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Dani Crickman Dani Crickman is the Jewish Book Council’s art director. Articles Reviews Interview Interview: Helene Wecker by Dani CrickmanHelene Wecker is the author of the The Golem and the Jinni. The debut novel follows the converging stories of two mythical creatures who must find their… Dani Crickman April 30, 2013 News Exciting arrival Posted by Dani CrickmanGuess who showed up at our office today?Ha, we wish.Not Fran Drescher.But the next best thing: Wendy!Being Wendy, Fran Drescher’s new book for kids,… Dani Crickman August 9, 2011 News Reference Find Posted by Dani Crickman Just found out about this beefy-looking reference collection on Jewish Americans–a new addition to an ongoing series from… Dani Crickman July 21, 2011 News Manga for Purim Posted by Dani CrickmanWe’ve seen a graphic megillah before, but this is something else.Earlier today, MyJewishLearning posted about Throne… Dani Crickman March 17, 2011 Essay JBC in Jerusalem: For the Love of Japan Posted by Dani CrickmanAs international as the Jerusalem Book Fair is, I certainly wasn’t expecting to have a Russian man ask me 「どこに住んでいますか?」 (“doko ni… Dani Crickman March 1, 2011 Essay Reading for a Long Plane Ride Posted by Dani CrickmanJBC is off to Israel for next week’s Jerusalem International Book Fair, and I’m facing my usual packing dilemma: how to cram all the books… Dani Crickman February 18, 2011 Essay A Young Adult Literary Paradise Posted by Dani CrickmanHave you heard about Figment?The literary community site for teens just launched yesterday and is what The New York Times describes as… Dani Crickman December 7, 2010 News A Fine Romance wins 2010 Deems Taylor Award Posted by Dani CrickmanDavid Lehman, author of A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, wrote to us with some exciting news:My… Dani Crickman October 22, 2010 Essay Hungry for Hungary Posted by Dani CrickmanToday marks one week until our Twitter Book Club with Julie Orringer, author of The Invisible Bridge. The book is full of all sorts of… Dani Crickman October 19, 2010 Fiction Love by the Morning Star Laura L. Sullivan Children’s Skullcaps and Crossbones Yonah Klein Fiction Jacob’s Folly: A Novel Rebecca Miller Fiction Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale Mario Levi; Ender Gürol, trans. Nonfiction Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion Michael Levy Fiction Eden Yael Hedaya; Jessica Cohen, trans. Nonfiction Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, with David Ritz Nonfiction Good Eggs: A Memoir Phoebe Potts
Interview Interview: Helene Wecker by Dani CrickmanHelene Wecker is the author of the The Golem and the Jinni. The debut novel follows the converging stories of two mythical creatures who must find their… Dani Crickman April 30, 2013
News Exciting arrival Posted by Dani CrickmanGuess who showed up at our office today?Ha, we wish.Not Fran Drescher.But the next best thing: Wendy!Being Wendy, Fran Drescher’s new book for kids,… Dani Crickman August 9, 2011
News Reference Find Posted by Dani Crickman Just found out about this beefy-looking reference collection on Jewish Americans–a new addition to an ongoing series from… Dani Crickman July 21, 2011
News Manga for Purim Posted by Dani CrickmanWe’ve seen a graphic megillah before, but this is something else.Earlier today, MyJewishLearning posted about Throne… Dani Crickman March 17, 2011
Essay JBC in Jerusalem: For the Love of Japan Posted by Dani CrickmanAs international as the Jerusalem Book Fair is, I certainly wasn’t expecting to have a Russian man ask me 「どこに住んでいますか?」 (“doko ni… Dani Crickman March 1, 2011
Essay Reading for a Long Plane Ride Posted by Dani CrickmanJBC is off to Israel for next week’s Jerusalem International Book Fair, and I’m facing my usual packing dilemma: how to cram all the books… Dani Crickman February 18, 2011
Essay A Young Adult Literary Paradise Posted by Dani CrickmanHave you heard about Figment?The literary community site for teens just launched yesterday and is what The New York Times describes as… Dani Crickman December 7, 2010
News A Fine Romance wins 2010 Deems Taylor Award Posted by Dani CrickmanDavid Lehman, author of A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, wrote to us with some exciting news:My… Dani Crickman October 22, 2010
Essay Hungry for Hungary Posted by Dani CrickmanToday marks one week until our Twitter Book Club with Julie Orringer, author of The Invisible Bridge. The book is full of all sorts of… Dani Crickman October 19, 2010
Nonfiction Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion Michael Levy
Nonfiction Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, with David Ritz
