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Author/Editor | Title | Place of Publication | Year | Series | ISBN | Issue | P | Review Author | Review format | Review type |
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Senker, Cath | Arab-Israeli Conflict, The | 2004 | Questioning History Series | F/M 05 | 33 | |||||
Worth, Richard | Arab-Israeli Conflict, The | 2007 | M/J 07 | 16 | ||||||
Gaughen, Shasta | Arab-Israeli Conflict, The | 2004 | S/O 04 | 51 | ||||||
Lesch, David W. | Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History, The | 2008 | F/M 09 | 14-15 | ||||||
Karsh, Efraim | Arab-Israeli Conflict: The 1948 War, The | 2009 | Essential Histories: War and Conflicts in Modern Times Series | F/M 10 | 9 | |||||
Herzog, Chaim | Arab-Israeli Wars | M/J 83 | 3 | |||||||
Snir, Reuven | Arab-Jewish Literature: The Birth and Demise of the Arab Short Story | 2019 | N/D 2019 | 30 | Dr. Yaffa Weisman | Book | Adult | |||
Zawanowska, Marzena | Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben Eli the Karaite on the Abraham Narratives (Genesis 11:10-25:18), The | 2012 | FM13 | 39-40 | ||||||
Shaked, Shaul, Bhayro, Siam, Ford , James Nathan | Aramaic Bowl Spells: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls | 2013 | Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity, 1 | N/D13 | 37 | |||||
Alpert, Bernard, Alpert, Fran | Archaeology and the Biblical Record | 2012 | M/J13 | 16 | ||||||
Magness, Jodi | Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, The | 2002 | Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature | F/M 03 | 36 | |||||
Heym, Stefan | Architects, The | 2006 | S/O 06 | 31 | ||||||
Leff, Lisa Moses | Archive Thief: The Man who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust | 2015 | S/O 2015 | 12 | Chesner, Michelle | |||||
Ling, Evelyn R. | Archives in the Church or Synagogue Library | N/D 81 | 11 | |||||||
Cooley, Martha | Archivist: A Novel, The | 1998 | S/O 98 | 31 | ||||||
Werlin, Nancy | Are You Alone On Purpose? | 1994 | F/M 95 | 11 | ||||||
Werlin, Nancy | Are You Alone On Purpose? | 1994 | F/M 08 | 13, 15 | ||||||
Avni, Haim, Brand, Gila | Argentina & the Jews: A History of Jewish Immigration | 1991 | S/O 91 | 17 | ||||||
Rein, Raanan, Grenzeback, Martha | Argentina, Israel, and the Jews: Peron, the Eichmann Capture and After | 2002 | S/O 04 | 22 | ||||||
Tregebov, Rhea | Arguing with the Storm: Stroies by Yiddish Women Writers | 2008 | M/J 09 | 33 | ||||||
Sacks, Jonathan | Arguments for the Sake of Heaven | 1991 | Emergeng Trends in Traditional Judaism | M/J 91 | 15 | |||||
Crompton, Samuel Willard | Ariel Sharon | 2007 | Modern World Leaders Series | S/O 07 | 41923 | |||||
Finkelstein, Norman H. | Ariel Sharon | 2005 | S/O 05 | 18-19 | ||||||
Levin, Esther | Ariel, Capital of Samaria | 1990 | N/D 92 | 24 | ||||||
Band, Debra, Band, Arnold J. | Arise! Arise! Deborah, Ruth and Hannah | 2012 | S/O13 | 19 | ||||||
Rubenstein, Richard E. | Aristotles Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages | 2003 | F/M 04 | 19 | ||||||
Reinhart, Matthew | Ark, The | 2005 | S/O 05 | 9 | ||||||
Werner, Mark | Army Fatigues: Joining Israels army of International Volunteers | 2008 | N/D 08 | 23 | ||||||
Zakutinsky, Rivka | Around Sarahs Table: Ten Hasidic Women Share Their Stories of Life, Faith, and Tradition | 2001 | M/J 02 | 16 | ||||||
Werner, Aviva | Around the Clock: A Jewish Child Learns to Tell Time | 2014 | M/J 15 | 16 | Levine, Joyce | |||||
Riskin, Shlomo | Around the Family Table: A Comprehensive "Bencher" and Companion ofr Shabbat and Festival Meals and Other Family Occasions | 2005 | M/J 05 | 41-42 | ||||||
Newman, Tracy, Santos, Adriana | Around the Passover Table | 2019 | M/J 2019 | 22 | Silverman, Lisa | Book | Juvenile | |||
David, Aryeh Ben | Around the Shabbat Table | 2000 | F/M 01 | 6 | ||||||
David, Aryeh Ben | Around the Shabbat Table | 2000 | M/J 01 | 6 | ||||||
Berman, Seryl, Binus, Ari | Around the Shabbos Table | 2009 | F/M 09 | 45 | ||||||
Aleichem, Sholem, Shevrin, Aliza | Around the Table: Family Stories of Sholom Aleichem | 1991 | S/O 92 | 22 | ||||||
Golding, Goldie, Horen, Michael | Arrogant Ari Learns A Lesson | 1988 | Art Scroll MIDDOS Books | M/J 89 | 11 | |||||
Yaniva, Bracha | Ars Judaica The Bar Ilan-Journal of Jewish Art | S/O 07 | 56 | |||||||
Rubin, Susan Goldman | Art Against the Odds: From Slave Quilts to Prison Paintings | 2004 | N/D 04 | 13 | ||||||
Luckert, Steven | Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk, The | 2002 | S/O 02 | 23, 32 | ||||||
Langer, Lawrence L. | Art from the Ashes | 1995 | M/J 95 | 17 | ||||||
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, Karp, Jonathan | Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times, The | 2008 | S/O 08 | 7 | ||||||
Hughes, Aaron W. | Art of Dialogue in Jewish Philosophy, The | 2008 | M/J 08 | 35 | ||||||
Hoffman, Lawrence A. | Art of Public Prayer, The | N/D 89 | 13 | |||||||
Hoffman, Lawrence A. | Art of Public Prayer: Not for Clergy Only, The (2nd ed) | 1999 | S/O 00 | 13 | ||||||
Blatter, Janet | Art of the Holocaust | M/J 82 | 2 | |||||||
Andsell, Joseph P | Arthur Szyk: Artist, Jew, Pole | 2004 | M/J 06 | 22 | ||||||
Garbo, Norman | Artist, The | S 78 | 1 | |||||||
Bland, Kalman P. | Artless Jew: Medieval and Modern Affirmations and Denials of the Visual, The | 2000 | F/M 02 | 18 | ||||||
Blitz, Shumuel, Katz, Tova | ArtScroll Childrens Book of Ruth, The | 2005 | M/J 06 | 8 | ||||||
Blitz, Shumuel, Katz, Tova | ArtScroll Childrens Book of Yonah, The | 2006 | N/D 06 | 6 | ||||||
Blitz, Shumuel, Katz, Tova | ArtScroll Childrens Tehillim | 2008 | F/M 09 | 38-39 | ||||||
Steinberg, Milton | As a Driven Leaf | 1987 | N/D 87 | 15 | ||||||
Sandman, Rochel, Zakashanskaya, Chana | As Big As an Egg: A Story About Giving | 1995 | N/D 95 | 15 | ||||||
Michelson, Richard, Colon, Raul | As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschels Amazing March Toward Freedom | 2008 | M/J 08 | 8 | ||||||
Coyle, Pamela | As It Is Written | 2000 | S/O 02 | 19 | ||||||
Fishbane, Eitan P. | As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist | 2009 | Studies in Jewish History and Culture | F/M 10 | 34 | |||||
Landesman, Dovid | As the Rabbis Taught: Studies in the Aggados of the Talmud - Tractate Megillah | 1996 | F/M 97 | 3 | ||||||
Benson, Evelyn Rose | As We See Ourselves: Jewish Women in Nursing | 2001 | S/O 02 | 18-19 | ||||||
Asad: The Sphinx of Damascus | N/D 88 | 6 | ||||||||
Isaacs, Ronald H. | Ascending Jacobs Ladder: Jewish Views of Angels, Demons, and Evil Spirits | 1998 | S/O 98 | 12 | ||||||
Young, Donald J. | Ascending Star: A Novella, The | 1999 | F/M 01 | 14 | ||||||
Young, Donald J. | Ascending Star: A Novella, The | 1999 | M/J 01 | 14 | ||||||
Robinson, James T. | Asceticism, Eschatology, Opposition to Philosophy: the Arabic Translation and Commentary of Salmon ben Yeroham on Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) | 2012 | FM13 | 34 | ||||||
Kimmel, Eric A. | Asher and the Capmakers: A Hanukkah Story | 1993 | N/D 93 | 13 | ||||||
Lasky, Kathryn | Ashes | 2010 | F/M 10 | 14 | ||||||
Auch, Mary Jane | Ashes of Roses | 2002 | N/D 02 | 24-25 | ||||||
Howe, Irving, Greenberg, Eliezer | Ashes Out of Hope: Fiction by Soviet-Yiddish Writers | 1977 | W77 | 25 | ||||||
Dean, Macabee | Ashmadal, The | 1988 | F/M 90 | 18 | ||||||
Chaikin, Miriam, Friedman, Marvin | Ask Another Question: The Story and Meaning of Passover | 1985 | M/J 85 | 6 | ||||||
Brown, Danit | Ask for a Convertible | 2008 | M/J 09 | 31 | ||||||
Schwartz, Howard, Olson, Arielle North | Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World | 1999 | S/O 99 | 17 | ||||||
Goldberg, David J., Kessler, Edward | Aspects of Liberal Judaism: Essays in Honour of John D. Rayner | 2004 | M/J 05 | 33-34 | ||||||
Spero, Shubert | Aspects of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchicks Philosophy of Judaism: An Analytic Approach | 2009 | F/M 10 | 39 | ||||||
Schechter, Solomon | Aspects of Rabbinic Theology | 1993 | F/M 94 | 11 | ||||||
Assad: the Sphinx of Damascus: A Political Biography | 1988 | N/D 88 | 41797 | |||||||
Peri, Yoram | Assassination of Yithak Rabin, The | 2000 | N/D 01 | 11 | ||||||
Person, Katarzyna | Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943 | 2014 | M/J 15 | 34-35 | Cantor, Hallie | |||||
Ramati, Alexander, Niccacci, Padre Rufino | Assisi Underground, The | 1978 | W78 | 26 | ||||||
Malamud, Bernard, Guidall, George | Assistant, The (AUDIO) | 1999 | S/O 01 | 32 | ||||||
Law, J. Patrick | Assistant: A Novel, The | 2000 | S/O 00 | 33 | ||||||
Grayson, A. K. | Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (v. 5 of texts from cuneiform sources) | 1976 | W78 | 26 | ||||||
Arie, Malachi Beit, Engel, Edna | Asupot ketavim ivriyim mi-me ha-benayim = Specimens of Mediaeval Hebrew Scrips, volume II, Sefardic Script | 2002 | F/M 03 | 31 | ||||||
Peacock, Louise, Lyon Krudop, Walter | At Ellis Island: A History in Many Voices | 2007 | S/O 07 | 20 | ||||||
Epstein, Lawrence J. | At the Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New Yorks Lower East Side, 1880-1920 | 2007 | A Lower East Side Tenement Museum Book | S/O 08 | 15 | |||||
Eisenman, Tsevi, Zumoff, Barnett | At the Edge of Dreamland | 2008 | S/O 09 | 33 | ||||||
Stone, Miriam | At the End of Words | 2003 | S/O 03 | 55 | ||||||
Baraf, Marlena Maduro | At the Narrow Waist of the World: A Memoir | 2019 | F/M 2020 | 20 | Freiband, Susan | Book | Adult | |||
Swinsky, Michael | At the Threshold: Jewish Meditations on Death | 1995 | S/O 96 | 12 | ||||||
Agam, Ron | At the Wall | 1998 | S/O 98 | 6 | ||||||
Leiman, Sondra | Atlas of Jewish Communities: A Voyage Through History, The | 2002 | N/D 02 | 25 | ||||||
Beinart, Haim | Atlas of Medieval Jewish History | 1992 | S/O 92 | 17 | ||||||
Crowder, Melanie | Audacity | 2015 | M/J 2016 | 2 | Dublin, Anne | |||||
Blumenthal, Deborah, GrandPre, Mary | Aunt Claires Yellow Beehive Hair | 2001 | M/J 02 | 19-20 | ||||||
Federman, Raymond | Aunt Rachels Fur | 2001 | S/O 01 | 23 | ||||||
Robson, David | Auschwitz | 2009 | Lucent World History Series | N/D 09 | 14 | |||||
Smolen, Kazimierz | Auschwitz 1940-1945 | 1995 | N/D 95 | 10 | ||||||
Gutterman, Bella | Auschwitz Album: The Story of a Transport, The (2nd ed.) | 2004 | N/D 06 | 25 | ||||||
Czech, Danuts | Auschwitz Chronicle, 1935-1945: From the Archives of the Auschwitz Memorial and the German Federal Archives | 1991 | N/D 91 | 41955 | ||||||
Smolen, Kazimierz | Auschwitz, 1940-1945 | 1995 | N/D 95 | 10 |