JBW 28.1_JBW 28.1 1/29/10 12:27 PM Page 78 CONTRIBUTORS MARCIA WEISS POSNER (MWP), Ph.D., is a librarian and program director at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County. CARL J. RHEINS (CJR) is Executive Director Emeritus of the YIVO Institute for <strong>Jewish</strong> Research. He received his Ph.D. in Modern European History from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and has taught courses on the Holocaust at several major universities. PETER L. ROTHHOLZ (PLR) headed his own Manhattan-based public relations agency and taught at the Business and Liberal Arts (BALA) program at Queens College. He lives in East Hampton, NY and Santa Barbara, CA and is a frequent contributor to <strong>Jewish</strong> publications. PHIL SANDICK (Phs) S) s) is is a graduate of the Univer- Univer- University of Pennsylvania and the MFA creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has taught English and Writing at Philadelphia University and Harcum College. Originally from Fresh Meadows, NY, Phil currently lives in Irvine, CA. JEFFREY SCHEIN (JS) is Professor and Director of <strong>Jewish</strong> education at the Siegal College in Cleveland. He is the author of numerous articles and books in <strong>Jewish</strong> education. His doctoral dissertation was in the area of moral education, the same topic as in the book reviewed in this issue. DEBORAH SCHOENEMAN (DS), is a former English teacher/Writing Across the Curriculum 78 <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Book</strong> World Spring 5770/2010 Center Coordinator at North Shore Hebrew Academy High School and coeditor of Modern American Literature: A Library of Literary Criticism, Vol. VI, published in 1997. SYDELLE SHAMAH (SS) has been leading book club discussions for many years, and is a published science fiction writer. She was president of the Ruth Hyman <strong>Jewish</strong> Community Center of Monmouth County, NJ. LAURIE GWEN SHAPIRO (LGS) is the author of ALA Notable <strong>Book</strong> The Unexpected Salami and The Matzo Ball Heiress and other books for adults. She has also written two books for young adults, most recently for Random House. She is also a winner of an Independent Spirit Award for co-directing the IFC documentary “Keep the River on Your Right.” She is currently working on YA novel The O’Leary Bat Mitzvah, and producing a documentary about Iggy Pop. LaurieGwenShapiro.com ARLENE B. SOIFER (ABS) earned degrees in English, and has had many years of experience as a freelance writer, editor, and public relations professional. SARA LEOPOLD SPINNELL (SLS) is a co-founder of Travelujah.com, a website that promotes Christian travel to Israel. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children LESLEY SUSSMAN (LS) is the author of more than 20 non-fiction books—including two on Kabbalah. He is an award-winning journalist and publicist who lives and works in New York City. MARGARET TEICH (MT) is a freelance environmental writer and eco-consultant living in New York City. Check out her blog, Gspotting.net. JACLYN TROP (JT) is a business reporter for The Detroit News and a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. JANE WALLERSTEIN (JW) worked in public relations for many years. She is the author of Voices from the Paterson Silk Mills and coauthor of a national criminal justice study of parole for Rutgers University. WENDY WASMAN (WW) has been a professional librarian since 1988. She is the former assistant librarian at The Temple-Tifereth Israel in Beachwood, Ohio, and is currently the librarian at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History MARON L. WAXMAN (MLW), retired editorial director, special projects, at the American Museum of Natural History, was also an editorial director at HarperCollins and <strong>Book</strong>-ofthe-Month Club. She also leads editorial workshops HILLARY ZANA (HZ) has a BA and teaching credential from Princeton University. She was a day school librarian for many years and has written many Hebrew textbooks available through Behrman House Publishers. She currently teaches English and history in the Los Angeles public school system and is a National Board Certified teacher. YOUR AUDIENCE IS HERE. REACH THOUSANDS OF DEDICATED JEWISH READERS. ADVERTISE YOUR PROGRAM, EVENT OR BOOK IN JEWISH BOOK WORLD. EMAIL jbc@jewishbooks.org FOR RATE SCHEDULE. www.jewishbookcouncil.org
An index of all titles included in the XXXXXX issue of <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Book</strong> World BR = <strong>Book</strong> Review CBR = Children’s <strong>Book</strong> Review BN = <strong>Book</strong>s of Note Title, Author, BR, CBR or BN 1939, Phelan, BR 45 188 th Crybaby Brigade, Chasnoff, BR 28 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, Goldstein, BR 45 Aaron’s Journey, Herskowitz, BR 28 Adventure in Latkaland, Fisman, CBR 62 After Representation?, Spargo, BN 72 Aleph-Bais Trip on the Aleph-Bais Ship, Altein, CBR 62 Amen, Amen, Amen, Sher, BR 38 American Experience, Loeb, BR 26 American Sketches, Isaacson, BN 69 And You Shall Surely Heal, Wiesen, BN 73 Angel Time, Rice, BR 45 Annie’s Ghosts, Luxenberg, BR 28 Aristocrat, Sutton, BR 28 Arnold Daghani’s Memories of Mikhailowka, Schultz, BR 53 Art of Giving, Bronfman, BR 37 Baseball Talmud, Megdal, BR 26 Be a Mensch, Kaplan, BN 70 Beads for the Messiah’s Bride, Azriel, BR 58 Becoming American Jews, Dwyer-Ryan, BN 69 Betrayal, Kirtzman, BR 36 Beyond the Qumran Community, Collins, BN 74 Big Kahn, Kleid, BR 46 Bob Dylan, Rogovoy, BR 37 <strong>Book</strong> of Genesis, Crumb, BR 59 Briss, Tregebov, BR 47 Bugs are Burning, Hersh, BN 72 Building a Successful Volunteer Culture, Simon, BN 70 Center Of The Universe, Bachrach, BR 39 Champion of Children, Bogacki, CBR 64 Charitable Choices, Dashefsky, BN 69 Circles of Exclusion, Filc, BN 73 City of God, Swerling, BR 47 Clever Rachel, Waldman, CBR 62 Conquering Fear, Kushner, BR 38 Conscious Cook, Ronnen, BR 40 Curriculum Vitae, Hoffmann, BR 31 Dancing in the Dark, Dickstein, BR 51 Dancing in the Footsteps of Eve, Mendel, BN 73 Daniel’s Diary, Nolan, CBR 62 Dead Sea Scrolls on Sexuality, Loader, BN 73 www.jewishbookcouncil.org Dearest Georg, Lauer, BN 70 Death of the Shtetl, Bauer, BR 54 Delivery from Darkness, Finkelstein, BN 73 Department of State in the Middle East, Baram, BN 71 Devil’s Workshop, Burger, BR 32 Devora In Exile, Cherne, BR 47 Devotion, Shapiro, BR 32 Do One Nice Thing, Tenzer, BR 38 Dog in the Wood, Schroder, CBR 63 Driven to Darkness, Brook, BR 39 Eating Animals, Foer, BR 32 Embodying Culture, Ivry, BN 73 Emergence of Modern Hebrew Creativity in Babylon, Hakak, BN 72 Enoch and the Mosaic Torah, Boccaccini, BN 74 Evading The Nazis, Abrami, BR 30 Even Higher!, Peretz, CBR 64 Everything Is God, Michaelson, BR 39 Exiles, Krieger, BR 47 Family Secret, Heuvel, CBR 68 Formula for Proper Living, Twerski, BN 70 Fox Walked Alone, Reid, CBR 63 Gaby Brimmer, Brimmer, BN 69 Germans into Jews, Gillerman, BN 72 Gertruda’s Oath, Oren, BR 33 Getting to the Heart of Interfaith, Mackenzie, BR 42 Girls Of Room 28, Brenner, BR 33 God’s Water, Arrow, BN 71 Gone To the Dogs, Guterson, BR 48 Good For The Jews, Spark, BR 48 Halaklhic Man, Bedzow, BR 57 Happy Marriage, Yglesias, BR 48 Heart Afire, Schachter-Shalomi, BR 57 Here, There Are No Sarah’s, Orbuch, BR 34 Hitler’s Intelligence Chief, Dorries, BR 55 Hoppy Hanukkah!, Glaser, CBR 63 Hound Dog, Leiber, BR 34 House Rules, Sontag, BR 38 How to Ruin Your Boyfriend’s Reputation, Elkeles, CBR 63 I Am God’s Paintbrush, Sasso, CBR 64 I Drink for a Reason, Cross, BR 55 I Choose Life, Jennings, BR 34 Icon Of Loss, Weinrib, BR 52 In a Pale Blue Light, Miller, BR 46 In My Bustan, Mahbgerefteh, BR 58 In Search of Milk and Honey, Kotlerman, BN 70 Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats, Kestin, BR 48 Is It Good For The Jews?, Biro, BR 49 Israel vs. Utopia, Schalit, BR 55 Jericho Scrolls, Ruppin, BN 71 Jerusalem, Goldhill, BR 56 <strong>Jewish</strong> Mama’s Kitchen, Phillips, BR 40 <strong>Jewish</strong> Phenomenon, Silbiger, BN 70 <strong>Jewish</strong> Responses to Persecution 1933–1946 Volume I, Matthaus, BN 72 <strong>Jewish</strong> Sages of Today, Rubin, BN 70 <strong>Jewish</strong> Slow Cooker Recipes, Frankel, BR 41 Jews, God, and Videotape, Shandler, BR 42 Judaism, Gelernter, BR 43 Judaism of the Second Temple Period, Flusser, BN 72 Learning and Community, Wertheimer, BR 44 Lev Shternberg, Kan, BN 69 Life Worth Living, Sherwin, BN 71 Living Witnesses, Must, BN 72 Lone Soldiers, Keinon, BR 56 Love Is Like Park Avenue, Levin, BR 49 Lucinella, Segal, BR 49 Madoff With The Money, Oppenheimer, BR 36 Madoff’s Other Secret, Weinstein, BR 36 Maimonides in His World, Stroumsa, BN 69 Major Farran’s Hat, Cesarani, BR 56 Making of a Reform <strong>Jewish</strong> Cantor, Cohen, BN 69 Maqam and Liturgy, Kligman, BN 74 Mitzvah Girls, Fader, BR 61 Murderer’s Daughters, Meyers, BR 50 My Father’s Bonus March, Langer, BR 35 My Footprint, Garlin, BR 54 New Jew, Friedes, BR 35 Nitzotz, Zuoff, BR 52 Noah’s Notebook, Nolan, CBR 64 One God, Many Paths, Lederman, BN 73 One Step Ahead Of Hitler, Gross, BR 30 Only in New York, Roberts, BN 70 Operation Last Chance, Zuroff, BR 52 Photographing the <strong>Jewish</strong> Nation, Avrutin, BR 60 Polyglot, Marcus, BN 71 Prague Spring, Bourgo, BR 50 Psychiatric and Behavioral Disorders in Israel, Levav, BN 73 Red Black and Jew, Katz, BN 69 Reinventing Ritual, Belasco, BR 60 Religion or Ethnicity?, Gitelman, BN 74 Religious Compulsions and Fears, Twerski, BN 71 Remember Us, Small, BR 52 Remembering Survival, Browning, BR 52 INDEX Title, Author, BR, CBR or BN Title, Author, BR, CBR or BN Title, Author, BR, CBR or BN Revealed Texts, Hidden Meanings, Angel, BN 74 Screening a Lynching, Bernstein, BR 51 Search, Heuvel, CBR 68 Seder Night, Soloveitchik, BR 57 Sense of Purpose, Eban, BR 35 Servant’s Quarters, Freed, BR 46 Seven Questions You’re Asked in Heaven, Wolfson, BN 71 Shabbat the Right Way, Cohen, BN 74 Shadow Architect, Warn, BR 58 Smasher, Raffel, BN 71 Some Measure of Justice, Marrus, BN 72 Sowing the Seeds of Character, Levingston, BR 44 Spellmans Strike Again, Lutz, BN 71 Start-Up Nation, Senor, BR 56 Steerage, Stern, BR 58 Still <strong>Jewish</strong>, McGinity, BR 61 Surviving, Ohiso, BR 36 Surviving the Angel of Death, Kor, CBR 65 Ten Lost Tribes, Benite, BR 51 There Shall Be No Needy, Jacobs, BR 43 These Mountains, Miriam, BR 59 This Must Be the Place, Winger, BR 50 Tobi Kahn, Heller, BR 60 Too Good To Be True, Arvedlund, BR 36 Toolbox for Teachers and Mentors, Solomon, BR 45 Treasury of <strong>Jewish</strong> Holiday Baking, Goldman, BR 42 Tropical Secrets, Engle, CBR 64 Uranium Wars, Aczel, BR 53 Waiting Wall, Levy, CBR 65 Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht, Wizisla, BN 70 We Remember with Reverence and Love, Diner, BR 26 Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society?, Schwartz, BN 72 What I Thought I Knew, Cohen, BN 69 What Would Susie Say?, Essman, BR 54 When I First Held You, Snir, CBR 66 Whence My Help Come, Kestenbaum, BN 71 Why Are Jews Liberals?, Podhoretz, BR 43 Why The Dreyfus Affair Matters, Begley, BR 44 Winter’s Journey Of My Youth, Studley, BR 30 Women And Judaism, Drucker, BR 61 Yom Kippur in Amsterdam, Shrayer, BR 51 Zvuvi’s Israel, Lehman-Wilzig, CBR 66 Would you like to be a reviewer for <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Book</strong> World? 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