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Books

Author

Title

Publisher Name

Copyright Year

Pages

Notes

Apple, Max

The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories

Johns Hopkins University Press

2007

170

 

Benedek, Emily

Red Sea

St. Martins Press

2007

376

 

Blacher Coehn, Sarah and Joanne B. Koch, ed.

Shared Stages: Ten American Dramas of Blacks & Jews

SUNY Press

2007

544

 

Clayton, John

Wrestling with Angels: New and Collected Stories (adv. Reader's copy)

Toby

2007

616

 

Ditfurth, Christian von

A Paragon of Virtue

Toby Press

2008

333

Advance Copy

Drucker, Eugene

The Savior: A Novel [reader's proof]

Simon & Schuster

2007

208

Advance Copy

Elsner, Alan

The Nazi Hunter

Arcade Publishing

2007

325

 

Elvic, Eve

Till They Meet Again

Mazo

2007

208

 

Garnet, Eldon

Lost Between the Edges

Semiotext(e)

2007

298

 

Halter, Marek

Mary of Nazareth

Crown Publishers

2008

303

Advance Copy

Karmel, Henia and Ilona Karmel

A Wall of Two: Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Krakow to Buchenwald and Beyond

University of California Press

2007

117

 

Lippincott, Robin

In the Meantime

Toby

2007

178

Advance Copy

Megged, Aharon

The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump

Toby Press

2007

334

 

Oren, Michael

Sand Devil

Toby Press

2007

199

 

Singer, Margot

The Pale of Settlement

University of Georgia Press

2007

211

 

Visotzky, Burton L.

A Delightful Compendium of Consolation: A Fabulous Tale of Romance, Adventur & Faith in the Medieval Mediterranean

Ben Yehudah Press

2007

327

 

Vogel, David

Married Life

Toby

2007

501

 

Weinblatt Charles

Jacob's Courage: A Holocaust Love Story

Mazo

2007

522

 

Wenkart, Henny

Love Poems of a Philanderer's Wife

CYCO Bikher

2007

163

 

 

Non-Fiction

 

Books2

Author

Title

Publisher Name

Copyright Year

Pages

Notes

 

Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve: Biblical Images from Art in Tulsa Collections

Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art

2007

93

 

Alexander-Frizer, Tamar

The Heart is a Mirror: The Sephardic Folktale

Wayne State University Press

2008

690

 

Amann, Paula

Journeys to a Jewish Life

Jewish Lights

2007

185

 

Anidjar, Gil

Semites: Race, Religion, Literature

Stanford University Press

2008

139

 

Ascher, Abraham

A Community Under Siege: The Jews of Breslau Under Nazism

Stanford University Press

2007

324

 

Auslander, Shalom

Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir

Riverhead Books

2007

310

 

Bartov, Omer

Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine

Princeton University Press

2007

232

 

Berger, Shalom Z., et. Al

Flipping Out?: Myth or Fact: The Impact of the 'Year in Israel'

Yashar Books

2007

218

 

Bisk, Tsvi

The Optimistic Jew: A Positive Vision for the Jewish People in the 21st Century

Maxanna Press

2007

273

 

Biskupski, Mieczyslaw and Antony Polonsky, eds.

Polish-Jewish Relations in North America (Polin, v. 19)

Vallentine Mitchell

2007

653

 

Blau, Rivkah, ed.

Gender Relationships in Marriage and Out

Yeshiva University Press

2007

298

 

Blumberg, Arnold

Zion Before Zionism: 1838-1880

Devora

2007

269

 

Boccaccini, Gabriele, ed.

Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables

Eerdmans

2007

539

 

Borowitz, Eugene B. & Frances W. Schwartz

A Touch of the Sacred: A Theologian's Informal Guide to Jewish Belief

Jewish Lights

2007

228

 

Brecher, Daniel Cil

A Stranger in the Land: Jewish Identity Beyond Nationalism

Other Press

2007

372

 

Chagall, Marc, illustrations

The Bible: Genesis, Exodus, the Song of Solomon

Chronicle Books

2007

437

 

Cohen Apelbaum, Laura and Wendy Turman, ed.

Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community

Jewish Historial Society of Greater Washington

2007

96

 

Dubov, Nissan Dovid

Inward Bound: A Guide to Understanding Kabbalah

Devorah

2007

209

 

Dumper, Michael

The Future for Palestinian Refugees

L. Rienner

2007

233

 

Enderlin, Charles

The Lost Years: Radical Islam, Intifada, and the Wars in the Middle East, 2001-2006

Other Press

2007

377

 

Eretz Hemdah Institute

Living the Halachic Process: Questions and Answers for the Modern Jew

Devora

2007

410

 

ESRA

Esra's Meatless Meals

Gefen

2007

168

 

Feinberg Vamosh, Miriam

Women at the Time of the Bible

Palphot

2007

103

 

Fialkova, Larisa and Maria N. Yelenevskaya

Ex-Soviets in Israel: From Personal Narratives to a Group Portrait

Wayne State University Press

2007

373

 

Fink, Sam, illustrator

The Book of Exodus

Welcome Books

2007

 

 

Fishbane, Simcha

Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Literature: a Collection of Socio-Anthropological Essays

Brill

2007

234

 

Florence, Ronald

Lawrence and Aaronsohn: T.E. Lawrence, Aaron Aaronsohn, and the Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Viking

2007

513

 

Fohrman, David

The Beast that Crouches at the Door: Adam & Eve, Cain & Abel and Beyond

Devorah

2007

197

 

Fram, Edward

My Dear Daughter: Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the Education of Jewish Women in Sixteenth Century Poland

Hebrew Union College Press

2007

337

 

Geller, Victor

Take it Like a Soldier: A Memoir

The Jewish Quarter

2007

317

 

Gotzmann, Andreas & Christian Wiese, ed.

Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness: Identities, Encounters, Perspectives

Brill

2007

658

 

Gubkin, Liora

You Shall Tell Your Children: Holocaust Memory in American Passover Ritual

Rutgers University Press

2007

209

 

Gunsher, Cheryl

Days of Purpose, Days of Fulfillment

Devorah

2007

189

 

Gutman, Israel, ed.

The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust: Europe (Part 1) and Other Countries

Yad Vashem

2007

560

 

Guyer, Sara

Romanticism After Auschwitz

Stanford

2007

364

 

Harshav, Benjamin

The Moscow Yiddish Theater

Yale University Press

2007

198

 

Hazan, Eric

Notes on the Occupation: Palestinian Lives

New Press

2007

113

 

Hirschfield, Brad

You Don't Have to be Wrong For Me to be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism

Harmony Books

2007

271

 

Hoffman, Edward

The Way of Splendor: Jewish Mysticism and Modern Psychology [ updated 25th anniv. Ed.]

Rowman and Littlefield

2007

209

 

Hughes, Aaron W.

The Art of Dialogue in Jewish Philosophy

Indiana University Press

2008

234

 

Kanotopsky, Zvi Dov

Rejoice in Your Festivals

Urim

2007

231

 

Kofman, Sarah

Selected Writings

Stanford University Press

2007

297

 

Kohen, Elli

History of the Byzantine Jews

University Press of America

2007

268

 

Korinman, Michael and John Laughland, ed.

Israel on Israel

Vallentine Mitchell

2008

337

 

Kremer, Roberta S., ed.

Broken Thread: The Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry in Germany and Austrai

Berg

2007

128

 

Kurshan, Ilana

Why is This Night Different From All Other Nights? The Four Questions Around the World

Schocken Books

2008

142

Advance Copy

Kurzem, Mark

The Mascot: The Extraordinary Story of a Young Jewish Boy and an SS Extermination Squad

Rider

2007

340

 

Lambert, Nick

Jews and Europe in the Twenty-First Century

Vallentine Mitchell

2008

332

 

Lerner, Anne Lapidus

Eternally Eve : images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and modern Jewish poetry

Brandeis University Press

2007

238

 

Levy, Ernest

The Single Light: From Boyhood to Manhood and From Nazism and Communism to Freedom

Vallentine Mitchell

2007

358

 

Malkin, Yaakov

Epicurus & Apikorsim: The Influence of the Greek Epicurus and Jewish Apikorsim on Judaism

Milan Press

2007

173

 

Matt, Daniel C., translation & commentary

The Zohar, vol. IV

Stanford University Press

2007

576

 

Matthews, Mark

Lost Years: Bush, Sharon and Failure in the Middle East

Nation Books

2007

453

 

Mertens, Bram

Dark Images, Secret Hints: Benjamin, Scholem, Molitor and the Jewish Tradition

Peter Lang

2007

277

 

Miller, Aaron Daivd

The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace

Bantam

2008

405

Advance Copy

Nadav, Mordechai

The Jews of Pinsk, 1506 to 1880

Stanford University Press

2008

606

 

Plaut, W. Gunther

One Voice: Selected Sermons

Dundurn Press

2007

338

 

Raab, David

Terror in Black September: The First Eyewitness Account of the Infamous 1970 Hijackings

Palgrave

2007

272

 

Rips, Nancy

Seder Stories: Passover Thoughts on Food, Family & Freedom

Cumberland House

2008

191

Advance Copy

Rogov, Daniel

Rogov's Guide to Israeli Wines

Toby Press

2008

455

 

Rose, Or N., et al., ed.

Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice

Jewish Lights

2007

351

 

Rosen, Michael

The Quest for Authenticity: The Thought of Reb Simhah Bunim

Urim

2008

415

 

Schafer, Peter

Jesus in the Talmud

Princeton University Press

2007

210

 

Scheindlin, Raymond P.

The Song of the Distant Dove: Judah Halevi's Pilgrimage

Oxford University Press

2007

310

 

Schwartz, Cipora O.

An American Jewish Odyssey: American Religious Freedom and the Nathan Barnet Memorial Temple

KTAV

2007

188

 

Shachan, Avigdor

In the Footsteps of the Lost Ten Tribes

Devora

2007

452

 

Sherwin, Byron

Studies in Jewish Theology: Reflections in the Mirror of Tradition

Vallentine Mitchell

2007

354

 

Shreiber, Maeera

Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics

Stanford University Press

2007

287

 

Smith, Glenn D., Jr.

Something on My Own Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929-1956

Syracuse University Press

2007

293

 

Tsadik, Daniel

Between Foreigners and Shi'is: Nineteenth-Century Iran and its Jewish Minority

Stanford University Press

2007

295

 

Van Harn, Roger E., ed.

The Ten Commandments for Jews, Christians and Others

Eerdmans

2007

222

 

Vyleta, Daniel M.

Crime, Jews and News

Berghan Books

2007

254

 

Weiner, Ellis & Barbara Davilman

How to Raise a Jewish Dog

Little, Brown

2007

165

 

Weisberg, Chana (Jenny)

One Baby Step at a Time: Seven Secrets of Jewish Motherhood

Urim

2007

302

 

Weisblum, Moshe Pinchas

The Hermeneutics of Medieval Jewish Thought: Understanding the Linguistic Codes of Rashi and Nahmanides

E. Mellen Press

2007

264

 

Winslow, Philip C.

Victory For Us is to See You Suffer: In the West Bank with the Palestinians and the Israelis

Beacon Press

2007

224

 

Wistrich, Robert S.

Laboratory for World Destruction: Germans and Jews in Central Europe

University of Nebraska Press

2007

404

 

Wolfe, Marjorie Gottlieb

Yiddish for Dog & Cat Lovers

Malka Publications

2007

129

 

Zaken, Mordechai

Jewish Subjects and Their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan: a Study in Survival

Brill

2007

375

 

Zertal, Idith & Akiva Eldar

Lords of the Land: the War Over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007.

Nation Books

2007

531