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A Jewish-Palestinian Children’s Book: How Daniel and Ismail Came to Be

Ilan Stavans

August 12, 2019

Essay—From the Journal

Bodies, Borders, and Desire

Three new novels set in Israel explore Jewish – Arab relationships.

Ranen Omer-Sherman

August 5, 2019

News

Award for Food Writing and Cookbooks has been added to the National Jewish Book Award program

Evie Saphire-Bernstein

July 30, 2019

From the Journal

The Italianist: An Interview with Ann Goldstein on Translating Primo Levi’s Work

Merrill Leffler

July 29, 2019

New Reviews

An Unorthodox Match

Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL

Francesco Tirelli’s Ice Cream Shop

Tamar Meir (author), Yael Albert (illus.), Noga Applebaum (trans.)

A Dreidel in Time: A New Spin on an Old Tale

Marcia Berneger

Hillel Takes a Bath

Vicki L. Weber, John Joven (illus.) 

Editors' Picks

Broken Strings

Eric Walters and Kathy Kacer

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

Fleishman is in Trouble

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The Art of Bible Translation

The Altruists

Volume Three

Interviews with Keith Gessen, Chloe Benjamin, and Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Jane Yolen on Jewish fairy tales
A Jewish literary map of Italy
An examination of Jewish life in rural America in three parts
Adeena Sussman on tahini
Poetry by Alicia Jo Rabins
A Portnoy’s Complaint advice column
Pamela Nadell shares a brief history of the first Jewish women’s book club in America
Beautiful photography, comics, and fiction

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