Book Review Index
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Title | Author/Editor | Series | Publisher | Year | Issue | P |
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Bread Givers, The | Yezierska, Anzia | Venture-Braziller | 1975 | W75 | 27 | ||
Joseph and Annas Time Capsule | Burstein, Chaya M. | N/D 84 | 7 | ||||
Would You Salute?: One Childs Story of the Holocaust | Steele, D. Kelley, Rickenbaker, Becky Hyatt | Hidden Path | 2006 | F/M 07 | 15 | ||
Martin Buber: A Centenary Volume | Gordon, Haim, Bloch, Jochanan | Ktav | 1984 | M/J 85 | 41734 | ||
Raisins and Almonds: A Phyrne Fisher Mystery | Greenwood, Kerry | Poisoned Pen Press | 2007 | S/O 08 | 41986 | ||
Auschwitz Album: The Story of a Transport, The (2nd ed.) | Gutterman, Bella | Yad Vashem | 2004 | N/D 06 | 25 | ||
In the Synagogue | Wikler, Madeline, Groner, Judy, Schanzer, Roz | San Val | 1991 | S/O 91 | 22 | ||
Hershel of Ostropol | Kimmel, Eric A. | M/J 82 | 7 | ||||
Daughter of Silence | Fingueret, Manuela, Lockhart, Darrell B. | Texas Tech University Press | 2012 | N/D12 | 41-42 | ||
Theodore Bikel Sings More Jewish Folk Songs | Bainbridge Entertainment | N/D 93 | 16 | ||||
Eight Tales for Eight Nights | Schram, Peninnah | N/D 81 | 12 | ||||
Neppi Modona Diaries: Reading Jewish Survival Through My Italian Family, The | Cohen, Kate | Univ. Press of New England | 1997 | M/J 97 | 3 | ||
Setting Up a Library: How to Begin or Begin Again (2nd rev. ed.) | Smith, Ruth S. | CSLA Guide #1 | Church and Synagogue Library Association Publication | 1994 | F/M 95 | 10 | |
Jewish Students Guide to American Colleges, The | Goldberg, Lee, Goldberg, Lana | Shapolsky | 1989 | M/J 89 | 9 | ||
Whitechapel / Vaytshepl, Mayn Vaytshepl (AUDIO) | Klezmer Klub | Klezmer Records | 2009 | N/D 10 | 26 | ||
Living Kaddish: Incredible and Inspiring Stories | Zweig, Gedalia | Targum | 2007 | F/M 08 | 46 | ||
Prickly Pear: A Sabra in Two Worlds, The | Ben-Ishai, Anat | Langdon Street Press | 2008 | M/J 09 | 18 | ||
Animals and the Ark, The | Kuskin, Karla, Grejniec, Michael | Atheneum | 2002 | M/J 02 | 19 | ||
I Am An Orthodox Jew | Greene, Laura | O 79 | 8 | ||||
Hanukkah Haiku | Ziefert, Harriet, Gudeon, Karla | Blue Apple Books | 2008 | S/O 08 | 56 | ||
Concise History of the Third Reich, A | Benz, Wolfgang, Dunlap, Thomas | University of California Press | 2006 | S/O 06 | 35-36 | ||
Sweet Passover, A | Newman, Leslea, Slonim, David | Abrams | 2012 | M/J 12 | 1 | ||
Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Literature: A Collection of Socio-Anthropological Essays | Fishbane, Simcha | The Brill Reference Library of Judaism | Brill | 2007 | S/O 08 | 33 | |
My Brothers Bar Mitzvah | Gallan, Janet, Avishai, Susan | Kar-Ben | 1990 | F/M 91 | 23 | ||
Sanctuary | Kellerman, Faye | Morrow | 1994 | N/D 94 | 41955 | ||
Jewish Derrida, The | Ofrat, Gideon, Kidron, Peretz | Syracuse University Press | 2001 | F/M 03 | 36-37 | ||
Way into Tikkun Olam, The | Dorff, Elliot N. | Repairing the World | Jewish Lights Publishing | 2005 | M/J 06 | 25 | |
Lessons from the Bubbe and Zayde Tree | Ruben, Pamela, Nelson, Douglas | Pepperypress | 2006 | F/M 07 | 17 | ||
Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East | Barber, Nicola | World Almanac Library of the Middle East Series | World Almanac Library | 2007 | N/D 07 | 20 | |
Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the Americna Stage and Screen | Bial, Henry | University of Michigan Press | 2005 | F/M 06 | 29 | ||
History, Religion and Anti-Semitism | Langmuir, Gavni I. | University of California Press | 1990 | M/J 91 | 13-14 | ||
Good If It Goes | Provost, Gary, Levine-Freidus, Gail | Berkley | 1985 | A/M 86 | 5 | ||
Understanding the Holy Land: Answering Questions about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | Frank, Mitch | Viking | 2005 | S/O 05 | 18 | ||
Fire in His Soul: Irving M. Bunim, 1900-1980: The Man and His Impact on American Orthodox Jewry, A | Bunim, Amos | Feldheim | 1989 | N/D 89 | 10 | ||
Out of Babylon: The Music of Baghdadi-Jewish Migrations into Asia and Beyond (AUDIO) | Celestial Harmonies | 2007 | F/M 08 | 49 | |||
Stone Lamp, The | Hesse, Karen, Pinkney, Brian | Hyperion | 2003 | F/M 04 | 35 | ||
Chicken Learns to Make Friends | Avner, Yaira, Yakobovitz, Riki | Feldheim | 2005 | M/J 06 | 12 | ||
Kingdom of Singing Birds, The | Aroner, Miriam, Haas, Shelly O. | Kar-Ben | 1993 | S/O 93 | 22 | ||
Misha: A Memoir of the Holocaust Years | Defonseca, Misha | Ivy Press | 1997 | S/O 97 | 41797 | ||
River and the Stone: Moses Early Years in Egypt, The | Jenks, Kathleen | E. P. Dutton | 1977 | Sp77 | 28 | ||
Between Two Worlds: A Cultural History of German-Jewish Writers | Kahn, Luther, Hook, Donald D. | Iowa State University Press | 1993 | N/D 94 | 7 | ||
Its Israels Birthday! | Dietrick, Ellen, Cohen, Tod | Kar-Ben | 2008 | F/M 08 | 8 | ||
Gates of Light | Gilkatilla, Joseph, Weinstein, Avi | HarperCollins | 1994 | M/J 95 | 7 | ||
Touch of the Sacred, A: A Theologians Informal Guide to Jewish Belief | Borowitz, Eugene B., Schwartz, Frances W. | Jewish Lights Publishing | 2007 | N/D 08 | 11 | ||
Every Story Has a Soul | Blitz, Shumuel, Katz, Tova | Artscroll Youth Series | Mesorah | 2006 | M/J 07 | 17 | |
Old Brown Suitcase, The: a Teenager’s Story of War and Peace | Boraks-Nemetz, Lillian | Ben-Simon | 1994 | F/M 95 | 11 | ||
Six Day War, The | Broyles, Matthew | War and Conflict in the Middle East Series | Rosen | 2004 | S/O 04 | 50-51 | |
Bronx Primitive | Simon, Kate | s.n. | S/O 82 | 4 | |||
Journey to the End of the Millennium, A | Yehoshua, A. B. | Harcourt Inc. | 1998 | S/O 00 | 35 | ||
Year of Goodbyes; A True Story of Friendship, Family, and Farewells, The | Levy, Debbie | Disney Hyperion | 2010 | M/J 10 | 17 | ||
Matzah Meals: A Passover Cookbook for Kids (rev. ed.) | Tabs, Barbara, Steinberg, Judy, Hauser, B. | Kar-Ben | 2004 | M/J 04 | 31-32 | ||
Real Complete Jewish Party, The (AUDIO) | World Wide Success Records | M/J 93 | 19 | ||||
Azarel | Pap, Karoly, Olchvary, Paul | Steerforth | 2001 | F/M 02 | 30-31 | ||
Inside the Concentration Camps: Eyewitness Accoutns of Life in Hitlers Death Camps | Aroneanu, Eugene, Whissen, Thomas | Greenwood | 1996 | F/M 97 | 17 | ||
David Ben-Gurion and the American Alignment for a Jewish State | Gal, Alon, Siegel, David S. | Indiana University Press | 1991 | N/D 92 | 23 | ||
Third Base for Life: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Baseball | Berkowitz, Joshua | Vantage Point Books | 2012 | S/O12 | 25 | ||
Elie Wiesel: Bearing Witness | Paralser, Michael | Millbrook | 1994 | M/J 95 | 18 | ||
New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema, The | Abrams, Nathan | Rutgers University Press | 2012 | FM13 | 17 | ||
Sfas Emes: The Life and Teachings of Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Leib Alter, The | Braun, Moshe A. | Aronson | 1998 | N/D 99 | 7 | ||
Jewish War: and, The Victory, The | Grynberg, Henryk, Wieniewska, Celina, Lourie, Richard | Northwestern University Press | 2001 | F/M 02 | 21 | ||
Whole Megillah, The | Silberman, Shoshana | Kar-Ben | 1990 | M/J 91 | 16 | ||
Looking Back, Going Forward: New and Selected Poems | Taube, Herman | Dryad Press | 2002 | S/O 03 | 15 | ||
Proestants, Catholics, and Jews in Germany, 1800-1914 | Smith, Helmut Walser | Berg | 2001 | F/M 03 | 38-39 | ||
Anne Frank Beyond the Diary | Van Der Rol, Ruud, Verhoeven, Rian | Viking | F/M 94 | 14 | |||
I Love Hanukah | Hirsh, Marilyn | N/D 84 | 6 | ||||
Hanukkah: A Counting Book in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish | Sper, Emily | Scholastic | 2001 | F/M 02 | 41 | ||
Contemporary Eruv: Eruvin in Modern Metropolitan Areas, The | Bechhofer, Yosef Gavriel | Feldheim | 1998 | S/O 98 | 41797 | ||
Taking the Fruit | Zones, Jane Sprague | F/M 82 | 9 | ||||
Dictionary of the Holocaust: Biography, Geography, and Terminology | Epstein, Eric Joseph, Rosen, Philip | Greenwood | 1997 | S/O 98 | 41828 | ||
My First Hebrew Word Book | Groner, Judyth Saypol, Wikler, Madeline, Marzel, Pepi | Kar-Ben | 2005 | N/D 05 | 16 | ||
Saving the Children: History of the Organized Effort to Rescue Jewish Children in the Netherlands, 1942-1945 | Flim, Bert Jan | CDL Press | 2005 | S/O 06 | 37 | ||
Jewish Festivals Cookbook | Randall, Ronne, Mukhida, Zul | Holiday Cookbooks from Around the World series | Raintree Steck-Vaughn | 2001 | S/O 01 | 37 | |
We Shall Live: Yiddish Songs of the Holocaust (AUDIO) | Zim, Paul | American Society for Yad Vashem | 1990 | S/O 94 | 12 | ||
Lets Go to Shul | Benenfeld, Rikki | Hachai | 2002 | M/J 02 | 22 | ||
Philo of Alexandria | F/M 82 | 9 | |||||
Adventures of the Gimmel Gang: Triple Trouble, The | Calanitte | Gimmel Gang Series | Israel Book Shop | 2007 | F/M 08 | 12 | |
Holocaust and the War of Ideas, The | Alexander, Edward | Transaction | 1995 | N/D 95 | 11 | ||
Grace of Shortstops, The | Mayer, Robert | Doubleday | 1984 | M/J 85 | 4 | ||
Uprising | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Simon & Schuster | 2007 | F/M 08 | 13 | ||
First Rain | Herman, Charlotte, Mitter, Kathryn | Albert Whitman | 2010 | F/M 10 | 16 | ||
Oy Way: Following the Path of Most Resistance, The | Gotliffe, Harvey | Cogitator Publications | 2012 | S/O12 | 32 | ||
Story About Mr. Silberstein, A | Josephson, Erland, Greenwald, Roger | Northwestern University Press | 1995 | S/O 96 | 15 | ||
Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival | Golabek, Mona, Cohen, Lee | Warner Books | 2002 | N/D 02 | 12 | ||
Kosher Christmas: Tis the Season to Be Jewish, A | Plaut, Joshua Eli | Rutgers University Press | 2012 | FM13 | 34 | ||
Modern Jewish Ethics | Fox, Marvin | Ohio State University Press | 1976 | W77 | 26 | ||
Rooftop Secrets and Other Stories of Antisemitism | Bush, Lawrence, Lemelman, Martin, Vorspan, Albert | Union of American Hebrew Congregations | 1986 | N/D 86 | 7 | ||
Bible Folding Stories: Old Testament Stories and Paperfolding Together As One | Kallvig, Christine Petrell, Skarl, Eric | Storytime Ink International | 1993 | F/M 94 | 14 | ||
Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch | Zakovitch, Yair | Yale University Press | 2012 | N/D12 | 40 | ||
Genesis: The Untold Story - A Refreshing Look at Our Owners Manual | Aiken, Lisa, Michaels, Ira | Rossi Publications | 2008 | S/O 08 | 8 | ||
Tradition in the Public Square: A David Novak Reader | Novak, David, Rashkover, Randi, Kavka, Martin | Eerdmans | 2008 | S/O 08 | 34 | ||
Exodus 1947 | Holly, David C. | Naval Institute Press | 1995 | F/M 96 | 8 | ||
On Her Way Home: A Novel | Rochlin, Harriet | Fithian Press | S/O 01 | 24, 31 | |||
Smoke Over Birkenau | Millu, Liana, Schwartz, Lynne Sharon | JPS | 1991 | M/J 92 | 17 | ||
Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism | Cooper, Alanna E. | Indiana University Press | 2012 | S/O13 | 23 | ||
Judaica Reference Sources: a Selective, Annotated Bibliographic Guide (3rd ed) | Cutter, Charles | Libraries Unlimited | 2004 | S/O 04 | 15 | ||
Yesterday: A Memoir of a Russian Jewish Family | Zunser, Miriam Shomer, Leider, Emily Wortis | Harper & Row | 1978 | Sp79 | 25 | ||
Medical Ethics | Zwerin, Raymond A. | M/J 83 | 8 | ||||
Recommendation Whether to Confiscate, Destroy, and Burn All Jewish Books: A Classic Treatise Against Anti-Semitism | Reuchlin, Johann, Wortsman, Peter | Paulist Press | 2000 | F/M 01 | 8 | ||
Balm in Gilead | Levin, Martin | Schocken Books | 1974 | Ap 74 | 25-26 | ||
Introduction to Judaic Thought and Rabbinic Literature, An | Sicker, Martin | Praeger | 2007 | F/M 08 | 44 |