joyce | |
| Kelev's Journey: A Jewish Dog Wanders Home | Hammerstein, David, Shems, Ed | Wyndebirk Books | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 31 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |
| A Place for Elijah | Ruben, Kelly Easton, Friar, Joanne | Kar-Ben | 2016 | F/M 16 | 45-46 | Feit, Shelly | |
| Dreidels on the Brain. | Ben Izzy, Joel | Dial Books for Young Readers | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 1 | Marks, Allison | |
| We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement that Defied Adolf Hitler | Freedman, Russell | Clarion | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 35 | Krasner, Barbara | |
| Central Station | Tidhar, Lavie | Tachyon | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 41 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |
| Architect of Liberal Judaism | Fox, Pam, Mattuck, Israel Isidor | Valentine Mitchell | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 16 | Isaac, Fred | |
| Conversations with God: Prayers for Jewish Women. | Koval, Ruchi | Mosaica Press | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 8 | Pinchuck, Chava | |
| Radioactive! How Irene Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World | Conkling, Winifred | Random House | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 4-5 | Lenson, Heather | |
| Samaritans: A Profile. | Pummer, Reinhar | Eerdmans | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 13 | Belinfante, Randall C. | |
| Saving the Persecuted | Williams, Brian, Williams, Brenda | Heroes of World War II Series | Heinemann-Raintree | 2016 | F/M 16 | 42-43 | Isaac, Fred |
| The Cricket and the Ant: A Shabbat Story | Ben-Gur, Naomi, Kober, Shahar | Kar-Ben | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 39 | Dublin, Anne | |
| Practical Guide to the Laws of Kashrut | Cohen, Pinchas | Maggid Books | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 4 | Kohn, Roger S. | |
| Not This Turkey! | Steinberg, Jessica, Pike, Amanda | Albert Whitman | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 11-12 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |
| The Grizzbears Discover the Golan | Hermelin, Aviva | Animals Build Character Series: Listen and Learn from the Animals | Chaim Mazo | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 31-32 | Pinchuck, Chava |
| Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author | Wouk, Herman | Simon & Schuster | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 38 | Share, Ellen | |
| Hanukkah Delight!. | Newman, Leslea, Husband, Amy | Kar-Ben | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 2 | Colodny, Debbie | |
| Anti-Semitism: Jewish Immigrants Seek Safety in America (1881-1914) | Pressberg, Dava | Rosen Publishing Group | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 13 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |
| The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank's Window | Gottesfeld, Jeff, McCarty, Peter | Alfred A. Knopf | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 36 | Krasner, Barbara | |
| Orthodoxy in American Judaism; The Era of Rabbi Leo Jung | Jacobson, Maxine | Academic Studies Press | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 18 | Tesler, David | |
| Esfir Is Alive | Simon, Andrea | Bedazzled Ink | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 6-7 | Krasner, Barbara | |
| Resisting the Nazis | Throp, Claire, Williams, Brian, Williams, Brenda | Heroes of World War II Series | Heinemann-Raintree | 2016 | F/M 16 | 42-43 | Isaac, Fred |
| A Gefilte Fishy Tale | Marks, Allison, Marks, Wayne | MB Publishing | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 39-40 | Citrin, Rena | |
| Recovering a Voice: West European Jewish Communities after the Holocaust | Zakheim, Dov S. | Maggid Books | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 23 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |
| Not This Turkey! | Albert Whitman | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 11-12 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | ||
| Potatoes at Turtle Rock. | Schnur, Susan, Schnur-Fishman, Anna, Steele-Morgan, Alex | Kar-Ben | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 2 | Quay, Alex | |
| The Grizzbears Make New Friends | Hermelin, Aviva | Animals Build Character Series: Listen and Learn from the Animals | Chaim Mazo | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 31-32 | Pinchuck, Chava |
| Modernizing Jewish Education in Nineteenth Century Eastern Europe: The School as the Shrine of the Jewish Enlightenment | Zalkin, Mordechai | Leiden | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 38 | Levy, David B | |
| Ora de Despertar | Aroeste, Sarah | Aroeste Music | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 40 | Levine, Joyce | |
| Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations | Rubenstein, Eli | Second Story Press | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 36 | Krasner, Barbara | |
| Symphony No. 3 ‘Kaddish’ | Bernstein, Leonard | American Classics, NAXOS | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 42 | Wolfe, Nira | |
| Rebbetzin Vichna Kaplan: The Founder of the Bais Yaakov Movement in America | Leibowitz, Daniella, Gliksman, Devora | Feldheim Publishers | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 18 | Levy, David B | |
| Baby of Our Own | Blau, Sara, Leff, Tova | Hachai | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 7 | Isaac, Fred | |
| Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism | Holub, Robert C | Princeton University Press | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 31 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |
| Alligator Candy: A Memoir | Kushner, David | Simon & Schuster | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 9 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |
| Gabriel's Horn | Kimmel, Eric A., Surducan, Maria | Kar-Ben | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 27 | Kamin, Rachel | |
| ABC Passover Hunt | Balsley, Tilda, Poole, Helen | Kar-Ben | 2016 | F/M 16 | 43 | Citrin, Rena | |
| Hershele, a Jewish Love Story | Dinezon, Jacob, Peppler, Jane | Jewish Storytetter Press | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 24 | Dwoskin, Beth | |
| Pesach Guess Who? A Lift-the-Flap Book | Stern, Ariella, Argoff, Patti | Hachai | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 12 | Kamin, Rachel Erlich | |
| Hanukkah with Mazel. | Stein, Joel, Vavouri, Elisa | Kar-Ben | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 3 | McMahon, Martha | |
| Momo Fox Learns How to Be a Good Neighbor | Hermelin, Aviva | Animals Build Character Series: Listen and Learn from the Animals | Chaim Mazo | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 31-32 | Pinchuck, Chava |
| . Fifty Shades of Talmud: What the First Rabbis Had to Say About You-Know-What | Anton, Maggie | Banot Press | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 13 | Stuhlman, Daniel D. | |
| “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs | Oksman, Tahneer | Columbia University Press | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 18 | Stahl, Sheryl F. | |
| Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Story of My Life | Jabotinsky, Vladimir, Horowitz, Brian, Katsis, Leonid | Wayne State University Press | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 31 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |
| Little Red Rosie | Kimmel, Eric A., Gutierrez, Monica | Apples and Honey Press | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 27-28 | Quay, Alex | |
| One Fine Shabbat | Barash, Chris, Mai-Wyss, Tatjana | Kar-Ben | 2016 | F/M 16 | 43 | Kamin, Rachel | |
| Here I Am | Foer, Jonathan Safran | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 24 | Gremillion, Yossi | |
| Yitzi and the Giant Menorah | Ungar, Richard | Tundra Books | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 3 | Bloomfield, Kathy | |
| Og's Ark | Marks, Allison, Marks, Wayne, Peluso, Martina | Kar-Ben | 2016 | F/M 16 | 34 | Lurie, Aimee | |
| Excitement in the Air for All! | Hermelin, Aviva | Animals Build Character Series: Listen and Learn from the Animals | Chaim Mazo | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 31-32 | Pinchuck, Chava |
| More than Enough: A Passover Story | Wayland, April Halprin, Kath, Katie | Dial Books for Young Readers | 2016 | F/M 16 | 47 | Eskin, Marcie | |
| From Nuremberg to Hollywood: The Holocaust and the Courtroom in American Fictive Film. | Jordan, James | Vallentine Mitchell | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 31 | Schutzman, Laura | |
| Sing-Along Alef Bet | Zasloff, Doni | Apples and Honey Press | 2016 | M/J 2016 | 14-15 | Dublin, Anne | |
| Flower Girl Wore Celery, The | Gordon, Meryl G., Clifton-Brown, Holly | Kar-Ben | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 8 | Cole, Ellen | |
| Rosh Hashanah Is Coming! | Newman, Tracy, Garofoli, Viviana | Kar-Ben | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 28 | Kamin, Rachel | |
| Kopecks for Blintzes | Goldman, Judy, Batori, Susan | Kar-Ben | 2016 | F/M 16 | 43 | Silverman, Lisa | |
| Dream of Zion: The Story of the First Zionist Congress | Epstein, Lawrence J. | Rowman & Littlefield | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 6 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel | |
| Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories | Lempel, Blume, Cassedy, Ellen, Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron | Dryad Press | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 24-25 | Dwoskin, Beth | |
| The Sparkling Gift: the Story of the Miraculous Mon | Rozen, Abigail, Hammerman, Lisa Cain | Feldheim | 2016 | F/M 16 | 35 | Pinchuck, Chava | |
| Skating with the Statue of Liberty | Meyer, Susan Lynn | Delacorte Press | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 32 | Marks, Allison | |
| Zohar: Pritzker Edition. Vol. 9. | Matt, Daniel C. | Stanford University Press | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 11 | Levy, David B | |
| . Moadei HaRav: Public Lectures on the Festivals by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik | Pick, Shlomo H. | Urim | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 20 | Levy, David B | |
| Massacre in Munich: How Terrorists Changed the Olympics and the World | Nardo, Don | Captured Sports History series | Capstone | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 8 | Dublin, Anne |
| Sky-High Sukkah | Packer, Rachel Ornstein, Zemke, Deborah | Apples and Honey Press | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 28 | Cole, Ellen | |
| Shh... Shh... Shabbat | Marshall, Linda Elovitz, Golubeva, Evgenia | Kar-Ben | 2016 | F/M 16 | 44 | Kamin, Rachel | |
| Miriam’s Song: The Story of Miriam’s Peretz | Shir, Smadar | 2016 | S/O 2016 | 15 | Share, Ellen | ||
| The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature. 3rd edition | Collins, John J. | William B. Eerdmans | 2016 | N/D 2016 | 14 | Ben-Gad, Shmuel |
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