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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P |
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Ben-Zvi, Rachel Yanait, Shurin, Sandra | Before Golda: Manya Shochat: A Biography | 1989 | S/O 89 | 8 | ||||||
Pomerantz, Barbara | Who Will Lead Kiddush? | M/J 86 | 6 | |||||||
Greenberg, Martin H. | Jewish Lists | 1979 | Sp80 | 13 | ||||||
Friedman, Saul S. | Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich, The | 1993 | S/O 93 | 18 | ||||||
Bauer, Yehuda | Holocaust in Historical Perspective | O 79 | 6 | |||||||
Rubin, Susan Goldman | Searching for Anne Frank: Letters from Amsterdam to Iowa | 2003 | M/J 04 | 34-35 | ||||||
Heschel, Abraham Joshua | God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism | 1987 | N/D 87 | 5 | ||||||
Cohen, Nancy J. | Permed to Death Hair | 1999 | Bad Hair Day Mysteries | N/D 02 | 17 | |||||
Ellis, Julie | East Wind | M/J 84 | 6 | |||||||
Schechter, Joel | Messiahs of 1933: How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity through Satire | 2008 | F/M 09 | 17-18 | ||||||
Kleid, Neil, Allen, Jake | Brownsville | 2006 | S/O 06 | 31-32 | ||||||
Jacobs, Louis | Judaism and Theology: Essays on the Jewish Religion | 2005 | N/D 05 | 27-28 | ||||||
Fremont, Helen | After Long Silence | 1999 | S/O 99 | 8 | ||||||
Topek, Susan Remick | Turn for Noah, A: a Hanukkah Story | 1992 | M/J 93 | 17 | ||||||
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 | |||||
Bryan, Diane Brenda | Soldier of God | 2001 | N/D 03 | 7 | ||||||
Derwin, Susan | Rage is the Subtext: Readings in Holocaust Literature and Film | 2012 | FM13 | 22 | ||||||
Hurwitz, Johanna, Azarian, Mary | Faraway Summer | 1998 | M/J 99 | 15 | ||||||
Rosen, Devorah | Mystery in Spain | 2009 | F/M 10 | 11 | ||||||
Gordon, Paul | Concrete Solution | 2001 | M/J 01 | 13 | ||||||
Schapiro, Raya, Weinberg, Helga | Letters from Prague 1939-1941 | 1991 | N/D 91 | 12 | ||||||
Baal Teshuva Survival Guide, The | 2009 | N/D 09 | 20 | |||||||
Goldstein, Stephen L. | When My Mother No Longer Knew My Name: A Sons "Course" in "Rational" Caregiving | 2012 | M/J13 | 24 | ||||||
Ofrat, Gideon, Kidron, Peretz | Jewish Derrida, The | 2001 | F/M 03 | 36-37 | ||||||
Abrams, Judith Z. | Talmud for Beginners, The: vol. 1 Prayer | 1991 | M/J 91 | 8 | ||||||
Adler, David A., Ritz, Karen | Hilde and Eli: Children of the Holocaust | 1994 | M/J 95 | 18 | ||||||
Rouss, Sylvia A., Kahn, Katherine Janus | Sammy Spider's First Simhat Torah | 2010 | S/O 10 | 15-16 | ||||||
Patterson, David | Genocide in Jewish Thought | 2012 | N/D13 | 32, 34 | ||||||
Greenfeld, Howard, Grove, E. | Passover | 1978 | W78 | 28 | ||||||
Rubin, Laurie | Do You Dream in Color? | 2012 | M/J13 | 3 | ||||||
Berkow, Ira | Maxwell Street: Survival in a Bazaar | 1977 | Sp78 | 21 | ||||||
Agnon, S. Y. | Book That Was Lost: Thirty-Five Stories, A | 2008 | F/M 09 | 20 | ||||||
Brodsky, Beverly | Jonah, an Old Testament Story | 1977 | Sp78 | 25 | ||||||
Solomon, Estie, Solomon, David | 101 Reasons to Visit Israel (& Perhaps Make Aliyah) | 2007 | F/M 08 | 45 | ||||||
Haas, Gerda | Tracking the Holocaust | 1995 | N/D 95 | 6 | ||||||
Alkow, Jacob M. | In Many Worlds | M/J 86 | 3 | |||||||
Sacks, Jonathan | Sidur Koren = The Koren Siddur | 2009 | M/J 10 | 39, 41 | ||||||
Roth, Susan | Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah | 2004 | N/D 04 | 20 | ||||||
Moscowitz, Moshe, Sokoloff, David, Carter, Jon | Queen of Persia, The | 2004 | M/J 04 | 36 | ||||||
Galens, Judy | Experiencing the Holocaust: Novels, Nonfiction Books, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Films and Music | 2003 | S/O 03 | 50 | ||||||
dePaola, Tomie | My First Passover | 2008 | M/J 08 | 12 | ||||||
Isaacman, Clara | Claras Story | 1984 | S/O 85 | 6 | ||||||
Peters, Simi | Learning to Read Midrash | 2004 | F/M 04 | 18-19 | ||||||
Rubin, Susan Goldman | Art Against the Odds: From Slave Quilts to Prison Paintings | 2004 | N/D 04 | 13 | ||||||
Carlson, Lewis H. | We Were Each Others Prisoners: An Oral History of World War II: American and German Prisoners of War | 1997 | S/O 97 | 6 | ||||||
Pinsky, Mark I. | Jew Among the Evangelicals, A: A Guide for the Perplexed | 2006 | F/M 07 | 34 | ||||||
Hull, Eleanore | Summer People, The | S/O 84 | 8 | |||||||
Kalman, Jason | Hebrew Union College and the Dead Sea Scrolls | 2012 | S/O13 | 31 | ||||||
Drucker, Malka | Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Sweet Beginnings | S/O 81 | 9 | |||||||
Antler, Joyce | You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother | 2007 | F/M 08 | 35 | ||||||
Antin, Mary | From Plotzk to Boston | M/J 86 | 3 | |||||||
Hessel, Carolyn S. | Our Story: The Jews of Sepharad - A Resource Guide | 1992 | S/O 92 | 18 | ||||||
Shulman, Abraham | Old Country, The | 1974 | Sp 75 | 27 | ||||||
Probst, Christopher J. | Demonizing the Jews: Luther and Protestant Church in Nazi Germany | 2012 | S/O13 | 35-36 | ||||||
Downing, David | Making of the Middle East, The | 2006 | The Middle East Series | F/M 06 | 17-18 | |||||
Polacco, Patricia | Blessing Cup, The | 2013 | S/O13 | 2 | ||||||
Whitfield, Stephen J. | Jews in American Life and Thought | 1984 | F/M 86 | 5 | ||||||
Friedman, Daniel | To Kill and Take Possession: Law, Morality and Society in Biblical Stories | 2002 | M/J 04 | 14 | ||||||
Eisenstein, Bernice | I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors | 2006 | F/M 07 | 32 | ||||||
Blacker Cohen, Sarah, Koch, Joanne B. | Shared Stages: Ten American Dramas of Blacks and Jews | 2007 | SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture | M/J 08 | 19-20 | |||||
Rave, Ligia | Hahahs Paradise | 2009 | N/D 10 | 16 | ||||||
Silva, Daniel | Prince of Fire | 2005 | M/J 05 | 30 | ||||||
Fine, Lawrence | Essenital Papers on Kabbalah | 1995 | S/O 95 | 7 | ||||||
Medoff, Francine | Mouse in the Matzah Factory, The | F/M 83 | 5 | |||||||
Cohen, Sharon Kangisser | Child Surviviors of the Holocaust in Israel: Finding Their Voice: Social Dynamics and Post-War Experiences | 2005 | F/M 06 | 31 | ||||||
Stuchner, Joan Betty, Row, Richard | Kugel Valley Klezmer Band, The | 1998 | M/J 99 | 19 | ||||||
Hermann, Spring | Anne Frank: Hope in the Shadows of the Holocaust | 2005 | Holocaust Heroes and Nazi Criminals Series | M/J 06 | 17 | |||||
Braunstein, Leah Levy, Katz, Avi | Waiting Wall, The | 2009 | N/D 09 | 15 | ||||||
Balsley, Tilda, Fischer, Ellen, Leigh, Tom | Its a Mitzvah, Grover! | 2013 | FM13 | 9 | ||||||
Silberg, Francis Berry, Britt, Stephanie McFetridge | Story of Passover for Children, The | 1989 | M/J 89 | 10 | ||||||
Bialik, Hayyim Nahman | Revealment and Concealment: Five Essays | 2000 | S/O 01 | 9 | ||||||
Kidd, Ronald | Year of the Bomb, The | 2009 | N/D 09 | 11 | ||||||
Ansky, S., Penalosa, Fernando | Four Plays: Day and Night, Father and Son, In a Conspiratorial Apartment, The Grandfather | 2013 | N/D13 | 43 | ||||||
Katz, Josef, Reach, Hilda | One Who Came Back: The Diary of a Jewish Survivor | 2006 | F/M 07 | 33 | ||||||
Lunge-Larsen, Lise, Trueman, Matthew | Noahs Mittens | 2006 | N/D 06 | 7 | ||||||
Ross, Lillian Hammer, Teis, Kyra | Daughters of Eve: Strong Women of the Bible | 2000 | N/D 00 | 17 | ||||||
Nir, Yehuda | Lost Childhood, a World War II Memoir, The | 2002 | S/O 02 | 45-46 | ||||||
Rappaport, Doreen | Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust | 2012 | S/O12 | 12 | ||||||
Wolowelsky, Joel B. | Women at the Seder: A Passover Haggadah | 2005 | M/J 05 | 42 | ||||||
Marcus, Audrey F. | Jewish Teachers Handbook | O 80 | 15 | |||||||
Shollar, Leah, Mekibel, Shoshana | Thread of Kindness: A Tzedaka Story, A | 2000 | F/M 01 | 17 | ||||||
Sales, Amy L., Saxe, Leonard | How Goodly Are Thy Tents: Summer Camps as Jewish Socializing Experiences | 2004 | S/O 04 | 24 | ||||||
Kellerman, Faye | Serpents Tooth | 1997 | S/O 97 | 26-27 | ||||||
Ruelle, Karen Gray, DeSaix, Deborah Durland | Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews during the Holocaust, The | 2009 | N/D 09 | 14 | ||||||
Keller, Tsipi | Poets on the Edge: An Anthology of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry | 2008 | F/M 09 | 21 | ||||||
Florence, Ronald | Emissary of the Doomed: Bargaining for Lives in the Holocaust | 2010 | S/O 10 | 31, 33 | ||||||
Cowan, Paul, Cowan, Rachel | Mixed Blessings | 1987 | F/M 88 | 4 | ||||||
Roth, Irene | Cecil Roth: Historian Without Tears | F/M 83 | 3 | |||||||
Sofer, Barbara | Keeping Israel Safe: Serving in the Israel Defense Forces | 2008 | M/J 08 | 14 | ||||||
Bauer, Jehuda | American Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945 | 1981 | F/M 90 | 14 | ||||||
Siegal, Aranka | Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary - 1939-1944 | 1981 | W82 | 15 | ||||||
Hintz, Martin | Israel (Rev. ed.) | 2006 | Enchantment of the World Series | S/O 06 | 20 | |||||
Cowen, Ida | Spy for Freedom: The Story of Sarah Aaronsohn | N/D 84 | 7 | |||||||
Seixas, Gershom Mendes | Religious Discourse, A: Thanskgiving Day Sermon Nov. 26 1789 | 1977 | W77 | 28 | ||||||
Alter, Robert | Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary, The | 2004 | S/O 05 | 40 | ||||||
Millen, Rochelle L. | New Perspectives on the Holocaust: A Guide for Teachers and Scholars | 1996 | F/M 97 | 6 | ||||||
Safran, Eliyahu | Crisis & Hope: Reflections on the Contemporary American Jewish Condition | 1986 | N/D 87 | 6 | ||||||
Machlis, Joseph | Lisas Boy | M/J 83 | 9 | |||||||
Toll, Nelly S. | Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood | 1993 | F/M 94 | 14 | ||||||
Kurshan, Ilana | Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? "The Four Questions" Around the World | 2008 | M/J 08 | 37 |