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Acquisitions
February 2002
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Adult
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| 224.1 |
Weintraub |
Healing of soul, healing of body : spiritual leaders unfold
the strength & solace in Psalms |
| 231.1 |
Gamoran |
Talmud for everyday living : employer-employee relations |
| 231.1 |
Hauptman |
Rereading the rabbis : a woman's voice |
| 240 |
Broner |
Bringing home the light : a Jewish woman's handbook of rituals |
| 242 |
Levy |
A faithful heart : preparing for the High Holy Days : a study
text based on the midrash Maaseh Avraham avinu |
| 246 |
Schulweis |
Finding each other in Judaism : meditations on the rites of
passage from birth to immortality |
| 251 |
Bookman |
God 101 : Jewish ideals, beliefs, and practices for renewing
your faith |
| 259.3 |
Heschel |
God in search of man : a philosophy of Judaism |
| 304.1 |
Baskin |
Jewish women in historical perspective |
| 304.1 |
Brayer |
The Jewish woman in rabbinic literature : a psychohistorical
perspective |
| 304.1 |
Kaufman |
The woman in Jewish law and tradition |
| 616 |
Abel |
Jewish genetic disorders : a layman's guide |
| 709.2 |
Sabar |
Ketubbah : Jewish marriage contracts of the Hebrew Union College
Skirball Museum and Klau Library |
| 901 |
Shanks |
Ancient Israel : from Abraham to the Roman destruction of the
Temple. Rev. and expanded ed |
BIOG
FIRESTONE |
Firestone |
With roots in heaven : one woman's passionate journey into the
heart of her faith |
BIOG
GALLAGHER |
Gallagher |
How I came into my inheritance : and other true stories |
BIOG
RABIN |
Slater |
Rabin of Israel |
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Juvenile
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Author |
Title |
| 290 |
Gellman |
How do you spell God? : answers to the big questions from around
the world |
| 398 |
Ungar |
Rachel captures the moon |
| 940.52 |
Warren |
Surviving Hitler : a boy in the Nazi death camps |
| Fiction |
Attema |
Daughter of light |
| Fiction |
Dollinger |
The rabbi who flew |
| Fiction |
Geller |
The mitzvah girl |
| Fiction |
Hest |
The Friday nights of Nana |
| Fiction |
Kanefield |
Rivka's way |
| Fiction |
Koss |
Stolen words |
| Fiction |
Manushkin |
Sophie and the shofar |
| Fiction |
Matas |
The war within : a novel of the Civil War |
| Fiction |
Miklowitz |
Secrets in the house of Delgado |
| Fiction |
Older |
My two grandmothers |
| Fiction |
Schmidt |
Mara's stories : glimmers in the darkness |
| Fiction |
Steiner |
Shoes for Amelie |
| Fiction |
Uhlberg |
Lemuel, the fool |
| Fiction |
Wing |
Jalapeoo bagels |
- Rachel captures the moon / Richard Ungar
- The foolish folk of Chelm, not content to wait for the moon to
rise each evening, try to capture its luminescence permanently.
When neither a ladder, a net, nor delicious smelling soup can lure
the moon down to earth, a little girl named Rachel captures its
reflection in a barrel of water.
- The rabbi who flew / written and illustrated by Renate Dollinger
- A rabbi prays so deeply that he flies, but the village shoemaker
realizes that he must secretly repair the rabbi's shoes so that
nobody sees the holes in his shoes when he flies over them.
- The mitzvah girl / Beverly Geller
- On the Jewish holiday of Purim, Shira has the opportunity to
perform many mitzvahs linked to the festival and thus has the best
Purim ever. Includes an explanation of the holiday and a glossary
of Hebrew and Yiddish words
- The Friday nights of Nana / Amy Hest
- Jennie helps her grandmother prepare for a family Sabbath celebration.
- Rivka's way / Teri Kanefield
- Unsure about her upcoming marriage and eager to see what lies
beyond the walls of Prague's Jewish quarter in 1778, fifteen-year-old
Rivka Lieberman takes great risks to venture outside, where her
many new experiences include friendship with a Christian boy.
- Stolen words / by Amy Goldman Koss
- In her diary, eleven-year-old Robyn describes her family's visit
to Austria, from the disastrous theft of their luggage to adventures
in the countryside, while she tries to recover from the death of
her Aunt Beth.
- Sophie and the shofar / Fran Manushkin
- After describing some of the traditions of Rosh Hashanah, the
Jewish New Year, to her cousin from Russia, Sophie learns about
trust and forgiveness.
- The war within : a novel of the Civil War / Carol Matas
- In 1862, after Union forces expel Hannah's family from Holly
Springs, Mississippi, because they are Jews, Hannah reexamines her
views regarding slavery and the war.
- Secrets in the house of Delgado / Gloria Miklowitz
- In Spain in 1492, fourteen-year-old Maria, a Catholic orphan,
becomes a servant to a wealthy family of Conversos, converted Jews,
at a time when the Jews are being expelled from the country and
when the Inquisition is diligently searching for religious heretics.
- Mara's stories : glimmers in the darkness / Gary Schmidt
- Each evening, in one of the barracks of a Nazi death camp, a
woman shares stories that push back the darkness, cold, and fear,
bringing hope to the women and children who listen.
- Shoes for Amelie / written by Connie Colker Steiner
- The heroism of the people of the town of Le Chabon- sur Lignon,
France is portrayed through a story about one courageous and "ordinary"
family who sheltered a Jewish child during the Holocaust.
- Lemuel, the fool / [written by] Myron Uhlberg
- After journeying around the world in search of the magical city
of his dreams, Lemuel discovers there's no place like home.
- My two grandmothers / Effin Older ; illustrated by Nancy Hayashi.
- After Lily celebrates Chanukah with one of her grandmothers and
Christmas with the other, she plans a special party for both of
them.
- Jalapeoo bagels / by Natasha Wing ; illustrated by Robert
Casilla.
- For International Day at school, Pablo wants to bring something
that reflects the cultures of both his parents.
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