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JBC Staff Articles Interviews Recommended Reading The Brilliance of Chanukah We thought we’d kick off Eight Nights of Stories series with a Hanukkah classic — but scroll down, there’s plenty more! Click on book images for JBC reviews and links to… JBC Staff November 5, 2013 Recommended Reading October 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Joyce: Dan Gets a Minivan (Dan Zevin) | Naomi: The Kraus Project (Jonathan Franzen)Carolyn: Like Dreamers (Yossi Klein Halevi) |… JBC Staff October 7, 2013 Recommended Reading September 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Miri: The Tin Horse (Janice Steinberg) | Carolyn: Hothouse (Boris Kachka)Naomi: The Property (Rutu Modan) | Suzanne: Sinners… JBC Staff September 16, 2013 Recommended Reading August 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Carolyn: In the Land of the Living (Austin Ratner) | Joyce: The Liars’ Gospel (Naomi Alderman)Naomi: Curriculum Vitae (Yoel Hoffmann) |… JBC Staff August 12, 2013 Recommended Reading Love Stories for Tu B’Av We’ve spent all day discussing them at work and now we’re sharing them with you! Our Tu B’av 5773 JBC staff picks:A Pigeon and a BoyFugitive PiecesThe History… JBC Staff July 22, 2013 Recommended Reading July 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Carolyn: The Art Forger (B.A. Shapiro) | Naomi: Herzog (Saul Bellow)Mimi: The Invisible Bridge (Julie Orringer) | Emma:… JBC Staff July 11, 2013 Recommended Reading June 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Miri: Goodbye, Columbus (Philip Roth) | Carol: No Joke (Ruth R. Wisse)Emma: Portrait Inside My Head (Phillip Lopate) | Naomi:… JBC Staff June 26, 2013 Recommended Reading Women’s History Month JBC Staff March 1, 2013 News One of These Authors Will Win $100,000 Read more about the 2012 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature finalists here. Read more about the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature here.The People of Forever Are… JBC Staff February 27, 2013 Recommended Reading Top 25 Literary Classics About Israel During the JFNAGA this past November, JBC shared a list of 25 famous literary classics in the areas of Judaism and Zionism with the Israel Forever Foundation.… JBC Staff February 1, 2013 Recommended Reading Tu Bishvat Reading Find the full list of JBC’s Tu Bishvat reads here.Dear TreeThe Kids’ Catalog of Animals and the EarthCelebrating the Jewish Year: Winter Holidays — Hanukkah, Tu… JBC Staff January 18, 2013 Recommended Reading Jews and Food Are you excited for next week’s JBC and Jewcy #JLit Twitter Book Club with Jami Attenberg? Read more about Jews and food below and find our longer “Jews and Food”… JBC Staff December 5, 2012 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 11 Next page ›› News 2019 National Jewish Book Award Auction February 19, 2020
Recommended Reading The Brilliance of Chanukah We thought we’d kick off Eight Nights of Stories series with a Hanukkah classic — but scroll down, there’s plenty more! Click on book images for JBC reviews and links to… JBC Staff November 5, 2013
Recommended Reading October 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Joyce: Dan Gets a Minivan (Dan Zevin) | Naomi: The Kraus Project (Jonathan Franzen)Carolyn: Like Dreamers (Yossi Klein Halevi) |… JBC Staff October 7, 2013
Recommended Reading September 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Miri: The Tin Horse (Janice Steinberg) | Carolyn: Hothouse (Boris Kachka)Naomi: The Property (Rutu Modan) | Suzanne: Sinners… JBC Staff September 16, 2013
Recommended Reading August 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Carolyn: In the Land of the Living (Austin Ratner) | Joyce: The Liars’ Gospel (Naomi Alderman)Naomi: Curriculum Vitae (Yoel Hoffmann) |… JBC Staff August 12, 2013
Recommended Reading Love Stories for Tu B’Av We’ve spent all day discussing them at work and now we’re sharing them with you! Our Tu B’av 5773 JBC staff picks:A Pigeon and a BoyFugitive PiecesThe History… JBC Staff July 22, 2013
Recommended Reading July 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Carolyn: The Art Forger (B.A. Shapiro) | Naomi: Herzog (Saul Bellow)Mimi: The Invisible Bridge (Julie Orringer) | Emma:… JBC Staff July 11, 2013
Recommended Reading June 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Miri: Goodbye, Columbus (Philip Roth) | Carol: No Joke (Ruth R. Wisse)Emma: Portrait Inside My Head (Phillip Lopate) | Naomi:… JBC Staff June 26, 2013
News One of These Authors Will Win $100,000 Read more about the 2012 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature finalists here. Read more about the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature here.The People of Forever Are… JBC Staff February 27, 2013
Recommended Reading Top 25 Literary Classics About Israel During the JFNAGA this past November, JBC shared a list of 25 famous literary classics in the areas of Judaism and Zionism with the Israel Forever Foundation.… JBC Staff February 1, 2013
Recommended Reading Tu Bishvat Reading Find the full list of JBC’s Tu Bishvat reads here.Dear TreeThe Kids’ Catalog of Animals and the EarthCelebrating the Jewish Year: Winter Holidays — Hanukkah, Tu… JBC Staff January 18, 2013
Recommended Reading Jews and Food Are you excited for next week’s JBC and Jewcy #JLit Twitter Book Club with Jami Attenberg? Read more about Jews and food below and find our longer “Jews and Food”… JBC Staff December 5, 2012
